Lost: 2/14/07

[Taelorn76]

However -- for Lost to simple write out Echo and Michael and Walt -- and replace them with a bunch of who-cares nobody's was just wrong.

I don't thinkn they just simply wrote out Walt and Michael. I thinkn they reached their end of their story and it was time to go. Everyones goal is to get off this island, Michael and Walt got their opportunity and took it.

 

[Sir Brennen]

Of course we also learn that Echo died off camera (i.e.Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje was written out of the show). That means that ALL of the new survivors (except Bernard, who hasn't made an appearance at all in season 3 yet) that we invested so much in last season have now been completely written out of the show.

For the record, Eko died during the third episode of this season, on camera, killed by a combination of the hatch explosion, polar bear attack, and the black smoke monster. As Locke stated "The Island killed him." Easy to forget since it seems the whole season has focused on Jack/Kate/Sawyer in captivity.

I agree to some extent about heavy investment in a set of characters who have now all been killed off. But looking at a TV show, especially a serialized one like Lost, as a artistic project spread out over *years*, well, life happens and project plans have to be altered.

However, Eko did have a lasting effect as a force for redeeming Charlie, and even getting Locke back on the right track. Libby's death had a profound effect on Hurley. There are rumors that Ana Lucia will be back in several flashbacks, so who knows how she'll fit into the ongoing plot.

Whether or not Desmond actually time travelled (I think not), or it was all in his head, the question remains: Where did his clothes go?

Personally, I think Des was taken by someone after the explosion and messed with, and the jewelry shop lady was really there, possibly being interjected into his fantasy to guide it. I think we'll see her again at some point. Des may have been strapped into a Clockwork Orange chair like Alex's boyfriend last episode while he thought he was time travelling. Afterword, he was dumped back out in the jungle. And whether he time-travelled or not, he does seem to have precognative flashes. The whole "Charlie is going to die no matter what" thing is just another riff on the the Free Will vs. Fate theme prevelant throughout the series. Maybe Charlie and/or Desmond are being setup by someone on the island to see how they deal with the situation.

I think we may find that both the Lostaways and the Others might be the focus of some experiment. Remember how they discovered that the reports of the observers of the hatch where going to a big pile out in nowhere? So those observers were possibly the subject of an experiment themselves. Same may be true of the Others. I mean, we know there's another group somewhere on the island. Remember the eyepatch guy on the monitor in one of the hatches? The whole setup may be a triple, quadruple or even quintuple blind where the members of the Hanso Foundation never know if they're the subjects or researchers. So we may end up with the Other Others and the Other Other Others, ect.

 

[GlassJaw]

Saw this article on Yahoo just now:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070215/ap_on_en_tv/tv_lost_ratings

I bet it has a lot to do with how crappy last week's episode was and people just didn't tune in this week.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

Unfortunately there can't be major changes in direction for months. The next couple of Months are probabably already done and if the audience isn't happy with the direction there is nothing they can do.

 

[Sir Brennen]

I bet it has a lot to do with how crappy last week's episode was and people just didn't tune in this week.

I think the other factors they mentioned - new, later time slot with fewer people watching, plus it was Valentine's Day, were also contributing factors. Note that it beat "CSI: NY" fairly well.

 

[Arnwyn]

I don't thinkn they just simply wrote out Walt and Michael. I thinkn they reached their end of their story and it was time to go.

I find that highly unlikely. They introduced a bunch of mysteries related to Walt, hammed it up for a bit, and then dumped the story and wrote out the characters with no conclusion.

Whoops on the writers' part.

 

[nothing to see here]

First, it's Eko, not Echo.

Second, he was written out of the show because the actor's parents died and he wanted to do something else with his life for a while.

Third, he didn't die off screen. A few episodes ago he died quite vividly on-screen. You should see it. If you missed it, go to ABC.com and watch the episode online.

Yeah, my apologies. I missed that episode, though I'm not exactly sure how. I'm pretty religious about the few shows I like.

The incorrect offscreen assumption aside -- I still feel a little bit betrayed that so much of Season 2 exposition has gone up in smoke as the show shed cast.

 

[Mistwell]

I think we have not seen the last of Walt and Michael. There is a thread forming on the mainland at this point, and I think they will form the nucleous of that storyline eventually.

 

[Taelorn76]

I think we have not seen the last of Walt and Michael. There is a thread forming on the mainland at this point, and I think they will form the nucleous of that storyline eventually.

What thread is forming on the main land? The only real time scenes shown off the island were the ones of Penny getting the phone call and those Brazilians in the arctic. Did I miss any others?

 

[Sir Brennen]

I think we have not seen the last of Walt and Michael.

Actually, I think we have.