"Lost" Plans For Ambitious Run *Possible Spoiler*

[Hand of Evil]

Sorry if I did! I try to be original honest.

Been saying for sometime every plot on the show has been from Gilligan's Island, they had monsters, lots of people visiting, natives, a cable from the mainland...now we just need some radioactive plants and old Japaneese sailor that thinks the war is still on (which may have been replaced by mad french woman).

 

[Crothian]

They can stretch this out for 20 years. Each show they hint at thinks, but never tell us anything. We learn bits and pieces here, but they haven't even begun to disproof what we think we know. I imagine that will start happeneing next season. Basically, they will feed us crumbs and jerk us around with promises of infomation but when they reveal it it will only lead to more questions and the answers will not be ful filling.

 

[reveal]

Basically, they will feed us crumbs and jerk us around with promises of infomation but when they reveal it it will only lead to more questions and the answers will not be fulfilling.

Sounds a lot like my sex life.

 

[Pants]

How does this show last for 6-8 years without going Gilligan?

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the show!!!

They'll have an episode where Hurley jumps the mutant shark on a bamboo surfboard.

 

[David Howery]

They can stretch this out for 20 years. Each show they hint at thinks, but never tell us anything. We learn bits and pieces here, but they haven't even begun to disproof what we think we know. I imagine that will start happeneing next season. Basically, they will feed us crumbs and jerk us around with promises of infomation but when they reveal it it will only lead to more questions and the answers will not be ful filling.

sounds a lot like the X-Files, but it only went for 8 (?) years....

 

[Banshee16]

They can stretch this out for 20 years. Each show they hint at thinks, but never tell us anything. We learn bits and pieces here, but they haven't even begun to disproof what we think we know. I imagine that will start happeneing next season. Basically, they will feed us crumbs and jerk us around with promises of infomation but when they reveal it it will only lead to more questions and the answers will not be ful filling.

Hey, it worked for the X-Files...

Banshee

 

[LightPhoenix]

Hey, it worked for the X-Files...

Except that X-Files became tired and irritating after the second or third season of doing that.

Though I don't share Crothian's cynicism, it will be interesting to see just how much we learn in the second season. Take a similarly styled show (IMO), Carnivale. The first season raised a whole bunch of questions without many answers, and the second season has thus far revealed a whole mess of answers without raising too many more questions. Just because they've done something one way in one season, doesn't mean they have to continue doing it that way. I have a little more faith in the Lost crew than to let it become like X-Files.

 

[Fast Learner]

Carnivale is an excellent comparison. For the first couple of episodes of the new I went, "Ok, more of the same, mysteries with no answers, *yawn*," but after that, WHAM WHAM WHAM, answer after answer, with enough new mysteries thrown in to keep you watching. But dude!

I look forward to something like that with Lost.

 

[Tolen Mar]

I find this interesting. Im waiting for the DVD release. My wife and I stopped watching the show because they would play one or two new episodes, then a couple of re-runs. It was too annoying. I wanna see what happens, but I dont wanna watch it in re-runs.

I dont know where they got the idea that would fly.

 

[dravot]

I find this interesting. Im waiting for the DVD release. My wife and I stopped watching the show because they would play one or two new episodes, then a couple of re-runs. It was too annoying. I wanna see what happens, but I dont wanna watch it in re-runs.

I dont know where they got the idea that would fly.

The earliest example of this that I can recall is Star Trek TNG, which typically took 10 days to shoot and assemble. As a result, they needed extra time to be able to complete stuff, and started this alternating effect of new episodes and re-runs.