LOST! Is it just me or do they make up the plot while drinking shots?

[undeterred]

I'm sober and I just don't get it.

[miss_american_pie]

1. Thank you

I thought I got sucked into some alternate universe. :wtf:

[MidwestMomma]

2. It's Gilligan's Island meets Twin Peaks

That's what I say anyway :)

[miss_american_pie]

3. Throw in the St. Elsewhere finale

and I think you've got it.

[ghostsofgiants]

11. I like that.

[undeterred]

14. Throw in Survivor

except instead of getting voted off the island you get killed.

[deadparrot]

4. I don't watch the show, but

I thought I heard somewhere once that the producers don't really have an idea of what's going on; they just make shit up.

[Fleshdancer]

7. they claim they have the end figured out

and they anticipate it lasting only 4 seasons. After tonight though, I don't know if I believe it. :shrug:

[undeterred]

13. I think a lot of us might not keep pushing the buttons that long

[Fleshdancer]

5. uh. yeah. Your theory makes the most sense.

:wtf:

We're trying to figure it out in the Entertainment forum but we're not having much luck.

[undeterred]

8. I've watched most of the shows but I really don't get the plot

They've used the "backstory" technique very effectively to develop the characters. Its unusual to see a show that spends so much effort on character development (even on the ones they decide to kill off) and then be so sloppy with the plot line that they have to keep having "review" episodes. If you miss a week of this show, you're really LOST.

[The Wielding Truth]

6. It's like watching a blender. You just turn it on, it spins and

you watch,and after your thoroughly mixed up you turn it off. I've given up. I think they make it up as they go along.Do you think that there is a real plot?

[undeterred]

9. No, but I'm afraid of what will happen if I stop typing in the numbers

every 7 days. :shrug:

[The Wielding Truth]

12. You'll be typing to reruns now. Have fun. If anything makes sense

please let me know. Good luck and enjoy. It drives me...:crazy:

[KittyWampus]

10. Watching Lost is like taking a bad acid trip

[bluethruandthru]

15. I really bought into the purgatory theory

I think alot of people did and the producers knew it so they decided to change things. Now the whole thing is seeming a bit science fictiony.

[Beware the Beast Man]

16. JJ Abrams was on Howard Stern's show a few weeks ago.

He said that ABC pitched the idea to him about a group of plane crash survivors stranded on an island, and that's all they gave him. He had a week to come up with a treatment. So yes, you're probably right. :)


Still an awesome show, though.

[underpants]

18. Did he mention the giant 4 toed foot?

:shrug:

[underpants]

17. MAGNETS! someone posted a great link a few weeks ago

and so far it looks to be right on the money.

[underpants]

19. Is this Jack? (Mathew Fox)

http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/gallery/223.html?photo=89

[Brigid]

20. I've never watched "Lost" . . .

but you guys are making the same kind of comments we "Alias" fans used to make about our show! We used to have fun speculated what kind of illegal substances the writers were using. :rofl:

Of course, after that stinker of a series finale, now we just want them dead. ;)

[Ravenseye]

21. Same folks too

That's one thing that has me worried. Alias was really interested at first with the whole Rambaldi thing and then whoosh nothing. Moving on. Ignore that. Time passes.

J.J. Abrams reminds me of a role playing game dungeon master who sets up really cool stories but then grows bored with them, or doesn't really know the endgame, so it just fizzles out and he moves on to the next thing that interests him.

He reminds me of an unsuccessfull writer who has 30 amazing books half finished.

Ah well. I'm hooked. I'll just hope for the best.

[Beware the Beast Man]

22. Ahh, yes: Joss Whedon-itis.

It's contagious for writers of shows with huge cult followings.

[Ravenseye]

23. Also known as Lynch Syndrome