LOST season 6

[Sarah]

It could be a while.  I'll get a tattoo.  More durable.

[dave from knoxville]

It could be a while.  I'll get a tattoo.  More durable.

So you're more of a Jack girl than a Charlie girl.

[JonFromMaplewood]

SPOILER ALERT IF YOU DID NOT WATCH THIS WEEK

The ending of this week's episode was the least THUD-worthy ending yet.  "We ain't taking the plane, Freckles. We're taking the sub." THUD.  That's not very exciting at all.  The THUD needs to be saved for something like "The Black Rock arrived on the island full of polar bears." THUD.

[Sarah]

It could be a while.  I'll get a tattoo.  More durable.

So you're more of a Jack girl than a Charlie girl.

You take that back.

(Actually, my biggest Lost crush was Mr. Eko.  Remember him?)

[Christina]

(Actually, my biggest Lost crush was Mr. Eko.  Remember him?)

I love that guy, I have a crush on him too ... he was also on Oz.

[Sarah]

I know!  Hubba hubba, eh?

[Christina]

I know!  Hubba hubba, eh?

'Member, he would walk around Oz shirtless w/that teeny weeny hat perched on his large skull? 'MEMBER?

[Wes]

SPOILER ALERT IF YOU DID NOT WATCH THIS WEEK

The ending of this week's episode was the least THUD-worthy ending yet.  "We ain't taking the plane, Freckles. We're taking the sub." THUD.  That's not very exciting at all.  The THUD needs to be saved for something like "The Black Rock arrived on the island full of polar bears." THUD.

I agree, far and away the least exciting ending the show has ever done. The only way that was an acceptable episode closer is if the conversation ended right there, and we get another cliffhanger a few episodes from now where Sawyer and Kate storm the submarine, and a guard on the sub gets the drop on Sawyer, who says "Might wanna check behind ya' there, Das Boot" and the guard turns around only to get knocked out by Kate, and then they run to the control room and see all this complex shit you need to actually pilot a submarine and Sawyer admits "Uh...I just kinda assumed I'd know how ta drive one of these things on accounta I saw that movie with Frasier from Cheers on cable once..." THUD.

I still enjoy the show, even though I think this season has been all over the place, quality-wise. The sideways-flashing deals are annoying and eating up way too much time in what should be the final season where we get answers and watch people on the island get beaten to death by smoke monsters. I really wish they'd stop introducing new characters and instead spend time with important, previously introduced Magic Scotsmen and Magic 6'10" twelve year olds. Right now, there's still too much "What's going on?" "You wouldn't believe me if I told you!" "Yes I would!" "Oh? Well, I'll tell you everything...LATER!" junk that plagued the second and third seasons, which is insane for this, the final one.

Right now, I'm just hoping for Sayid to turn good again and kill both Jacob and the Smoke Monster - we've been denied the Sayid/Smoke fight for six years now - or for him to just stay evil and kill both Jacob and the Smoke Monster anyway, because he's Sayid and it's cool when he kills people.

[JonFromMaplewood]

SPOILER ALERT IF YOU DID NOT WATCH THIS WEEK

The ending of this week's episode was the least THUD-worthy ending yet.  "We ain't taking the plane, Freckles. We're taking the sub." THUD.  That's not very exciting at all.  The THUD needs to be saved for something like "The Black Rock arrived on the island full of polar bears." THUD.

I agree, far and away the least exciting ending the show has ever done. The only way that was an acceptable episode closer is if the conversation ended right there, and we get another cliffhanger a few episodes from now where Sawyer and Kate storm the submarine, and a guard on the sub gets the drop on Sawyer, who says "Might wanna check behind ya' there, Das Boot" and the guard turns around only to get knocked out by Kate, and then they run to the control room and see all this complex shit you need to actually pilot a submarine and Sawyer admits "Uh...I just kinda assumed I'd know how ta drive one of these things on accounta I saw that movie with Frasier from Cheers on cable once..." THUD.

I still enjoy the show, even though I think this season has been all over the place, quality-wise. The sideways-flashing deals are annoying and eating up way too much time in what should be the final season where we get answers and watch people on the island get beaten to death by smoke monsters. I really wish they'd stop introducing new characters and instead spend time with important, previously introduced Magic Scotsmen and Magic 6'10" twelve year olds. Right now, there's still too much "What's going on?" "You wouldn't believe me if I told you!" "Yes I would!" "Oh? Well, I'll tell you everything...LATER!" junk that plagued the second and third seasons, which is insane for this, the final one.

Right now, I'm just hoping for Sayid to turn good again and kill both Jacob and the Smoke Monster - we've been denied the Sayid/Smoke fight for six years now - or for him to just stay evil and kill both Jacob and the Smoke Monster anyway, because he's Sayid and it's cool when he kills people.

Regarding the flash sideways, a friend of mine has an interesting theory that the flash sideways will turn out to be "the fact of the matter" and that the island reality is like a gauntlet that all of us run in parallel to our day-to-day lives, testing us as people.  Not Heaven or Hell or Purgatory, but a morality play we are all acting out right now.  It has a unidirectional impact...the choices we make there on the island drive us in this life (as little as Jack's unexplained bruises or as big as Ben choosing the student's future over his own quest for power).  This explanation would probably satisfy a general audience, because it is a comforting thought to know that as dull as life may seem, every little decision you make is being guided by some thrilling, epic trial that is happening at that moment.

Well, I thought it was cool.  My own prediction is that we aren't going to find out anything that we really care about (e.g. why the island can be moved and why the Dharma Initiative gave a shit about it in the first place and what powerful magnetic force lies within it and what that stupid button and symbols were in the hatch), but that the flash sideways will allow for two endings, one happy, one tragic.  For example, one in which Jack and Kate embrace at a wedding alter, and another one where Jack is dead in her arms on the island. Or one in which Jack and Kate end up together and another where Sawyer and Kate end up together leaving the island by sub and Jack decides to stay behind while the island sinks into the ocean.

I'm supposed to be working right now.

[Sarah]

I know!  Hubba hubba, eh?

'Member, he would walk around Oz shirtless w/that teeny weeny hat perched on his large skull? 'MEMBER?

What about the way he would walk around buck-nekkid?  

Poor old Simon.  Got his heart broken by that death-row hussy.  

[dave from knoxville]

I am enjoying the flash sideways more than the island stuff at this point. But I really like both.

[thom]

A long time ago the writers said the mythology and character-based narrative they had planned between the first and second seasons would have lasted four seasons.

If you break the crucial story down, it certainly seems that way.
We are just sort of coasting until what I assume is a revelatory and underwhelming final four.

The only thing I can really say to the naysayers is this:
This is on basic cable on American television. It is an ultra-serialized science fiction drama(dy) mystery ripe for overanalysis. No matter how blah it can actually be, it is very important and a testament to writing nerds overcoming producer schmucks.

At the end of the LOST day, the good guys win.

[Reeleyes]

A long time ago the writers said the mythology and character-based narrative they had planned between the first and second seasons would have lasted four seasons.

If you break the crucial story down, it certainly seems that way.
We are just sort of coasting until what I assume is a revelatory and underwhelming final four.

The only thing I can really say to the naysayers is this:
This is on basic cable on American television. It is an ultra-serialized science fiction drama(dy) mystery ripe for overanalysis. No matter how blah it can actually be, it is very important and a testament to writing nerds overcoming producer schmucks.

At the end of the LOST day, the good guys win.

Good point, the reason I got into the show is because I heard many people say that it's brought sci fi back to network TV. I also feel that since it's on a major network instead of a premium channel much more people are watching than did The Sopranos so if they do an ending that doesn't work for the fans they might get force into a movie. If the ending works but is drab and boring or expected then watch out for the decade of mostly terrible fan fiction that will follow.

[Jouster]

much more people are watching than did The Sopranos

Actually, not really.  This current season is averaging around 9 million viewers, and last season around 11 million.  Those are roughly the same numbers "The Sopranos" had when it was on.  Lost peaked way higher (23.4 million vs 13.4 for "The Sopranos"), but it seems like a pretty big portion of the "Lost" audience has bailed since those early years (or is possibly just waiting for DVD).

--Jouster, TV nerd

[Steve of Bloomington]

(Actually, my biggest Lost crush was Mr. Eko.  Remember him?)

I love that guy, I have a crush on him too ... he was also on Oz.

He was Adebesi aka tiny hat man! Who can forget that guy?