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TV The Return of Lost
Posted by Gillian Anderson on Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:48 PM
The final season of Lost begins February 2 with a recap show then a two-hour season premiere.
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The first show is titled "LA X"
And, the space is intentional...
I hear Bai Ling is coming back for 10 episodes...how exciting!
And, the space is intentional...
I hear Bai Ling is coming back for 10 episodes...how exciting!
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hey, buddy, just because it fell off YOUR cultural radar doesn't mean it fell off mine or Gillian's!!
Go back to watching Top Chef/Model/Runaway and leave us be...
Go back to watching Top Chef/Model/Runaway and leave us be...
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i am really just looking forward to having all the loose ends tied up, i'm ready for it to be done.
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I would be hard pressed to think of two more boring and inconsequential stories than the end of Lost and Oprah going off the air.
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For the haters: last season was really good. You stopped watching during or before season 4 and now you just make lame Lost jokes. I get it. Try something new.
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@8 - I saw last season, and while better, "really good" is a stretch. The show still insults its audience's intelligence at a remarkable rate. I still watch it, and will probably watch the last season (though I harbor no allusions that they'll wrap up anything close to all the loose ends), but it's mostly to get my weekly fix of yelling at the TV.
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I really, really tried to watch the third season, but even the hotties on the show couldn't keep me interested. That's how bad it is!
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I stick with it because I want to see where they go with it. But if I didn't have faith that there was going to be a resolution, I couldn't have lasted this long.
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Season 3 was a definite low, but seasons 4 & 5, while not without a few groans, were totally engrossing. The mythology of that show is absolutely unmatched.
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After I realized it was just a mix of Egyptian mythology and Homeric Odyssey, I tuned out ... until Jack got with the hot doctor chick.
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Last season was brilliant, even if they went a little too far down the time travel rabbit hole. Ultimately, they obeyed the "rules". And come on, finding out Locke was really dead since "Through The Looking Glass"? Faraday's entire destiny being laid out by his mom even before he was born? And having the gang actually cause The Incident? Gold. Plus Jack just stepping the fuck back and going along for the ride was well-played.
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@11 If you want to have your intelligence insulted and get your weekly yelling fix, watch Heroes. At least the writers on Lost have a) Had no glaring plot holes and b) Not rehashed the same tired story arc season after season. Heroes on the other hand does both constantly.
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@18 - I couldn't even get through the pilot of Heroes.
All the suspense in Lost comes from people in an insane situation hiding vital information from each other for absolutely no reason. One character will learn some important bit of truth about the island, and just neglect to tell anybody about it for a while. Or they get interrupted telling people about it, and nobody brings it up again. They seem profoundly uninterested in really figuring out what the fuck is going on, instead they just fuck with each other's minds to no sensible end.
All the suspense in Lost comes from people in an insane situation hiding vital information from each other for absolutely no reason. One character will learn some important bit of truth about the island, and just neglect to tell anybody about it for a while. Or they get interrupted telling people about it, and nobody brings it up again. They seem profoundly uninterested in really figuring out what the fuck is going on, instead they just fuck with each other's minds to no sensible end.
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@19: you don't harbor those allusions because that wouldn't make any sense, thank god you don't do that. i think they're gonna resolve most things if not everything, coming back to the foot statue for the first time since the second season finale seemed to justify that a bit. the problem with lost is that you don't really appreciate it unless you understand all of it, because, like someone else said, the mythology is really in depth. that said, yeah, there are some ridiculous things that happen, and that people do. my philosophy with tv is not to expect art but entertainment. and lost is entertaining as fuck.
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Lost actually got real interesting again at the end of the last season.
However, when I channel surf through the reruns on channel 22...they seem almost unwatchable.
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Can't wait. Though I was disappointed last season that the writers had figured out a perfectly legitimate way to have Sawyer shirtless for an entire half-season, and then someone inexpicably gives him a shirt in the next show. Boooo!
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sigh...people who don't get shows you love are tiresome.
yes, Lost is uneven (current fan/critic favorite Glee is another example of a wildly uneven show) but when it's good, it's great.
And Season 3 did not suck...the first HALF of Season 3 sucked (stuck in the cages time). And Season Two was wildly uneven; some great episodes and some yawners.
And for people who started out liking Lost but lost interest along the way, I would suggest watching it on DVD. That way you eliminate commercials and waiting for new episodes only to be bored or disappointed and you can fast forward through the dull bits. A lot of tv shows benefit from DVD watching as opposed to weekly viewing.
yes, Lost is uneven (current fan/critic favorite Glee is another example of a wildly uneven show) but when it's good, it's great.
And Season 3 did not suck...the first HALF of Season 3 sucked (stuck in the cages time). And Season Two was wildly uneven; some great episodes and some yawners.
And for people who started out liking Lost but lost interest along the way, I would suggest watching it on DVD. That way you eliminate commercials and waiting for new episodes only to be bored or disappointed and you can fast forward through the dull bits. A lot of tv shows benefit from DVD watching as opposed to weekly viewing.
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