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LOST: Time I will never get back

Started by Dimocritus, May 24, 2010, 07:06:31 AM

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LMNO

#75
May 25, 2010, 02:16:11 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on May 25, 2010, 02:04:47 PM
Can't we just say now that "everything is a troll" and get on with our lives?

:troll:

Dimocritus

#76
May 25, 2010, 04:17:58 PM
Quote from: LMNO on May 25, 2010, 02:16:11 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on May 25, 2010, 02:04:47 PM
Can't we just say now that "everything is a troll" and get on with our lives?

:troll:

:troll:
Episkopos of GABCab ~ "caecus plumbum caecus"

hooplala

#77
May 25, 2010, 04:19:04 PM
Wash, rinse, repeat.
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" — Walt Whitman

AFK

#78
May 25, 2010, 04:35:49 PM
I think part of the problem was setting a firm timeline for the show to end.  And that timeline was agreed upon with ABC at a time LOST was receiving some hefty negative critiques and declining ratings.  And so I think this basically went one of two ways, either the timeline was too short, and thus didn't give them adequate time to tell the stories behind the unresolved mysteries, (like the numbers, Walt, the hieroglyphics, etc.) OR the timeline was too long and they had to start putting in filler, and in the process, created more questions that they were never planning to answer. 

Long story short, I think, yet again, ABC managed to ultimately screw up a really good show. 
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

hooplala

#79
May 25, 2010, 04:38:57 PM
What more about the numbers is there to say?
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" — Walt Whitman

AFK

#80
May 25, 2010, 05:12:28 PM
Were the origins ever explained?  We see all of the "coincidences" but were they ever tied together?  Was it a Dharma convention that Jacob used as part of his effort to "touch" Hurley?  I don't remember that being revealed explicitly but maybe I missed it. 
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

Nephew Twiddleton

#81
May 25, 2010, 05:13:22 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on May 25, 2010, 04:38:57 PM
What more about the numbers is there to say?

They're basically part of an equation. So how did they curse Hurley? Like, the way its explained is that they're merely predictors of human extinction, but they take on a strongly magical effect on Hurley's life.
Strange and Terrible Organ Laminator of Yesterday's Heavy Scene
Sentence or sentence fragment pending

Soy El Vaquero Peludo de Oro

TIM AM I, PRIMARY OF THE EXTRA-ATMOSPHERIC SIMIANS

-Kel-

#82
May 25, 2010, 05:19:04 PM
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on May 25, 2010, 05:28:21 AM
Here's the thing I don't get though... Jack had a son with Juliet in the flash sideways, and he seems to matter to him....

I thought it was his way of dealing with his father. He would never get to see his father's pov without being one himself. In one of the ep Jack's says to his son, "i'm frightened of my father." and the kid replies that he is frightened of him.

i think it was the only way his mind could deal.

imo

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#83
May 25, 2010, 06:05:32 PM
All the hoopla about this show almost makes me want to watch it. It sounds completely insane.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

hooplala

#84
May 25, 2010, 07:19:37 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on May 25, 2010, 05:12:28 PM
Were the origins ever explained?  We see all of the "coincidences" but were they ever tied together?  Was it a Dharma convention that Jacob used as part of his effort to "touch" Hurley?  I don't remember that being revealed explicitly but maybe I missed it. 

The numbers corresponded with the final living candidates... it wasn't stated overtly, but I got the impression that the numbers had a lot to do with how Jacob was able to keep tabs on, and manipulate the lives of, the candidates.  MiB said: "Jacob had a thing for numbers."
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" — Walt Whitman

hooplala

#85
May 25, 2010, 07:20:33 PM
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on May 25, 2010, 06:05:32 PM
All the hoopla about this show almost makes me want to watch it. It sounds completely insane.

It is insane, but a lot of fun.  If you ever read the Dark Tower series you would probably like this, I find them very similar.
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" — Walt Whitman

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#86
May 25, 2010, 07:25:45 PM
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Dimocritus

#87
May 25, 2010, 07:35:53 PM
Those people obviously didn't understand the ending (they haven't been dead all along, things actually happened) but that last post pretty much sums it all up.
Episkopos of GABCab ~ "caecus plumbum caecus"

Nephew Twiddleton

#88
May 25, 2010, 07:38:24 PM
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on May 25, 2010, 07:25:45 PM


Funny banter, except they did actually survive the plane crash. The alternate reality was a purgatory like place. A few weeks ago they had an episode where one of the characters was convinced that he was dead and went to hell. Jacob responds by repeatedly dunking his head under water and shouting, "You still think you're dead? Why should I stop doing this?" It was a funny outburst. Probably due to repeated assertions that it was purgatory when the producers said that it (the Island itself) was not.
Strange and Terrible Organ Laminator of Yesterday's Heavy Scene
Sentence or sentence fragment pending

Soy El Vaquero Peludo de Oro

TIM AM I, PRIMARY OF THE EXTRA-ATMOSPHERIC SIMIANS

AFK

#89
May 25, 2010, 07:58:21 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on May 25, 2010, 07:19:37 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on May 25, 2010, 05:12:28 PM
Were the origins ever explained?  We see all of the "coincidences" but were they ever tied together?  Was it a Dharma convention that Jacob used as part of his effort to "touch" Hurley?  I don't remember that being revealed explicitly but maybe I missed it. 

The numbers corresponded with the final living candidates... it wasn't stated overtly, but I got the impression that the numbers had a lot to do with how Jacob was able to keep tabs on, and manipulate the lives of, the candidates.  MiB said: "Jacob had a thing for numbers."

So did Jacob give the numbers to Dharma to use as the sequence for quelling the electromagnetic charge or was it just a coincidence?  I never got the impression there was any kind of firm link between Jacob and the Dharma Initiative. 
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.
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