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Chicapah 
Prog Reviewer 
Joined: February 14 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 8238 |
 Topic: "Lost" & ProgPosted: April 14 2010 at 12:03 |
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Saw this article by reknown "Lost" expert Jeff Jensen and thought that there's a bunch of you proggers that would get a kick out of reading it. The prog stuff's in the latter part of the piece. Enjoy.
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"Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain
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MovingPictures07
Prog Reviewer
Joined: January 09 2008 Location: Beasty Heart Status: Offline Points: 32181 |
Posted: April 14 2010 at 12:48 |
Lost is my favorite show of all time. Fantastic read.  |
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richardh
Prog Reviewer
Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 28029 |
Posted: April 14 2010 at 13:57 |
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I can't read it because of the spolier alert
I've been following it from the beginning and its nearly finished so bump this up again then please
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himtroy
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Joined: January 20 2009 Status: Offline Points: 1601 |
Posted: April 14 2010 at 16:34 |
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They don't spoil beyond whats currently out........
Quite interesting to me. I am quite a Lost fan
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sleeper
Prog Reviewer
Joined: October 09 2005 Location: Entropia Status: Offline Points: 16449 |
Posted: April 14 2010 at 16:55 |
Only if you live in America.
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Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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Kashmir75
Forum Senior Member
Joined: June 25 2009 Status: Offline Points: 1029 |
Posted: April 14 2010 at 18:40 |
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I never thought of this before! I've never tried chucking on Tales From Topographic Oceans or Dark Side of the Moon while watching the latest headtrip on Lost. Maybe I should try it out next time its on! lol
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Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while...
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Chicapah
Prog Reviewer
Joined: February 14 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 8238 |
Posted: April 15 2010 at 09:37 |
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Hmmm. I'm thinking "Suppers Ready" might be referring to a bucket of Mr. Cluck's chicken.
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"Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain
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Sean Trane
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Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 20240 |
Posted: April 15 2010 at 10:22 |
I think the author of that article has wayayayay too much time on his hands to come up with such doubtful shortcuts
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Mellotron Storm
Prog Reviewer
Joined: August 27 2006 Location: The Beach Status: Online Points: 13490 |
Posted: April 15 2010 at 15:10 |
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Thanks for that Rollie that was really interesting. Now if i can convince my family that "Lost" and "Prog" have this connection i may not get teased as much about my music.
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"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
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Silverbeard McStarr
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Joined: October 05 2009 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 167 |
Posted: April 15 2010 at 16:21 |
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The pilot's synced to Dark Side of the Moon.
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ExittheLemming
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Joined: October 19 2007 Location: Penal Colony Status: Offline Points: 11415 |
Posted: April 15 2010 at 19:00 |
What a revolting avatar....  |
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M@X
Forum & Site Admin Group
Co-founder, Admin & Webmaster Joined: January 29 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 4028 |
Posted: May 24 2010 at 06:52 |
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Anybody watched the FINALE ? What do you think ?
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Prog On !
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paganinio
Forum Senior Member
Joined: November 07 2008 Status: Offline Points: 1327 |
Posted: May 24 2010 at 08:53 |
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last year I made a poll
"which
tv show is progressive" and Lost was high on the list!
the ranking: 1. The X Files 2. Lost 3. Arrested Development 4. Battlestar Galactica |
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yanch
Forum Senior Member
Joined: January 03 2010 Location: Lowell, MA Status: Offline Points: 3247 |
Posted: May 24 2010 at 16:34 |
I watched. I thought the first 2 hours or so were okay, but the last 30 minutes and the ending, IMHO, was lame and a bit of a cop out. It gave me the same feeling as the end of STTNG-they really didn't have a clear idea of how to end it and tie things together. It's too bad, I really have enjoyed the show.
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Kashmir75
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Joined: June 25 2009 Status: Offline Points: 1029 |
Posted: May 24 2010 at 16:59 |
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^ I loved the last ep of ST: TNG. That show never really was a heavily arc-based series like Lost, it was more about the stand alone plots, and the characters. The final ep gave us a nice view of the crew past, present, and future, I was quite happy with it. I haven't seen the last Lost yet, but if it is a bit of a cop out, I will be disappointed, because Lost has always been an arc-heavy show with so many loose ends to tie up. So much for the Lost writers claiming to know where their story is going.
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Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while...
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yanch
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Joined: January 03 2010 Location: Lowell, MA Status: Offline Points: 3247 |
Posted: May 24 2010 at 17:04 |
ST:TNG finale just felt a bit hokie and the last bit with the captain sitting in at the card game........just didn't cut it for me and I was a huge fan. It's always interesting to see how differently we each see things! Cheers.
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Textbook
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Joined: October 08 2009 Status: Offline Points: 3281 |
Posted: May 24 2010 at 22:31 |
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The blog linked to at the beginning of this thread is a bit dubious- tenuous links to everything ever aside, the authro admits to being continually in tears during the finale. Hmm. Anyway, as for Lost, it is worth noting that the ending was changed. What was originally intended may never be known but it is known that during Abrams departure and the writing of Season 2, there was a scuffle over the ultimate direction of the show. I think it's clear from watching earlier episodes that Abrams had a harder, more science/plot driven mystery in mind, with less of the mystical and spiritual stuff that the show ended up including. It was rumoured that he was going somewhere dark and avant garde and the studio had cold feet about it and after his departure altered things to this sentimental, gloopy, quasi-religious ending.
SPOILER
The dead characters all return and everybody hugs each other and smiles in a church as they are bathed in white light, while the mystery of the island is (arguably) not resolved at all. Some people are crying foul because it was explicitly stated that "they are not dead" but that is what the finale reveals to be the case.
I thought it was extremely poor really, the show set itself out as a mystery with answers to be deduced and discovered and in the end goes "Um, no it's all allegorical there are no answers, the journey is all". A cop-out and the "they're all dead but they're also not dead" thing is such a cheap attempt to have their cake and eat it too.
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MuteArchitects
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Joined: May 20 2010 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 6 |
Posted: May 24 2010 at 22:37 |
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i want to build a robot
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Atavachron
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 30 2006 Location: Pearland Status: Offline Points: 65255 |
Posted: May 24 2010 at 22:56 |
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finale complaints? how about the Seinfeld closer, what a let down
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boo boo
Forum Senior Member
Joined: June 28 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 905 |
Posted: May 25 2010 at 04:00 |
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I thought the finale was going pretty strong but I'm pretty iffy about...
SPOILER:
WTF? The alternate timeline is purgatory? There's a lot of problems I have with this but I don't know where to start.
Time traveling islands that can cure diseases, smoke monsters, electromagnetic energy, magic kids who create things by imagining them, Hurley talking to dead people, egyptian statues, polar bears, people who don't age.
I can accept all of that, but not purgatory.
 I know the writers of this show have always employed a "everything including the kitchen sink" approach to writing but I didn't expect them to use such a corny cliche to end the series with. I'm very disappointed over that, it felt very cheap to me, they could get away with a lot of stuff because there was some mystery to it and you were never sure if all these things were scientific or supernatural. When the show did start getting more supernatural I went with it because it's fiction, but still this is way too smart a show to end with such religious sappiness.
Oh well, at least it wasn't all in the snow globe of some autistic kid amirite?
Not to mention there's a TON of questions these writers never got down to answering and they could have if they weren't always wasting time with red herring subplots and constantly building up mysterous new characters just to kill them off.
But yeah, I love this show so of course I'm gonna nitpick about the ending. I still thought the ending with Jack dying in the same place on the island where he started was really powerful. Edited by boo boo - May 25 2010 at 04:06 |
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