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

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really thought there'd be a trailer by NOW, i know there is some contest with 815 winners getting to see a sneak peek

i don't need a trailer. it's not like im not going to watch it. and the idea of it attracting new viewers is pretty unlikely.

i think they've said somewhere that the trailers won't have any new footage at all anyway. they seem pretty intent, more than usual, on keeping things under wraps for this season.

been re-watching season 5 because i got the dvds for christmas

man i'd forgotten how awful awful awful the off-island stuff is: the 'we have to go back' storyline never made sense to me and still doesn't

it's all made up for, of course, by the awesome time-jumping on the island and the 70s dharma stuff that comes later

tried watching some season 5 and found it horrrrribly boring. :(

what the fuck was atlas shrugged doing in the company of the other books the show promoted

They can't put any new footage in the trailer without blowing the cliffhanger. That said, I'm pretty sure the bomb going off didn't reset the timeline - watched the series again and Alperts "I watched them all die" recollection to Sun seemed to hint at it. It's possible the bomb blows back into the present day though.

i always thought alpert's 'i watched them all die' was bc of the gassing and im assuming they all... died. but i like that theory better!

There also has to be a reason why it was so important to Ellie that her son went back to the Island so she could kill him. And "that's how time works" doesn't really cut it.

I recently finished catching up and farraday's "don't you see....humans...they are the variables" thing was so stupid

farraday is cool tho

Yeah I love Farraday but it felt like they were taking his dialogue and just inserting familiar science words and then that was all somehow crucial to the plot and just like.. :\

I think Faraday was driven to being a soppy unscientific tit by thinking he could somehow save Charlotte, which he clearly couldn't.

i dunno pretty much everything they come up with on lost seems really stupid after a while and yet when you're watching it, they feel like the most important and mindblowing pieces of knowledge you'll ever receive.

Well, he kinda did save Charlotte, no?

He told her in 1977 never to go back to the island otherwise she would die, but she still went back in the present day, and remembered the crazy man telling her not to go back. Then she died.

But the bomb thing means everyone's alive now. Wasn't that Faraday's idea?

The bomb thing doesn't mean anything necessarily - Faraday couldn't save Charlotte by telling her not back to the island so I don't see why he should necessarily save everyone else by telling Jack to explode an atomic bomb.

didn't sayid say something like "the last time I saw concrete poured this thick it was in chernobyl" when he was in the hatch

i dunno pretty much everything they come up with on lost seems really stupid after a while and yet when you're watching it, they feel like the most important and mindblowing pieces of knowledge you'll ever receive.

so otm lol

yeah it's like a few months after the series the spell is broken and you've all these random shards of vaguely stupid info...

no doubt after a rewatch and once s6 starts the magic will work again.

The "we have to go back" stuff still seems unconvincing a second time around. Jack had always been single-minded about wanting to leave and didn't believe all the "island = your destiny" stuff - just because Locke said right at the end that he was going to move the island and then did, doesn't make everything else he said come true or make any sense.

One way of looking at it could be that Jack really didn't have much to live for with his dad and wife gone and so the vague notion of 'saving' everyone back on the island became overwhelmingly important to him. But they didn't really go with this angle.

Much as I love Lost what frustrates me the most is that none of the good storylines can exist without some sort of extra-bullshit explaining them.
Eko and Locke have some success on the island finding old Dharma stations etc - because Eko gets some information in a dream that he otherwise wouldn't have. Same with Locke and Jacob's cabin.

Miles and his ghost talking crap which it seems like you just have to accept is genuine Derek Akorah-style woo. Admittedly they haven't used this too much to advance the plot but it made the freighter guys believe that the Lost gang didn't kill Naomi, and it's used a few other times.

The time travel constant stuff - I'm willing to go with time travel as a viable mechanism (and was initially impressed that they seemed to be explicitly setting out the "what happened, happened" rules) but when they try to complicate this with the stupid idea of a constant and all of Faraday's other crap it just becomes completely random.

OTOH, I have possibly been watching a bit too much Lost...

To be fair though, didn't Jack want to go back also because he was going fucking mental? EG hallucinating, seeing his Dad? I don't think it was a rational thought process, he got back to the real world and totally lost his shit.

i can't keep it all in my tbqh, even when it's on. classic show but i've never rewatched any of it. i like it more for miles/ben awesomeness now than for the unfathomable plot.

"Faraday couldn't save Charlotte by telling her not back to the island so I don't see why he should necessarily save everyone else by telling Jack to explode an atomic bomb."
That's his Plan B -- the bomb goes up, they never crash, Charlotte never comes back to the island, or even if she does, sudden time vortex death syndrome doesn't apply.

charlotte was gd hot. come back charlotte!

yeah i gave up caring about whether it all fit together and made sense at some point during the last 2 seasons

still love this show tho. amazing ben moment from the S5 episode i watched last night:

ben and jack are sitting on the plane that will take them back to the island and jack asks what is going to happen to all the other people on the plane and ben turns to him and says "who cares?"

:D

dats what im talking about

yeah i'm almost done rewatching a lot of the show (cherrypicking S1-3 and all of 4 and 5), and even though it gets really muddled and ridiculous at points along the way i don't really mind, if anything it's more exciting to me as it goes along. it really gets pretty tiresome how often they let characters voice the audience's "that's riduculous!" reactions or go "it's not a question of where so much as....WHEN" though.

also half of season 3 is people returning to the base camp in slow motion after being captured or going through some crazy monster shit

or maybe that's season 4

charlotte was gd hot. come back charlotte!

not really. and any chance she had of being hot was ruined by that botched chipmunk blood makeup job they did during her death scene. wtf was that about?

you're saying she'd be hotter if covered in more realistic blood?

xxxxp
Haha there's an episode in Season 5 where Sayid/Kate keep asking Jack questions and he keeps going "that's not important right now". I woulda slapped him/ done that breakdance necksnapping thing with my legs if I was Sayid.

There are a lot moments involving Ben and/or Hurley that make the whole thing plain awesome.

Oh yeah I still haven't worked out why they gave Jack appendicitis in the Season 4 finale or thereabouts. Was it just to keep the gang on the beach for 5 mins instead of running off into the jungle?

no, but whenever i picture her now, i picture her with that fucked puffed-up upper lip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LRA73YgAHU

see @ :55

Haha there's an episode in Season 5 where Sayid/Kate keep asking Jack questions and he keeps going "that's not important right now"

God, I would rather them not ask questions at all than go through this charade.

it's always funny when lost becomes like an old pc adventure game. "i can't talk about that now, go to the hatch."

"i must leave now, my people will be wondering where I am."

i kinda would've liked a scene where Ben categorically insisted that they must pretend to be primitive tribe dudes to the survivors, handing Tom the fake beard and theatrical glue and TOm looking at Ben aghst saying "this isn't what i signed up for!" and Ben just giving the "stfu do as i say" look.

and later on nudging Goodwin "told you i could get him to wear a fake beard, that's $20 you owe me"

oh come on i'm sure tom lovvves theatrical things! ;-)

i love that they made tom gay. "when i'm in the city, i like to indulge in the finer things!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF0UJTmNuaY

http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season4/4x08/meetkevin279.jpg

i just like how needless revealing his sexuality was, it's actually almost refreshing they just made a character gay for no plot reason whatsoever. esp the way they hinted at it when kate was changing and he was like "you're not my type"

the hotel thing was silly but yeah, that kate scene was great.

Is that John Oates??

yeah hotel was a bit ludicrous, tho in the context of michael having a meltdown it was sort of funny.