Comments on: Why Lost hasn’t lost it

By: Wuce Brayne

Wuce Brayne — Fri, 30 May 2008 03:40:17 +0000

The sad fact is that the big questions people complain about not being answered will NEVER be answered. I’m sure of it. When this show ends, the numbers, the synchronicity amongst the characters (before they ended up on the island), the island’s magical powers, all of that will be chalked up to fate or the paranormal.

It will be a very cheap ending, but fans of this lazy series will be blinded by all the subtext (which ultimately will mean nothing), that they won’t care.

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By: Ozymandias

Ozymandias — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:27:09 +0000

I’m willing to be patient for revelations, but so far my experience has been that the revelations have been let-downs. There are such great mysteries, but their answers are often disappointing.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:12:11 +0000

Good read. Another good article taking the naysayers to ask was posted by DocArzt on thetailsection.com a few days back. He made a lot of good points, but one in particular really resonated with me: he compares Lost to a good novel. And when reading a good novel, one doesn’t expect answers to key mysteries and plotlines in the first or second third of the book. Considering we’re at the 60-episode mark, and they want the show to run roughly 100 episodes, we’re just getting over the halfway hump. We’re at chapter 6 in a 12-chapter book.

They’re starting to answer the major questions… we’ve seen indications of that in the past two episodes.

Personally, I also think one reason we haven’t seen some of the answers we expect, and consequently feels like things are being withheld or dragged out, is that they aren’t the answers we expect. It may be the case that they are all tied together, and there is a solution to the puzzle that we haven’t even contemplated yet… something so revolutionary or bizarre that it will completely change our perception of the show, and some of the individual answers can’t be explained outside of ruining that.

They also may be doing what many other classic works have done: leaving things open to the viewer’s interpretation. :) Of course, our ADD-riddled, tell-me-what-to-think culture won’t like that very much…

By: Crabsense

Crabsense — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:27:05 +0000

We made this cool LOST/The Office trailer mash-up for this week's Office episode directed by J.J. Abrams. Hope you like it: LOST in the Office

By: Jonno

Jonno — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:36:39 +0000

Amazing post. Succint, to-the-point, clear…

… it’s so beautiful I’m nearly crying.

By: matthew

matthew — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 06:34:53 +0000

Excellent post. My God, I agree with everything you said. I am sick of people hating on this show. My opinion is that Lost has given new life to television. It asks it’s viewers to think instead of just sit back and be entertained. Anyone who says Lost has lost it, SUCKS!!!

By: Kurt

Kurt — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:53:51 +0000

Great post, and I’m glad to see someone criticizing my arguments in a way that rises beyond “your attention span is too short.”

I started writing a quick response, but it turned into another novel. Sorry about that. There are a few things we agree on, and I think ultimately what it comes down to is that I’ve grown to dislike how the writers handled the characters and you don’t.

Here’s the post: Lost Has Lost It, Dagnabit

By: Andreas

Andreas — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:39:57 +0000

shawdawg32 wrote:

does anyone think that Micheal and Walt might be on the Other’s Island? The end of season 2, Ben told Micheal to head 325 degrees. This is north exactly were the Other’s Island is. Any thoughts?

You could be right, but personally I don’t think so.
Besides, Harold Perrineau who plays Michael has been cast in another show so we might not see him for a while.

By: shawdawg32

shawdawg32 — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:00:26 +0000

does anyone think that Micheal and Walt might be on the Other’s Island? The end of season 2, Ben told Micheal to head 325 degrees. This is north exactly were the Other’s Island is. Any thoughts?