the weekly lost mini-discussion thread

[Octopod]

yeah, last night was pretty damn great.Sawyer just keeps getting more and more annoying though as time goes on...he used to be kind of cool.

[GaijinPunch]

Hmmm..

Anyone care to take a stab at how they get off the island?

[indstr]

I think Sawyer is pretty interesting. He's come a long way as a character. Infact, 2 episodes ago (when Ben's daughter died), the most moving part of the episode to me was not when Ben's daughter died and he cried about it, but actually when Sawyer was protecting Claire, and stuck up for Hurley. That brought tears to my eyes

[GaijinPunch]

I knew it. Well, I've got 8 months to let that shit settle in my head.

[GaijinPunch]

Well that was fucking crazy. Anyone think they'll keep up that amount of chaos for the entire season?

[Octopod]

Wow....this season was awesome. I hope next season does this show right.

[Ed Oscuro]

I'm not even watching the show but that was pretty intense. I knew about the MacGuffin anyway, plus the person watching it is like HAY SPOILERZ

I am all liek, wuteva

But yeah that shit didn't go boom

[Rob]

bad parts:

-"WHO'S THAT!"

-Juliet not getting torn in half by the chains.

-Kate not getting caught in chains and also not being torn in half.

good parts:

-Jack going Time Crisis

-Ben Psycho'ing Jacob and Locke kicking the corpse into a fire.

[GaijinPunch]

Other bad parts:
Juliet not going down on Kate then both of them getting ripped in half, but what're you gonna do.

I thought they'd give us at least a fucking taste of next season. The guy I was watching it w/ predicted "explosion, cut scene to LAX for 3 seconds, then end". That I would've liked a lot more.

[GaijinPunch]

Aight, bitches. We got about 6 weeks max by my count. Who's geared up?

[Rob]

I might have to re-watch season 1 to get in the Lost zone. Things were so simple then. That last season finale is still disappointing.

[GaijinPunch]

I liked the ending.

[Ed Oscuro]

LOL HE LAYED DOWN BY THE DOGGGY AWW

hey guys it was all a purgatory dream!! isn't that cool or what
(woops, anybody in Australia is going to have it totally ruined :C :C :C )

Also, intelligent bathtub stoppers.

[Rob]

Vulture.

[Ed Oscuro]

Vulture.

The true winners. The only winners, maybe.

[GaijinPunch]

hey guys it was all a purgatory dream

No it wasn't.

[Ed Oscuro]

hey guys it was all a purgatory dream

No it wasn't.

I like how this is important. Whatever it was, there was dead peoples (and some maybe alive people) and then a shining light. Does it get any better than this?

Interesting to point out that they made the whole show about the Island, and not about where people "move on" to. That's because Heaven is no fun and nobody has ever come up with a way it could plausibly be (unless they went the Viking route, which is more like the Island again).

[xris]

I liked it. It offered up alot of closure for the charas, not so much for the island. Working an afterlife into the story fit. But, the last minute shinnanagins on the island was a bit of nonsense.

[GaijinPunch]

It offered up alot of closure for the charas, not so much for the island.

Closure & open-ended at the same time. How often does that happen?

[Ed Oscuro]

Any time somebody dies that happens. Who knows when I will next think about Abe Vigoda, for instance? I don't even have to watch any Target ads to do that.

[GaijinPunch]

Too bad I'm too lazy to google who the fuck Abe Vigoda is.

[Rob]

I actually enjoyed the ending aside from the "flash sideways". It was also awesome seeing Lost fans going nuts that nothing was answered!!

[GaijinPunch]

was also awesome seeing Lost fans going nuts that nothing was answered!!

The writers said a while back that no, they weren't going to answer everything, some people would hate the wrap-up, and that the only real answer they thought they owed the audience was how the two timelines related. I learned the hard way to quit expecting TV shows to explain anything when the X-Files ended.

[Enhasa]

The biggest thing I got out of the Lost finale was getting upset once again that Carnivale got canceled.

[Rob]

I just went through Carnivale a month ago and I thought they did the series a favor. I was getting some Dead Zone flashbacks towards the end (Armageddon is nigh!... until cancellation).

[GaijinPunch]

So now that you've quit being the official shmups TV critic (which I'm a little sad to say) can you give us some insight to what's worth watching? I personally thing Breaking Bad is the best thing on TV, but hey, I like ongoing stories. Lost was my cup of tea.

[xris]

Have you watched Jericho? Sci fi channel's The Lost Room was okay.

[GaijinPunch]

Have you watched Jericho?

According to Rob it sucked.

[Rob]

I'm not sure I've even seen it. I don't really keep up with new shows. Just started watching Breaking Bad a little while ago. The only other show I'll watch (when it comes back) is Dexter. I'll be missing Lost.

[GaijinPunch]

Breaking Bad

It's excellent, but the problem is the intensity. I can't relax when I watch it, and I can't relax afterwards b/c I'm so worked up. This season is fucking wicked though. Each episode is better than most movies.

Everyone tells me I suck for not watching Dexter, so maybe it's time to give it a try. I'm just finishing up Battlestar Galactica. Another one that won't be properly emulated for a while.