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LOST - the burning question...

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so I just saw the end of season 1, and what I'm desperate to know is:

do the powers that be actually know where this is going, or will it end up being some kind of x-files style disaster, with the writers making it up as they go along, going on for about 5 seasons too many before burning out and never giving any remotely satisfying answers to the many questions and mysteries?
 
They have a general plot. They have certain storylines for the main characters. There's a general idea behind the whole show. Other than that, they're making the details up as they go along.
 
Judging by the fact that NOTHING EVER HAPPENS TO ADVANCE THE PLOT ANYMORE, I'd wager they're making it up as they go.

Jesus, they had to bring the "tailies" into the picture so they'd have more backstory to mine. I really used to like this show, but I'm rapidly losing patience with the lack of progress to the story.
 
I'm not even interested in Lost because it's written by the guy who did Alias, and Alias is the worst show ever.
 
Should I point out that the guy who invented the borg also wrote for baywatch?

Besides, forget Alias, the real power is from the guy who wrote Nash Bridges.

He even managed to crowbar in two of the stars in the first season.
 
once they realised the show was a mega hit, and they had more-or-a-less free reign to do what they wanted, I hope they really thought long and hard about where the story would go, how long the show would run for, and crucially what happened at the very end.

If they plan to take it past about 4 seasons I'll begin to get worried...
 
Even I had to admit that I'm not upset when I miss an episode, whereas last season I thought it was a sin not to be watching it Wednesday night.
 
I just burned the first series and the first four episodes are riveting.

I don't think the details of a crash have ever been shown in a movie. That shit is frightening.
 
^I remember when it premiered I was getting on a plane the next day, so I opted out of watching that episode then. I'm deathly afraid of flying, and like I need to see a "how to" on plane crashing before I get on one.

<g>
 
My local ABC station, KATV, has been pre-empting Lost in favor of Razorback basketball...hoo-yah. I didn't think they'd pull that stunt again after what I did to KATV last year...

So Lost gets shoved to 12:30am that night. I hate watching videotaped shows, so I just bittorrent the episode. Shrug...I was gonna do it anyway.
 
This week's episode was ok, but once again, very little happened. It's nice to know the castaways' backstories, but not at the complete expense of moving the plot forward. I'm really starting to believe that the creators are in way over their heads. I mean, this week's episode seemed to be more than half backstory!
 
Considering one of the episodes in Series 2 is called "what kate did" and they created it because they got so much mail asking that question.

I would go along with the theory that they are making it up as they go along.

If you really want to spoil it for yourself - go to Wikipedia. I'm not going to link it for you so i can't be blamed.

But rest assured. I've read some of the wiki stuff and I think that Cloudscum had the measure of them in his first post.
 
headvoid said:
Considering one of the episodes in Series 2 is called "what kate did" and they created it because they got so much mail asking that question.

I would go along with the theory that they are making it up as they go along.

If you really want to spoil it for yourself - go to Wikipedia. I'm not going to link it for you so i can't be blamed.

But rest assured. I've read some of the wiki stuff and I think that Cloudscum had the measure of them in his first post.
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Oh, good Lord. I am torn. I don't want to spoil the story, but I also don't want to waste another 40 or 50 hours of my life watching the next few seasons when it's all gonna end horribly. No, I take that back. I don't mind if a series ends horribly. What I hate is when there's no ending whatsoever, and nothing is answered or makes sense.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer ended perfectly: the options for continuing the story were limitless.

The X-Files, from what I've been told, ended miserably. I am afraid that Lost will be like the X-Files.
 
The end of the X files wasnt that bad, it did at least have a missle slamming into cancer man and the flesh exploding from his skeleton.
 
Hey Jack, did you know that one of the producers is also Les McClaines writer for the Middle man comic? I got to meet him at the last con, he's cool peeps and pretty funny too.
 
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