lost season 5

when did sinicalypse change his name to catsonearth?

how are you just now noticing that i make long ass posts? i've been posting large chunks of text here for almost 10 years now (sad, but true). how is it still surprising?

and why is everybody thrown off by the length of my posts? it's not like i'm dropping tons of huge complex words. they're pretty easy to read. i just don't see the point in posting if you aren't actually going to say anything.

  catsonearth said:

how are you just now noticing that i make long ass posts? i've been posting large chunks of text here for almost 10 years now (sad, but true). how is it still surprising?

 

and why is everybody thrown off by the length of my posts? it's not like i'm dropping tons of huge complex words. they're pretty easy to read. i just don't see the point in posting if you aren't actually going to say anything.

That's as far as I got.

  catsonearth said:

i'm down with the whole egyptian mythology thing, but uhhh, kinda seems tacked on, yea? the egyptian angle hasn't been there from the start, has it? as far as i know, they just started showing those temples with the hieroglyphics on them this season, right? i mean, ben went into the secret passage that had some glyphs on it at the end of last season, but was this present back in season 1, 2 or 3?

ever since season 2 in the hatch

  David R James said:

  Squee said:

 

This was a pretty epic moment i thought.

seconded! a taste of things to come. even before i saw the episode, i saw the screengrab and started shitting bricks; my girlfriend had no idea why though. pft.

  catsonearth said:

i guess it just pisses me off because now it's starting to tread dangerously close to a novel i've been working on for the past 4-5 years. when the show started, the only connection was that they were both set on an island that is kinda hidden from the rest of the world, but now that they're throwing in time travel (not a huge part of my story, but it is there), wormholes/portals and the ancient civilizations with high technology/magic it's like...ok, i wish you guys would have shown some hint that this was where shit was going several years ago and maybe i would have done my shit differently. i mean, the stories are completely different and the style is not at all similar, so i'm not too worried about it, but now i'm going to have to deal with people saying "oh, you mean like on lost?" when i start describing the basic premise to them and that's not exactly the kind of comparison i'm looking for. fuckin' bastards.

oh yay coe lost fan fic coming to all good bookshops everywhere that books are sold soon

  catsonearth said:

and really, the whole not showing people on camera for a few seconds to build suspense thing is getting really fucking overused on this show. how many times can it happen in one season? in one episode? the sawyer one was one of the worst of the batch so far. he's got such a distinct voice that there's no mystery. as soon as he says one word you know it's sawyer, so what's the point of doing the mysterious reveal? i just don't get that.

yeah worst one so far. normally they put on a slightly different voice. i remember a ben one where it sounded nothing like him but in this episode you knew it was going to be sawyer and then his voice confirmed i and thn th do their little reveal and the sort of people who phone 911 when mcdonalds run out of nuggets throw their hands in the air.

its so damn lazy. its almost like the writers are pissed they had to stretch it to 6 seasons and just arent trying

  rocky path said:

ever since season 2 in the hatch

so the hatch is egyptian?

Ahhhh, the next epys is 2 weeks away, why do they have to do this?

  Benedict Cumberbatch said:

  rocky path said:

ever since season 2 in the hatch

 

so the hatch is egyptian?

  Benedict Cumberbatch said:

  rocky path said:

ever since season 2 in the hatch

 

so the hatch is egyptian?

...yea, i'm not remembering anything egyptian about the hatch. the day-glo writing on the door (remember when the show was actually cool?) referenced some greek mythology, but i don't remember any egyptian.

EDIT: ah, i see, you meant the countdown clock thingy. i guess that counts, but i was thinking more about the ancient stuff that's just recently been popping up in the show. the temples and the thing in ben's house that are obviously super old, but no one seemed to encounter them until recently.

Yeah, also remember that a couple of episodes after that was when we first saw the four toed statue. Way back in season 2, huh.

Something tells me ol' smokey is egyptian related too. All ancient mystical Tutankhamun's curse like.

The writers just used randomwebsite.com and what came out was the Black Rock, Back to the future, Egyptian history, and the Bible.

i think they probably just threw a bunch of shit out there in the beginning so they'd have a lot of options to figure it out later.

I thought I saw Sawyer, I mean Jim LaFleur's beard disappear in a couple of scenes, but now I think it was just the lighting and the camera angle.....

And I wonder which god that is a statue of, I am thinking Horus...b/c of the character Horace and the fact that he is the coolest Egyptian god next to Thoth....

I also thought I saw a boat and a shark in the background of the last scene....

frustrating episode but at least we saw the statue.....

and hopefully the shit will start moving forward instead of berating us with mystery which is what I think the show will continue to do until the last episode of the 12th season...

god, I hope not....

  Atop said:

and hopefully the shit will start moving forward instead of berating us

Ive hoped that every season

the end will be something Kaufmanesque like the whole thing being film adaptation of catsonearth novel or something. and coe's post on watmm will be included at some point.

Its gona be a big anti climax u can sense it. We might aswell give up now.

i'll watch till the second to last episode.

HARDCORE!

  GORDO said:

the end will be something Kaufmanesque like the whole thing being film adaptation of catsonearth novel or something. and coe's post on watmm will be included at some point.

this whole forum is a part of the lost alternate reality game.

joyrex is jacob.

the god in the statue is weed.

omg then weed will turn out to be aphex twin.

i agree that for some reason sawyer loves to try and gobble up jack's sloppy seconds.

was the baby born supposed to be ben? wasn't he the only baby born on the island that stayed alive?

  jules said:

i agree that for some reason sawyer loves to try and gobble up jack's sloppy seconds.

 

 

was the baby born supposed to be ben? wasn't he the only baby born on the island that stayed alive?

no, ben was born off the island.

Yeah, we saw Ben's birth scene already.. Season 3. Off island.