Lost Season 5 is finally here!

[Lemmiwinks]

The great thing about Lost is that not everything must be fully explained. You're trying to understand anything, Any little detail. I'm sorry but having the writters to explain to me how Danielle got to the tower station would be lame. Every mythology of any kind (cause Lost is a mythology) has unanswered questions, this is what makes mythologies so great.

 

I guess you are one of the guys that wants every little thing to fully explained. Like the polar bears. I find much more intriguing the fact that after the first appearance of the polar bear we see Walt reading a comic book with a polar bear. In that way the viewer is making theories in his mind about that fact, especially when later we found out about Walt's powers. Now think how LAME would be if the writters would explained to us word by word that ''Walt has psionic powers, the he read the comic book, then subconciously he created the polar bear''. What are we retards? From the first episode Lost was a series that made the viewer to think, to imagine, to try to reveal the mystery. It was never a show of full answers.

The best thrillers in cinema and literature are the ones that don't reveal everything or try to explain everything. Everybody knows that. It's the rule.

Keep some of the mystery for the audience.

Personally I won't be surprised if the end of the sixth season ain't that revealing. I hope not to be 100% revealing. The must leave something. This is how great myths live.

 

About the fact that shows are made dynamicly. Everybody knows that man, simply because EVERYTHING is made dynamicly. Series, plots, books anything!

No one said that Lindelof and Lieber wrote full six seasons from the start. No one said that they had thought of Jacob since the first episode.

Not only this is impossible, but it's illogical! What if Lost wasn't succesful and they had to end it in three seasons instead of six? OF COURSE they adapted the script, of course they indroduced new characters, of course they changed things.

It's like writing music. You start from somewhere and the ideas keep coming.

That's completelly different from what you say, though. You're saying that they write almost random things, without any planning. If this would happen you'd realized it a long time ago, cause NONE would make sense.

 

And I'm glad you mentioned Twin Peaks, which was a great show, but Lynch himself revealed later that he didn't have any plan at all and we realized that when they show ended without any explanation.

Although I too loved Twin Peaks for making me think, even if the mysteries never been explained. They still live in the minds of the fans, though. This is why Twin Peaks is a legend today smile.gif

 

 

That's all I have to say. We talk again in some months when season six is out. tongue.gif

 

ok we'll probably always have different views on the matter, the "open mystery" part which you find genious is IMO proof of a failed conclusion, cause just about anyone who's taken a book/ screenplay writing course will tell you that it's always much easier to write an captivating intrigue than a convincing ending... but anyway, who knows, maybe one year from now I'll be watching the season 6 finale and be like "wow, it finally all makes sense now". I guess we have no other choice but to wait and see...

 

 

anyway, just a little last comment since I can't help myself:

That's completelly different from what you say, though. You're saying that they write almost random things, without any planning. If this would happen you'd realized it a long time ago, cause NONE would make sense.

Well you see, for me (and most people who have given up on Lost), indeed none of it makes sense anymore... I mean, it started out pretty straight: a handfull of people stranded on an island after a plane crash, each with their own personal story behind. Now somehow 5 seasons later we have time travel, egyptian half-gods and living dead... surely something is screwed up here, no?

[Ormion]

Well you see, for me (and most people who have given up on Lost), indeed none of it makes sense anymore... I mean, it started out pretty straight: a handfull of people stranded on an island after a plane crash, each with their own personal story behind. Now somehow 5 seasons later we have time travel, egyptian half-gods and living dead... surely something is screwed up here, no?

Not necessarily. Even the first two seasons have a loooot of weird stuff.

Like:

-A plane crashed on a mysterious island, but many passengers survived most of them with no scratches at all.

-Locke can stand on his legs again.

-Walt has psionic powers.

-A polar bear appears in the jungle.

-Jack's dead father appears to him.

-Mr.Eko's dead brother appears to him.

-A monster made of smoke shakes up trees and makes weird noises.

-Hieroglyphs are appeared when the button is not pressed.

-A foot-statue that has only four toes is on the island.

-Whispers can be heard in the jungle.

 

and many, many more which I can't remember right now and happened in the first two seasons.

 

Lost was weird since the beginning.