Brink vs Lost

(Thundermuffin) #41

I never said more LOST stuff was a bad idea, again do you even read my posts? It really is starting to seem like you don’t.

I said new LOST stuff like prequels or sequels is great and I wish it would happen, but recreating the same show or just changing the people on the island and following the same plotline or a plotline closely related is a bad idea; LOST had magic because of the actors and characters, and you don’t just randomly get a group of people together and make that magic happen. Make prequels, sequels, or even follow another group of people at the same time as the Losties, but don’t recreate that 6 season run.

(.FROST.) #42

Ok, it was the greatest ending in motion picture history. But isn’t it more than unfair to just throw stuff in, in order to make the audience insanely curious and then turn around and never solve it? There are dozents and dozents of examples. THAT IS NOT GREAT WRITING. I can make up the craziest stories myself as long as I don’t have to solve them.

In X-Files for example you knew at least, that many threads won’t be solved entirely. But they did it in a more satisfying way. It was allready clear from the concept of this great series. Lost in contrary just left some threads without solving 0,01 percent of them. Its like it never happend. Sorry, but that is lame without end.

Did anybody remember the Hurly storyline in wich it was implied, that he may made it all up. And remember that one camera pan in wich you can see Hurly’s island girlfriend in the asylum as a patient? They never played with this thread again afterwards.

Would it have been disappointing if Lost would’ve been as character driven as it was plus they would’ve solved most of the threads? Would that have made Lost a bad series? Seriousely. If you answer with no, that means Lost wasn’t as great as it could’ve been. If you say yes and the ending was top notch too, you are a liar. Sorry. No one in his right mind could have been entirely pleased with this ending.

(zenstar) #43

All I remember from That 80’s Show was that the one character had a “dance square” in his lounge so that he could practice his dance moves. :smiley:

(Thundermuffin) #44

[QUOTE=.FROST.;371580]Ok, it was the greatest ending in motion picture history. But isn’t it more than unfair to just throw stuff in, in order to make the audience insanely curious and then turn around and never solve it? There are dozents and dozents of examples. THAT IS NOT GREAT WRITING. I can make up the craziest stories myself as long as I don’t have to solve them.

In X-Files for example you knew at least, that many threads won’t be solved entirely. But they did it in a more satisfying way. It was allready clear from the concept of this great series. Lost in contrary just left some threads without solving 0,01 percent of them. Its like it never happend. Sorry, but that is lame without end.

Did anybody remember the Hurly storyline in wich it was implied, that he may made it all up. And remember that one camera pan in wich you can see Hurly’s island girlfriend in the asylum as a patient? They never played with this thread again afterwards.

Would it have been disappointing if Lost would’ve been as character driven as it was plus they would’ve solved most of the threads? Would that have made Lost a bad series? Seriousely. If you answer with no, that means Lost wasn’t as great as it could’ve been. If you say yes and the ending was top notch too, you are a liar. Sorry. No one in his right mind could have been entirely pleased with this ending.[/QUOTE]
I never said it was the greatest ending in the history of TV shows now did I? You made that up yourself, as I just said it set perfectly fine with me. I even said I can see how lots of people would have hated it.

If you had watched for all 6 seasons and expected them to answer all of those questions you are kidding yourself, too.


Sure there’s lots of questions, but some of them don’t really matter at all such as “Why did Matthew Abaddon send a cultural anthropologist on the mission to find the Island?” Do you really care about that? Probably not, unless you’re a science fanatic, but yes others of them would be nice to know. Alas, we don’t get to know and we’ll have to live with that unless they send out a podcast, book, or something of the sort to type of lose ends.

(.FROST.) #45

I didn’t necessarely meant “you” when I wrote that post. But I’m not kidding myself when I expected that they tie together all the loose threads. First, this is rule number one in movie business, unless you are David Lynch. Second they had plenty of time to do so. There where so many fill-in episodes wich weren’t necessary for the whole story. Instead they only opend up a new can of questions in them. Its like little kids behavior on christmas day. They start opening present after present but they won’t really play with one. Then when they’ve opend every last one of them they are too exhausted to clean up the mess they produced. And they’ll tell momma any story so they just can go to bed and leave the chaos they caused.

Lindelof and his cohorts are this kid and they had a gigantic heap of presents to open. Those “presents” where their brilliant ideas in this heap called mind, but they never really played with them. They only showed them around and proceeded to the next one. And we are good ol’ momma wich has to deal with this mess. The only thing that makes it less worse is the memory of how fulfilling and beautiful it was when you watched him open all those little cardboard boxes. And so you forgive this charming little rascal.

(Thundermuffin) #46

So you expected them to answer a question like “Why is the voice broadcasting the numbers in The Little Prince different from the voice in all the other number transmissions?” Looking through just the first link in my post, there’s only a few questions I really want to know the answer to, and many more that wouldn’t really matter either way. It might be nice to know those questions just to be able to show people why things happened, though, since a lot of people I know didn’t understand the show.

(.FROST.) #47

I guess you are refering to a certain episode. Maybe the voice actor was sick and it wasn’t meant in the script to be a differnt voice. And since I watched lost in the german synced version I don’t know what you are talking about. But nevertheless, this would be more the nerdy kind of question.
I don’t have the time to list every question I had and its allready a while since I watched the last episode.

(Thundermuffin) #48

See, that’s how a lot of questions could be answered: it wasn’t meant to be. A lot of things seem to be mistakes such as the Dharma videos. The guy has a prosthetic arm in some, but in some it’s his real arm. That’s actually on purpose, but sometimes the videos are dated after 1977, yet he still has his working arm, although it should have been chopped off by that date (if I recall right). There was a major question as to if it was fake or not, but one can realize they just screwed up and made a big mistake.