How did LOST get so lost?

Cheeflet said:
dbuck, please dont take this personally, as I dont even know you nor have anything against you, but the people who say they are upset over a tv show just really bring the LULZ for me. Gotta thank those guys.

Also, Solo4114 do you get paid by the letter when you write? Not here, of course, but in your day job maybe? It sure seems like you do. Reminds me of this old timer I had for a prof. He was a pulp/sci fi writer back in the 30's, 40s, and 50s. That man was seriously verbose. He just couldnt help himself.
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No, but I am a lawyer, so I'm prone to long-windedness. Occupational hazard, really. (Or doomed to be a lawyer? I dunno. Chicken/egg debate on that one, probably.) I WISH I could get paid by the word, though! :)
 
I wonder what story lines might have unfolded if the off screen behavior of Michelle Rodriguez, Cynthia Watros and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje hadn't gotten them killed off the show in short order after off-screen antics got them in trouble.
 
From Cracked.com

Wasn't this show originally some sort of survival drama?

The plot: A bunch of people get stuck on an island, weird **** happens. Then the entire series involves unfolding the mystery of what exactly is the nature of the island, and about six dozen sub-mysteries. ("What is the nature of Hurley's numbers? What happened to Walt?")

But Actually ...

The thing with Lost is that fans didn't just assume all the mysteries had an answer -- they were explicitly told so by the creators.

In a 2005 interview, co-creator Damon Lindelof said: "Every mystery that we present on the show ... all of those are questions that we know the answers to." He also said that "nothing in the show is flat-out impossible" and that everything so far could be explained by science. Sure, he was talking in the present tense -- but the present tense included the Smoke Monster, who ended up being the ghost of a 2,000-year-old guy who can impersonate dead people, and Michael's 10-year-old son, Walt, displaying supernatural powers that turned out to be ... actually, we have no idea, because that was never explained.


"WAAAAAAAAAAALT!!"

Fortunately, some of the writers have been a little more up front. You know the sequence of numbers that kept recurring in the show? The numbers that seemed to have so many mysterious influences (from making one man win the lottery to causing a plane to crash) that an explanation seemed almost impossible?

Season 1 writer David Fury (there's that guy again) says he has no idea what "the numbers" meant, and he's the one who came up with them.


"I was too busy practicing my comb-over to pay attention to my writing."

Hey, what about the early episode where characters hear mysterious whispering in the jungle? Let's again hear what Fury said in an interview:

"I can't tell you what they are now, but I can tell you what they WERE. They were supposed to be the Others, lurking in the jungle. At that time, we hadn't yet settled on what the Others would be."

Well, what about that episode that implied Walt could summon animals, and even made a polar bear appear on the island after reading about one in a comic book? Fury says:
"That was the intent. But then ... things have changed since my time."

OK. Well, how about that Smoke Monster then?

"There was no mythology to speak of in place during the early episodes of the series. We were building it as we went along, discussing possibilities. ... Some thought of it as a monster of the id, much like in Forbidden Planet -- that maybe it appeared differently to everyone who saw it. The most tangible thought, as explained later by Rousseau, was that it functioned as a security system set up by the island's creators/early residents ... whatever we later decided the answer was."

Whatever, indeed.
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I read that Michael Crichton book about a nanobot smoke monster just because others speculated that it may have been the impetus for Lost's smoke monster. I guess that smoke was just pipe dreams.
 
I don't know about folks taking it personally, but folks sure did and do take it seriously. The first season worked, it was excellent, engaging, and interesting. I watched the entire run of the show, and never missed an episode, even though I hated the second season, and thought that the remaining seasons were an uneven mix of good storytelling and poor mythology pay off. The show, for me, was never great again after the first season, but it was good. I did enjoy the ending. I thought they did something clever and subversive and I had to respect that.
 
Noeland said:
I watched the entire run of the show, and never missed an episode, even though I hated the second season, and thought that the remaining seasons were an uneven mix of good storytelling and poor mythology pay off.
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I thought Season Four with the mercenaries was as good as television ever got. But that's when the writers knew they were on the downard slope... so much so that the first ep of S4 was called "The Beginning of the End."

But I love me some Jeff Fahey, Elizabeth Mitchell, and Tania Raymonde. :)
 
All this lost talk got me in the mood for a "hurley pop"
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Rather than start a new search thread, I figure my fellow Lost fans will click on this thread....I hope. Anyone out here have access to a hi-res photo or screencap of the following scene: (This is also snipped. I need a hi-res photo that shows the projector, too)

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I heard on the grape vine years ago (about mid season 2) that Lost was originally meant to be 3 seasons and they had a planned ending of epic proportion, then.... the suits got a hold of it, said damnit this is one hell of a cash cow, keep it rolling. Thats when it hit the toilet pot and things got way out of hand. Season 1 + 2 + 6 in my opinion were great (Minus the finale, never seen something so stupid in my life. I felt robbed). But to me the reason for LOST getting so lost is the suits wanting more money, then the writter strike happened (where every writter just cut to bad time travel plots) and firing and hiring of cast members. Arc60 you need to take a chill pill man, its a TV programme designed to generate debate, its just a shame the people who didnt like the ending seem to out weigh the people who liked it, but remember that doesnt mean they didnt enjoy some of the seasons.

so yeah I put it down to suits wanting more money from a show that could have been so much more.
 
letmebestormy said:
Rather than start a new search thread, I figure my fellow Lost fans will click on this thread....I hope. Anyone out here have access to a hi-res photo or screencap of the following scene: (This is also snipped. I need a hi-res photo that shows the projector, too)

myjumpsuits_2147_12576508
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What really sucks is that I had that exact model projector, and gave it away to a high school garage sale the month before I started watching Lost on Netflix.

Doh!
 
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