Lost only has seventeen hours left. That's the sad truth of the matter -- after those seventeen hours are up, no more Lost. The story will be complete, character fates resolved. And the sad thing is, most Lost fans will experience these episodes separately. The Lost community, I hate to say, is too divided. Fans affiliate themselves to one site and then do not venture to explore any other facets of the Lost community.We have eight months until the season six premiere. Some are dreading this long hiatus, but I look at it as an opportunity to unite these different factions into one big fan community in time for the season six premiere. The sixth season will probably be the best season of Lost yet, and it'd be a shame for us to go about watching it divided into factions. The fanbase is such a thriving and diverse community that it shouldn't be segmented into different parts. It should be one big family that all happen to enjoy the same television show.
Now, I'm not saying that anyone should stop visiting a certain site and move to another. But spread out a little bit. Here's my challenge to you: venture out to a fansite that you've never visited before. Spend a little time with their community. Chat with them about the show. Invite them to spread out a little bit too, to check out other Lost sites (but don't advertise -- that's a big no-no). Help this great community become a little more connected to each other, because hey, live together, die alone, right?
I'm trying to avoid Lost discussions at the moment. Before the Season 6 Premiere I will need to review and when that time comes, then I will discuss theories. Right now I think it might be best that we all chill otherwise it will seem like a long time away.
ReplyDeleteCan you post a list of other almost as good sites?
ReplyDelete(no spoiler ones)
THANKS.
Well, there's:
ReplyDelete*DarkUFO -- The spoiler section of the site is actually quite small. The theories and fan fiction sections are great. http://darkufo.blogspot.com/
*DocArzt -- A great Lost blogger, covers almost every aspect of the show. http://www.docarzt.com/
See also the unofficial podcasts page for a list of great podcasts. http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Unofficial_podcasts
I fully agree. It may be a bit early for this, but has there been any talk of gatherings for the series finale? Like a convention or renting out theater screens?
ReplyDeleteGood idea! We all have something in common right?
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid I'm going to be intentionally 'dying alone' with Lost. Why? Because the Lost fanbase hive-mind is too good at guessing what's going to happen next. Together, we remember every little detail of every episode and can constantly match them up to one another. I'm pretty certain than anyone who entrenches themselves in fan discussion/theorising over the last season will experience the last episode with basically no surprises - and that's even if they don't read any direct spoilers.
ReplyDeleteMystery is the stuff Lost is made of. Personally, if I know what's going to happen something is definitely lost from the whole thing. Soon, according to Damon and Charlton, we'll have all the details we need to work out the trajectory of the show. All we can rely on is our forgetfulness to make this last season good.
when I read your statement about 17 hours left, it freaked me out a little. I have completly trusted the writers up to this point, but all of sudden, I am starting to worry. Can they wrap everything in 17 hours? How much will they leave out? The numbers weren't even explained away on the show, they left it for a game. The sickness was a major plot point (Rousseau, Claire, Desmond) and now it is not brought up anymore. Libby's backstory is no longer important. Walt and Aaron had mysterious stories around them and now they aren't even on the island. Meanwhile, we know everything about Jack and Kate that we didn't really care about. Locke is dead,so much for destiny. The Black Rock is shown arriving at the island but not how it got to be inland. Rousseau doesn't recognize Jin. We spend a season with the Dharma folk and see almost nothing of the various stations. What about Henry Gale? When we were time jumping it would have been a perfect time to show him crashing.
ReplyDeleteI suppose I am freaking out thinking about how much they have to cover, but I so desperately want this to have a satisfying conclusion. I hope I don't sound to negative, I really do love the show.
Actually annonymous, to put things even more into perspective: referring to each episode as an 'hour' is disingenuous. The producers just do that because they don't want to piss off advertisers. Since every ep is about 42-43 minutes average, there's little over 12 hours left of the show.
ReplyDeleteYeastcapp, now I feel worse. Seriously, does anyone else think that this season with the Dharma initiative would have been a perfect way to explain the polar bear or the shark? I know the producers like to give answers in games or whatnot, but I feel like the show should be their forum and everything that they have introduced as a mystery on the show should be answered on the show. Maybe I should just step back and try to renew my faith in the show and the writers. Sorry, I do believe I am rambling. My name is Kent by the way, I just don't have a google account or email.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it seems like we're going to get much more explanation with the wildlife issues, and I'm not sure we need it either. Dharma was experimenting on animals, and that's acceptable I guess. The presence of polar bears was just the first clue of some scientists presence. As for the shark, I think the producers said Ezra James Sharkington wasn't meant to have that dharma symbol so obviously on its side, and that it was supposed to be an easter egg for the crew or something? Either way, doing the special effects for wildlife has always been the weak side of this show so that's something they can probably just drop. Except, of course, for the hurley bird which, if anything, should be the lynch pin of the sixth season.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I entirely agree with you about "all mysteries should be answered" thing. Yeah, there's stuff which makes no sense standing alone like Libby being in the psych ward. That stuff is clearly suggesting some further explanation, and most of the mysteries fall under that category. But there's other stuff that almost certainly won't be fully explained, and definitely shouldn't. The origin of Jacob and Flocke is an example. It's enough to just know that they've been on this island as rivals, perhaps forever. As long as we get a sense of *why* they're doing what they're doing - that is, as long as their motivations as characters makes sense - we don't need to know how they came about. Showing us that would take away from the mystique of the show and its mythology. It's the stuff of redundant cash cow sequels and prequels.
The numbers currently sits half way between the two types of mystery, in my opinion. The producers have compared explaining them to explaining 'the force' in the phantom menace, and that seems fair, but they definitely definitely need more explanation (inside the show) about what they stand for, and perhaps how they were discovered or created. Without that, they're just a shallow plot device.
Btw Kent, click "Name/URL" and you can be unannonymous without a google account :)
Just want to spread the word - there is a site called The AV Club(http://www.avclub.com). It's The Onion's sister pop-culture site. Noel Murray at the AV Club does the best LOST write-ups on the net, and there is an open forum for discussion as well. He usually gets them up about an hour after the episode ends on the east coast, and they are amazing summaries. He also participates in the discussion. I've been a regular there for 2 years...the first thing I do after an episode is load up the AV Club's LOST review and get to discussing.
ReplyDeleteI hope we can stick together til the next season. Having people do blogs here keeps us in touch.
ReplyDeleteI think that a lot of the odd/ends mysteries were put in when the show was not a certainty to do the full span and have a grand finish. These answers may have found themselves on the cutting room floor in the interests of time. Probably there will be a full season DVD package with all kinds of left out material in stores after the show ends.
The only explanation I ever saw for the numbers were that they were the end answer to some complex equation that gave the exact time of the end of the world. And that the main reason DI was on the Island all along with to find a way to change the answers to stop the world from ending.
Perhaps mastering time travel would have been the way to stop the end times. It seems the Others may have been time skipping from the beginning.
Perhaps all the other weird stuff DI was doing was just to keep folks busy while the brains such as Chang and even Radzinky could find a way to change things. It looks like Rad was more than just a button pusher now. Maybe his being in the Hatch kept him from being gassed along with the rest of his group.
His wanting the energy captured meant more to him personally than we will ever know. Perhaps he had some great sadness in his past that he wanted to try and fix.
We are just fortunate that this show caught on enough for the producers to have a chance to finish it. There haven't been many shows that had that chance.
Which ones did make it to an end besides the Fugitive, Friends, and MASH? I can't think of anymore offhand.
I have noticed how careful the Others/Hostiles and even Dr. Cheng of Dharmaville are about collecting the dead bodies and doing “something” with them. To be very specific they do not bury their dead or leave the bodies of their dead just lying around on the Island. There are, at this point, quite a number of dead bodies that have accumulated over the years such as the pitiful of Dharma people killed in the Purge, the body of Ethan Rom that the Lostie Charlie killed and buried, the bodies of Flight 815 that were buried and/or burned. At Ethan’s burial there was a bit of foreshadowing. Hurley questioned Charlie if he thought that Ethan might come back! I think that the war that is coming in Season Six will take place on the Island in 2007. There will be two or three factions involved in this conflict, Others versus Retuned Losties versus the Returned Undead.
ReplyDeleteRichard Alpert is René Descartes
ReplyDeleteJohn unLocke or the Nemesis of Jacob is Samael.
ReplyDeleteThis is also interesting: The Wheel of Time (WoT) fantasy series