Lost

[Glass Joe]

Michael and Walt make me lol. Nobody even remembers them anymore. Way to weave a story Lost!

Why? There is no reason to ever hear from them again. He saved his own ass (and his son's) and that's it. Not to mention that the actor who portrays Michael has signed on for a new show's pilot episode and more if it's picked up from what I read.

[stormy]

Why? There is no reason to ever hear from them again. He saved his own ass (and his son's) and that's it. Not to mention that the actor who portrays Michael has signed on for a new show's pilot episode and more if it's picked up from what I read.

They built up Walt as a special savant with some kind of power (super luck?). It looked like he was one of the key peices of what was going on. Then there was the zombie Walt stuff, that was cool. Then they leave never to be seen or spoken of again. No explanation for any of the story they had built up with him.

[Jetman]

So just got done watching that last episode with my roommate. From an outsiders perspective ( I dont watch the show regularly) it seems to me like this is taking place in between Heaven and Hell ( like the bald dudes dad said), Purgatory if you will, the Others are demons there to tempt the lost souls, and all of the Lost Souls who are there died on the plane and just dont remember it, seeing that its at the bottom of the ocean in a trench.

yes? no?

[stormy]

I don't buy the purgatory theories. I think the island is real, just hidden. I'm assuming the plane and bodies being found in a trench is a cover up so people stop searching in the area of the island. Since it's a trench no one can verify that the plane is really there. Dharma or whoever just supplies some footage that looks like it's from a robotic deep diver sub, everyone is satisfied and goes home, leaving them alone.

[Port]

And this week, we're supposed to get more information on who our pal Jacob is, if not flatout showing him as well as a Dharma flashback.

[Glass Joe]

I read that plus the origin of our pal Ben.

[bbobb]

It's not purgatory, the producers have stated that. The things that make it seem like purgatory, like the whole thing with "sawyer" are just to fuck with all the people who continue to believe it is purgatory.

If you watched closely they gave enough proof to show that "sawyer" didn't actually die and show up there.

[aren]

Why do you people read spoilers? I still don't understand this.

Seems like Lost is going to end in 2010.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/televis...t_N.htm?csp=34

The end is in sight for ABC's acclaimed island mystery Lost, but fans will have to wait until 2010 for all the answers.

In a highly unusual move, the network announces plans today to end the show after three more shortened seasons of 16 episodes each. The episodes will air consecutively, repeat-free, from February to May.

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ABC's bold step marks a response to the show's producers, who have been eager to set a finish line to better plot out their convoluted mystery of plane-crash survivors and to placate fans who are frustrated that the show seemed to be vamping its way to a conclusion.

"Among fans there was an unease that they were making an investment in a show that's complicated without any sense of where that's going to lead them," co-creator Damon Lindelof said in an exclusive interview. "From the very beginning, fans and even critics have been saying, 'Are you making it up as you go along?' " which was "a legitimate question."
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Now, with a still far-away ending in sight, Lindelof says he and executive producer Carlton Cuse have "specific designs for ending the next two seasons" and promises that with the answer-filled season finale May 23, viewers "will begin to get an idea of what that design will be, and it will not be at all what they expect."

The finale completed filming in Hawaii on Saturday, a day after Lindelof and Cuse signed new contracts that will keep them working on Lost exclusively for the duration. With 48 more episodes due, the show will have completed 60% of its planned six-season run.

"It's practically unprecedented in network TV to announce the end of a show this far out," Cuse says.

ABC Entertainment president Steve McPherson says the unusual long-term commitment is "a unique situation" he would be unlikely to repeat for other series. "It's one of the best shows that's ever been on," he says. "It's got brilliant storytelling, incredible character work, and takes chances beyond anything that's on the air now."

With Desperate Housewives, Lost re-energized ABC in fall 2004 and became a top 10 series. But after two time-slot switches, interruptions for low-rated repeats and a mystery that tried the patience of some fans, Lost has lost some steam. Ratings are down about 14% this season, though Lost still ranks highly among young adults and is the most heavily recorded show on DVRs.

McPherson concedes that splitting the current third season in two "was not the best for the show" and says the network also is discussing a return to an earlier time slot to draw more family viewership.

Shorter seasons will allow plots to be more tightly constructed and "will make it a real event," Lindelof says. "We won't have to do episodes where people are standing on the beach looking at the water and wondering what's going to happen next."

Will Lost risk losing fans' interest with an eight-month lag? "People wait longer than eight months for the next books and films in the Harry Potter story and they don't seem to lose interest," Cuse says. "We have faith that our audience, knowing exactly how much of the story we have left, is going to be with us for the rest of the ride."

But, Lindelof says, "the last five minutes of (this month's) finale are going to seal our fate."

Basically instead of 2 more seasons with 24 more episodes, it's going to be 3 seasons with 16 episodes each with no breaks. The thing that sucks is 8 month breaks between the seasons. JJ and co said they wanted 5 seasons in season 2, but ABC wants 6. Instead of JJ and co making more episodes and ruining the show,they took the reamaining 48 episodes and spread it out across 3 seasons so both parties could be happy. Obviously ABC wants to milk this as long as possible and I don't blame them.

I actually like this idea because we, in a way, we get more new episodes because the show lasts longer. I sure as hell don't want to know how my life is going to be without anymore new episodes. Ya, let's not hate TNL, Lost owns everything.

[stormy]

But, Lindelof says, "the last five minutes of (this month's) finale are going to seal our fate."

lol. Confirmation of the 5 minute theory.

everything on lost happens in the last 5 minutes

[gamevet]

It's not purgatory, the producers have stated that. The things that make it seem like purgatory, like the whole thing with "sawyer" are just to fuck with all the people who continue to believe it is purgatory.

If you watched closely they gave enough proof to show that "sawyer" didn't actually die and show up there.

How did the Russian guy(Mr. eyepatch) return then? He is the only character, I can think of, that killed himself.