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thefoxboy 
"Four your eyes only."
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 Posted - 06/14/2007 : 23:57:43
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
(I did like Gilligan's Island, but all the absurd stuff could be laughed away because it was a comedy. This just sounds more absurd than absurd.)
My favourite childhood show, I can't wait till thefoxcub gets to the age that we can sit together and watch all 3 seasons on DVD.  |
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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 06/15/2007 : 08:04:23
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Originally posted by thefoxboy
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
(I did like Gilligan's Island, but all the absurd stuff could be laughed away because it was a comedy. This just sounds more absurd than absurd.)
My favourite childhood show, I can't wait till thefoxcub gets to the age that we can sit together and watch all 3 seasons on DVD.
Really? I can think of many comedy shows that were better than that one, but to each his own.
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ragingfluff 
"Currently lost in Canada"
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Posted - 09/18/2007 : 21:47:24
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I don't watch "Lost", but I have found myself drawn in now and again, but friends of mine who are die-hard fans are at a loss (no pun) to explain it. I watched the first two episodes of the first season and decided I couldn't commit to watching week in, week out to a series that has polar bears rampaging in the jungle.
I'd given several years of my life to "The X Files" and watched it get progressively sillier and less rewarding each week; I wasn't set for that again. I stopped watching "Prison Break" after they first broke out of prison for similar reasons. "Lost" is either brilliant TV or ludicrous.
I read something to the effect that the people who write the show don't really know where it's going, but they've given themselves three more yars to figure it out. From the few times I've stumbled on it, I have no idea if the people on the island are dead or alive or in purgatory. One of the show's producers has suggested that the key to the whole thing lies in the books that Sawyer reads, and they point to Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman as VERY IMPORTANT. Well, SPOILER AHEAD:
in the Third Policeman, the protagonist is dead and he is in a version of Hell.
(by the way, am I the only one who thinks that given the selection of books amid the wreckage of the plane, this was the most literate passenger manifest in the history of air travel?? Not a DaVinci Code or a Harry Potter or a John Grisham among them???)
If they are dead and haunting the island, then perhaps all of LOST is simply a rip off of a film called SOLE SURVIVOR with William Shatner...
Ali is a fan, obviously, and from the sounds of it, cares deeply for the show. i admire his commitment to the TV series, but I'll stick with HEROES (which, if it starts getting silly, I'll drop like a rock)
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TitanPa
"Here four more"
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Posted - 09/19/2007 : 04:47:02
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Originally posted by ragingfluff
Ali is a fan, obviously, and from the sounds of it, cares deeply for the show. i admire his commitment to the TV series, but I'll stick with HEROES (which, if it starts getting silly, I'll drop like a rock)
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Sal[Au]pian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 09/19/2007 : 11:42:37
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I really love Lost, ludicrousness included.
Radio 1 one day gave away that Charlie dies. I didn't hear that, but the next day they apologised for giving away who dies. As I didn't know that anyone significant dies, this was a terrible spoiler too, especially as Charlie's death is not exactly out of the blue (though in the blue). Still, as long as Sawyer stays alive, I'll be happy.
I hope something is done with them having buried two people alive: it would be really vexing if they were just forgotten about, but I doubt they will be.
N.B. I got a black Motorola RAZR in Britain in July/August 2005, when it had just come out. The silver one came out here at about the beginning of that year. |
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Sal[Au]pian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 09/19/2007 : 11:43:36
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Originally posted by ragingfluff
I'll stick with HEROES (which, if it starts getting silly, I'll drop like a rock
I like Heroes too, but if it starts getting silly...?!! |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 09/19/2007 : 12:21:11
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by ragingfluff
I'll stick with HEROES (which, if it starts getting silly, I'll drop like a rock
I like Heroes too, but if it starts getting silly...?!!
Yes... well... the end of season one has what looks like a promo for season two, which makes everything up until then look very reasonable. So I'm not sure I'll be tuning into much of season two when it comes on here. Since season two only airs in the USA next week, I think we'll have a little wait for that. But I will certainly give it one or two episodes.
As for "Lost", I don't think they ever put it on here - at least not on my TV package. Of course, we never got to see "Rome" because we don't subscribe to the company that shows it, which I think is a shame, but I don't feel the least deprived about "Lost" - doesn't seem like I would care for it much. And anyway, I'm not changing over - I get "Desparate Housewives", "Gray's Anatomy", "Heroes", "Robin Hood", "Dirt", "Shark", "Criminal Minds", "Cold Case", and a whole slew of other shows that they don't, so I'll forgive them not getting me "Rome". |
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Ali 
"Those aren't pillows."
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Posted - 09/19/2007 : 13:32:09
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I, too, like Heroes, but it is a not a great show by any means.
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ragingfluff
"Currently lost in Canada"
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Posted - 09/19/2007 : 14:51:01
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by ragingfluff
I'll stick with HEROES (which, if it starts getting silly, I'll drop like a rock
I like Heroes too, but if it starts getting silly...?!!
Well, yes, I mean flying politicians, exploding men, invisible men, really hot underage girls that are indestructible, really hot women that have split personalities, men who can walk through walls, chubby police officers who can hear people's thoughts, heroin addicts that can paint the future (heroin addicts that still manage to remain good-looking), time-space continuum fabric-tearing Japanese salarymen....all of this is fairly realistic. 
Making up a story about weapons of mass destruction as an excuse to finish a war your daddy started and get your oil-hungry friends access to billins of barrels of crude oil...now that is such a silly storyline nobody would believe it and it wouldn't get beyond the pilot episode 
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Stalean
"Back...OMG"
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Posted - 09/19/2007 : 15:33:37
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by ragingfluff
I'll stick with HEROES (which, if it starts getting silly, I'll drop like a rock
I like Heroes too, but if it starts getting silly...?!!
Yes... well... the end of season one has what looks like a promo for season two, which makes everything up until then look very reasonable. So I'm not sure I'll be tuning into much of season two when it comes on here. Since season two only airs in the USA next week, I think we'll have a little wait for that. But I will certainly give it one or two episodes.
As for "Lost", I don't think they ever put it on here - at least not on my TV package. Of course, we never got to see "Rome" because we don't subscribe to the company that shows it, which I think is a shame, but I don't feel the least deprived about "Lost" - doesn't seem like I would care for it much. And anyway, I'm not changing over - I get "Desparate Housewives", "Gray's Anatomy", "Heroes", "Robin Hood", "Dirt", "Shark", "Criminal Minds", "Cold Case", and a whole slew of other shows that they don't, so I'll forgive them not getting me "Rome".
You can get "Rome" on dvd now, anyway. I watched "Cold Case" for a year and couldn't take Kathryn Morris's hairstyle any longer.  |
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Sal[Au]pian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 09/19/2007 : 15:43:37
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Originally posted by ragingfluff
heroin addicts that still manage to remain good-looking
Yes, thank goodness. |
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benj clews 
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Posted - 09/19/2007 : 20:28:29
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Originally posted by ragingfluff
I read something to the effect that the people who write the show don't really know where it's going, but they've given themselves three more yars to figure it out.
I heard the exact opposite! Seems like the making of the show is as mysterious as it's subject...
As I heard it, the big story was in place from the off (but how you can keep people from guessing it over the course of 7 years with small clues being slipped in there every week, I have no idea). They weren't really sure how many seasons would be written but, because of the scale of this, it really wasn't an option to be cancelled after one season.
After that I heard sometime during season two that the writers had enough back stories worked out to run for at least another 4 years. Certainly though, the way stories in the past often cross rather intricately things at least seem pretty well planned out in advance.
Sadly, I'll have to bail on this thread soon for fear of spoilers... I stupidly signed up with Virgin Media as my TV provider here in the UK for the next 12 months not realising that, due to legal wrangles, they don't supply the channel which shows Lost, 24, Nip/Tuck or The Simpsons.
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Lost - Season Three (Huge Spoilers)
