tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post6368937077713392724..comments2008-04-01T01:26:37.636-07:00Santanoreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-19615753594869976442008-03-31T02:36:00.000-07:002008-03-31T02:36:00.000-07:00Хорошая новость. Пускай снимают: непонятно кто им сказал, что сериал не рейтинговый!UA Releaseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01321360721454422897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-7492552349965148252008-03-02T05:51:00.000-08:002008-03-02T05:51:00.000-08:00I recently starting watching Lost for my first time, from the beginning, and am now halfway through Season 3. The first two Seasons were really, really good, and I've heard that the fourth season's pretty good, but my only problem is that NOTHING IS HAPPENING! Jack has been at that stupid Others place for like eight episodes, and Sawyer and Kate have just been arguing. I also don't know (or really care) what's happening with Locke and crew because the only episode I've seen of them recently is that stupid Desmond flashback one!<BR/>I can see why Season four, five and six were shortened to 16 episodes. The show started to drag. Season three could have been done in sixteen episodes easily.<BR/>Hopefully, an even shorter Season 4 will help us not sit through a LOT of boring stuff (I really have trouble caring about any of the Others. Their secret natures are really starting to just bug the poop outta me!) Hopefully Season four will just tell us the good stuff and get on with it.<BR/>This does scare me about adding episodes to other seasons... I hope we don't end up with three unnecessary episodes at the end of Season six. Filler sucks.BigSexyArabManhttp://openid.aol.com/BigSexyArabMannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-53346369445633204082008-02-25T00:58:00.000-08:002008-02-25T00:58:00.000-08:00Don't forget that these people are human too. You will get your full requirement of episodes, as it has been agreed in contract by ABC for an amount of hours of television, not an amount of seasons. It isn't the productions fault that they've lost 3 episodes. Frankly, 3 months of strike and only losing three episodes is hardly a chore, when you consider there is <B>NO</B> 24. only half a season of Heroes (which won't come back till Autumn now, and you will not lose any shows at all.<BR/><BR/>Jim. Yes I'm pretty sure ABC make much more money abroad that domestically on Lost (Sky One's deal with them in the UK covers the cost of production on its own) but ABC are the lead channel, and as such we have to think about their scheduling.<BR/><BR/>To be honest. I hate the current schedule. Fans forced it into its current situation and it frankly sucks. I would much rather 8 episodes in the Autumn, and 8 episodes in the Spring, then we don't have a 8 month wait for fresh content, but its the fan bases fault. The fan base constantly nag and moan about the show's scheduling. I've got to the point now where I would just like the fans to shut up, and let the production team get on with the show in the vision THEY want.<BR/><BR/>I'm also seriously considering switching off anonymous comments, because its only those anonymous commenters that are complaining that there won't be 8 episodes. It'll be these same anonymous commenters that would complain that they are airing Lost whilst they are supposed to be going on holiday too.plkrtnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00281869748666427376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-76436592300033190452008-02-24T13:19:00.000-08:002008-02-24T13:19:00.000-08:00I love how all you seem to talk about the US schedule like Lost is only on in your country. I'm sure ABC are making as much selling this abroad as from the US deal.Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10567519923488468789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-51217907163663066292008-02-21T16:50:00.000-08:002008-02-21T16:50:00.000-08:00will we be waiting until february again for season 5?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-9009416529975763442008-02-19T15:41:00.000-08:002008-02-19T15:41:00.000-08:00As someone who works in television (ABC News, in fact), I know how EXTREMELY hard it is to arrange a deal like this... and we should all breathe a sigh of relief. Most companies would either place the season on hold, as we saw with Fox's 24 and bring the entire season around to the 09 season, or else done what we like to call a "fast wrap," in other words they would have written one cop-out fanalie epidose and left the rest for next season. It is a relief that we're even getting 2 more, let alone 5! Most studios don't make choices like that, especially during sweeps. Thank goodness!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-83334489420998492622008-02-19T08:17:00.000-08:002008-02-19T08:17:00.000-08:00Someone mentioned American Idol beating Lost with live viewers.. thats because us true fans like to Tivo and rewatch the episodes...and lets face facts its way more enjoyable skipping through commercials. <BR/>I think they need to give the true fans a shot and see how it does in the summer with a full 8 more eps.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-24360769961676429702008-02-18T15:18:00.000-08:002008-02-18T15:18:00.000-08:00wow i was worried firstly, but it's okay that the producers move the 'lost' Lost episodes to the next seasons. So S04 has 13 eps and S05 maybe 19 eps. if that way, no problemAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-75422787431302828192008-02-18T10:16:00.000-08:002008-02-18T10:16:00.000-08:00Well the producers already screwed us with this idea that 16 episodes makes a season. So now its 13 episodes. Next year 10? Besides I thought the whole point of knowing there would be only 48 more episodes, that the story lines would be worked out. It seems to me the plot outlines should've already been done and it's just a matter of fleshing out the dialogue. What were the writers doing prior to the strike?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-85013326519319751072008-02-18T08:01:00.000-08:002008-02-18T08:01:00.000-08:00"Now they're going to shorten an already stunted season by 3 more episodes - I just think that's unsatisafactory."<BR/><BR/>Quit whining about being shortchanged. They have already said that they will add those three missing episodes to next season. So they ARE making those three episodes, we'll just be seeing them later.<BR/><BR/>They promised 48 episodes, and we'll be seeing all 48. Please read the full details before whining about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-23837868366149780482008-02-18T05:28:00.000-08:002008-02-18T05:28:00.000-08:00Well think of it this way<BR/>Less episodes towards the end of a season means less questions and more answers condensed into a smaller space of time...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-15297707712766988512008-02-17T19:52:00.000-08:002008-02-17T19:52:00.000-08:00why not just do some double episodes?<BR/>how hard could that be?<BR/><BR/>8 into 5 is easy with 3 doubleheaders!<BR/>How's that for sweeps?<BR/><BR/>then the world can continue to spin its happy way...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-80030569533598274202008-02-17T17:12:00.000-08:002008-02-17T17:12:00.000-08:00ABC should push LOST (or vice versa) to do the original plan of 16 to reward LOST fans for our patience with all the hiatuses we have/will endure/d. They'll do fine with May Sweeps because that will be when the upcoming hiatus ends and we'll all be watching those episodes.<BR/><BR/>I understand the writing process is difficult and time consuming, but you've all just had a few months off from work. You can put in some overtime to finish up this season, can't you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-32917763297761713502008-02-17T14:35:00.000-08:002008-02-17T14:35:00.000-08:00they should make the eight that they wanted to in the first place and air them in the fall continuously and then season five starts as planned in Feb. 2009. it'd be the best thing to do, it'd be like season 4 and season 4.5 but it'd be better than an incomplete season 4. i see another backlash like that of season 3, they should see it coming. the only explanation is if ABC wants them to do it this way.Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331772285617816454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-87606531566071923672008-02-16T14:44:00.000-08:002008-02-16T14:44:00.000-08:00Writers strike - OMG how I hate this! Lost is a masterpiece of art, you cannot cut 3 episodes out of the concept without ruining it. This is so ... ARGH!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-30644104173105266112008-02-15T13:03:00.000-08:002008-02-15T13:03:00.000-08:00I already feel short-changed by the fact that they had decided to make the final 3 seasons cpnsist of only 16 episodes (vice the usual 22). Now they're going to shorten an already stunted season by 3 more episodes - I just think that's unsatisafactory. They ought to make the other 3, regardless of their relationship to a "normal" season ending date in May. Maybe ABC doesn't care since we're already a captive audience - it's not as if real fans won't watch what they give us. I guess I just feel cheated. Thanks ABC & WGA!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-5875527448150731952008-02-15T12:58:00.000-08:002008-02-15T12:58:00.000-08:00Laziness? Are you <I>serious</I>? Anonymous, get over your entitlement complex. Sure, we all want 8 episodes. But They only have time to make 5 without it ending up seeming, as you say, rushed, incomplete, and off. It's just not viable to air them in the summer, for the reasons people have said.Pope Richard Coreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952114069063599321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-11066271017805793372008-02-15T10:08:00.000-08:002008-02-15T10:08:00.000-08:00"why not just have the remaining eps be 2 hours each? :) wishful thinking, i know..."<BR/><BR/>Since the problem is actually shooting the episodes in time, how would that help? They just physically can't produce the episodes quick enough to have 16-17 hours worth done by the end of May.<BR/><BR/>"What they should do is make all the remaining eight episodes, and AIR THEM WHEN THEY ARE READY."<BR/><BR/>Did you even read the responses here? Doing that would go well into the summer when audiences are smaller and advertisers willing to pay far less. While your request would satisfy fanboy fantasies, it would be a financial disaster for ABC and thus has no basis in reality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-52684697305267590992008-02-15T07:06:00.000-08:002008-02-15T07:06:00.000-08:00It's not that ABC thinks people won't watch in the summer, it's that they just don't want to WORK into the summer. It's not 'quality over quantity', it's just laziness Carlton. And it's going to make those episodes seem rushed, incomplete, and off. And all these 'anonymous' comments saying they approve of this and that 5 is more than they were expecting are probably just one of the producers trying to pass themself off as a fan. No true fan would want LESS episodes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-60858525406011325552008-02-14T21:43:00.000-08:002008-02-14T21:43:00.000-08:00Actually, it makes perfect sense. Every main character finishes with a centric episode. For the last 5 they only need to cover Claire, Sawyer, Locke, Ben and Jack.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-73634919965140631362008-02-14T19:29:00.000-08:002008-02-14T19:29:00.000-08:00Terrible idea.<BR/><BR/>What they should do is make all the remaining eight episodes, and AIR THEM WHEN THEY ARE READY.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-35649914604761287352008-02-14T16:33:00.000-08:002008-02-14T16:33:00.000-08:00why not just have the remaining eps be 2 hours each? :) wishful thinking, i know...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-69208279959810918182008-02-14T13:26:00.000-08:002008-02-14T13:26:00.000-08:00Why not just be satisified in knowing that the producers are emphasizing quality over content?<BR/> Maybe they'll come up with another creative off-season game to paticipate in..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-77243429768996749772008-02-14T10:55:00.000-08:002008-02-14T10:55:00.000-08:00MAKE IT 8!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-62638009020195387382008-02-14T09:46:00.000-08:002008-02-14T09:46:00.000-08:00The way I see it, I'd rather have them add episodes to Seasons 5 & 6 to end the story in more detail than stretch out this season's plot. I'm sure the people in charge would've pushed for all 8 episodes if it was crucial.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com