LOST
Today starts the third season, so here's this thread to discuss the show, comment the current episodes, elaborate our own theories, etc...
btw (and to begin the discussion), don't you think this show would have made an excelent adventure game?
btw (and to begin the discussion), don't you think this show would have made an excelent adventure game?
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oh well!
I was going to say that it wouldn't make sense if you start watching it half way through..........but it doesn't make much now so there wouldn't be much of a difference!
I hadn't seen the begining too, but recently a friend lend me the whole second season including an hour long summary of the first one, and that preaty made the trick for me. After watching just the summary and the first episode from the second season I was absolutely hooked. In about two weeks I was ready to start downloading the third season (no way now I'm gonna wait for it being aired here).
I think it was Ok (especially the first minutes, I agree), but I was more anxious to know what happened with Locke and Ecko. Well.. I guess I'll have to wait for next week...
--Erwin
true... so true it is sad.
Still, I enjoy Prison Break more than I do Lost. As for great TV series, I'd go for OZ, as back in the day it premiered, the new 'quality tv revolution' hadn't started. It was basically the first high quality tv show in a long time. And it was great. Is great.
I thought that for the first few episodes of the second season - they were definitely treading water and/or progressing the story excruciatingly slowly for a long time there - but it picked up later in the season and the story is moving again. If the show runs more than 4-5 seasons I'll be upset, but I think they've successfully carried and widened the story enough to last about that long.
My thoughts exactly. The series is great, and just as it started to transform into an island-drama, as in "oh no i lost my wedding ring" and "i'm sad about something" or "i'm really mad now", something actually started happening, and everyone were happy again.
There was even one point when the fans of different countries had to find coded Apollo chocolate bars and when all were entered it unlocked the next stage of the game. ( kind of like a worldwide inventory based puzzle ) : )
As for the show, it's pretty good I think, even after watching it a million times over at work it still has a lot more depth and is far more engaging than most TV shows about.
I would have liked it to be more 'Adventurey' but coming up with and coding those types of puzzles takes far to long on such tight deadlines.
Well enough of that.
A proper lost AG would be great i'd say!
I do have to admit I wasn't crazy about the ARG, though. I don't like the idea of people who don't participate outside the show missing out on things. But still, it was an interesting, yet maybe too involved, experience.
But I totally see where you are coming from, ABC strung it out a bit too long if you ask me.
--Erwin
Interesting. If you don't mind me asking: Do you think the answers provided in the ARG will be put into the show eventually? What do you mean by it's a completely different story? The information provided in the ARG seems much too important to placed in a game instead of the actual show, but maybe I'm just unclear in the direction the show is going.
Also, I'd like to comment that from my experience, very few people actually fully participated in the ARG. Most people just let others do the work and then read summaries and watched videos when it was all over.
I'm sure the majority of people left the clue searching to the more dedicated fans who posted the final outcomes at numerous forums. the only real indication I had that people were still into it after all that time was the volume of hits, I'm not sure how many over all but there was plenty, I think over 20M for the Hanso Foundation site.
But anyway, I didn't really want to go into it too much, I was just mentioning that a bit of influence from the old Adventures went into making the Lost ARG.
That's cool man. Thanks for the responses. Don't worry I won't push anymore.
Yeah hopefully we will see some adventure elements in the upcoming Lost videogame from Ubisoft.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14911832/
Heh. I totally disagree with that article. The mystery element is what keeps me watching, the characters are a nice "side-plot", but if they shift the focus too much over to the characters (ala the middle of season 2) the show loses my interest.
The whole thing with us constantly being thrown a bone, even though the unraveling of one mystery opens up a slew of new ones, is what makes me keep watching it. That, and the wonderful theorizing with my friends what the hell all this is about, even though we have no idea, and will never have.
--Erwin
I don't care WHY they make them, as long as they're as good as the third season has been to me so far.
It amazes me to see how they manage to turn it into a whole new series for each season, and still make it feel natural, and not "milking it".
The worst thing that could happen is that they turn it into a "lost-on-an-island" drama, which it seemed to become in the middle of the second season. but now it's all beautiful again.
Not sure which show you saw - but so far no cannibals, and very few beasts on LOST.
I have enoyed the first three episodes of Season 3 a lot more than the start of Season 2. I am glad they have let Locke go back to his "man of the jungle" thing.
My thoughts exactly!
People complain about Lost always asking so many questions, and never giving any answers. And they complain that when the show does give some answers, they also ask new questions. What is so wrong with that? If the questions they keep asking are intriguing, why should it matter? Just because new questions and new obstacles keep popping up in life doesn't mean we should hate it. The quality of it all is what really matters.
The first two episodes of this season were mediocre, but the three last ones have been great. And overall I think season two was just as good as season one, seeing as it had some of the definitively greatest episodes. And the last episode which aired on TV, episode 5 of season 3, which was Eko-centric, was maybe one of the greatest episodes I've seen so far. Touching, exciting and mysterious; what more can one ask for in a show?
I have always loved Lost, and I always will. That is, unless they kill off Locke. Then I'll get really pissed off.
Oh wait, nevermind, there's still Bernard.
You turn on the TV, zap through, see this kind of look and know exactly what you'll get if you watch it.
As for the story it's dull in my opinion and nothing more than a waste of time.
How much of Lost have you watched enough to judge the story, by the way?
(Just asking because I've had a recent history of spending tons of posts arguing with a guy who spent all his time talking about how Sam and Max Episode 3 is really bad when he never actually played it).
from what i hear, the show will run for five seasons overall........ with each remaining season having an overall "theme" as well as a set amount of info about the shows core mysteries........they also said that they will not take an "easy" way out Ex. it is all a dream, or everyone dies in the end, etc...
this was all in an interview with damon lindelof several months ago............link below
http://www.tv.com/tracking/viewer.html?tid=98935&ref_id=24313&ref_type=101&tag=story_list;title;14
TV is not that important for me to watch every single bad series that comes around. I mostly watch the news and try to ignore the other bollocks they show.
Prison break is another good example of shallow goat piss. Nothing ever happens in it either, they just pose around and chatter for 45 minutes and at the end they find some new obstacle that pushes the action further on.
Those are my humble opinions about those shows anyway. If you like them im not blaming you (i watched most of the episodes of Sunset beach), but they dont do the trick for me.