LOST -- The Final season [R] - No Future Spoilers

Still can't do it. I have the space. It stays.

 

Still there on DVR Ismitje.

 

I still have mine on the DVR. I plan on watching the finale again after the WC is over.

Here is the essential LOST reading list. I thought some of you may enjoy this: http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20313460_20397424,00.html?hpt=C2

 

Apparently, there is a 12 minute clip coming on the season 6 DVD that is called, "The New Man in Charge". It gives a lot of answers like to the Dharma food drop, the polar bears, Walt, and several other things.

 

That's why I hear. Video is blocked at work so I plan on watching when I get home.

 

Seems like it's been dropped from every link I find - got a good one?

 

Yeah, it seems like it has been deleted everywhere. I am downloading it off a torrent site now.

 

Only because I'm bored. I don't think this is a bad theory at all. In fact, I really like it.

 

Thank you for giving me tunnel vision.

But yeah, that is certainly the best theory I have read; makes perfect sense in so many ways.

 

Mega Millions has 4 of the 6 'Lost' numbers.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/mega-millions-lottery-ticket-sold-idaho-washington/story?id=12542742

 

I've thought about Lost on 3 occasions since the series finale:

1. The new Gery's Anatomy retread on ABC that apparently uses the same locations and the art director as Lost:


2. The excellent Christmas claymation episode of Community.

3. The Deadspin podcast in which Leitch and Drew Magary talk about how they haven't thought about Lost at all.

I mean, people still talk about how they hated the Seinfeld finale and argue over the Sopranos ending and I practically talk to someone about The Wire everyday, but Lost? Not at all. And I used to obsess over this show.

 

I had the same thought when this thread popped up again, I've rarely thought about Lost since it ended and don't really have much interest in a re-watch. Which kind of surprises me. Not sure what to read into that, whether it means it tied up the loose ends nicely enough or that in reality there wasn't much there.

 

Probably a little of both. They did a lot to build up suspense and discussion when very little was actually there (and the acting and production quality were pretty shitty), so yay, great storytelling? But they also tied things up nicely, in a very expected, tidy way, and that's one thing I've always wanted to say to the posters who kept demanding "answers" at the end of every episode - if all the questions were answered, you wouldn't like it very much.

 

that did get said quite often, if i recall. i know i said it a bunch of times... about enjoying the journey.

 

Yes, exactly!

 

Honestly, I think it's the latter. If there had been a coherent outline from the beginning, the show would have been much stronger. Because the writers had no grand story to tell, they just went for the mind-********. In fact, that's what I called it: my weekly mind-********.

Well, that's all well and good the first time through. But there's got to be more to get someone to want to watch it again and there's just nothing there.

The Wire has layers upon layers of depth. I could watch it year after year. Lost? Not so much.

 

Yeah, The Wire is like a symphony in 5 movements. Lost is like skronky free jazz played by a bunch of white guys that gives you a rush live but you wouldn't really want to hear the recording.

 

I can't tell if you misunderstood my point - those shows, whatever their merits, still occupy people's mind and pop culture mindshare. I don't go a day without reading a 'Wire' reference somewhere. 'Lost' on the other hand, has completely disappeared from our collective conscious.

 

Like the island itself, whoa....