The island wanted LOST SEASON SIX THREAD to happen (***CLICK CAREFULLY -- CONTAINS SPOILERS***)

I can't believe how many months we have to wait. :(

He also asked about the Dharma food drop from Season 2, and Darlton said they are going to address that in the final season.

not sure why i care so much about this but YEAAA

Hurley video (WTF!!!)

http://www.youtube.com/v/CXnAaTFlRw8&hl=en&fs=1&

Kate video

http://www.youtube.com/v/GQXuiCge-wI&hl=en&fs=1&

ayo haters...

do you know what lies in the shadow of DEEZ NUTS?

― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 13:36 (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol classic

Maybe he's born with it...

http://www.theackattack.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/rwmirpjpg.gif

lol what is he saying?

best part of that sketch was the bit at the beginning where he looks into the mirror and says (roughly), "Nestor, Richard Alpert isn't immortal... You are."

oh shit - so they're really gonna go with the alternate timeline?!

lol what is he saying?

"This is cobalt"

Full sketch here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkuq3_dcmo0

OMG

clips be menko

what the hell is going on with this Season 4 UK promo

http://www.youtube.com/v/SLg7smJJU6s

omg, what!? featuring fake-Portishead

feat. John Locke as "The Conductor"

god, even dancing zombie kate is annoying

wasn't this a SYTYCD group routine

is this the dave chapelle thing? that guy crazy.

if Alpert doesn't end up the real hero in this thing it'll all be for shit

I want a last season to do some George Lucas-style backpedaling and have the entire series being about Alpert

Alternate timeline thing would be really shit.

that promo scared me

that was a S1 promo & is as awesome now as it was then. and yeah, it was DlC

should say DlaC or it looks like i just put DICK without the K

whole bunch of foreshadowing there

hey it all being about Alpert, who's been in the show since season 3, would be a little less backpedal-y than it all being about 'Jacob's enemy' imo

fake-Portishead?

I ignored that

it was a season two promo, not season one. that wouldn't make sense.

season one promo:

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/David_LaChapelle
"LaChapelle created The United Kingdom Channel 4 promo of the first season of Lost, which had the characters cleverly paired as dancing partners"

haha - my bad, i assumed it was a Portishead knock-off and not actually Portishead

missin' u...

i wanna re-watch a bunch of key episodes/good episodes from previous seasons before this one starts, are there any good sites out there w/ reccomendations of which ones to definitely watch and which ones to definitely skip?

darkufo has an episode vote/rank thing you could use

cool thx

There's been an old copy of Women's Health featuring an interview with Kate floating around the bathroom for months...there are some awful quotes, but so sum it up, she really really wants you to know that she is a rebel, she's tough, she's crazy, and she's unpredictable.

i don't wanna know what it's been floating in

we discussed the key episodes thing on the last thread. From this post onwards. :)

dunno abt season 5 though. i feel like the only crucial ones are the ones toward the end - the ben, jacob and faraday episodes.

well, i'm gonna rewatch all of S5 regardless because my wife never saw it and she needs to get caught up

These Lost Clues videos compile a lot of the key scenes from the series. At worst, they're a quick way to remember which parts you might want to revisit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXTz9q7xM9Q

http://thatandbasketweaving.com/dcpb/II/poster1.gif

fan pic or real deal viral?

info here: http://thatandbasketweaving.com/dcpb/II/

haven't checked other designs

Anyone up for a seasons 1-5 poll?

go for it

i just watched the season 1 ep where the raft gets burned and michael beats the shit out of jin and i guess i never really noticed but walt just stands by and lets that shit go down when he is the one who burned it, haha

a bad kid!!

oh that walt, we got "more than we bargained for" with him

walt by far the most wasted opportunity on lost, even in season 1 which he was in regularly

it totally sucks since they were hinting since the end of season 3 that he was gonna come back in a major way, but since his one-off last season it seems like he's just getting dropped altogether w/no real explanation. then again they might FINALLY address the whole child abduction thing this year...

then again considering how lame Michael's comeback turned out, maybe it's for the best

i watched bits of the finale again earlier and noticed a few things for the first time e.g. when Ilana is in the cabin she sees this bizarre picture of what looks like a traumatised St Bernard (at first i thought it was Vincent) and gives what almost seems a sad glance of recognition ha

season 4 and most of 5 were pretty awesome as i remember

their failure in the homestretch was baked into the show's ethos--every mystery had to be subservient to characters learning about themselves, so instead of learning about the temple you had to meet some guy whose kid died, and instead of finding out more about the island you had to see these brothers get mad at each other

otm this tragic flaw ruined it all the way through

"As I described before, there was definitely a sort of "operational theory" for what the island would be -- it was liked by some and loathed by others -- and since Damon and Carlton chose not to say it out loud in the series finale, I won't presume to do it for them. Suffice it to say there was a concrete reason that we openly discussed on several occasions about why the island had an exotic source of power in its core that was able to wreak such miracles as time travel, the motion of the island, and somehow connect with selected people on a psychic level."

I can't think of any theory that would work unless you were high.

Ok finally finished this read, it was so long I had to spread it out over a period of nights. A really fascinating look at the writing and creating of this pretty unique show! Gives really great detail on how certain concepts were originated and maybe brought into canon. The drop in quality I perceived following the start of season two makes total sense as all the original writers had left the show. Also makes sense that new network brass did not appreciate the sci-fi qualities, which was my main selling point, and thus were heavily toned down during the middle run of the show.

Did they make everything up as they went along? Of course they did, they were writers, their job was to create something out of nothing (or at least very little).

Didn't they start dicking around with time travel during the middle run of the show?

As I packed up two years worth of stuff, a warm and welcome thought danced around my brain: an idea for Lost. As I had to write an email telling Damon that I would not be able to attend the screening he had planned for the season two finale (I only had one free week before starting on Medium and had planned a trip out of town), I added my idea to my regrets on the invitation and pledged that this would be the last thing I ever pitched him for Lost.

Hell, I was still on the payroll, so why not?

Damon responded warmly, and I went on my way... later, when the idea showed up in season three, I was ultimately gratified. Even on the last minute of the last day, I had been able to make a positive contribution to the future of something that had absolutely changed my life.

What was the idea?

Oh come on. Do you think I learned nothing from JJ? I may be saying now that this is the last time I will speak publicly about Lost, but I would be a fool if I left nothing in the mystery box!

Any ideas what this is?

It's weird, because the sci-fi stuff came back with a vengeance for seasons 4 and 5, so I wonder what changed their minds
Too bad the Smoke Monster wasn't nanobots though

xp Oh yeah nevermind. What am I think "heavily toned down"?

Well re-reading S3 summary it looks like the time travel stuff was mainly Desmond and perhaps has less of a sci fi flavor than a psychic/pseudoscience leaning. The show was mostly people trying to escape The Others w Desmond having visions of the future interspersed.

When I think back on it, it does feel right to me to call the middle years sorta 'toned down'. Season three is castaways vs Others, season four is castaways vs freighter folks. Season 5 def took a trippy twist and season six was just plain weird.

nanobot smoke monster as a messenger sent back from the future would have been awesome

almost anything other than what they came up with would have been awesome, tbh

it's gonna end with people walking around the island giving each other warm looks and sawyer giving everyone hugs, softly saying "frackles, frackles, frackles" while violins play for 30 minutes.

― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:04 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Maybe more like a Star Wars ending, you see the ghosts of Christian Shepherd, Charlie and the horse standing at the side digging the party.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:37 PM (5 years ago)

ILX basically called it.

Kind of amazed Locke didn't turn into his own smoke monster. Maybe they could've used a different color smoke.

from new yorker article about group dynamics in simulated missions to mars:

The study also cited reports of “unreciprocated sexual interest” expressed by a person of authority, and resentment from a French-Canadian participant who, forced by the group to sit through the television series “Lost,” complained that the plot was incomprehensible.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/20/moving-to-mars

otm

hahaha

sad.
I remember my heart slowly ripping out when giant pendulums and faraday's crazy math amounted to nothing. the show decided to go an emotional route and ditched any logic for "this is just the way the mystery works, deal with it". Actually, I don't want to recall the specifics because just thinking about this show makes me sad

https://www.instagram.com/p/BAiDJ18zCgK/

Hurley's original first line, cut from the pilot.

up there with dewey in scream 3 and admiral akbar.

http://ew.com/tv/2017/04/10/lost-volcano-alternative-ending/

they wanted the smoke monster to come from a volcano