Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

Here we go LOST fans! Five years on and and I hope you're STOKED.

Anticipation thread here for speculative/spoilering: The island wanted LOST SEASON SIX THREAD to happen

This thread is for ongoing viewing pleasure rather than spoiler posting. I think anything broadcast is fair game so us Britishers and Irishers will have to put up with a couple of days of spoilers/download it/wait until it's on Sky before reading. I'll be downloading asap as waiting three or four days is unthinkable.

http://www.odoe.net/jackfaces/images/runjack_sm.gif

What will be do when it's all over? ;_;

be do?

we do

do be do be do

Will be setting this to download before I dress or wash tomorrow morning. Btw uk/irelanders might care that the s5 finale is on sky plus anytime all week.

don't know which site to use anymore

WHAT ABOUT PREVIEWS FOR THE NEXT EPISODE ARE THOSE SPOILERS

(just getting it out of the way)

Why is it on Friday night in the UK? Is this a one-off or is it Friday every week? Bastards.

Ummm this appears to be on surftehchann31 already?!

False alarm, recap. Carry on.

this recap sucks balls.

when have they not sucked balls?

the Season x in 8:15 minutes things are all you need

"they changed the past, but these recaps still suck balls..."

The Reduced Shakespeare Company's Lost in 10 minutes

When it's over, you'll watch Carnivale.

After the first opening seconds, "this story begins on Sept. 22, 2004, in Sydney Australia, when 324 people boarded a plane to Los Angeles", I had such an absolutely furious YOU MOTHERFUCKERS moment before I put together that duh it's just a recap. I felt dumb, but whew, kinda.

haha kinda cracking up at the idea of the season premiere being MORE RECAP like they just rebooted the whole thing and are retelling ti

season 6 premier is actually just going to be season 1 premier backwards

4 hours 3 minutes

^^Would totally watch just to see Frackles tear out Jack's stitches and that one dude get spit out of a jet engine.

xp

Abc has sum spoilish footage on. But really its just one more bead of sweat in th wizards sleeve.I made room on th couch if anyone is alone tonite

I dunno what I'm gonna do tonite cuz IIIII don't have a TV

sup frackles

frackles frackles frackles

I dunno what I'm gonna do tonite cuz IIIII don't have a TV

Psst:
http://www.channelsurfing.net/watch-abc.html

"I made room on th couch if anyone is alone tonite"

i'll be alone! maria is going to watch at frrenzzzz house tonight. but yer couch is too far away.

Psst:

O hai

4 8 15 16 23 42 F R A C K L E S 4 8 15 16 23 42

MERE MINUTES

!!!!!!!!!!

i am like a child waiting for the santa tbh

I have had my dinner, I am in my jammies, and I am about to have my bottle (of beer).

fracklin out

don't u wish it were DHARMA BEER?

xp

er dhrama beer

like this one?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/IMG_1686.jpg

(my daughter made me some labels for xmas a couple of years ago)

son of a

oh frackles

"This is what happens when 324 strangers stop being polite, and start being real.' REAL WORLD ISLAND SEASON ONE

"...a strange couple..."

because...they're...Korean...?

God, clip shows are the worsestest

yeah guys your countdown was an hour early

son of a...

I keep thinking about how annoying Ben's voice is as the narrator for this clip show, but...I can't think of another Lostie that would be less annoying. Let's face it, these cats were not made out for narrating clip shows

they should get herzog to do this obv

cheech

Whoopi Goldberg

circle gets the square

tracey morgan

Man, Sun is such a babe

^^^ this

god, remember the good times?

polar bears!

if you introduce a polar bear in act I...

not that this didn't bug me all the while watching the show for the first time, but man, on re-watching it the mysteries aren't so immediate and the shoddy writing wrt the characters is ~really~ jumping out this time around.

It really points up how easy it is in serialized storytelling to get your audience with you by alluding to ~secrets and mysteries~, no wonder they binged on that so recklessly. But unless you're counting on getting cancelled, those gd mysteries are gonna come home to fkin roost at some point. Same goes for those BSG fuckers, but they were even more brazen about it, having the very tag line of their show be a straight-faced lie. (tho i still love BSG).

Yeah, I guess that's a quality that I don't sweat in mainstream comics because those things run for centuries, and even if the current creative team doesn't resolve anything, someone else will pick up the thread years down the line. Television show runners, however, would probably be wise to work from a slightly different playbook.

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2014/03/18/lost-writers-debunk-theories-about-hit-series-10-years-later/

Cuse also said the writers decided not to provide answers to all the questions raised by the storylines in the final season. “Every question sort of begets another question. … We just didn't feel like there was any way to answer all the open questions at the end of the show without it feeling really didactic and boring.”

I hate these motherfuckers so much.

They asked way too many questions

Though:

Lindelof said they did write a scene that answered who was on the Outrigger, but the scene was never shot. That script may be auctioned off to raise money for a charity in the future, he said.

When you not a sociopathic douche, every question begets an ANSWER.

I just read back a couple pages in this thread and realized that I got into kate beaton and anthony clark's webcomics via their LOST Cartoons. alright LOST that's one point in your column

Lindelof said, “We felt that withholding from the actors audience was best for the show.”

fuck this show, fuck these people, etc

In 2014 AD there was still folks who cussedly hated Lost ...

we must go back in time and change nothing

It is weird how ... I don't want to say seminal but that's the only word that fits ... seminal the show is, I keep seeing shows that feel like it or borrow from it. Expecting Terry O'Quinn to show up on Walking Dead, for instance, because of the 'personal journey in extremis' thing. 'Begins as a colossal puzzle but at the end get rid of all that and just say it's an allegory' or 'ironic commentary between present and past scenes' of True Detective. Or maybe it's my taste that just draws me to similar material

That outrigger thing gets my goat though and no mistake

so wrong that an all-time story like 'the constant' has to be embedded in this pile of shit

every time i remember a cool thing about the show i also remember the corresponding failure to justify it at the end. like when the world thought they found the sunken remains of the plane, every detail super-convincing, but really it was a decoy widmore put there...because it was going to allow widmore to fulfill his master plan of ??? anyway he got shot and died.

It is weird how ... I don't want to say seminal but that's the only word that fits ... seminal the show is, I keep seeing shows that feel like it or borrow from it. Expecting Terry O'Quinn to show up on Walking Dead, for instance, because of the 'personal journey in extremis' thing. 'Begins as a colossal puzzle but at the end get rid of all that and just say it's an allegory' or 'ironic commentary between present and past scenes' of True Detective. Or maybe it's my taste that just draws me to similar material

― Brakhage, Wednesday, March 19, 2014 8:17 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't watch Walking Dead but i think LOST has been hugely influential on TV, if primarily on network shows that nobody watches that get canceled after one or two seasons. there are seriously like 2 or 3 high concept shows debuting on ABC or CBS every few months, there were just a couple new ones last week. seminal in the sense of lots of doomed sperm swimming around.

hey person of interest is still standing!!

the whole obsessive, poring over every frame and prop on the show, style of TV-watching definitely started with Lost. I also feel like it's the first show to really take advantage of Internet fandom, what with sprawling wikis, weekly podcasts, those Hanso videos, etc.

person of interest is basically an updated touched by an angel with a bit more paranoia and occasional nods at procedurals and then whedon-inflected comic book season arcs.

siberia seems like its stuck the closest to "what lost coulda been".

x-p
Didn't Twin Peaks get some obsessive fan action? And network extras?

Is Siberia returning? Serious question, every time I google it there is no record that it was canned or otherwise.

what was the outrigger again?

id forgotten too so i googled it and turns out its a bunch of bul lshit

The most annoying thing about that final season is that they COULD have answered most of the questions people cared about in a reasonably satisfying way but instead they spunked away half the screen time on a pointless alternate timeline that went nowhere and just kind of tied up everything else in 30 seconds as an afterthought. Some great characters (ie Sayid) got totally shitty ends to their stories as result.

Like, you read that quote upthread and it basically means "we're shitty writers".

OTM
I'm not as negative as most people about the end but it did feel surprisingly rushed compared to how drawn out all the mysteries had been. No doubt linked to wasting half of the screen time on a pointless gimmick twist that had been done better before with the flash-forward trick.

primarily on network shows that nobody watches that get canceled after one or two seasons

Alcatraz didn't even get to finish the first season :(

Is Fringe worth watching? I keep toying with the idea but don't want to get burned again.

I haven't seen a single minute of Fringe.

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so tempting

must resist...

Fringe was great--it promised a lot less than Lost but it posed big questions and answered them pretty much every season, leading to weirder questions. Also, the last episode was pretty satisfying.

It is pretty good, especially when it hits the mind scrambling parallel universe storylines, the incidental episodes get a bit tedious. It all fizzles away in a slightly whelming manner. So yeah essential viewing ;)

Best thing about Fringe was that at some point they gave up on trying to attract new viewers (something Lost never really stopped doing) and just made the relationship stuff service the confusing story arcs.

The Fringe guys went on to make Sleepy Hollow which is one of the more successful post-Lost network shows

Love Fringe - Matt, I think you'd dig it.

It helps that it had a much smaller central cast (and all the additional characters were played by the same people, because of parallel universe shenanigans.)

I love the way loveable acid casualty William Bishop's self from the other world is a evil, humourless arch baddie. The parallel universe stuff is easily some of the best sci-fi tv ever, it gets a bit silly but it is a heck of a lot of fun.

he's just trying to save his world!!

last 1.5 seasons or so of Fringe were 90% garbage, people

The J.J. Abrams curse

or starting from whenever it was that manimal ark thing happened

Lol that shit was so barmy, did they get Lee Scratch Perry in as a consultant?

The end of Season 4 is basically the disappointing Lost/BSG-style series finale you were dreading. Then Season 5 course corrects from that in an interesting and unexpected way, sputters a bit, but ends well.

Halfway through season 2 through the end of season 3 are pretty much some of the most fun TV sci-fi ever though.

absolutely. the show on balance was far more exceptionally great than exceptionally disappointing

yes, that's the best portion of Fringe. after they cut down on the one-off monster episodes and before the plot twist that made no sense.

happy LOST finale anniversary!!!!! still mad

I love this thread title so much.

I considered rewatching this just now until I looked on wiki and saw that there were 121 episodes, seriously???

121 hours of my life I will never get back.