Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

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Didn't Twin Peaks get some obsessive fan action? And network extras?

Is Siberia returning? Serious question, every time I google it there is no record that it was canned or otherwise.

what was the outrigger again?

id forgotten too so i googled it and turns out its a bunch of bul lshit

The most annoying thing about that final season is that they COULD have answered most of the questions people cared about in a reasonably satisfying way but instead they spunked away half the screen time on a pointless alternate timeline that went nowhere and just kind of tied up everything else in 30 seconds as an afterthought. Some great characters (ie Sayid) got totally shitty ends to their stories as result.

Like, you read that quote upthread and it basically means "we're shitty writers".

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I'm not as negative as most people about the end but it did feel surprisingly rushed compared to how drawn out all the mysteries had been. No doubt linked to wasting half of the screen time on a pointless gimmick twist that had been done better before with the flash-forward trick.

primarily on network shows that nobody watches that get canceled after one or two seasons

Alcatraz didn't even get to finish the first season :(

Is Fringe worth watching? I keep toying with the idea but don't want to get burned again.

I haven't seen a single minute of Fringe.

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so tempting

must resist...

Fringe was great--it promised a lot less than Lost but it posed big questions and answered them pretty much every season, leading to weirder questions. Also, the last episode was pretty satisfying.

It is pretty good, especially when it hits the mind scrambling parallel universe storylines, the incidental episodes get a bit tedious. It all fizzles away in a slightly whelming manner. So yeah essential viewing ;)

Best thing about Fringe was that at some point they gave up on trying to attract new viewers (something Lost never really stopped doing) and just made the relationship stuff service the confusing story arcs.

The Fringe guys went on to make Sleepy Hollow which is one of the more successful post-Lost network shows

Love Fringe - Matt, I think you'd dig it.

It helps that it had a much smaller central cast (and all the additional characters were played by the same people, because of parallel universe shenanigans.)

I love the way loveable acid casualty William Bishop's self from the other world is a evil, humourless arch baddie. The parallel universe stuff is easily some of the best sci-fi tv ever, it gets a bit silly but it is a heck of a lot of fun.

he's just trying to save his world!!

last 1.5 seasons or so of Fringe were 90% garbage, people

The J.J. Abrams curse

or starting from whenever it was that manimal ark thing happened

Lol that shit was so barmy, did they get Lee Scratch Perry in as a consultant?

The end of Season 4 is basically the disappointing Lost/BSG-style series finale you were dreading. Then Season 5 course corrects from that in an interesting and unexpected way, sputters a bit, but ends well.

Halfway through season 2 through the end of season 3 are pretty much some of the most fun TV sci-fi ever though.

absolutely. the show on balance was far more exceptionally great than exceptionally disappointing

yes, that's the best portion of Fringe. after they cut down on the one-off monster episodes and before the plot twist that made no sense.

happy LOST finale anniversary!!!!! still mad

I love this thread title so much.

I considered rewatching this just now until I looked on wiki and saw that there were 121 episodes, seriously???

121 hours of my life I will never get back.