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jpark-14 (2012-05-25 02:12)

Al Trautwig's Lost Thoughts: Episode 1

He's a sports personality for the Knicks, and I think I saw him on theOlympics too, but he is also a huge Lost fan; and he's got some greattheories and takes on the show. MSG.com started a Video Blog to talkabout it each week.Highlights from this week: *Miles is Alvar Hanso's Kid? *What's goingto happen to Locke?As well as a bunch of other stuff that really got me thinking... Checkit out here: http://tinyurl.com/d8gpagGet stoked for the second episode tomorrow by recapping last weeksepisode with a broadcast legend.

correcamino (2012-05-24 13:52)

Oh, for what could have been!

First of all, guess who survives the plane crash? Only those betweenthe ages of 20 and 35. Yes, the odd over and under slip past, but youget the idea. Make-up? Intact! Hair? Never greasy or disheveled!Temperament? Smooth sailing. Someone wrote a review that said how greatLost is because there's never any mugging for the camera. I'm not surewhat that person meant, but there are lots and lots of clichés andwhatever the au courant, hyper sarcastic jargon is these days, it'sused. In spades. The whole idea behind the show is so terrific, andthat is what compounds the disappointment. Nevertheless, I hang on,hoping week after week for a glimmer of realized potential. But mostlyI come away with scenes, dialogue, characters that bug the living *@&*&out of me. Can't we - once and for all - ban the word 'dude?' As forthe overweight guy, wouldn't someone with such an obviously highcaloric intake at some point or another be manic for food? For thatmatter, where's everyone's temper, their despair? It's quite theopposite for Kate, the young American who now has three men diggingher. It seems like the writers decided that being stranded on an islandwithout food, electricity etc is a great place for people to get intouch with their issues, neatly resolve them with each other, helpingeach other. It's like a bunch of short story writers met one weekend inVermont, read each other their stories and then a panel selected theirmost vivid characters, put them on a plane, and had it crash on afar-off island. (The pop psychologists took it from there.) Not onecharacter's life was dull, they all had super charged emotional issuesto wrangle with, or else fantastic life stories, like Said's. Speakingof Said, I at first found it a tad cruel and ironic that the writersgave the lone Muslim on the show a history of using torture.Nevertheless, up to this point (November), he is one of the show's mostcompelling characters. Overall: B-

jaysturt915 (2012-05-24 09:44)

Greatest Show of ALL time!

Lost, in my opinion, is the GREATEST show that has every been made.It's a show about love, loss, evil, romance, drama, action, life,mystery, thrills, questions, science vs faith, happiness, and it'sgreatest and most pronounced idea in the show: characters. Thecharacters in this show are what has driven it to greatness. Lost hasthe most developed, the most complex characters in its huge andprobably best ensemble cast ever to be made in television. It is a oneof a kind show that will be attempted to be copied for years and yearsto come, but what people continue failing to re-create is thecharacters in this show. They are the heart and soul to the show'sexperience. If you fail to make great characters, you fail to make agreat show, because who cares what happens to the people in the show ifyou don't care about them. For those that were disappointed in thefinale of the show, I don't think they were every truly fans of thecharacters and didn't pay enough attention to the show to realize that99% of the mysteries were actually answered in the end. This is the #1show I would ever recommend to anyone. Don't tell me I don't know whatI'm talking about because I have watched all of the greatest shows tobe made and Lost trumps them ALL: The Sopranoes, The Wire, BreakingBad, Battlestar Galactica, Mad Men, The West Wing, Dexter, Six FeetUnder, and so much more. LOST FOREVER.

MarkPMSP (2012-05-24 04:35)

Too many reruns

I was a devoted fan of this soap opera, I enticed a number of myfriends to watch it.That has changed now because we are fed up with your incessant need torun so many reruns. Overall the show is good (altho I have noticed afew vague things) but my friends and I agree that we are losinginterest and feel somewhat ripped off by all these reruns.If you feel the show is too costly for you to make, or if your writershave a lot of trouble doing a script that is one thing, but we arefeeling that you have "lost" interest in our being an audience. Wewould appreciate if you would consider our desires.

coinster610 (2012-05-22 17:45)

Fresh Interesting Show...

This is a really good program with very good writers. There are manysubplots that keep you interested and waiting for next week for moreanswers to the many growing mysteries surrounding the island where agroup of plane-crash survivors have wrecked.I also like how the writers go into the history of each main character,making them more interesting for the watcher. This looks to be a hit.There are a lot of mysterious goings-on at the island and a lot ofdrama between the characters of the show.Great to have some TV that doesn't involve CSI, cops, lawyers ordoctors!

davethejackal (2012-05-22 00:53)

My theories on Lost...

The theories may not be new, but they're mine. First expounded in aseries of 3 posts by me and the first of which is reproduced here in,more or less it's original form.*** POST 1 What's going to happen in lost is not the question, what Ithink is (a more interesting question at least) is "What is lost?".My theory: it's an outlet for the religious beliefs of right wingAmericans.I suspected this in season 1 but as season 2 progresses it becomesincreasingly obvious, with increasing references to the bible,situations framed in simplistic 'biblical' terms (e.g. the 'others' onthe island, who's only crime seems to be that they are 'evil', distinctfrom the 'good' chiefly because of their lack of 'moral' values andbeing unable to dress like good upstanding churchgoing Americans).Each of the characters has a problematic past... pasts they leavebehind and resolve on the island. Truly, on the island, they are 'bornagain' ... just as, when you embrace the love of our Lord Jesus Christ("lemme hear you say hallelujah!") you are 'born again' and yourprevious troubles and life are left behind.There's the character who, even though he has obviously witnessed amiracle (the miraculous recovery of one of his patients after a failedspinal operation) still, to his very great detriment he fails to 'seethe light' (more on this in season 2, if you haven't seen it already).There are lessons in blind faith 'Type the code! Just type the code!You gotta have faith' (erm ... this may be season 2... not sure,whatever, and however dramatic the scene it didn't work for me).It's all an allegory for the religious experience, for becoming andlater what it is to be a Christian.What happens ultimately isn't really that important, it's all about howthey get there. As season 2 proceeds you will see the bible is extolledincreasingly as the solution to, or at least a guide in resolving, manyof the dilemmas the survivors face.OK ... so ... is it then just some sort of cheap religious propaganda.Without a doubt, to some degree, yes. Even if not intended as such itwill be used in this way, you can't stop that.However, I'd like to suggest another explanation of Lost's true'purpose' (other than generating advertising revenues - which isundoubtedly what keeps it on the air).It's not meant to 'spread the faith'; it's meant to be an outlet forthe feelings, hopes and aspirations of the religious right of America.If people have an outlet, see something on screen that validates theirbeliefs and values, that doesn't insult their intelligence, reinforcestheir belief in their way of life etc they feel validated, included,represented... they see their ideals being fulfilled on screen ... and... as a result ... they're less likely to go out in to a world theymay once have viewed as 'sinful' (since TV *is* real life, right?) anddo something about it.This has been a particularly bad habit amongst religious sorts in theUS in recent years ... they get up to all sorts of mischief … there-election of George Bush Jr in 2004 for example, to which they weremajor contributors, due to his stance on several biblically sensitiveor, as they would have it, 'moral' issues.Liberal culture in the states is reeling from several such 'attacks' inrecent years and this is the liberal media fighting back. It's showingit can be just as 'neo-conservative' as those on the right.It's a bit like Goldstein's book in 1984... Lost is not meant toencourage or assist the revolution, but is there to diffuserevolutionary feelings.It's a first shot at the pacification/weakening of the Religious Rightin the States and it's role as the 'angry, uncooperative mob' ofAmerican politics.Give people something good to watch on TV, make them feel good aboutthemselves and the world they live in, make them feel it conforms totheir ideals and they're less likely to be politically active … voteagainst you … picket book stores … petition to have laws changed etcetc.As simple as that… Lost is a 'little house on the Prairie' for the00's.

LawLess38 (2012-05-18 16:56)

Lousy show

I watched this with great interest, for a few months. Looked like itwas going to be a good show. Then it turned into just another 'soapopera/chick flick'.Boring plot, that never gets to the point. This is one big sob story,that never ends......p-l-e-a-s-e! I used to tune in about once a month,for about 5 minutes, and nothing changed. Now I just don't watch it atall. This is just more TV trash.There are enough trashy soap operas with girlie boys, and undernourished women trying to be manly.TV shows like this, is what makes the internet so popular.

haarp2012-1 (2012-05-18 01:47)

Just watch it.

I watched Lost from the first episode. I remember it well; it was aSunday evening and there was nothing else on to watch. I'd seen thetrailers (or should I say, teasers) for this show for the two or threemonths before it aired in the UK. It looked okay so I thought I'd giveit a try. Oh wow! It literally had me hooked from the first moment. Iwatched it avidly (and I DO mean avidly) up until the middle of thethird season. And then my cable provider had a falling out with Sky TVand I "lost" access to Lost. I was livid to the point that I evenignored the DVD sets which came out piecemeal. Up until two days agowhen I bought the full seasons 1-5 box set. I now have it ready in mycollection to start watching again, right from episode one. I almostcan't wait but I'm going to set aside leave from work to get started onit (it really is that good that it's worth taking time off to watch itback to back for at least the first few shows to get you started). Andeven better, as fantastic as it was up the point where my providerwithdrew the series, I also have nearly three full seasons to lookforward to which are entirely new to me! And just about the time I'vewatched it all the sixth and final season will just about be coming outon DVD too. My only serious gripe/regret is that season six will thelast ever made. So to those who have yet to experience Lost all I cansay is this: if you love fantastic TV drama, just watch it.

Jackson Booth-Millard (2012-05-16 12:03)

Lost

A most clever American drama, where at least 30 or so people have beenabandoned on a remote island 100 miles off course somewhere betweenAmerica and Australia, and no rescuers yet. This is basically a longdrama showing their struggles, their relationships and their survivalon the island. Starring Matthew Fox as Dr. Jack Sheppard, The Lord ofthe Rings' Dominic Monagahan as Charlie Pace, Terry O'Quinn as JohnLocke, Evangeline Lilly as Kate Austen, Naveen Andrews as Sayid Jarrah,Emilie De Ravin as Claire Littleton, Jorge Garcia as Hugo "Hurley"Reyes, Josh Holloway as James "Sawyer" Ford, Harold Perrineau asMichael Dawson, with his son Walter "Walt" Lloyd (Malcolm DavidKelley), Daniel Dae Kim as Jin Kwon, Yunjin Kim as Sun Kwon and Madisonas Vincent the Dog. They have many exciting and interesting going ons,e.g. trying to find water, people already on the island, building araft, opening a hatch, finding some kind of doomsday device thatrequires Hurley's "cursed" numbers to be entered and executed, and muchmore. There are also flashbacks of the characters' pasts, so you findout why they are being "punished". Also with The Mummy Returns' AdewaleAkinnuoye-Agbaje as Mr. Eko and Resident Evil's Michelle Rodriguez asAna-Lucia Cortez. Winner of 6 Emmys and 15 nominations, and winner ofan Emmy and 5 nominations. Very good!

absolutelybonkers (2012-05-15 21:22)

Amazing!

LOST will get you hooked from the pilot and even when it's over youwill be reviewing the thoughts of the show in your head over and overagain. The actors are excellent and they make the characters sobelievable. The storyline is so unique and different but in a good way.After every episode it makes you question what your theory was in thefirst place. When I watched the 6th and finale season, I shed tears atthe finale because the characters become so close as if family to youand the end is so bittersweet. Your emotions will be flying everywherewith this show. The effects are great too. The whole show is myabsolute favorite and a phenomenon. A MUST WATCH!10.10

Andy (2012-05-13 19:18)

Amazing till final Season

Lost was such a good show until the final season. Every episode leftyou in suspense and you eagerly awaited next week to know what washappening. You had a polar bear on a desert island, you had some sortof dinosaur, robotic fishes with Darma logos on... The writers reallydid do a 10/10 job for Seasons 1-5... Then came Season 6 and J.J.Abrams had no idea how to finish it so he didn't.... He quite ruinedone of the best TV shows ever produced because he lacked inability tofinish it, such as his film; Cloverfield, another thing he couldn'tfinish. After finishing season 6 I realised I wasted my time watchingthis show...

Bioweapon (2012-05-13 13:16)

An outstanding viral marketing campaign, just like I thought it was going to be.

I think JJ Abrams should be the new Microsoft's CEO (Steve Ballmer issuch an a55hole). His ability to exploit people's curiosity and profitfrom it is simply outstanding. He did that with Cloverfield and Lost.When it comes to Cloverfield, a few months before the movie release,Abrams sent all sort of weird messages and videos over the internet,helping to create some sort of expectation/hype. Truth is that, leavingaside the fact that i really enjoyed that flick, Cloverfield has themost overused recycled sh***y plot ever to hit the big screen. Amonster strikes Manhattan/Tokyo. BIG DEAL! When it comes to Lost, the situation is similar. I remember reading ata local website in 2007 that Lost's "Grand finale" was already set up.JJ Abrams was just asked to set up a series of unsolved meaninglesspuzzles that were supposed to have some relation altogether, but thatrelation wasn't even obvious at all, so that they could make the serieslast as long as possible (and ABC would get big money from it). Theidea was to let people speculate, imagine, become obsessed with theshow, so that they worked as some sort of "sales representatives",spreading the word of the show.To be honest, I was never caught by the hype of this show. I used towatch The X files (I am a big fan of it) and the premise was similar insome way. When a TV series chews more that it can swallow (too manyquestions, way too many) in some point the plot will become: a)inconsistent (plotholes/contradictions) or b) a show more dedicated toasking questions than answering them.I watched only a few chapters and I did not like the way it was shot(colors, camera arrangements).5/10 because I did not watched the series completely and I cannot tellfor sure the true quality of the show. This is only a personal thought.

Michael DeZubiria (2012-05-12 09:46)

Most overrated TV show since…ah…I don't know. Maybe ever.

When I first heard of "Prison Break," I was a little apprehensivebecause I didn't understand how they could stretch out an escape fromprison into a fully developed television series. Then I watched it andI was blown away completely. It is very easy, on the other hand, tounderstand how they could fill a television series with entertainingand fresh material with the concept of a lot of people stranded on amysterious island after a plane crash. "Lost," therefore, comes out ofthe gate at a gallop. The pilot episode, after all is certainlythrilling.But like "Heroes," the show very soon falls off a cliff. I am trulyamazed at how many glowing reviews I've read of "Lost" on the IMDb, andwhile I hesitate to criticize a show that so many people clearly love,I can at least try to clear up some misunderstandings. One user, for example, bob_jones, complains about people who say theshow is clichéd because the cast is diverse. No, we don't want to seean all-white cast, but it is truly undeniable that all of thecharacters are types. You have the people who can't speak English (orcan they?), the token black guy and his son, the angry surfer dude, theyoung doctor whose training and movie-star good looks will surely beinvaluable (especially to the writers), the fun, relaxed fat guy, thesilent, grieving wife, the drug addicted musician, the extremelypregnant blonde, even the brooding middle eastern guy who turns out tohave been an Iraqi interrogator! 3 years after September 11th!! Ididn't know we were letting former Republican Guard interrogators flyinto our country quite yet. How could you NOT complain about thatcast!!! Hey you want to know what I did notice though? Despite the fact thatthis was a flight from Sydney, Australia to New York, I think, therewas NOT ONE Australian in the cast. Go figure.Bob_jones then says that it's only the people who "have a hernia" ifevery single detail in the pilot episode isn't exactly correct.Personally I could care less about every detail. Your averagetelevision series is a little too long for me to pay attention to goofslike in a regular film. The problem with the show is that there are no rules. A lot of peoplestuck on a desert island is a scenario that allows for countlessdifferent possibilities. I mean, the longer they are trapped on theisland, the more you could tell about their lives. But instead, on"Lost" they create this bizarre world that has absolutely no connectionwith reality. It is therefore impossible to generate any real tension, because theyare not on an island, they exist only in the writers' unrulyimaginations. The show never goes for any realism, so instead it comesoff as just watching to see what kind of cockamamie situation they candream up next. Consider, for example, the discovery of The Hatch, which provides somehope that there are other inhabitants of the island, or at least afascinating mystery as to the origin of the hatch. Sadly, what theydiscover is a computer where you have to enter a series of numbersevery 108 minutes or else, ah, something, um, might happen. This HAS to be a joke.When I saw that, the only thing I could think about was the writersconducting a little psychological experiment of their own, seeing howlong they could keep people interested in such a witless concept. Ithink you can file that 108-minute thing away with the dumbest plotdevices in film or television history. Near the top.Every single character is a cookie-cutter caricature, and the only onewho is remotely likable is Hurley, because he seems to be just alikable guy in real life and, most importantly, he's just playinghimself. Every single other character comes across as an over-rehearsedactor pretending to be someone else who, in most cases, is also in turnpretending to be yet someone ELSE. Contrived and boring, yes.Mysterious and fascinating? Not in the least. The major conflicts on the show are that the cast are stuck on a desertisland after surviving, for God's sake, a full-sized passenger airlinercrash, after which NOT ONE SURVIVOR suffered any real injury, includingthe pregnant woman (except for the cleverly named John Locke, who seemsto have suffered a spinal injury which restored his ability to walk.Poor guy). There is a, ahem, "monster" on the island with astonishingstrength but which is nice enough to keep to itself until the plotneeds it. Even as full seasons go by. And then, worst of all, there is the discovery of a small population ofshockingly vicious people living on the island. They pretend they areliving in their own little utopia, which just doesn't explain theirimmediate hatred and anger at any other people on their island. Themore you learn about these people, the more ludicrous the storybecomes. It is clear that they are continuing the show because it's making tonsof money. The result, obviously, is that they are throwing stuff up onthe screen just because people are sitting in their houses watching it,thinking something good is going to happen. I wonder how long it willbe before people figure out that the creators of the show are just asclueless as the audience….

nannyjo (2012-05-11 18:02)

I love this show!

This is one of the few TV shows, recently, that has really caught myattention. It is a hard show to classify, it seems to be a little bitof everything all tied together: Action, mystery, drama, scifi, and alittle humor thrown in.What really sets this show apart from many others is the amount of timethey take to develop the characters. Each week, as well as the "currentaction" that is happening on the island, the episode focuses on adifferent character showing that character's life leading up to thereason they were on the plane.So far this has proved to be a great series, well worth tuning intoeach week.

septimoarte-1 (2012-05-08 02:45)

A TV Masterpiece.

Each episode makes me thrill, in this emotional ride of "Lost". All itsaction, suspense, mystery and plot in general, is completely amazing,and I haven't heard of anybody who doesn't like it.The series doesn't only talk about how do 55 (more-or-less) peoplesurvive in an strange island, it talks also about how the island isshowing them that their lives are not OK, and that they could've makeit change with just stop being selfish people.Everybody has a dark secret, and it slowly reveals throughout theseasons, ending in a typhoon of feelings (guilt and redemption), badactions from the past (stealing, hating, killing, etc.), and ways tosolve each characters lives by forgiving and be forgiven.Amazing cast, amazing scripts, amazing direction, amazing series.

monstercalves00 (2012-05-07 11:43)

Similatity to plane in Executive Decision.

Watching the Movie,"Executive Decision" with Kurt Russell on TNT todayI couldn't help almost fall out of my chair when I noticed that theterrorist hijacked plane was, "Oceanic Airways", same logo,paint jobetc. anybody else been down this road? I was shocked, I mean I knowHollywood uses sets over and over but I was not prepared for the planesto be one and the same.I love the show,my 12 year old daughter haslatched onto it as a favorite, a refreshing change from the repeats ofrepeats of Full House and Boy meets world.Amazing and she and her 14year old big brother both look forward to lost eagerly discussing whatjust transpired on the way to bed, we make a night of it even thoughit's not entirely my wife's' cup of tea, so to speak.

lann_dogg1119 (2012-05-07 19:03)

"Lost" is EXCELLENT!!!!

I've been watching Lost since it began on ABC in 2004. If I miss oneWednesdaynight of the show, I'd kill myself. I'm so addicted to it thatit drives my family crazy. I have all the books out there that dealwith Lost. My wall is covered with magazine pages of the show. I'vegotten tons of my friends addicted to the show also. At school the nextmorning that's all I talk about with my friends. My head is filled withtheories of how the show is going to end up, I go crazy. I getgoosebumps watching every episode because there's either a kiss, a newlove interest, a new mystery, or when one of my theories is dismissedor proved. My life would be nothing without Lost. I don't know whatI'll do without watching it this summer!!!!

bethhhhhh_xx (2012-05-07 02:17)

Best drama ever created!

I always end up looking forward to Wednesday evenings. The show is.....a little unrealistic.... but to me that doesn't matter. All thecharacters are beautiful, I am insanely jealous of Evangeline Lilly(Kate)! It is the first TV show that I don't want to know what's comingup. With, the OC, say, I will always be ready to read a spoiler. Butpart of the enjoyment of watching Lost is not knowing what is going tohappen next. The episode 'White Rabbit' was terrifying in my opinion,and it gets scarier by every episode! It also has a bit of humour,which makes it slightly more lighthearted and less depressive! I havesome good news for Lost fans... they have enough story lines for 8years! That is a heck of a lot of Lost!

Rachel Robinson (2012-05-06 01:27)

Lost

Words cannot describe...it's just a brilliant show if you haven't seen it already, i suggest,watch it from the very beginningeven if you watched a random episode, you probably won't enjoy it asmuch because you won't have a clue what is going on the first seasonwas absolutely brilliant the second was just as good and the third isamazing Jack is the best and Sawyer and Katein fact they're all good.JUST WATCH IT!!! in my opinion it is the bestprogramme at the moment and i would advise you to watch itif you've already seen it congratulations, and carry on enjoying it

dan_ball70 (2012-05-05 15:19)

enjoy the show, but i have many questions now that season 2 is over

1. Did Desmonds ex-girlfriend hire those two men to find the island. Ifshe did, than why were they in a snowy area? 2. Why have the main characters seen each other before in their life,before going onto the plane? 3. Are the men and woman that kidnapped jack,Michael,sawyer, and hurlerthe good guys like they say they are, or are they bad? 4. Why are their people watching everything the characters do while inthe hatch.(Since jack and the others found tubes with information onwhat people were doing in the hatch.)5. Are Locke, Desmond, and eko still alive after that explosion in thehatch?I know that these questions will be answered in season 3 so now illhave to wait.But if you haven't seen this show than you should at leasttry to watch one episode.(you can watch some episodes on ABC.com)