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"Lost" Is Finally Coming To An End. Do You Care?

shmee said:
JayR said:
raptusregaliter said:
Do you care that Lost is coming to an end? Will you miss it?
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No and no.
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LOST has been LOST since it started! but then again... putting it on from 6pm(CT)-8pm(CT) & then again from 8pm(CT)-1030pm(CT)for the series finale is a little crazy...
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The first two hours is a recap show, actually. The "real" finale is the 8pm show.
 
imhomerjay said:
Many a show isn't "realistic," and that's not for everyone, but that was entirely the point with Lost...it was something else entirely.
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You are absolutely correct. For drama's I could have included '24' (cartoon), NCIS (some resemblance but not much) , NCIS L.A. (utter stupidity and not realistic even to its namesake), CSI (nothing like what it once was) and I could go on and on.

Drama's traditionally have been much closer to reality than other genres. With Lost I wasn't referring as much to the show at large as I was to the 'crash' and the fact that any island underneath a flyway could remain undiscovered. One is a shortcoming of execution but the other is a giant logic hole and created disappointment from the outset.

Jack Webb is rolling over in his grave.
 
Considering it can be considered soemthing of a sci-fi type set-up, of course it's not logical. It takes liberties with things the same way many fantasy/sci-fi tales do.
 
I had never watched "Lost" until I saw the repeat of the two-hour premiere Sat. night. In order to bring viewers like me up to speed, the show's producers used captions to provide the back story and trajectory of the plot.

As I see it, "Lost" has got to have one of the most convoluted, silly, preposterous story lines ever written. Yes, it is an allegory (as the captions indicated) but it is one that only true believers of the series can stomach. The premiere itself was fairly well done and a good beginning but I was glad for the captions because it gave me relief to know that I didn't waste time watching each episode.

On a positive note, the show did make me fall in love with Hawaii all over again. Beautiful locations.

And if you want to see a good allegorical film, watch (or re-watch) "High Noon" with Gary Cooper. The film is an allegory about the blacklisting of writers during the 50's.

c5
 
not really (as long as they don't try and do a reunion movie fifteen years from now involving
the Harlem Globetrotters in any way....)
 
I actually enjoyed the four and a half hours I spent watching last night. I was totally lost, as it turned out, because it had been a while since I saw an episode and it doesn't even seem like the same series. But the stories that took place in the "real world" I think I could have enjoyed. It's all that nonsense on the island I couldn't deal with, which is why I mostly gave up after the pilot.

I have a sci-fi show that is endlessly analyzed (and don't care for more of them). It's called "Smallville". I actually enjoy the arguments from the geeks and the shippers more than the show itself.

And there were also "FlashForward" and "Life On Mars", both of these much easier to take.
 
I always wondered how the fat guy managed to keep all that weight on, despite being on a 'deserted' island all that time...
 
Anyone catch the "alternate endings" of Lost? Pretty funny. They did one that ends like Survivor and Jeff votes them off the island. Another ends like The Sopranos in the diner. And the last ends like the old Newhart sitcom, in bed with his 'wife'. Should be on the web somewhere. Worth watching if you were a fan.
 
I saw no more than twelve minutes of the finale episode. Reason: the show I was watching on the Beeb ended, and "Globe Trekker" on OPB wasn't on for 12 minutes after that. Twelve minutes more than I was planning to watch, but I guess it is more interesting than staring at a blank screen. This now brings the total amount of continuous "Lost" I have seen in my life to around one hour. (And even then I wasn't there for the entire twelve. Nature called me, and I had to answer. Drinking an entire two-litre jug of Pepsi will do that.)

F.Y.I. Comparing Lost to Seinfeld is an apples-to-oranges matter. "Seinfeld" was a show about nothing. "Lost" was a show about NOTHING! ;o)
 
landtuna said:
And the last ends like the old Newhart sitcom, in bed with his 'wife'. Should be on the web somewhere. Worth watching if you were a fan.
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Evangeline Lilly as Kate played his wife. Bob explained his dream about owning an inn in Vermont and Kate recounted her dream about being stranded on a tropical island and seeing a polar bear. Bob then exclaimed "You're not Emily!" Hilarious!

Also, it wasn't the entire cast voted off the island in the "Survivor" parody -- just Sayid, and he wasn't happy about it.

http://abc.go.com/shows/jimmy-kimme...=240443&clipId=262020&autoStartFirstClip=true
 
71dude said:
Best show ever.
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I totally agree. It doesn't bother me that many didn't take the time to watch and understand as some people find it easier to watch a reality show and not have to actually think. I find it funny how some people who've watched only a handful of episodes (or even only an hour) can be so quick to judge what I believe to be the best scripted drama and character development on television in my lifetime (going on 39 here). Forget about the few remaining mysteries unsolved on the island (that shouldn't be any different from having unsolved mysteries we deal with here in reality), LOST was about the characters' journeys...their evolution, awakening, and redemption. There were clues to this ever since the very first episode. Those who didn't see that weren't looking hard enough or not using their brains.
 
Lost was a bit like 24 in that you could miss episodes and pick up right where you left off. The ending was very predictable and the screen writers did their jobs lingering on faces for what seemed like an American Idol eternity.

What a waste of TV time.
 
I thought that the show and finale explained most everything, in there usual 'round about way', but you had to use your brain. Some people will choose to wish the ending was the way they envisioned it should be. With the zillions of theories that were out there, some people wanted an answer to every little question posed, and unfortunately for them (like in life), that just doesn't happen.

People are entitled to not like it just as I am entitled to believe they just didn't "get it".
 
I've been a fan of Lost since the first episode. Overall, I was satisfied with the end and the major question of the Island was answered. They left dozens of threads, some very important, that weren't answered but like others said while the bow was tied, it wasn't a perfect knot.
 
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