Lost

[zengonzo]

Was really into this show to begin with but my interest started peetering off around the end of Season 2/start of season 3. Is it worth going back and watching the full thing now that the last season is beginning? Does it look promising or is it still sliding downhill?

If you can get out, get out.

[RyanMichael]

People really rag on the beginning of Season 3 unnecessarily. Yeah, viewing week-to-week it seemed a little slow, but it was necessary to set up the rest of the arcs for the season. Lost is still one of the best shows on TV, and one of the best shows ever. /fanboy

[seventimessix]

Season 3 works a whole lot better if you can watch it close together. When you see the whole season in a couple weeks it comes together really well.

[TheTrunkDr]

Was its worth 100% dependent on payoff?

Season 1 was a big metalinguistic joke about TV series. It was the american Battle Royale. Filled with gratuitous spooks and illogical plot twists just to show that you could make a good show out of nothing, just through good execution of technique.

Then they saw it worked, grew attached to it, and decided to add a plot that would somewhat give a sense to what was built for the purpose of being senseless.

Lost is basically an exercise to show how much writers can be in control and use their own audience as a joke that the show is ultimately about.

I think it worked perfectly.

So… the writers of Lost are really Andy Kaufman?

[MatthewF]

No, they were Larry David.

[Grendelpete]

Going solely off the first episode, my cynical take is that I think the motivation for the alternate timeline is to show us how pathetic most of the Losties lives would be if the plane hadn’t crashed. i.e., its purpose is entirely a plot device - somehow Desmond will figure out both timelines and see that the 2004 timeline is the “correct” one, and figure out a way to merge back to it. But ultimately, the alternate timeline will not have a climax - it is there only to show us, “gee, it really was better that they crashed”, nothing more.

Throw in a Desmond suicide to correct the timeline disparity and we might as well have an appearance of Frank the Bunny.

[corsair]

I was rewatching the final season opener, and I have one question and one non-significant observation.

What was the object the big guy who shot UnLocke picked up? I presume it had some significance, but I couldn’t really make it out (probably they intended it that way).

As the jet is about to land in L.A., I listened more carefully to the Captain’s voice - they did get the original Oceanic pilot to do the voice (Greg Grunberg - Matt Parkman on Heroes). The usual subtle touch by the Lost producers.

[Jazar]

What was the object the big guy who shot UnLocke picked up? I presume it had some significance, but I couldn’t really make it out (probably they intended it that way).

I believe it was a piece of a busted bullet that bounced off of UnLocke.

[Scotch_Lufkin]

As the jet is about to land in L.A., I listened more carefully to the Captain’s voice - they did get the original Oceanic pilot to do the voice (Greg Grunberg - Matt Parkman on Heroes). The usual subtle touch by the Lost producers.

Man, I forgot he was on this show early on (for like, a second?). I liked him in Alias and if I remember right, Alias was still on the air when Lost first started.

Anyway, it must have been him - he’s listed on the imdb.com entry for LAX Part 1 with a credit as Seth Norris (voice).

"Lost" LA X - Part 1 (TV Episode 2010)

[robsam]

Okay hardcore Lost people, get to posting, I need some answers.

[Wader]

SPOILERS FOR TONIGHTS EPISODE

How does Lost do this? 95% of the episode is good to mediocre (most Kate focused episodes are), and then the final two scenes suddenly pull the entire thing together…

So they finally pulled the Rousseau disease back into the Jacob vs. UnLocke fight, but it leaves a couple questions…

I assume that whoever controls the healing pool (cloudy = UnLocke, clear = Jacob) claims or affects the person who is healed in the pool.

But that leaves a bunch of questions -

Is Claire really infected, and if so, how did it happen?

Was Ben dipped in the pool as a child to heal him of Sayid’s gunshot? If he was, who was in control then, and if it was Jacob, does that mean that Ben really was “the good guy” all along?

How did Rousseau’s crew end up getting infected? (The use of infected seems an obvious callback to what happened to them.)

And the Sawyer vs. UnLocke confrontation thats coming next week should be great…

[Lloyd_Heilbrunn]

I was rewatching the final season opener, and I have one question and one non-significant observation.

As the jet is about to land in L.A., I listened more carefully to the Captain’s voice - they did get the original Oceanic pilot to do the voice (Greg Grunberg - Matt Parkman on Heroes). The usual subtle touch by the Lost producers.

I recognized the voice too.

Was that Dodger from China Beach tonight?? Have not seen him in years.

Claire doubleheader!!

[drewl]

Help me out I’m lost…(had to fix heater).
Are they still in 1977 on the island?
And where did all the Dharma peeps go…they evacuated?

Edit: Dr. whatshisname (Tom Cruise’s cousinn) with Claire is a good guy off the island having never gone there I guess

[Lloyd_Heilbrunn]

I think they are supposed to be current show time, in the original timeline.Dharma has always been gone then.

Speaking of Dharma, anybody catch Miles’ Dad’s Superbowl commercial?

[DT1]

I assume that whoever controls the healing pool (cloudy = UnLocke, clear = Jacob) claims or affects the person who is healed in the pool.

I would imagine that rather than the pool claiming Sayid it just doesn’t heal him. When Dogen cut his hand in the previous episode and stuck it in the pool, it didn’t heal his hand.

[DT1]

Widmore mentioned a war in a previous season. For the 2007 (original) timeline, maybe this is the first set of details for the folks who fight presumably on Smokey’s side.

[bloo]

Are they still in 1977 on the island?

The 1977 crew jumped forward to 2007. This is all the scenes on the island now.

The rest of the show is in a 2004 where the there was no plane crash and the island was sunk sometime after Dharma built their houses (probably 1977, but not definitely).

Three hours down and no Ben yet?

[HRose]

Uhm, it’s pretty amazing how they were able to go from the very good of the first two episode this series, to godawful in this third.

One of the worst Lost episodes ever. Filled with overdramatic, terrible dialogs, artificial padding of story and mystery just for the sake of being obtuse. It’s like if this episode was written by the Stargate Universe authors.

[corsair]

I would imagine that rather than the pool claiming Sayid it just doesn’t heal him. When Dogen cut his hand in the previous episode and stuck it in the pool, it didn’t heal his hand.

And he had a definite look of consternation when nothing happened (not to mention they noted the pool wasn’t clear).

[Rock8man]

Uhm, it’s pretty amazing how they were able to go from the very good of the first two episode this series, to godawful in this third.

One of the worst Lost episodes ever. Filled with overdramatic, terrible dialogs, artificial padding of story and mystery just for the sake of being obtuse. It’s like if this episode was written by the Stargate Universe authors.

Oh come on. You can’t judge the show on Kate episodes. They’re always terrible aren’t they? Can you remember a Kate episode that you liked? I certainly can’t. I’m just hoping this is it for the season. I think they usually do at least one Kate-focused episode per season, but sometimes two. If this is the last one for the season, then it’s the last one ever!!