Lost Season 1. Its almost over and...

[Faustus]

Lost Season 1. Its almost over and what really have we learned?
Alot of back history? Sure, but what else? Nothing really. So why am I so addicted to this show?

Maybe its because I like the character, or maybe its BECAUSE this island refuses to give up its secrets so easily.

Anyone else watching this amazing show?

FYI for straglers Season 1 DVD comes out before the end of summer.

Also please assume that there may be...



















POTENTIAL SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT

[lumis]

i've got all my HR-HDTV rips to enjoy before the dvd's are released.

they each weigh about 700mb per episode that averages 41 minutes & 30 seconds in length, 960x528 with dolby digital 5.1 audio.. mmm.

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[Shadowmistress]

Oh my lord does this show ever annoy me! I'm sorta hooked on it too, watched it from day one and I know what you mean Flaystus. It draws you in and won't let go, dangles a carrot over your head and then proceeds along the storyline at a rate slower than evolution itself! If it weren't for all the backstory making us care about what happens to the characters, we would have lost interest a long time ago at this rate.

I think in the end it will be a major let down. They've built up hopes so high that something supernatural is happening on the island and in the end they'll just explain it away as something normal, getting away with it because of how little they've shown so far (ripping us off in the process), and doing it to keep in par with the integrity of the rest of the show and it's backstories.

Why is it so addictive? Because we are curious by nature and hate to leave a mystery unsolved. We put up with the backstory as our patience is tested just until we figure out what this island is about. THEN we can decide if it's our cup of tea or not, but in the meantime they're forcing us to care about the characters hoping that when they do reveal how LAME the premise of the show is, that we will already be too invested in the story to leave it altogether.

I think it's a dirty trick. I'm going to try to stop watching. :P

[lumis]

good theory shadowmistress..

when the first episode aired on sep 22nd (almost 36 weeks ago), i was there watching, and i got a steady weekly fix until dec 8th.. we were then cut off until jan 5th.. i was okay with that, i was still dying to watch more.. we then got some more steady episodes until april when they showed reruns and a lame special "the journey" episode to hold off the remaining new episodes until may sweeps.. those ********.. you're right, they are using us..

i'm kind of wondering what the surprise is.. maybe its like "the truman show", and they're unwittingly on a reality show.

[Shadowmistress]

I saw the journey episode. I had missed the last 3 or 4 new eps cause I'd stopped watching due to the reruns. I couldn't believe how easily that episode was able to catch me up and realized how bloody insignificant the stupid backstories in the newer episodes were. I found myself thinking that I should just wait for the season 2 "journey" episode and just skip watching the shows altogether. Why waste my time when it can all be summed up nicely in just one episode!

I don't think the surprise will be as big as we like. This show reminds me of daytime soap operas that try to mix in the supernatural. It ends up lame and laughable. In the end, the monsters will be gorillas and pigs and elephants, the smoke will be some stupid cult wanting to sacrifice the baby cause it was born on a certain day and time, and the french chic will turn out to be a murderous psychopath.

The storyline *could* turn out to have a pretty cool twist, but somehow judging from the reality of the backstories I doubt they'll actually commit to anything so outrageous by now.

It's like the fake out in a horror flick. The music plays real loud, the character lets out a blood curdling scream, and in it turns out to be just shadows. Pha-leese.

[ricardouk]

Hi everyone

Im from Portugal and ive been watching LOST on tv since episode 1.

why?

Why is it so addictive? Because we are curious by nature and hate to leave a mystery unsolved.

the last episode here shown was the one where a baby is born and the stepbrother dies.

the Lock caracter intrigues me a lot,he lies down on the pod,cries,and a light turns on (et phones home!!!)

i think the same guy that produces "LOST" produces "Alias".

I remember some years back one of the american soap-operas(dallas i think) JR woke and we found that a lot of previous episodes were a dream)

will it be the same thing here?(everyone took a bump into the head)
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[Shadowmistress]

After seeing the first few episodes my theory was that they were all really dead and that this was their way of accepting the afterlife and that's why so many freaky things keep happening.

After they killed the stepbrother -- the cutest damn hunk on the whole friggin show! -- I sorta got disinterested.

[Faustus]

I've seen the "they are all dead theory" and I don't buy it. The back stories ARE Important, the weirdness began before they ever got on the island. Just look at Walts "strangeness", and the events that lead Hurley to this island with the numbers and all. Not to mention an unlikely ammount of interconnectedness between many of the characters.

I've read a rumor that the "monster" is indeed something that exist in the real world today and is not a dinosaur or a monster. Also I've read that the producers "claim" that everything has a real world explination. I don't know how they are going to do it, but I'm interested in finding out.

Short of Battlestar Galatica this has been the best thign on TV this year.

In response to Shadowmistress, as long as the show has kate I'm fine.

[ricardouk]

In response to Shadowmistress, as long as the show has kate I'm fine.

i second that

[Faustus]

OH NO! I MISSED IT! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Faustus]

Finally found a friend with a copy, apparently better at setting a VCR then I am at setting a PVR.

Wow that was awesome. Obvously there is some kid confusion going on. Do "the others" want Walt or the baby? It seems Walk. Which makes me question several assumptions I had.

Anyone else catch it?

[Soopafresh]

The season finale was disturbing.

I suspect it is all going to end with a closeup on Bob Newhart waking up, and telling Suzanne Pleshette about the weird dream he had.

[Shadowmistress]

I think they want all the kids in general, that's why the French chic was trying to trade the baby. Plus didn't she say she lost a daughter at a young age as well? I didn't catch if this happend on the island or before she got stranded.

All these bad guys cropping up brings my attention to how the French chic said the jungle did away with her friends (research companions?) yet she thought she could trade the baby to get one of the guys back. Well, what if they're not dead but just brainwashed into a cult instead? Cause if the island could bring back dead people, wouldn't have she wanted her child back instead? And what if they're all living underground (the hatch) conducting weird experiments on the children? The smoke on the beach could be creamations....?

The only thing that doesn't make sense is the black whisps of smoke that Lok saw after he got dragged towards that pit. Mind you, we never actually saw what dragged him there so we can't assume it was the smoke. It could have been another one of the research members even. Considering the show creators say everything has a real world explanation, I'm not biting into the ghost theory too easily now.

Anyone else up for poking holes through the storyline?

[Faustus]

The oceanic-air website has alot of eastereggs in it. One is a link to an early script page of the last episode. Some think its a total lie and red herring but it does mention this animal.

The deep Amazon jungle of Brazil provides the backdrop for tales of the Mapinguari, a large nocturnal animal with a frightful screaming cry. Locals describe the Mapinguari as about two meters in height when standing on its hind legs. It is covered in red hair and emits a foul odor. Its feet are turned backwards and its claws are capable of ripping apart the palm trees upon which it feeds.

Ornithologist David Oren believes the Mapinguari is real. He has searched for it for twenty years. Oren suggests the Mapinguari is a surviving ground sloth, similar to the (presumably extinct) Mylodon . While the smaller tree sloths still exist, ground sloths are generally assumed to have died out around ten thousand years ago. So far no tangible evidence of the Mapinguari has survived close scrutiny.

http://www.pibburns.com/cryptost/mapingua.htm

Of course the section in question talks about it being part machine, and its all crossed out and says "No! No Mapingua yet!" or something like that. Like I said maybe a redherring by the producers but who knows.

[lumis]

@soopafresh, the producers of the show have already said they're not dreaming and they're not all already dead. its based in reality, whatever that means.

@shadowmistress, we dont see what the actual thing that was pulling him was, but if you watch it in slo-mo from a hi-def capture, you can see vines.

@flaystus, have you seen the lost season 2 trailer on the oceanic-air website?

[Faustus]

@flaystus, have you seen the lost season 2 trailer on the oceanic-air website?

yup yup

[zzyzzx]

I wonder if the men in the other boat work for Michael Jackson?

And finally someone asked the fat guy how he manages to maintain his weight on the island.

[Faustus]

Dude I've been joking with my friends for weeks that the only explination is MJ owns the island. Kids go missing, polarbears on a tropical island. It all adds up.

As to Hurley's lack of weightloss. The cursed numbers are also fattening.