Life imitates art? "Lost"

[question everything]

A plane crash lands on an isolated island. The pilot, before dying, cries: we are off course, they are looking for us in the wrong place.

And the spooky point: I was half listening to Alex Wagner, she interviewed an expert who was using the term "oceanic." I think that he meant flying over the ocean but I jumped. The plane on "Lost" was on a flight by an airline called... Oceanic.

Curiouser and curiouser..

[dipsydoodle]

1. Indeed.

[Squinch]

2. ... I thought the same thing.... where's that polar bear?

[Mnemosyne]

3. Coincidentally, I am watching 'Lost' for the first time. lol nt

[question everything]

4. Enjoy it. All seven seasons

No spoilers here

[Mnemosyne]

6. On epidsode 101 out of the 120 available on netflix. It is so much better than I expected. I often

wouldn't watch network series, when I had tv, out of sheer stubbornness. Now I am enjoying the distractions!

[question everything]

7. You may want to visit Lostpedia

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

At least, during the first run, when many of us would debate it on the Lounge, people often would consult Lostpedia, especially if you'd get confused and could not remember who was who or why was this done or said.

[Mnemosyne]

10. Thank you so much, QE! I've done pretty well guessing, but man there sure are some twists.

[zappaman]

8. All I will say is keep your expectations low.

[Mnemosyne]

9. Someone just warned me that it has one of the most disappointing endings ever.

Will I be completely ticked off?

[zappaman]

11. Put it this way....

when I see an actor from LOST on another TV show, I still get angry.

[Warren DeMontague]

13. That's another reason people appreciated breaking bad

Because someone actually took the time to give a shit about the narrative continuity, instead of just continually throwing weird shit out every week to keep people tuning in.

[LanternWaste]

15. The audience is mixed re: the finale... a lot of people (myself included) were happy

The audience is mixed re: the ending... but a lot of people (myself included) were happy that the writers didn't feed into the standard plot arcs and a final trite denouement, but instead gave us a wonderfully creative ending that one could take literal (hence, the disappointment) or see it as (even more) metaphor-- a metaphor that can be understood if you understand the characters; a finale which remained committed to, and centered on, the central theme and allegory of human faith and character redemption


In hindsight, I'm glad that when I watched it during its first run, I avoided going online to try and make some kind of sense of the show's mystery-- instead, I simply watched it for what it was, and let not merely the character and dialog advance the plot, but also emotion and mystery move it forward too.

(And Season 4, Episode 5 (The Constant) was I believe, an episode which transcended both its genre and medium and which I feel able to say, without hyperbole, is one of the most satisfying pieces of TV that has ever been broadcast.)

[fujiyama]

5. We can only hope the plane has landed somewhere and there are survivors (spoilers ahead)

but I'm somehow doubtful the plane crashed on some mysterious island that shifts locations and travels through time...where some weird group had performed electromagnetic experiments with polar bears and whatnot.

In real life, we just deal with ass holes that hijack planes and faulty equipment...and corrupt airport officials and identity theft (though it's still not clear which if those things is relevant here). Only time will tell.

[Warren DeMontague]

14. There is some weird shit to the Malaysian Airplane thing,no doubt.

Why did the plane change course and fly low? How did the military know, and why did they wait a day or so to tell everyone else?



Weird shit, Maynard.

[Warren DeMontague]

12. And HBO just wrapped up "True Detective" which, like Lost, turned out to be

A giant fucking shaggy dog story full of more head-fakes than well resolved plot points.

Still, it made you look!