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Post by Marv on May 18, 2017 0:56:30 GMT
Season 1 was so good. All about character development. Decent air on the mysteries but not as plotdriving as later seasons. Fave characters in season 1...Sawyer, Locke, Kate, Sayid and Jack....in that order.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on May 18, 2017 2:02:45 GMT
I rebinged it a few months ago.
I still haven't watch the finale again though.
I wanted to make sure it deserved my favorite show of all time.
It does.
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Post by Marv on May 18, 2017 4:07:10 GMT
I'm a few episodes into season 2 and I'm feeling kind of...depressed maybe. Because Analucia and Mr Eko are such good character that are getting so fleshed out but I know they won't be in the show for that long. I'm particularly enjoying the nuances of Mr Eko at this moment. Wish the actor would've stuck around longer.
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Post by bonerxmas on May 18, 2017 4:13:02 GMT
if you want characters, read tolstoy
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Post by Marv on May 18, 2017 4:14:15 GMT
That the one about the toys that come to life with the mean kid that breaks them?
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Post by poelzig on May 18, 2017 4:14:48 GMT
Lost did several things very well. Making us care about the characters was near the top of the list. Too bad I doubt I will watch it again any time soon if ever. Why? Due to that horrific finale coupled with the fact the creators had such contempt for the audience they blatantly lied numerous times in a failed attempt to hide the fact most people guessed how it would end in Season 1. Hell 20 minutes into the pilot.
It should have been a ground breaking top 10 series of all time. Instead it's a failure with flashes of brilliance. Oh well.
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Post by Marv on May 18, 2017 4:23:26 GMT
Yea but I don't think most people guessed correctly about the ending in season 1. I recall the popular theory being that thinking everyone had died in the plane crash and the island was some kind of purgatory/afterlife.
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Post by poelzig on May 18, 2017 5:09:42 GMT
Which is exactly what it was. Surely you're not one of those fawning fanboys that pretend the showrunners prattling on about "well it wasn't purgatory. It was just a place exactly like purgatory but it wasn't purgatory" somehow makes them any less pathetic are you? That's just sad.
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Post by Marv on May 18, 2017 8:09:55 GMT
That isn't what happened. The island was not purgatory. The island was a real place in our real world, not some afterlife. You're not the first person that's thought this tho and I'm honestly surprised at how many people 'didn't get' the flash sideways parts of the last season. I'd be happy to explain further if you like but if you think they all died in the plane crash at the beginning I'd suggest rewatching it completely as...that's not what happens.
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Post by Winter_King on May 18, 2017 8:49:59 GMT
I rewatched LOST earlier this year. The first time since The End. I was expecting to drop it but it was still engaging for me to watch the entire show.
While I think there are significant flaws in the storyline, I still think it was one of the best shows I've seen.
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Post by Winter_King on May 18, 2017 8:53:38 GMT
Which is exactly what it was. Surely you're not one of those fawning fanboys that pretend the showrunners prattling on about "well it wasn't purgatory. It was just a place exactly like purgatory but it wasn't purgatory" somehow makes them any less pathetic are you? That's just sad. The island wasn't purgatory, everything that happened on the island, actually happened. The closest thing to a purgatory was the Flash-Sideways world that was introduced in season 6. |
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 9:49:25 GMT
Season 1 was very good. But each season just got worse and worse in my opinion.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on May 18, 2017 12:15:48 GMT
Season 1 was very good. But each season just got worse and worse in my opinion. Each season built on the first which would make the first season not that great either. Me? I loved how they layered the story to take it in different directions. That's what I want a show to do. |
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Post by Larcen26 on May 18, 2017 13:39:53 GMT
Which is exactly what it was. Surely you're not one of those fawning fanboys that pretend the showrunners prattling on about "well it wasn't purgatory. It was just a place exactly like purgatory but it wasn't purgatory" somehow makes them any less pathetic are you? That's just sad. Like was said above. The Island wasn't purgatory... Where they ended up AFTER they died was purgatory so they could all cross over together due to their time on the island. Now, was this ending worked up because they intended for it to be Purgatory originally, but too many people guessed it and they had to change course? Possibly/Probably. But "canon" is that The Island wasn't purgatory. |
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on May 18, 2017 13:54:43 GMT
Which is exactly what it was. Surely you're not one of those fawning fanboys that pretend the showrunners prattling on about "well it wasn't purgatory. It was just a place exactly like purgatory but it wasn't purgatory" somehow makes them any less pathetic are you? That's just sad. The Island was most definitely not purgatory.
Really, there was no purgatory at all as I don't think the story was Catholic based but rather a hodgepodge of different belief systems as well as emotional maturities.
They actually did a pretty good job of explaining this in the last season to the extent that we needed to know, but apparently too many people were mad at it by then.
EDIT: If anything, it's main points can be tagged more closely to Dark Tower where alternate realities kind of overlap each other.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 21:05:18 GMT
Well there is the claim that the plot was originally purgatory but got changed and later was reused for the final season. I'm not so sure that is true since I recall there were supernatural events like Walt and Aaron happening off-island within the first Season.
I haven't watched it in a long time now, but I remember everyone everywhere putting too much effort focusing on the Island when the main story was about Jack's father issues, Kate and Sawyer's relationship issues, Ben's power, Locke's faith et al. Literally 50% of the show consisted of character flashbacks or flashforwards.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on May 18, 2017 21:13:07 GMT
The show was definitely more about the relationships which is more evident when binging it since the mysteries cannot take front and center.
They spent much of the time revealing someone as a caricature and humanizing to something more - good or bad & with exception to this being Keely.
I love the balancing act and I'm hard pressed to find a show that did it as well as this one.
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Post by kimgoo on May 18, 2017 21:38:38 GMT
Ahh. I miss the days of Lost.
Reviving/continuing past TV shows is trendy these days. They've done it with Full House, Boy Meets Girl, Prison Break, 24, Will & Grace, X-Files, Gilmore Girls, Twin Peaks, and soon Roseanne.
I admit I would be so excited if this happened with Lost. I know it likely won't. And if it did it probably wouldn't live up to expectations, but I don't know, maybe it's just the mood I'm in right now. I always start missing Lost this time of year. I wouldn't frown upon the idea.
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Post by poelzig on May 18, 2017 22:11:12 GMT
That isn't what happened. The island was not purgatory. The island was a real place in our real world, not some afterlife. You're not the first person that's thought this tho and I'm honestly surprised at how many people 'didn't get' the flash sideways parts of the last season. I'd be happy to explain further if you like but if you think they all died in the plane crash at the beginning I'd suggest rewatching it completely as...that's not what happens. I think my 2nd reply to you misled everyone. I never thought the island was purgatory. I said people guessed early on the show would end with everyone in purgatory and that's how it ended. I understood then and now that the island wasn't purgatory and that they didn't die in the pilot. There was even a painfully contrived explanation from someone (Jack's dad or Locke?) detailing exactly that in the finale. A finale set in....... Purgatory which the writers assured everyone would not be part of the story. If I recall correctly, the island was a cork  , right? The show was about the characters BUT the reason it became such a huge hit was all the mysteries. The failure to answer the insane number of questions that were raised is why so many people hated the finale. |
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on May 18, 2017 23:06:54 GMT
The thing is they answered a ton of them. There were few mysteries left that didn't involve actors no longer wanting to stay on the show.
The problem wasn't that they answered them, it's that people didn't care for the answers or that they were not the most important thing about the show.
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