rewatching Lost... the flashbacks were pointless

[the cool]

wtf were they for? then we had the flashforwards

man these writers and director were having a writing cypher on who could come up with the most fukkery





*remembers when sayid and others were on a boat and went by a giant foot statue cut off and had the internet going crazy*

 

[KillSpray]

By season 3 I realized this show was going no where and stopped watching.

That first season was tho

 

[Ayo]

They told us about the characters backstory. So we got to know them a little better.

Showed us their flaws. Allowed the writers to show them changing. Completing a character arc.

Also as filler, I'm sure. ABC had a hit on their hands. They wanted as much from the show as possible.

just a few reasons off the top of my head.

 

[Ayo]

*remembers when sayid and others were on a boat and went by a giant foot statue cut off and had the internet going crazy*

This shyt I can't cosign, though. Lazy writing by the writers. And I'm pretty sure they admitted that the foot never really meant anything.

Read "The Revolution Was Televised." You'll be shocked to realize just how off the cuff / on the fly / make this shyt up as we go along 'Lost' really was.

Or maybe you won't lol

 

[pete clemenza]

Shiiiiiiiit, the flashbacks were crack at first I was like "wow all these dudes are connected in some form or fashion"

Of course as the later seasons progressed the show and plot got whacker and the flash-forwards were mediocre and dumb. It jumped the shark when Ben turned the wheel to move the island

 

[pete clemenza]

This shyt I can't cosign, though. Lazy writing by the writers. And I'm pretty sure they admitted that the foot never really meant anything.

Read "The Revolution Was Televised." You'll be shocked to realize just how off the cuff / on the fly / make this shyt up as we go along 'Lost' really was.

Or maybe you won't lol

I didn't get that.. why didn't they just complete the mythology and tie everything up. It would've been the same amount of work, instead of writing bullshyt why not *gasp* write some closure and explanations to the questions and mysteries of the island. Early on the island and Dharma was fascinating to me. I didn't understand why they had to turn it into complete shyt in the last couple of seasons.


-Damn let me step back.. I don't want to start up on Lost again

 

[Ayo]

I didn't get that.. why didn't they just complete the mythology and tie everything up. It would've been the same amount of work, instead of writing bullshyt why not *gasp* write some closure and explanations to the questions and mysteries of the island. Early on the island and Dharma was fascinating to me. I didn't understand why they had to turn it into complete shyt in the last couple of seasons.


-Damn let me step back.. I don't want to start up on Lost again

Here goes an excerpt from the book ( I have it on my iPad, great read) ...released to Grantland.

As the show continued to be wildly popular in those early weeks, Lindelof says, "I was completely and totally creatively crippled by people saying two things: 1) 'How are they going to keep this up?' And I had no idea. 2) 'They better have really satisfying answers to all these mysteries.' And I was like, 'We have satisfying answers for all the character ones.'"

The development process had unfolded so quickly, there was very little time to figure out what all the weirdness meant — when I ask Lindelof how much of the mythology they had mapped out at that stage, he says, "During the pilot? None of it, to be honest with you" — and most of the focus during the pilot and immediately after was on fleshing out the characters and their reasons for not wanting to return to civilization. The writers knew early on, for instance, that John Locke had been in a wheelchair before the crash — this revelation, at the end of the fourth episode, "Walkabout," is to Lost what Febby Petrulio's murder in "College" was to The Sopranos — and that his father had been a con man who caused the injury, but they hadn't figured out exactly how the injury had occurred.

Alan Sepinwall on the origins of 'Lost' - Grantland

If you're a fan of TV in general the book is worth the buy....or the torrent download.

 

[pete clemenza]

Here goes an excerpt from the book ( I have it on my iPad, great read) ...released to Grantland.



Alan Sepinwall on the origins of 'Lost' - Grantland

If you're a fan of TV in general the book is worth the buy....or the torrent download.

I'll have to check this book out. But yet still there's no excuse for this. There's writers out there for hire that specialize in writing back-stories and science fiction mythology. the game Mass Effect is the perfect example.. they have entire imaginary solar systems, alien races, etc created and written down for your enjoyment. So the biggest show on television on one of the biggest networks didn't have a decent writing staff or a huge budget to complete what they startedThis isn't aimed at you Ayo, I'm just ranting

 

[Ayo]

I'll have to check this book out. But yet still there's no excuse for this. There's writers out there for hire that specialize in writing back-stories and science fiction mythology. the game Mass Effect is the perfect example.. they have entire imaginary solar systems, alien races, etc created and written down for your enjoyment. So the biggest show on television on one of the biggest networks didn't have a decent writing staff or a huge budget to complete what they startedThis isn't aimed at you Ayo, I'm just ranting

The funny thing is, us viewers, ALL that that they had this shyt down. From what I remember reading, they did have charts linking back story and shyt....BUT...they definitely wrote themselves into a lot of corners. The mysteries were created first. Then they created back story for them.

Sometimes this worked. Like the hatch idea came about by them basically saying "what if there was a hatch in the middle of the island". Desmond and the reason he was in it came after.

Sometimes they purposely created mysteries they knew they couldn't ever explain or had no intention of ever explaining. Like the feet.

They mind fukked us and toyed with us to get that guap pretty much

 

[AkaDemiK]

nah, no lost slander man

 

[Suicide King]

Best to ever do it, no one has yet to recreate the magic. @ flash forwards being purgatory.

After 4 good seasons, they was in a zone during Season 5. The only thing season 5 didn't do was wash away our sins.

 

[the cool]

the smoke monster


the time travel

this show was fukking ridiculous now i think back. i was heavy into lost, even signed up for a lost forum

the lottery numbers smh

the episode where hurley was driving the van up and down the hill lol

 

[marcuz]

the whole damn show was pointless

 

[satam55]

They told us about the characters backstory. So we got to know them a little better.

Showed us their flaws. Allowed the writers to show them changing. Completing a character arc.


just a few reasons off the top of my head.

This!!!! I can't believe the OP didn't know answer to own question.

 

[Soundbwoy]

fukk lost