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No, with the current writers, we, the viewers, are deemed to be idiots, or perhaps, the writers just don't care.
At least in Stargate SG-1 they had the good sense to make fun of themselves with this.
Well, now I know how to make a successful serialized TV series: Make questions, never answer them. Soap Opera 101...
, even Alias tied up more loose ends by the 3rd season's end than Lost apparently ever will. And JJ left that show in the middle of the 2nd season. He is so ADD. This is why I don't bother with Fringe. I don't need another half assed JJ Abrams ADD brain fart. I'll just watch his movies from now on.
Babylon 5 was much more satisfying.
No, with the current writers, we, the viewers, are deemed to be idiots, or perhaps, the writers just don't care.
At least in Stargate SG-1 they had the good sense to make fun of themselves with this.
The Temple guards the light source, I'm thinking. The little pool in the temple is directly above it. Widmore wants it.
Forget Walt, forget Eko. Those don't need to be tied up. Weird happens on the island, weird happened to Walt and Eko. Mystery solved.
Insufficient for as much time was devoted.
Who built the temple? Guards life? Looks like the alternate universe did just fine without the island. In fact, other than the fact they had memories of the island, it seems like AU was better than LU.
It is a TV show, not life. You write something into it, you either finish it or don't put it in. Strawman plot points are a good way to kill a show.
I don't mind the loose ends. Whether it was their intention or not, they went along, arbitrarily creating mysteries they aren't going to answer, which leaves us room to fill in the gaps, to make a more meaningful, more imaginative show. Seems like lazy writing, but I really don't care. The show itself has been enjoyable up to now. But the answers they DO give, the reveals they make and the quality of the writing has been a resounding wet fart the entire season.
Last edited by Death In June; 05-14-2010 at 02:59 PM.
The reason I got into the show had little to do with the Island. It was the flashback character development that made it very cool (punctuated by Mr. Eko's life). They stopped developing characters, thats why I stopped watching for 3 seasons.
The Island was like the USS Enterprise: It was a story telling device. Any time they focused too much on the story telling device, the quality of the show was missing.
Obviously, I disagree on the quality of this show with most of you. I am not trying to persuade any of you. People like what they like. But I feel that the show is just given too much credit where it doesn't deserve any. To say the show was somehow revolutionary is disrespectful to the shows that actually were. There is not currently a show on TV like it, but it is hardly the best show to serialize, sci-fi or otherwise.
I better see Vincent in the finale or I'll be pissed.
When the writers mentioned expanding the story telling devices, I thought we'd see a Vincent Flashback or at least an episode devoted to him roaming the island and observing stuff. IMHO, it was a wasted opportunity to do something different, people would call it "the Vincent episode where he saw crazy and has no way of explaining his findings to anyone" but instead we have stuff like "the episode where Kate found out the others wear clown make up and fake noses to look like jungle dwellers for no reason at all" or "the episode when the outrigger got shot at and Juliet killed one of the guys on the other boat but it was never explained why they were shooting in the first place or who they were."I better see Vincent in the finale or I'll be pissed.
Yea, they could have flashbacked to show us where Vincent came from, who his parents were, etc.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/sho...pet.cnn?hpt=C2
And yes, I watch Fringe too. Too bad some of you stopped watching., loving the alternative universe storyline.
double post.
I agree that the storytelling has been offpace this season... pretty much all the first part of Season 6 I hated... I was cheering for Dogen and Lennon's death.
I also wouldn't mind seeing an appearance from Growly the polar bearI better see Vincent in the finale or I'll be pissed.
The bear would be great! The man in black seems very evil one moment and somewhat sympathetic the next. Looks like the writers are doing this on purpose to make us feel LOST.
Yeah. They've done an excellent job of killing the show.
Uh, Ajira flight 316 landed on a small runway. You get an F on your Lost test.
I'd say it was revolutionary in how much detail the audience could comb over and how many theories actually looked plausible with what they gave you at the time.
I remember when the numbers were a big deal and the lost fanatics would plug them into google maps and depending on how they were entered would get one location in Nigeria (drug smuggling plane) and one location off the coast of Australia. It was pretty neat.
Also all the books Sawyer/Juliet/Ben/etc would read were clues as to the overall plot. Props, names of characters, etc etc.
For me, Lost peaked at the season 1 finale. I had crazy goosebumps as The Others drifted up on their boat and the plot twist was revealed. I loved Lost most when I had no idea wtf was going on. It was cool, because at that time the writers kept saying everything could be explained scientifically in the end. Too bad they abandoned that and went Merlin with a fountain of light babbling brook of power. I still dig it though. Locke made this series imfo.
Last edited by EmptyMan; 05-15-2010 at 03:55 PM.
Sigh!
Spoilers are up as the episode was screened at UCLA. This week is ing unreal. New episode tonight and finale on Sunday. Weird that it's all going to be over soon. Then Stringer can tell us why it sucked.
You can PM me those spoilers, ya know.
Just highlight.
Everybody’s back, including Richard, Ben, Miles and Des.
It’s a big episode for Charles Widmore.
Major developments transpire in Los Angeles. We catch up with Hurley, Desmond, Kate, Sayid, Jack, John, Ben, Alex, Danielle and Ana Lucia.
We learn why Sun said “It’s him!” when she saw Locke.
We learn why Kate’s name was crossed off on the cave wall.
We learn Shepard, Ford and Reyes are not the only candidates left.
We learn this week which of the candidates succeeds Jacob.
From ain cool.
Thanks!!!!
It's not my fault that the fan theories and ideas surrounding Seasons 1-5 have been better than the delivery of Season 6.
I think I know who the mother of Jack's son is too.
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