We have to go back!
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DangerAardvark
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The wife and I watched all 3 seasons in less than 1 mth. It only took that long because we were waiting on the 3rd season to arrive from Amazon.
Still debating if I should watch Season 4 televised or wait for it to come out on dvd? I hate Commercials!
Still debating if I should watch Season 4 televised or wait for it to come out on dvd? I hate Commercials!
Cdubneeddeal
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Used to love the show
Not delayed due to the writers strike, they were always going to start the season at the end of January, but if the strike doesn't end in time, this season will only be 9 episodes long, iirc.
Spineshank
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They have everything recorded. Though they said they didnt like the season finale for this year. They had to rush it, to get it in before the strike.
2008 seemed so far away at the time, it's gone by pretty quickly.
anyone know how many episodes Lost had in the can before the writer's strike?
anyone know how many episodes Lost had in the can before the writer's strike?
Some times I wonder if the writers for this show are brain dead or what. Regardless I love the show but here are a few things which didn't make since to me:
These may be SPOILERS if you haven't watched the first three seasons. You've been warned.
1- Hurley and his Chicken Shack buddy pull up to the convenience store where Hurley had purchased the winning lottery ticket. There are camera crews all around and a store employee sees Hurley in the van and starts pointing and saying "It was him' referring to Hurley as the purchaser of the aforementioned lottery ticket. Of course Hurley had had the lottery ticket in his pocket since winning and had yet to claim his prize. So no one could have known that he had purchased the ticket. I guess none of the writers ever bought a lottery ticket. BTW I played the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 and they are losers. Forget about it. Oh yeh, they're evil too.
2- Sayid is offered a job at a restaurant where he ends up being captured and tortured as a result of the woman he had tortured while in the Republican Guard recognizing him. Of course to free her he had shot and killed his commanding officer then turned the gun on himself so he would be able to say that she had managed to get his CO's gun and shoot him and then Sayid. He then gives her the gun and allows her to escape. In the first part of the story you're led to believe there's a sort of romance here as Sayid often looks at her pictures while on the island. If she had wanted revenge she could have just shot and killed him then. Instead we have a later episode that just doesn't make sense.
3- OK there are more but I'm skipping to the last episode where the ending seems a little too thrown together for me with Jack and Kate apparently in LA and Jack saying that they must go back. I'm sure in the next season we'll see a dozen episodes about them actually getting off the island. The most bizarre thing about the episode is that suddenly Locke is able to kill someone where it had never been something he could bring himself to do.
It seemed to me that the writing dropped off after Season One but that seems to happen with most shows. I'm still looking forward to the subsequent seasons but I prefer to watch them all at one time on DVD. Having to wait a week to see what happens next and making sure you're in front of a TV doesn't work for me.
These may be SPOILERS if you haven't watched the first three seasons. You've been warned.
1- Hurley and his Chicken Shack buddy pull up to the convenience store where Hurley had purchased the winning lottery ticket. There are camera crews all around and a store employee sees Hurley in the van and starts pointing and saying "It was him' referring to Hurley as the purchaser of the aforementioned lottery ticket. Of course Hurley had had the lottery ticket in his pocket since winning and had yet to claim his prize. So no one could have known that he had purchased the ticket. I guess none of the writers ever bought a lottery ticket. BTW I played the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 and they are losers. Forget about it. Oh yeh, they're evil too.
2- Sayid is offered a job at a restaurant where he ends up being captured and tortured as a result of the woman he had tortured while in the Republican Guard recognizing him. Of course to free her he had shot and killed his commanding officer then turned the gun on himself so he would be able to say that she had managed to get his CO's gun and shoot him and then Sayid. He then gives her the gun and allows her to escape. In the first part of the story you're led to believe there's a sort of romance here as Sayid often looks at her pictures while on the island. If she had wanted revenge she could have just shot and killed him then. Instead we have a later episode that just doesn't make sense.
3- OK there are more but I'm skipping to the last episode where the ending seems a little too thrown together for me with Jack and Kate apparently in LA and Jack saying that they must go back. I'm sure in the next season we'll see a dozen episodes about them actually getting off the island. The most bizarre thing about the episode is that suddenly Locke is able to kill someone where it had never been something he could bring himself to do.
It seemed to me that the writing dropped off after Season One but that seems to happen with most shows. I'm still looking forward to the subsequent seasons but I prefer to watch them all at one time on DVD. Having to wait a week to see what happens next and making sure you're in front of a TV doesn't work for me.
Well my main gripe with the show was that they tried to do too much. Way too many characters to keep track of and far too many subplots to connect together. For the casual fan it works out OK since you're likely to forget all the little details by the next episode, but for the careful observer there are tons of loopholes to be found.
Still, despite its flaws LOST is the best damn show on television right now.
Still, despite its flaws LOST is the best damn show on television right now.
it doesn't seem like an unreasonable assumption that perhaps Hurley mentioned it to someone, someone else had to punch up the ticket for him, etc... maybe he just remembered Hurley buying the lottery ticket at the date/time indicated by the machine.
You're kidding about someone remembering what numbers someone had bought. And the show made it obvious that Hurley had not mentioned it to anyone. It was just stupid script.
BoomerD
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I never did get "Lost"...the premise of the original show was OK, but then they morphed it into something...sierd. BTW, how can the fat greasy looking guy (don't know his name) stay so dammed fat when they're lost on an island with little food? Seems to me like that'd be a pretty good diet & exercise program, whether you wanted one or not...
Seems to me, that as long as they've been "Lost" they'd have explored the entire island by now...and killed each other off for food.
Seems to me, that as long as they've been "Lost" they'd have explored the entire island by now...and killed each other off for food.
clamum
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That woman in the season 3 flashback of Sayid's was not the same girl he let escape. That was Nadia (same girl Charlie saved from being attacked in the alleyway) whom he let escape by shooting his commander officer. The woman (and her husband) who kidnapped Sayid and tortured him were different.
Season one I agree had the best writing, season two was alright, but I think they did a great job with season three.
I guess too much stuff happens on this show to remember it all. I didn't remember Sayid torturing any other women.
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