Subject: Re: Lost--Curiousity thrills the cat ("Confirmed Dead" spoilers)
Author: khalleron@netzero.com
Date: 11 Feb
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On Feb 9, 3:55 am, "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nos...@comcast.net>
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> "The Translucent Amoebae" <transamoe...@seanet.com> wrote in messagenews:e0aa5d98-24ee-43a9-b91b-2e14d56b9b9c@h11g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
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> > On Feb 7, 8:51 pm, WQ <w...@email.com> wrote:
> >> On Feb 7, 11:37 pm, David <dimla...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> >> > On Feb 7, 11:30 pm, s0183616 <s0183...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> >> > > WQ wrote:
> >> > > > Ken from Chicago wrote:
> >> > > >> FINALLY! We don't just get answers.
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> >> > > >> But the lostaways finally start ASKING questions!
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> >> > > > --- If it took 73 episodes to get to this point, I guess you'll
> >> > > > have
> >> > > > to wade through another 73 episodes before it FINALLY concludes.
> >> > > > Imagine that, 146 episodes to tell a story that could've been done
> >> > > > much more efficiently within a 2-hour movie or much more concisely
> >> > > > within a single season.  Meaning it's essentially got at least 5
> >> > > > years
> >> > > > of plot fat in it.
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> >> > > Clearly you have no clue.  Why are you here?  To troll?
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> >> > Comedy relief.
>
> >> --- The real joke is on Lost viewers.  There's absolutely nothing,
> >> nil, nada, naught that the producers can come up with that'll be a
> >> slam-bang, blow-me-totally-away kind of ending to this series.  Its
> >> interminably overly protracted nature negates any likelihood of such a
> >> fantastic conclusion ever being realized.  Expect to be hugely
> >> disappointed in the finale after all the time you will have invested
> >> in this series and completely pissed off that everyone connected with
> >> the show has lined their pockets with oodles of cash for having sucked
> >> and strung along all the unsuspecting suckers out there into it.  I
> >> kid you not.
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> > There's a maxim that balloon artists live by, and that is:
> > Never save your best balloon animal until the end of the show.
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> > The best way to resolve LOST is answer 90% of the questions by the
> > middle of the last season, and then wind it down after that.
>
> Exactly. Show the CONSEQUENCES of the actions taken. It would have been nice
> of ST:VOYAGER had arrived home say in the penultimate episode and shown in
> the final the episode a celebration of their return, memorializing thus
> lost, and showing the next steps in the careers and lives of the characters
> involved. That's what I loved about the last filmed episode of BABYLON 5. In
> fact several of the starring characters had already left the series by that
> time, but you got a sense that tho the show was ending, the universe lived
> on.
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> -- Ken from Chicago- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -

Well, the nice thing about Lost's current structure (present, flasback
and flashforward) is that they can do all of that at once!

Kind of like having your narrative cake and eating it, too.

Kate


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