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Lost
Jun 30, 2008 15:34:12 GMT -5
Post by nymphadora on Jun 30, 2008 15:34:12 GMT -5
Thanks! I think it's the mid-season hiatuses that throw me off. We get like little half seasons everywhere and I can't keep it straight. I feel like the hatch just exploded, or did it implode XD, a couple months ago. It's going by way to quickly. Lost is a few years old now and it only just feels like it's starting. I'm going to be so sad when season 6 is over.
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Lost
Jul 1, 2008 10:31:43 GMT -5
Post by Kohana on Jul 1, 2008 10:31:43 GMT -5
We haven't had much trouble of the mid-season hiatuses here. We did have a break after the episode "A Stranger in a Strange Land", though. But I guess that it must be a bit annoying. I thought the hatch imploded, otherwise the surrounding trees and area would have been burned from the explosion. I could be wrong. Yeah, I know what you mean. It feels like the series just started yesterday. Of course it doesn't help when one recently has a Lost marathon with a friend. I do wonder how the show is going to end. I guess Season 5 is all about getting back to the island (I hope we also see the ones on the island too because most of my favs are on it) and Season 6 will be all about wrapping everything up.
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Lost
Jul 2, 2008 10:04:01 GMT -5
Post by nymphadora on Jul 2, 2008 10:04:01 GMT -5
The mid season hiatuses are torture. Thursday nights during the hiatus all I can think is "I could be watching Lost right now." It's the most addictive show ever.
Yeah I think it imploded now that I think about it...
I don't have any friends to watch it with. No one likes it! I watch with my mom and brother, but they don't like reruns...I think reruns are just as interesting as new episdoes. I get really into the moment during them.
I just can't wait to see the format of the show now that there's people off the island. It's going to be so weird.
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Lost
Sept 3, 2008 14:58:36 GMT -5
Post by username on Sept 3, 2008 14:58:36 GMT -5
All caught up now. I really loved Season 4 though, none of that dragging on crap, it was well paced.
One problem I have with Lost though is the character death. In one of my favorite book series, A Song of Ice and Fire, every time a major character dies, it's the very obvious result of their actions and specific events all culminating in the character's death. Even more importantly each death has a very major effect on the plot. In Lost, there is none of that. A character maxes out in character development points, gets killed off, show goes on. They don't even make it particularly sad. So yah, that's something that irks me.
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Lost
Sept 3, 2008 16:36:29 GMT -5
Post by West on Sept 3, 2008 16:36:29 GMT -5
^^That I would have to agree on.
When Boone died in season one, I was so distraught over it. But in the show all they did was show Shanon crying for a bit, and his burial, and then we were done with him. Other than a a re-appearance in a flash back in later episodes, he really didn't come up at all. The same goes for Libby and Mr. Eko.
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Lost
Sept 3, 2008 16:49:21 GMT -5
Post by username on Sept 3, 2008 16:49:21 GMT -5
Boone's death was actually well done enough for me to not care about the fact that it didn't effect the plot. Then it goes down hill with the "bang! lol shannon's dead!" stuff.
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Lost
Sept 5, 2008 11:46:10 GMT -5
Post by teknomage on Sept 5, 2008 11:46:10 GMT -5
The show isn't over yet. I'm sure more will be done with all the characters who have died. But personally, I thought Charlie's death was particularly well done.
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Lost
Sept 5, 2008 12:48:48 GMT -5
Post by nymphadora on Sept 5, 2008 12:48:48 GMT -5
I sort of agree with the character death thing, but I sort of don't. We really don't see much of the everyday interaction between characters that doesn't have to do with the plot, so we don't exactly know how the characters bonded. They were all complete strangers before the crash, so not all of them have personal realtionships. We haven't even met some of the people on the island, so I have to assume that they don't have much interaction with the main characters. So I don't really have a problem with how the deaths were handled. (Except how quickly Claire was fine with Charlie. I expected more there.)
I don't like how the characters are killed off when there's no more story to tell with them. That does annoy me.
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Lost
Sept 6, 2008 11:55:35 GMT -5
Post by Zenjamin on Sept 6, 2008 11:55:35 GMT -5
All caught up now. I really loved Season 4 though, none of that dragging on crap, it was well paced. One problem I have with Lost though is the character death. In one of my favorite book series, A Song of Ice and Fire, every time a major character dies, it's the very obvious result of their actions and specific events all culminating in the character's death. Even more importantly each death has a very major effect on the plot. In Lost, there is none of that. A character maxes out in character development points, gets killed off, show goes on. They don't even make it particularly sad. So yah, that's something that irks me. I can see where your comming from. But I actually kinda really like it. It shows realism. Not everyone can have a great reroic life-changing death. In a life/death survivial situation people are going to die. and people are going to die for no good reason at all. Thats life for ya. Sometimes fate just seems to get bored with you and say. "F**k it, im bored with you now. go kick the bucket." Without those types of deaths, it makes the important deaths all that more meaningless. and the casual deaths all the more haunting in how in sort of raises everyone elses tolerance for death. LOST has two of the best deaths I can think of. Charlie and Jin. For those deaths alone, you wont hear me complaining.
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Lost
Sept 6, 2008 14:00:16 GMT -5
Post by Kohana on Sept 6, 2008 14:00:16 GMT -5
Boone's death was actually well done enough for me to not care about the fact that it didn't effect the plot. Then it goes down hill with the "bang! lol shannon's dead!" stuff. I kind of have to disagree. In a way Shannon's dead did have a purpose in Sayid's storyline. Because of her, he refrained from any violence and didn't want to fight anymore. But because she got shot by Ana-Lucia, Sayid didn't have her and their love to hold him back anymore so he went back to the way he was before. Charlie's death had a purpose too. Because he died with that message, Hurley stepped over to Locke's group and convinced many others with his speech about Charlie's sacrifice. There are deaths that didn't effect the plot, like Eko's. But it doesn't bother me so much. Like Zenjamin said, it's only realistic that not all deaths are necessary for the plot itself.
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Lost
Sept 6, 2008 14:15:54 GMT -5
Post by username on Sept 6, 2008 14:15:54 GMT -5
Claire should have at least been more sad. The traditional "lol single silent shot of her crying after being told with music playing" was very disappointing.
Jin's death I liked though, he had a very satisfying character arc (so of course he has to die now) and Sun's reaction was terrific.
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Lost
Sept 6, 2008 21:22:31 GMT -5
Post by nymphadora on Sept 6, 2008 21:22:31 GMT -5
Oh you all think Jin's dead? I've always had the feeling that he was still alive..... I had thought that in the Sun flashforward/ Jin flashback episode and never doubted that he was alive.
I didn't like the episodes surrounding Sayid/Shannon and Ana Lucia. But the "Wet Walt" in that scene freaked me out.
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Lost
Sept 6, 2008 21:51:03 GMT -5
Post by username on Sept 6, 2008 21:51:03 GMT -5
Speaking of Ana Lucia, I think she should have lived and Kate died. Just my opinion.
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Lost
Sept 7, 2008 9:43:32 GMT -5
Post by nymphadora on Sept 7, 2008 9:43:32 GMT -5
Well I never liked Ana Lucia, so I am biased in wanting her killed off the show. I can't even watch the movie Blue Crush anymore because it has Michelle Rodriguez in it, and I used to love that movie.
Kate, Jack and Sawyer are probably never going to die. :/ I like Sawyer enough, but Jack and Kate are annoying. And all the shippy-ness is so blah. I'm usually a rabid shipper, but whenever the story goes around the love triangle, I don't really like it. I like Charlie/Claire, Penny/Des, Sun/Jin, (and if something happens with Dan/Charlotte it'll be cute, but I don't care much either way) but over shipping in the show doesn't fit IMO.
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Lost
Sept 14, 2008 12:28:31 GMT -5
Post by West on Sept 14, 2008 12:28:31 GMT -5
So LOST comes back February 4 2009. Which sort of sinks, but at least we know when it will come back. It is supposed to be the best out of the five seasons, so I have high hopes. Hopefully not too many people will die this season; character deaths are just too hard on me.
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