LOST- 6th and Final Season (NO SPOILERS)

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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    rrivers wrote:
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    You're missing my point! Obviously the show is sci-fi.. I'm just talking about the characters filling the voids of their lives.. The character struggles. Ignore the time travel, polar bears and stupid island.. Nevermind. You hate the show, I get that. You're not even trying to see the point I'm making.

    By the end of the show, I could give a crap about the stupid island and what the stupid glow was. I was just happy to see everyone finally figure out where they were going in life.

    I stopped caring about what the island was when they started getting all religious, anyways.

    It's hard to take you seriously when you want me to ignore the main elements of the show. No matter how much Lindelof and Cuse try to sell it, the show was not about the characters. If it was they should have made the characters more compelling and not so cliched and so flat. The thing is I didn't care about the cliched characters and the horrible dialogue early on because I took it to be in the spirit of a 50s B movie and was just going to enjoy the ride of seeing what the mystery was. The problem is, for whatever reason (writers ran out of ideas, etc.), they decided the mysteries were not important (though its why people were watching, no matter what you say) and then acted like we were wrong for wanting to know what was going on.

    If I take out all the elements of the show you want me to, there is no show and you wouldn't have been watching.
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    Lost was overrated, yes. But still an entertaining show. If it wasn't so overrated, it would never have gotten the budget to do what it did. Sci-Fi shows don't do well on major networks.

    I don't even know what you mean here. Early on it was entertaining. Then it just became a mess.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwY4gg3u6tg
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  • IwasBit10
    IwasBit10 Posts: 646
    rrivers wrote:
    The big draw of the show was the mystery: what was the island? why were these people brought there? Plain and simple. The characters were not well drawn and cliched.

    Watch shows like "The Wire", "The Sopranos", and "Mad Men" and see well drawn characters on much better shows.

    I would agree, that compared to other shows, the characters were a little bland. But keep in mind that LOST aired on ABC primetime, not HBO or AMC. They had to hold the attention of a national audience. The writers faced a lot more limitations than the writers of the shows you mentioned (all of which I love as well), and had to make some things cliched. I know I'm a little late to this discussion, but I just wanted to throw that out there.
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    IwasBit10 wrote:
    rrivers wrote:
    The big draw of the show was the mystery: what was the island? why were these people brought there? Plain and simple. The characters were not well drawn and cliched.

    Watch shows like "The Wire", "The Sopranos", and "Mad Men" and see well drawn characters on much better shows.

    I would agree, that compared to other shows, the characters were a little bland. But keep in mind that LOST aired on ABC primetime, not HBO or AMC. They had to hold the attention of a national audience. The writers faced a lot more limitations than the writers of the shows you mentioned (all of which I love as well), and had to make some things cliched. I know I'm a little late to this discussion, but I just wanted to throw that out there.

    There have been shows on networks that did not have bland characters, "The West WIng" is one that comes to mind. "Lost" can't have it both ways where they want to be viewed as breaking the mold of network shows and then also fall back on the crutch of, "well, what do you want? We're on a network." Plus the network let them take the show into sci fi elements, ie time travel, etc. that would not normally appeal to a wide audience, so it's not like ABC was holding them back from creating interesting characters.
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  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,629
    i want the Lost complete series set. it looks cool.
    I miss igotid88
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    igotid88 wrote:
    i want the Lost complete series set. it looks cool.
    its out for sale?
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    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
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  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    igotid88 wrote:
    i want the Lost complete series set. it looks cool.
    its out for sale?
    Not yet. I know Season 6 comes out August 24th, so maybe the whole series comes out the same day.
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  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,853
    the entire series on blu-ray. Late August
  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Matthew Fox on Jimmy Kimmel Live July 29.

    http://www.hulu.com/watch/167789/jimmy- ... ul-29-2010
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  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    igotid88 wrote:
    i want the Lost complete series set. it looks cool.
    I want this too.
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  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,629
    Newch91 wrote:
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    igotid88 wrote:
    i want the Lost complete series set. it looks cool.
    its out for sale?
    Not yet. I know Season 6 comes out August 24th, so maybe the whole series comes out the same day.

    yea the same day.
    I miss igotid88
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Phew! One more episode of season 5 left.. Rewatching that was a lot of work. I'm glad I made the blu-rays worth it.. I'm ready for the 23rd now.
  • AllNiteThing
    AllNiteThing Posts: 1,115
    Damn!!!! I already bought seasons 1 - 5 on Blu Ray last year. :( No way I could justify buying it again to get the extras. But they sound SO cool! Board game from the show! Island map! Tons of extras/deleted scenes! Daaaamn.
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  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    AllNiteThing wrote:
    Damn!!!! I already bought seasons 1 - 5 on Blu Ray last year. :( No way I could justify buying it again to get the extras. But they sound SO cool! Board game from the show! Island map! Tons of extras/deleted scenes! Daaaamn.

    Yep. I have 4 and 5 and wondering if the extra stuff will be included in the box set (deleted scenese, outtakes, etc).
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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,179
    How Lost should have ended:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrcF7dYADsw
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  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,791
    Just finished watching the "New Man In Charge" epilogue from the box set. It was ok I guess, it managed to tie up a few loose ends from the series (like the polar bear and Walt at last!), but it could have been a bit longer. It would have been better as a full episode so that it didn't feel so much like just a deleted scene.

    There is one pretty cool bit where a Dharma worker shouts “We deserve answers!” - that's clearly Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse making fun of all the people that whinged about the ending!
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  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Does anyone have any of the soundtracks? I only have season 4 and it has some of the best music I've ever heard. Love "The Constant", "There's No Place Like Home", and "Landing Party". Great stuff on there. Michael Giacchino is a gift from God. Season 6 soundtrack will be available September 14th. Getting that. A lot of great music from season 6.
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  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    Newch91 wrote:
    Does anyone have any of the soundtracks? I only have season 4 and it has some of the best music I've ever heard. Love "The Constant", "There's No Place Like Home", and "Landing Party". Great stuff on there. Michael Giacchino is a gift from God. Season 6 soundtrack will be available September 14th. Getting that. A lot of great music from season 6.
    Read a nifty article about Giacchino in The New Yorker a few months ago. Here's a video talking about how he creates some of the music and sounds:
    http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/a ... -lost.html
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    goldrush wrote:
    Just finished watching the "New Man In Charge" epilogue from the box set. It was ok I guess, it managed to tie up a few loose ends from the series (like the polar bear and Walt at last!), but it could have been a bit longer. It would have been better as a full episode so that it didn't feel so much like just a deleted scene.

    There is one pretty cool bit where a Dharma worker shouts “We deserve answers!” - that's clearly Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse making fun of all the people that whinged about the ending!

    Wow sounds awesome. I especially love Lindelof and Cuse's condesending attitude towards people that watched the show and expected exactly what they advertised.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."

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