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A plane crash lands on an isolated island. The pilot, before dying, cries: we are off course, they are looking for us in the wrong place.
And the spooky point: I was half listening to Alex Wagner, she interviewed an expert who was using the term "oceanic." I think that he meant flying over the ocean but I jumped. The plane on "Lost" was on a flight by an airline called... Oceanic.
Curiouser and curiouser..
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)Squinch
(51,083 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)question everything
(47,580 posts)No spoilers here
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)wouldn't watch network series, when I had tv, out of sheer stubbornness. Now I am enjoying the distractions!
question everything
(47,580 posts)At least, during the first run, when many of us would debate it on the Lounge, people often would consult Lostpedia, especially if you'd get confused and could not remember who was who or why was this done or said.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)zappaman
(20,606 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)Will I be completely ticked off?
zappaman
(20,606 posts)when I see an actor from LOST on another TV show, I still get angry.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Because someone actually took the time to give a shit about the narrative continuity, instead of just continually throwing weird shit out every week to keep people tuning in.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)The audience is mixed re: the ending... but a lot of people (myself included) were happy that the writers didn't feed into the standard plot arcs and a final trite denouement, but instead gave us a wonderfully creative ending that one could take literal (hence, the disappointment) or see it as (even more) metaphor-- a metaphor that can be understood if you understand the characters; a finale which remained committed to, and centered on, the central theme and allegory of human faith and character redemption
In hindsight, I'm glad that when I watched it during its first run, I avoided going online to try and make some kind of sense of the show's mystery-- instead, I simply watched it for what it was, and let not merely the character and dialog advance the plot, but also emotion and mystery move it forward too.
(And Season 4, Episode 5 (The Constant) was I believe, an episode which transcended both its genre and medium and which I feel able to say, without hyperbole, is one of the most satisfying pieces of TV that has ever been broadcast.)
fujiyama
(15,185 posts)but I'm somehow doubtful the plane crashed on some mysterious island that shifts locations and travels through time...where some weird group had performed electromagnetic experiments with polar bears and whatnot.
In real life, we just deal with ass holes that hijack planes and faulty equipment...and corrupt airport officials and identity theft (though it's still not clear which if those things is relevant here). Only time will tell.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Why did the plane change course and fly low? How did the military know, and why did they wait a day or so to tell everyone else?
Weird shit, Maynard.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)A giant fucking shaggy dog story full of more head-fakes than well resolved plot points.
Still, it made you look!