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     Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 81.155.19.145 |
I've just finished watching LOST up to the end of Series 4. A mix of Narnia (Charlotte Staples-Lewis), Verne, Wells, Dr Who... This is about the only TV screen fiction that I can stomach these days. Its essence reminds me of the subtitle I gave my book WEIRDMONGER: THE NEMONICON (Prime Books 2003): The Synchronised Shards of Random Truth and Fiction | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
LOST is one of the best television shows ever broadcast, IMHO. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.22.160 |
So what happens at the end? Do they stitch the plane back together, Flight of the Phoenix-wise? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 81.155.19.145 |
"I'm Desmond." .. C.S.Lewis SPOILER: Was that Lock in the coffin at the end as Jeremy Bentham? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 81.155.19.145 |
Zed: LOST is one of the best television shows ever broadcast, IMHO. =============== Yup Yup That and Twin Peaks. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
It was indeed | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
I must have missed that boat. I found 'Lost' both banal and hyped to absurdity. Sorry chaps. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.250.177 |
I refuse to watch "Lost." It just looks maddening to me - they're drawing out the big "mystery" so they can keep the series going. If they announced, like the guy (blanking) who created "Babylon 5" did, that they were doing (say) 5 seasons exactly and ending the arc, then maybe I'd watch it.... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
They've already stated there's only another 30 episodes left. At the end of season 3 they said they were doing 45 more episodes in 3 seasons. Season 4 down - two to go. Any more excuses craig? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 81.155.19.145 |
It's coming together with Series 4 and seems to me that they have not been gratuitously perpetuating a 'mystery' but carefully preparing very clever plot patterns for the long term - (seen with the hindsight of Narnia, inter alia?) | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Bits in the flashbacks that seemed entirely random in season 1 that weren't mentioned again suddenly became huge plot devices in season 3 onwards. we have so much info on all of these characters, - i can't think of anything else with so many fully fleshed characters. Spoiler Is it my imagination or is bernard the only "tail-ender" left alive? could there be some significance to this? Plenty of Wizard of Oz references scattered through as well - eg when Ben first appeared he was calling himself henry gale (Dorothy's uncle) and had apparently landed on the island in a hot air balloon - which is how the wizard arrived in Oz (and the Gale family in one of the later books) | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 81.155.19.145 |
Response to spoiler question Bernard (the dentist) was only an honorary tail-ender because he was a front-ender who ended up in the toilet in the tail when the plane crashed. Had not noticed the Oz references, thanks! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.3.183 |
Okay, I stand corrected. But it all sounds like too much... just give me the gist of it when it's all over, everybody, mm'kay?... | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.209.220.3 |
I love Lost. The whole 'mystery' part of it is irrelevant to me; there are many layers to the plot that mean there's a great deal of depth to each of the characters. I think the people who don't watch Lost just think it's about a weird island with black smoke and polar bears. I'd liken it to The Prisoner; it's a television show that creates its own rules. | ||
| Guy (Guy) Username: Guy Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.11.224.105 |
Quite agree Steve, I have every confidence that enough of the 'mystery' will be solved for my tastes and the rest will just have been about the journey. My partner disagrees though, she says it vexes her how every episode just adds further confusion, nothing is answered just more questions. Strangely that would be exactly what I love about it! She's still hanging in there though, having watched four series it would be mad for her to quit now, thing is I just know that she won't get the sort of neat closure she likes from her fiction. At least I hope she doesn't! | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.209.220.3 |
It's the journey, Guy, not the destination. You tell her. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.141.80 |
I'd liken it to The Prisoner Yes, but at least that had the decency to keep itself tight(-ish) and keep to seventeen episodes, not hundreds. I watched the first series of LOST - soon as the writers announced "it's a success; we're now going to run it for five seasons" I gave up. BABYLON 5 was good; it had great story arcs planned from the start (unlike, it seems, LOST, which gave the appearance of fire-fighting in its early days), but unfortunately these were squashed a bit as they thought that, after all, they were getting four series instead of five, so they rushed the fourth series and finished the storylines there, then found they did have a fifth so kind of floundered in that last set of episodes. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
The fact that LOST became 5 series has actually made it better - it's given more time for the sub plots and character arcs to develop. The things I love about the show are the exact elemnts others seem to dislike: the layers of mystery, the side stories, the way it often just leaves threads hanging for weeks before resolving them. It's wonderful, like a big sprawling epic novel. |