[Artadius]

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So, season 6 of the greatest TV show of all time starts tomorrow (Tuesday 2/2/10). This is the final season and supposedly things should tie up and most questions should be answered quite nicely. Reports of spoilers and advance screenings of the premiere are coming back from folks and they're saying that this season is shaping up to be the stuff of legends. I can't believe the wait is almost over.

If you've never watched this show or you havn't given it a chance, you owe it to yourself to torrent the previous five seasons and watch them over the next few weeks while you record and save season six to catch up.

OR

At the very least watch tomorrow's intro episode that airs at 8pm Eastern / 7pm Central. It is a recap episode that will summarize the previous 5 seasons and how we got to where we are now. It's already on the net (in fact the s6 premiere is too... but holy shit spoilers) so you can actually get it now if you want to get up to speed quickly. I've heard from folks who have watched it that it is a very good recap episode and folks might be able watch season 6 having only seen it (but that is blasphemy and you should watch the first five seasons).

Unfortunately for me, because of the difficulty of watching something like this with a 2 year old is nigh impossible, my wife and I rarely get to watch anything we want until the munchkin gets to bed. On top of that, my wife is pregnant with our second one and by the time the 2 year old is in bed, the wife is ready for bed too... so I might not get my weekly lost in till the weekend (unless I'm a weak blubbering idiot and I watch it after they're in bed like crack fiend sneaking his high).

That being said, use spoilers in this thread for spoiler stuff and absolutely nothing (not even spoilered) in this thread before the episode airs (except for recap stuff). In other words, if you have downloaded the season six premiere, don't post anything about it here...even if it's spoilered (people are weak). Failure to adhere to these rules will get you permabanned.

Other tomfoolery here that mocks Lost fans or attempts to post fake spoilers will get you banned as well... length of time dependent upon how much of an ass I think you are.

[ashalon]

i tried watching it awhile ago and got through to about half season two and gave up. show sucks.

[Artadius]

ashalon, on 01 February 2010 - 10:03 AM, said:

i tried watching it awhile ago and got through to about half season two and gave up. show sucks.

What a well thought out and and informative argument about why the show sucks. Oh wait...

[Hubcap]

I made it through the first season and loved it. I considered watching the rest but never got around to it. More laziness then anything because it was a good show.

[Myana]

I'm a fan, but I've definitely felt at times that it's strayed a bit from the core fiction and that the writers weren't really sure where they were going with it (though they claim otherwise). The writer's strike certainly didn't help last season (or was it the season before?), but it's held my interest this long so of course I'll be watching the final season.

My *hope* is that it blows me away and leaves little to the imagination, but my fear is that it'll end like so many other shows with more questions than answers, and I'll consider it all a gigantic waste of time. *fingers crossed*

[Novell]

I recently watched all 5 seasons in a weeks time. Love the show and can't wait for this final season.

[Hubcap]

Novell, on 01 February 2010 - 04:12 PM, said:

I recently watched all 5 seasons in a weeks time. Love the show and can't wait for this final season.

Get a life!!!!

[Archonyx]

Someone want to provide a link to the two episodes Art mentioned in the OP (intro/recap episode and s6 premiere)?

[Phin]

I watched til about halfway thru the 3rd season, (when Jacob appeared and all that, honestly it's been awhile so my recollection of it is foggy) but as Myana pointed out, it seemed as tho the writers had no idea where they were going with the story and I just lost interest. If it's actually picked up, I may go back to the 2nd/3rd season and watch up til now, however.

[Archonyx]

As you probably know, television shows differ from movies in that they almost never know whether the show will last for 1 season, 3, 5, 7 (15?), etc. This is no problem for something like Law and Order or a sitcom, but for a serialized drama it takes a lot of planning, talent, and luck to write story arcs that are modular enough to work no matter how long it goes for. For a classic example of what happens when this gets fucked up, see the X-Files, which "ended" its main plot after 5 seasons, then got renewed for 2 more seasons (whoops). So Lost got stuck in its own little "vamping" phase around seasons 2-3 (musical term, look it up), but then picked up in a HUGE way after that. What happened? Something that has never happened before in network TV: they got the network to agree 3 years in advance to a definitive end date for the show (this year, of course). This let them take the brakes off and plan the multi-year story arcs that would bring the whole thing to a close.

So if you've watched it and haven't made it to the end of season 3 yet, keep going. You won't be sorry.

[unbanme:(]

i take it back. lost is the greatest show on this earth. if i could have its babies i would. plz unban me? --Ash

[Archonyx]

ROFL

[Novell]

unbanme:(, on 03 February 2010 - 11:41 AM, said:

i take it back. lost is the greatest show on this earth. if i could have its babies i would. plz unban me? --Ash

Who's this troll.

[Phin]

Archonyx, on 02 February 2010 - 04:49 PM, said:

As you probably know, television shows differ from movies in that they almost never know whether the show will last for 1 season, 3, 5, 7 (15?), etc. This is no problem for something like Law and Order or a sitcom, but for a serialized drama it takes a lot of planning, talent, and luck to write story arcs that are modular enough to work no matter how long it goes for. For a classic example of what happens when this gets fucked up, see the X-Files, which "ended" its main plot after 5 seasons, then got renewed for 2 more seasons (whoops). So Lost got stuck in its own little "vamping" phase around seasons 2-3 (musical term, look it up), but then picked up in a HUGE way after that. What happened? Something that has never happened before in network TV: they got the network to agree 3 years in advance to a definitive end date for the show (this year, of course). This let them take the brakes off and plan the multi-year story arcs that would bring the whole thing to a close.

So if you've watched it and haven't made it to the end of season 3 yet, keep going. You won't be sorry.

Ah, okay. That makes sense. I guess I'll just start over with season 3 (netflix it or something, unless it's on Hulu), and try and catch up.

[Artadius]

So, everyone should have had a chance to watch the show by now...

I don't know if I can even put how I feel into words... this season is going to be so awesome... it'll be a roller coaster for sure. Sooooo goood.

[Archonyx]

So here's some things we now know:

Spoiler

Man in Black (MIB) aka FLoke aka Nemesis is actually the smoke monster as well. We also now know the purpose of the ash ring surrounding the cabin first seen in Season 3 and later shown (disturbed) in the Season 5 finale: it wards off MIB.

New mysteries/new flavors on old mysteries:

Spoiler

Who was in the cabin when various characters visited it? In other words, was it Jacob -- and the ash ring was to keep OUT the MIB, or was it actually MIB in the Cabin and the ring was a prison to keep him in? When Frank, Ilana, and the rest of Jacob's followers go to the Cabin during the s5 finale, they find the ring of ash disturbed. Ilana enters the cabin and finds it in disarray, deserted except for a scrap of cloth bearing a picture of the statue. Ilana tells the others that "he isn't there" and that someone else has been using it. She orders the cabin be set on fire, and the group proceeds to the statue. This all indicates strongly that MIB has been using Jacob's cabin for some indeterminate period of time --- possibly long enough so that when Ben and Locke thought they were visiting Jacob, it was actually MiB.

I think it's also very clear at this point that Christian (Jack's father) -- at least when we've seen him on the island -- is actually MIB as well.

Finally, the alternate realities. The BEST explanation for this I've heard to far is that they're actually not alternate realities, but rather "flash forwards" -- in other words, the event that will cause the island to sink and change the future hasn't actually happened yet, but will be triggered later in the season by the 2007 people, thus triggering the 2004 timeline we've just been introduced to where 815 never crashes. Here's a hint: if toward the end of the season we see island jack suffer a neck injury similar to the one he saw in the mirror on the plane last night, then you'll know that's where we're heading ...

[Novell]

I just watched the first show on Hulu, all I can say is "wow". Can't find words to describe it.

[Artadius]

http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2010/02/Jacobs-Letter.jpg

http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2010/02/Oceanic-Desk-Guy.jpg

[Novell]

There are some pretty deep theories floating around out there. I have read just about all of them. I know Art must have some thoeries of his own, maybe others? Would love to read them, efore we really know whats going on.

[Artadius]

I'm actually not a very good theorycrafter when it comes to Lost... and I think it's because I choose to be. Makes the experience that much more surprising and enjoyable I think. I love going into each episode clueless and completely caught off guard.