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- Al_dizzle0
lol
- HAYZ1LLLA0
Brrrrrring Brrrrrrrring.
It's 2003 for you.
It says don't go down the hatch!
- ETM0
Ah man, when I saw this thread I was waiting for the NT jingle.
- Horp0
Having watched the entire thing diligently, I can tell you this... you will rue the day you made the same commitment when the realisation dawns on your that it was all build up and absolutely nothing has any purpose or makes any constructive sense at all. Just four long years of bullshit and you will be very disappointed. Any of us... any single one of us, could concoct that shit on paper in weekly hour plots. If it all had some end goal in mind it would be clever, but it does not... they were just blagging the whole thing from the start. Its rubbish. Its terrible. Its like being conned by fucking idiots.
Save your self the time and investment. Watchs Breaking bad or The Wire, anything but this pile of shit.
- they had me so amped up for some answers all the way until the end, and then, what a fucking letdownmonospaced
- Al_dizzle0
Dont go into the mystical light hole Johnny!
The entire universe will collapse!
- Horp0
In fact I'll help you out now. Don't be angry...
... the ending ...
... is shit.
- Al_dizzle0
MYSTICAL FUCKING LIGHT HOLE....
- monospaced0
You must be a masochist; you do know how upsetting the end is, right?
- youngdesigner0
OK no spoilers I am only on Season two
- Iggyboo0
Why can't TV be this good again... Only show close now is Game of Thrones.
- The Wire & Breaking BadHAYZ1LLLA
- Walking Dead
Boardwalk EmpireRamanisky2 - the hourcolin_s
- The KillingMrT
- raf0
I enjoyed it thoroughly. No matter how silly it was, I always wanted more. Ending sucked, I think because they wanted to go against most popular theories.
It alluded to an out-of-map island myth that goes back through literature — John Fowles' "The Magus", Verne's "The Mysterious Island", Shakespeare's "The Tempest"...
The Tempest had its Prospero, Miranda, Ariel, Caliban — you can easily draw parallels from the show, it's quite fascinating.
I am not saying they were shaping the show after any of the books, only that they touched a topic people were always ready to get excited about.
It was written more or less on the fly, the more impressive it's how it pretty much held together for so long.
- mg330
You know what? I've told this to many people: Watch the first three seasons, then stop. Forget the rest exist, and just imagine your own ending. You'll be happier that way, trust me. I'm sure anyone who watched the whole series will agree.
The fact that the producers admitted in the last season that there were several episodes they wished they could get back, and that they didn't have a clear ending in mind throughout the whole series kind of bothers me. I can understand creative impulse to go in different directions, but a show like that? Seriously? They should have had a point A and a point Z and figured out how to connect it from day one. Instead we got a lot of stuff that took away the mystique of people somehow crashed on an island, alive, with connections between them that they slowly figured out.
The whole mystery around the first couple seasons was AWESOME. Waiting till season 2 to see what carried on from the end of season 1 (I'm purposely avoiding spoilers here) was great. I used to watch that show and then go to bed totally wrapped up in wondering what would happen next. I'd dream about actually sometimes. Damn that was a great time.
Then they went and dropped a proverbial diarrhea bomb on everything with the last season.
- mg330
I never understood why a class action suit wasn't filed against those two bastard producers/writers.
- JamesBoynton0
Brilliant, start to finish.
- prophetone0
i can honestly say i haven't watched more than 30 secs. of this show. and it's funny because i have friends that were losing their minds over it. the end.
- raf0
I liked it more than The Wire. There, I said it.
The Wire was great, painfully realistic, brilliantly written and executed. Yet I liked Lost more for one reason:
Problems of virtually every character in The Wire could be solved using one piece of advice: "You live in a shithole, move out of Baltimore you moron. Why are you doing this to yourself?"
This clip applies to everyone in this show, they are all free people, getting entangled in this God's forsaken city's shit for no reason. There even is an episode when one of the ghetto kids moves out, to show any of them easily could if they wanted.
The crew of Lost however were put in a situation they had no control over - cast away on a freak island. It was unrealistic, simplistic, etc but it was immensely engaging — case in point, Horp watched it all.
- Using even 1/3 of the plot line from Gilligan's Island would have served them well.mg33
- Before someone picks up on it, I'm not seriously comparing these shows. The Wire's Baltimore is America...raf
- ...and it's not like everyone can just leave. Only the smarter ones, hahaha.raf
- because these people don't make the type of money to leave balitmore easily.colin_s
- They can but they love Baltimore too much. It's Stockholm syndrome. Only Stockholm isn't such a hole :Draf
- monospaced0
@raf, yet, they went back to the island
- raf0
It portrays pretty people constantly running through a beautiful island with miraculously unlimited supplies — what's not to like? I liked how women always had their makeup on and Kate had her armpits mysteriously shaved even during her days spent locked in a cage.
- what's not to like is that they didn't answer any of the mysteries!monospaced
- electromagnets, hurley's psych condition, smoke monsters, immortality, moving islands, nothingmonospaced
- Your description is more about Baywatch than LOST. LOL.monospaced
- ukit20
- bongs and monkeysscarabin
- oh that beautiful sound...mg33
- that's the sound of a receipt being printed in a taximonospaced