On January 13 2012 23:10 Holdinga wrote: And btw if the OP takes his time and answers absolutely every question in this and honestly says that he thinks his answers are plausible and reasonable I will rate it in imdb a 10, rather than a 7
I just had a watch of that video.
Most of those "questions" aren't even questions, and most of them are completely stupid, or self-evident and obvious.
Why did the Monster killed the Pilot? Who cares? Because the MIB doesn't like people, and because he can.
What did Locke see? A bright light. He said that like a few scenes after if I recall. Why is this even asked?
Why is there a polar bear in the comic? ... Because the comic artist drew one...?
and so on.
There's a 10 question limit per post as given in the OP.
If you can pick out 10 serious questions from that video I'd be surprised, but I'd be happy to answer them.
But that's my biggest problem with the show. There's so much pointless crazy shit in every episode that it's basically impossible to tell if it's going to be important or not to the overall story.
I had no problems, having watched most episodes once.
It's quite obvious what is important. Small things are nearly always not important. Sure, there are lines that give additional meaning that can be missed by the less observant viewers. But these are really not needed to understand the show.
If it's important, they hit you over the head with it big time.
On January 13 2012 23:10 Holdinga wrote: And btw if the OP takes his time and answers absolutely every question in this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOVfltbxAgA and honestly says that he thinks his answers are plausible and reasonable I will rate it in imdb a 10, rather than a 7
I just had a watch of that video.
Most of those "questions" aren't even questions, and most of them are completely stupid, or self-evident and obvious.
Why did the Monster killed the Pilot? Who cares? Because the MIB doesn't like people, and because he can.
What did Locke see? A bright light. He said that like a few scenes after if I recall. Why is this even asked?
Why is there a polar bear in the comic? ... Because the comic artist drew one...?
and so on.
There's a 10 question limit per post as given in the OP.
If you can pick out 10 serious questions from that video I'd be surprised, but I'd be happy to answer them.
But that's my biggest problem with the show. There's so much pointless crazy shit in every episode that it's basically impossible to tell if it's going to be important or not to the overall story.
I had no problems, having watched most episodes once.
It's quite obvious what is important. Small things are nearly always not important. Sure, there are lines that give additional meaning that can be missed by the less observant viewers. But these are really not needed to understand the show.
If it's important, they hit you over the head with it big time.
Dude, I really like what you're doing here, as I'm a huge fan of the show (as said a couple of posts earlier). But you're doing yourself and the show no favor if you keep responding like this. You probably don't mean to, but you sound pretty condescending, and shouldn't be surprised if people call you out on sounding fanboy-ish and cocky/arrogant/all-knowing.
It seems like a lot of people are using this thread as an outlet to express their dislike about the show, and not to ask questions about the show. -_- I feel bad for the OP because he seems to just want to answer questions and not argue about whether the show is good or not. OP, you should stop responding to people's opinions, and just respond to questions
On January 14 2012 01:08 Sroobz wrote: Why did the ending suck so much?
How did 99% of the story relate to the ending?
What the FUCK was the point of Jacob/Smoke guy/Richard?
PS: Loved the show, just ranting a little about my dislike of the ending
1. I can't help you there.
2. In terms of mythology, the ending doesn't relate. The ending was a character story, i.e. what eventually happens to Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Hurley, the MIB, etc.
On January 13 2012 17:25 jeremysaint wrote: lost was not a good show. it started a good one, and intriguing but like battle star galactica there were no answers because the show was not actually planned. they were pulling it out of thier asses as they went along and it showed. a wheel that causes time travel?!? seriously? they just kept adding crazy things to keep the ratings up with no idea how they were going to tie any of it all together.
On January 13 2012 17:26 Tal wrote: Even if the questions eventually got answered, the main problem is the show felt like the writers were making it up as they went along, with very little explained after two whole seasons. Started well though.
This is the sort of stuff this thread is meant to dispel.
If you have any specific questions I'm happy to answer them.
But your answer that "the actor outgrew his role" isn't really dispelling anything though? Couldn't they have planned that out?
"One season is 30 days on the island... lets see.. should we cast a pre-teen kid in this and just hope he stops growing?"
That's either bad writing, lack of planning, or writers not knowing anything about the media they write for.
Actually, that's television. I am an elitist when it comes to writing. Yet with the growth of so much well-written TV over the last decade, even I've been forced to shift my standards to accept that reality that in the world of TV, shit happens. Actors grow up or die or get arrested for drunk driving. Budgets are thin and SyFy was only willing to pay Xena so much to guest appear on BSG.
tl;dr Wouldn't it be great if TV writers had control of everything. They don't. TV writing is always a negotiation between the ideals of good storytelling, and budgets--the possibility that a show might not go on for another season is a disincentive to plan too far into the show's future. Thankfully, some shows like "The Wire" transcend these limitations entirely.
This thread is kind of dumb. It's a fan reading up from a faq somewhere answering questions that people could find in 10 seconds if they actually cared about it. I thought you'd actually have some kind of extraordinary insight, been involved with the show somehow or something.
Show started off decently, lots of mysterious stuff going on, but then it ended with a bunch of pseudo-religious babbling. Instead of exploring one of the mysteries it just branched out and tried a cover a bunch of scifi concepts, like time travel and such, and ended in a couple of completely unrelated seasons. A distinctly average show, and a pretty meh thread.
On January 14 2012 01:26 OrchidThief wrote: This thread is kind of dumb. It's a fan reading up from a faq somewhere answering questions that people could find in 10 seconds if they actually cared about it. I thought you'd actually have some kind of extraordinary insight, been involved with the show somehow or something.
I'm not reading from a FAQ.
But if a FAQ existed, then yes these answers would almost certainly be found by reading such a FAQ.
I have no deeply profound insight. At it's core Lost is not that complicated. You don't need crazy theories or profound insights, the show speaks for itself.
I'm not here to promote my home-made complete theory of Lost. I'm here to show that the show speaks for itself, and nearly all answers are already in your face.
There really isn't any evidence linking the exotic matter to characters with powers or letting them be immortal. In fact, Miles had the power to read dead people before going to the island.
Actually that's not correct, Miles was born on the island remember?
There really isn't any evidence linking the exotic matter to characters with powers or letting them be immortal. In fact, Miles had the power to read dead people before going to the island.
Actually that's not correct, Miles was born on the island remember?
No, he wasn't. Charlotte was, and died because of it.
On January 14 2012 01:26 OrchidThief wrote: This thread is kind of dumb. It's a fan reading up from a faq somewhere answering questions that people could find in 10 seconds if they actually cared about it. I thought you'd actually have some kind of extraordinary insight, been involved with the show somehow or something.
I'm not reading from a FAQ.
But if a FAQ existed, then yes these answers would almost certainly be found by reading such a FAQ.
I have no deeply profound insight. At it's core Lost is not that complicated. You don't need crazy theories or profound insights, the show speaks for itself.
I'm not here to promote my home-made complete theory of Lost. I'm here to show that the show speaks for itself, and nearly all answers are already in your face.
I know you're not directly reading from a FAQ, my point was that you might as well be. (Like you said yourself). And I'm just not really convinced that there was that much demand for just knowing a bunch of facts that interested people might as well trivially find out, by, well, watching the show. Thread seems a bit superfluous is all.
Well I suppose since it's on its 10th page there are some people that actually care, or they're bored and will take everything.
There really isn't any evidence linking the exotic matter to characters with powers or letting them be immortal. In fact, Miles had the power to read dead people before going to the island.
Actually that's not correct, Miles was born on the island remember?
No, he wasn't. Charlotte was, and died because of it.
we see miles with his father before some of the videos are recorded. he was born there or sent there early in his life before his dad (guy from the initiation videos) sent him off fearing the incident. Nice thread though, good answers.
Why was Claire's baby such a big deal? I think this goes in line with Walt, who was also hinted at to be a major plotpoint but I get that the actor outgrew the role.
Exactly what is the purpose of the Others? I know they say that their job is to protect the Island but that's also mostly Ben lying.
What happens to the Others in the end?
Concerning the Egyptians, how did Egyptians find their way to the Pacific (I'm assuming you have to be in the Pacific to wander on the Island).
How did Ben become the leader of the Others if he has no special powers or even any way to communicate with Jacob?
Why did the others want Walt so badly, only to send him off the island?
Why would they send their leader to infiltrate the survivors when there could be very real harm caused to him?
Why did the smoke monster start off recklessly killing the survivors, to then judging them before killing (Mr. Eko), to then trying to lead a group off the island as fake Locke?
Do the numbers have any actual significance? And after the ending of the 5th series giving some form of hope to actually answering the purpose of the island, why did the writers decide to ruin the entire legitimacy of the show with series 6 and the "made up as it went along" storyline, the only good part of the 6th series was the jack's eye shutting, when they said they knew the ending i believe thats all they knew and they just pulled the rest out of the arses.
There really isn't any evidence linking the exotic matter to characters with powers or letting them be immortal. In fact, Miles had the power to read dead people before going to the island.
Actually that's not correct, Miles was born on the island remember?
No, he wasn't. Charlotte was, and died because of it.
What? That's wrong.
Miles was probably born on the island; it's not explicitely shown, but there are scenes with his father reading to him as an infant. Charlotte was born on the island, but that wasn't the cause of her death - that one guy on the freigther died from the same thing that killed her and certainly wasn't island-born.
I'll take over a bit if noone minds, at least for the last couple of questions. It's been a while since I've watched the complete show, and while I think I'll remember most of things, I have to admit that I had to look up a few of the details on a wiki.
Why was Claire's baby such a big deal?
Because it was the first "new" baby the Others could get their hands on after several failures with pregnant women dying to continue their fertility experiments.
Exactly what is the purpose of the Others?
Basically, they were pawns in some very long-lasting game Jacob had with the MIB regarding human nature. He was trying to prove his point about morality and things by bringing people to the island.
What happens to the Others in the end?
Most of them died. No idea what happened to those that didn't, and it wasn't shown in the series iirc.
Concerning the Egyptians, how did Egyptians find their way to the Pacific (I'm assuming you have to be in the Pacific to wander on the Island).
No idea, and I think this wasn't explained either.
How did Ben become the leader of the Others if he has no special powers or even any way to communicate with Jacob?
Charisma, I guess, and because Widmore was gone and the Others needed a new leader (and Richard didn't want to lead).
Why did the others want Walt so badly, only to send him off the island?
They wanted him badly because he exhibited special powers; they sent him off in order to seal the deal with Michael. Pretty sure there's not much more to it.
Why would they send their leader to infiltrate the survivors when there could be very real harm caused to him?
Chances are they didn't "send" their leader but he went because he wanted to. In case he "went" in the first place, I think he was caught by the french woman and then brought to the survivors later.
Why did the smoke monster start off recklessly killing the survivors, to then judging them before killing (Mr. Eko), to then trying to lead a group off the island as fake Locke?
Because it's not just some cloud of smoke intent on senseless slaughter, but a person with shifting interests and an agenda of his own.
Do the numbers have any actual significance? And after the ending of the 5th series giving some form of hope to actually answering the purpose of the island, why did the writers decide to ruin the entire legitimacy of the show with series 6 and the "made up as it went along" storyline, the only good part of the 6th series was the jack's eye shutting, when they said they knew the ending i believe thats all they knew and they just pulled the rest out of the arses.
The numbers were a part or the result (not sure) of some equation predicting the end of humanity, and they had some connection to the candidates as well. As for the rest of your reply, sucks than you didn't enjoy the last season.
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