Subject: Re: Lost--Curiousity thrills the cat ("Confirmed Dead" spoilers)
Author: Anim8rFSK
Date: 9 Feb
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In article <2oSdnVJ_RLpTCTDanZ2dnUVZ_rSrnZ2d@comcast.com>,
"Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nospam@comcast.net> wrote:

> "The Translucent Amoebae" <transamoebae@seanet.com> wrote in message
> news:e0aa5d98-24ee-43a9-b91b-2e14d56b9b9c@h11g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> > On Feb 7, 8:51 pm, WQ <w...@email.com> wrote:
> >> On Feb 7, 11:37 pm, David <dimla...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> > On Feb 7, 11:30 pm, s0183616 <s0183...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > > WQ wrote:
> >> > > > Ken from Chicago wrote:
> >> > > >> FINALLY! We don't just get answers.
> >>
> >> > > >> But the lostaways finally start ASKING questions!
> >>
> >> > > > --- 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.
> >>
> >> > > Clearly you have no clue. Why are you here? To troll?
> >>
> >> > 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.
> >
> > There's a maxim that balloon artists live by, and that is:
> > Never save your best balloon animal until the end of the show.
> >
> > 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.
>
> -- Ken from Chicago

It would have been even nicer if the crew had mutinied, executed
Janeway, gotten home at the end of Caretaker, and there had never been a
second episode.

Star Trek 08:
No Shat, No Show.
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