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post #51 of 62
3/20/09 at 2:30am
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Originally Posted by joeypants View Post
Yep. About as nutty as having an episode's "cliffhanger" be Libby in one of Hurley's past mental institutes, and then never, ever bringing that coincidence up again.
Ugghh, they STILL haven't followed up on that? That was, like, 3 years ago, wasn't it? I stopped watching LOST a couple seasons ago, and that bullshit was a major contributing factor.

They're obviously, OBVIOUSLY making shit up as they go. It's offensive to the audience.
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post #52 of 62
3/20/09 at 2:32am
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Originally Posted by Paul McCartney
They're obviously, OBVIOUSLY making shit up as they go. It's offensive to the audience.
You don't know what you're talking about. With your logic, you should never watch any TV show. Ever.

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Originally Posted by SamTanry
It did supposedly have a general outline of the show and the answer to the monster/others/island. But in any case I think they've done a tremendous job in even coming close to handling these questions, small and large. When you think about the lack of respect many other showrunners have, I personally think that Damon and Carlton generally do want to wrap up most of the plotlines.
Yeah, it'd be delusional to think they planned out every twist and turn and minor detail. It's the main arc that shows strong evidence of their attention to detail and foresight. The Dharma storyline alone had to be planned all the way back to when they first started showing hints of Dharma. You wouldn't leave that era so blank of characters and even small details unless you knew how you were planning to delve into that timeline.

In some cases they got lucky (Apparently Ben was not originally intended to be the Others' leader), and in others they've shown a level of interest in telling a fully-formed story that a lot of showrunners sadly can't seem to manage.
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post #53 of 62
3/20/09 at 2:37am
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They're obviously, OBVIOUSLY making shit up as they go. It's offensive to the audience.
I don't think you understand how TV works.
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post #54 of 62
3/20/09 at 2:43am
When a TV show hinges on a single mystery or event or somesuch, it helps to have a plan. It's perfectly OK for Saved By The bell to trundle on indefinitely, but when it comes to stuff like LOST, it's murder.

Example: PRISON BREAK.

Season 1: they break out of a prison!
Season 2: errr...
Season 3: they get put back into a different prison and they break out of that!
Season 4: didn't exist because PRISON BREAK got cancelled

See?
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post #55 of 62
3/20/09 at 2:57am
Thanks for schooling me on how TV works.
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post #56 of 62
3/20/09 at 3:00am
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Originally Posted by Paul McCartney View Post
When a TV show hinges on a single mystery or event or somesuch, it helps to have a plan. It's perfectly OK for Saved By The bell to trundle on indefinitely, but when it comes to stuff like LOST, it's murder.
And this is why the pushed to negotiate a definitive end date when they realized they were really having to tread water.

The show isn't perfect, but for what it is... I think they've done an excellent job. If they keep on the path, it's going to go down as one of the greatest series ever.
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post #57 of 62
3/20/09 at 11:02am
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Originally Posted by Paul McCartney View Post
When a TV show hinges on a single mystery or event or somesuch, it helps to have a plan. It's perfectly OK for Saved By The bell to trundle on indefinitely, but when it comes to stuff like LOST, it's murder.

Example: PRISON BREAK.

Season 1: they break out of a prison!
Season 2: errr...
Season 3: they get put back into a different prison and they break out of that!
Season 4: didn't exist because PRISON BREAK got cancelled

See?
Wrong. Again.
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post #58 of 62
3/20/09 at 11:52am
For what little its worth, re: lab rats/stations

Couldn't it be that they faked the lab rat scenario so people didn't know what they were doing in the Swan? Last ep Radzinsky was concerned the Hostiles would find out what the Swan was about, and there was that whole Station looking into it, as if the Swan's crew were lab rats, but later we saw all their notes went nowhere, so maybe it was set up to convince the Hostiles that they weren't doing anything utterly evil right then.

Then again, odds of that being disproved are way too high. I'll start poking holes when the season ends.
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post #59 of 62
3/21/09 at 7:25pm
After re-watching the last ep while showing it to a friend, Chang mentions that he doesn't normally do orientation, he's only there because the regular gal was indisposed. Plus, I'm sure the people they plan on letting live next door to them are treated a bit differently than someone they intend to ship off to the ass end of the island to sit in a box or send messages to nowhere.
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post #60 of 62
3/24/09 at 2:33pm
Yeah. Some of the tasks that seem meaningless could have been assigned to the people that needed discipline or who turned out to not be "Dharma material." Their operation being as secretive as it is, they probably avoided sending people back to the mainland as much as possible, so for those that turned out to be useless, they were given useless jobs to keep them occupied...uhh, until they die, I guess. Yeah, that doesn't work very well.

Has the food drop ever been laid to bed by the show? All I remember was the food parachuting down on a pallet with no explanation as to where it was launched from and what triggered it. It makes sense that it was food sent to whoever was manning the hatch and tasked with hitting the button...but why was it delivered in this way?
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post #61 of 62
3/24/09 at 4:36pm
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Originally Posted by Matt Turned
Has the food drop ever been laid to bed by the show?
No, but I suspect that the scene where Faraday is surprised that the missile they shot took much longer than it should to reach the island was a clue. A plane likely made the drop a loooong time ago on the wrong heading, and the supplies got "stuck in time" before finally dropping in to the delight of the castaways.
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post #62 of 62
4/10/09 at 3:00am
Thread Starter 
So if Radzinsky made the blast door map, why is so much of it up in the air and written from the POV of someone surmising what the DI was up to? Example:

"mountainous terrain most likely used by DIHG for meteorlogical research"

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Imag...all-707484.jpg

And a number of the stations are not filled in - ie, The Orchid, which is at least under construction before the Swan is built. Then there are all of these dates pre-Purge that are estimates and guesses, which makes no sense, since you'd think Radzinsky was THERE for these events. He's obviously a higher up in the DI. He's not a nobody.

Now, the explanation is that some of this stuff was written by Kelvin, who didn't know as much as Radzinsky, but when you're making a non-geographically exact map like that, one of the first things you'd do would be to write down the NAMES of stations. The Orchid should be on there.
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