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Asmo
__________________ "Species XR17 feeds upon the mental energies of its victims. This explains why the goblins remain unaffected." -Riptide Project researcher
I am waiting to hear how they wrap everything up before I decide whether it is worth it to go back and actually watch the last few seasons.
__________________ Brain: Come Pinky! We must prepare for tomorrow night.
Pinky: Why? What are we going to do tomorrow night?
Brain: The same thing we do every night....TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
I'd suggest that may ruin the show for you... but YMMV and all that.
I watched the first two seasons and gave up in season 3 because I felt it was going nowhere. I really don't care if I watch anymore or not right now. If the show does have a point at the end I would like to know so that I can decide then if it is worth going back and watching what I missed. I know for certain that I won't watch if I don't know the ending, so knowing the ending can only get me to watch.
__________________ Brain: Come Pinky! We must prepare for tomorrow night.
Pinky: Why? What are we going to do tomorrow night?
Brain: The same thing we do every night....TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
the flashback/flashforward gimmick kinda irritates the hell outta me.
That's what saved it for me!
As I wrote on my blog earlier this year:
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I have given up looking for answers. Answers lead us astray. I don't need, I don't want LOST to try to answer anything for me, and the day the last episode airs I would be perfectly satisfied to be left with as many mysteries as the show has piled up over its four seasons. And I think the new addition of flash-fowards really gives me hope that this will be case. The flashbacks that were a regular part of the first three seasons helped to inform the show's "present" by revealing things about the characters' pasts, but now the inclusions of the flash-fowards helps to undermine the actions of the "present" and I love how it complicates everything, and reveals that there will be no happy endings or easy wrap-ups to this show even if some people get off the island. Hurley will still struggle with madness and Jack will crumble, becoming a version of the wreck his father was when he first went searching for the elder Shepherd in Australia. I don't know (and I don't care) what the "secret" is that the Oceanic Six might carry about their "escape," because there is no escaping. As I said, we drift from mystery to mystery, and from joyful cannonballs to confrontations with death, and we make choices in the dark never sure of the outcome, and with the dread that even with the desired outcome come countless unforeseen consequences that undermine any success.
'LOST' is a perfectly apt name for the show, not only because of their physical displacement, but because all the characters were already lost before they ever got on that plane, before they crashed on that island, just as they will be when they get off it, just like we all are.
The flashforwards serve to defamiliarize the present and disrupt linear story-telling that relies on sequential order of events and revealing/discovery of information. I find it friggin' brilliant and entertainingly disorienting. . .
It is amazing how much a viewer can be made to believe is true through the flashforward technique, myself included, of course, only then discover how little we actually know. Being able to look back and know the clues were in place makes it worthwhile.
Needless to say, I'm sure glad I knew how the Sopranos ended before otherwise completely wasting my time watching the last 2 seasons. Whew, dodged that bullet!
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Originally Posted by el-remmen
I have given up looking for answers. Answers lead us astray. I don't need, I don't want LOST to try to answer anything for me, and the day the last episode airs I would be perfectly satisfied to be left with as many mysteries as the show has piled up over its four seasons. And I think the new addition of flash-fowards really gives me hope that this will be case.
Ew.
Another great example of getting a general idea as to how it ends, in case they throw a giant time-waster like the above suggestion at us.
Another great example of getting a general idea as to how it ends, in case they throw a giant time-waster like the above suggestion at us.
I am bewildered at how it can be a waste of time if the individual episodes are entertaining. . . sometimes the process is more important than the result - in fact, from where I stand the result is almost always disappointing. . .
I am bewildered at how it can be a waste of time if the individual episodes are entertaining. . . sometimes the process is more important than the result - in fact, from where I stand the result is almost always disappointing. . .
I agree completely. There's no such thing as "wasted" entertainment. If you enjoyed it, it served its purpose.
I am bewildered at how it can be a waste of time if the individual episodes are entertaining. . . sometimes the process is more important than the result - in fact, from where I stand the result is almost always disappointing. . .
Sorry, but for certain things, I'm a "destination is as important as the journey" kind of guy. And, indeed, you just stated one giant if... If it feels that they're going nowhere and not answering anything, then the episodes do indeed suck, and are indeed a waste of time.
I find it amazing that someone can be "bewildered" by such a concept (even if it isn't their cup of tea). Huh. Guess there isn't much else to say.
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