LOST - Season 6

  On 5/14/2010 at 1:47 AM, jules said:

love the graphs!! particularly the rage part. the color and style say it all. well done. moar please.

well, i don't really have anything else to say about LOST. it was disappointing

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:04 AM, kaini said:

well, i don't really have anything else to say about LOST. it was disappointing

At least you admit it. Most of these sad fuckers are still drinking the kool-aid!

Ive been busy, so I just got round to watching the last one. Bring on the end.

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:06 AM, The Overlook said:

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:04 AM, kaini said:

well, i don't really have anything else to say about LOST. it was disappointing

At least you admit it. Most of these sad fuckers are still drinking the kool-aid!

You're always drinking the COOL-aid.....

OOOOH!

Shut up and make more films, stop talking about anything....

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:04 AM, kaini said:

  On 5/14/2010 at 1:47 AM, jules said:

love the graphs!! particularly the rage part. the color and style say it all. well done. moar please.

 

well, i don't really have anything else to say about LOST. it was disappointing

 

lol. how does the mandlebrot correspond to the golden glow lake?

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:17 AM, Atop said:

Shut up and make more films, stop talking about anything....

No money. There's only Avatar and YouTube these days. There's nothing in the middle.

Television is getting ready to turn to shit, too. Everything is just dictated by the real time response of fans/idiots as they log onto Facebook to talk about their addiction. "OMG BEST EPISODE EVER, I LOVE THIS SHOW" etc. etc. etc.

I remember when X-Files producers decided to name a character after one of their biggest online internet enthusiasts. That was the death knell for television. These shows are so wildly popular that $$$ starts dictating the outcomes of storylines.

None of these American shows know how to bow out gracefully while on top because producers are too fucking greedy and the fans are too slavishly devoted to care one way or the other.

*last post*

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:06 AM, The Overlook said:

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:04 AM, kaini said:

well, i don't really have anything else to say about LOST. it was disappointing

At least you admit it. Most of these sad fuckers are still drinking the kool-aid!

how many things that run for a long time do end satisfyingly, though?

off the top of my head i can only think of the sopranos and six feet under

and six feet under was starting to drop the ball in the last season, so cut it

which probably made it most affecting ending ever for me

maaaan, i bawled my fuckin eyes out at it, it destroyed me.

i rewatched the last episode of the sopranos lately

it is incredible. the setup for the last scene - it is art.

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:23 AM, kaini said:

 

 

how many things that run for a long time do end satisfyingly, though?

 

off the top of my head i can only think of the sopranos and six feet under

and six feet under was starting to drop the ball in the last season, so cut it

which probably made it most affecting ending ever for me

maaaan, i bawled my fuckin eyes out at it, it destroyed me.

best ending to any show ever. i cried like a 5 year old who watched their puppy get run over. i still fight it when i watch it again. sometimes that song comes on on shuffle and every once in a while

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:23 AM, kaini said:

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:06 AM, The Overlook said:

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:04 AM, kaini said:

well, i don't really have anything else to say about LOST. it was disappointing

At least you admit it. Most of these sad fuckers are still drinking the kool-aid!

 

how many things that run for a long time do end satisfyingly, though?

 

off the top of my head i can only think of the sopranos and six feet under

and six feet under was starting to drop the ball in the last season, so cut it

which probably made it most affecting ending ever for me

maaaan, i bawled my fuckin eyes out at it, it destroyed me.

The UK Office. Why? It was short, sweet, and pitch-perfectly punctuated by the two part x-mas special. Then of course.......there's the fucking American one. It sucked right out of the gate, but it has gone on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on.....

Most television shows are horrible for the last few seasons as the flavor leaves the chewing gum.

The Sopranos was interesting because Season 5 was outstanding, but seriously, Season 6 was almost unwatchable.

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:27 AM, jules said:

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:23 AM, kaini said:

 

 

how many things that run for a long time do end satisfyingly, though?

 

off the top of my head i can only think of the sopranos and six feet under

and six feet under was starting to drop the ball in the last season, so cut it

which probably made it most affecting ending ever for me

maaaan, i bawled my fuckin eyes out at it, it destroyed me.

 

 

best ending to any show ever. i cried like a 5 year old who watched their puppy get run over. i still fight it when i watch it again. sometimes that song comes on on shuffle and every once in a while

i was walking my son down to his school bus the morning after the repeat of the sopranos ending, and we got to talking about show endings. i teared up just talking about the end of six feet under. just thinking about it...

I dunno how anybody could follow that Kevin Finnerty shit....good lord, that was awful.

Sopranos ending is overrated imo....

The Walking Dead should be fun....

Breaking Bad is pretty fucking good...

at least Lost is ending and not going on forever, whether or not you like the ending or the show or whatever....

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:29 AM, The Overlook said:

The UK Office. Why? It was short, sweet, and pitch-perfectly punctuated by the two part x-mas special. Then of course.......there's the fucking American one. It sucked right out of the gate, but it has gone on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on.....

 

Most television shows are horrible for the last few seasons as the flavor leaves the chewing gum.

 

The Sopranos was interesting because Season 5 was outstanding, but seriously, Season 6 was almost unwatchable.

agreed on the office. if every series director had the restraint of ricky and stephen, telly would be a more watchable thing.

disagree on the last season of the sopranos, though. if chase didn't make fairly extreme changes, i don't think he could have ended it in a way that was acceptable to the largest demographic in his viewers, and the network interference was there and visible right down to them not allowing him as much black as he wanted at the end. i found the last couple of episodes very affecting, particularly the mescaline one (I GET IT! - i think tony finally actually did there), and the very last one. that last scene with junior absolutely fucking killed me when i watched the repeat.

Wouldn't most Lost fans agree it has gone at least two years longer than it should have?

I mean, come on, between the flashbacks and tedious, reconstituted cliffhangers, the story unfolded at a glacial pace.

I watched two seasons very quickly and I literally wanted to skip entire "fluff" episodes when I could tell the writers were AFK and just milking things.

"Let's have an episode where Locke and Walt discuss the rules of backgammon for 30 minutes so we can postpone resolving other story issues."

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:35 AM, kaini said:

disagree on the last season of the sopranos, though. if chase didn't make fairly extreme changes, i don't think he could have ended it in a way that was acceptable to the largest demographic in his viewers, and the network interference was there and visible right down to them not allowing him as much black as he wanted at the end. i found the last couple of episodes very affecting, particularly the mescaline one (I GET IT! - i think tony finally actually did there), and the very last one. that last scene with junior absolutely fucking killed me when i watched the repeat.

I admittedly gave up on Season 6 and didn't even finish it. I will do that some day.

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:29 AM, The Overlook said:

The UK Office. Why? It was short, sweet, and pitch-perfectly punctuated by the two part x-mas special. Then of course.......there's the fucking American one. It sucked right out of the gate, but it has gone on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on.....

 

Most television shows are horrible for the last few seasons as the flavor leaves the chewing gum.

I hate most sitcoms but the American Office seems to make laugh my ass off almost every episode.....

I have never laughed once at the British version.....

I love a lot of britcoms...

You make me feel weird Ben....

ill-at-ease

maybe that is why you love The Shining so much....

you should adapt a Lovecraft story, but done well unlike all of the other attempts....

I think you could do horror well....

woo! one of my next two projects will be a bit of a "horror" film...albeit on a shoestring budget...and the other one I'm working on is a fairy tale with a talking turtle....

Yeah that "we need to go back" was really not needed.

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:38 AM, The Overlook said:

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:35 AM, kaini said:

disagree on the last season of the sopranos, though. if chase didn't make fairly extreme changes, i don't think he could have ended it in a way that was acceptable to the largest demographic in his viewers, and the network interference was there and visible right down to them not allowing him as much black as he wanted at the end. i found the last couple of episodes very affecting, particularly the mescaline one (I GET IT! - i think tony finally actually did there), and the very last one. that last scene with junior absolutely fucking killed me when i watched the repeat.

I admittedly gave up on Season 6 and didn't even finish it. I will do that some day.

if you want, just watch the last episode. i think it's the only one chase actually directed besides the first?

if you really want to condense, just watch the last scene in the restaurant, even. it pissed off so many people lol.

i thought it was incredible, and for even for a show symbolism-heavy enough to inspire worthless MA courses, it is heaving with a zillion references.

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:42 AM, Philip Glass said:

Yeah that "we need to go back" was really not needed.

So did they like get off the island finally but returned because it was so fun?

Even if it had of ended 3 seasons ago, there still wouldnt have been an ending. Shit, I keep starting sentences trying to put my finger on just how grim that last episode was, but wtf, where do you start.

Lost, that is ^

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:42 AM, Philip Glass said:

Yeah that "we need to go back" was really not needed.

i thought the "we have to go back" moment was brilliant. it was wtfs like that that made the show so addictive.

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:41 AM, The Overlook said:

woo! one of my next two projects will be a bit of a "horror" film...albeit on a shoestring budget...and the other one I'm working on is a fairy tale with a talking turtle....

nice....

read some Lovecraft if you haven't....

minimal for the most part....

all short stories, cept At the Mountains of Madness (a novella)...

and I know you question my taste but trust me on this....

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:43 AM, The Overlook said:

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:42 AM, Philip Glass said:

Yeah that "we need to go back" was really not needed.

So did they like get off the island finally but returned because it was so fun?

No, the 'island' was fucking with their lives, so they had to go back...

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:48 AM, Atop said:

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:41 AM, The Overlook said:

woo! one of my next two projects will be a bit of a "horror" film...albeit on a shoestring budget...and the other one I'm working on is a fairy tale with a talking turtle....

 

nice....

 

read some Lovecraft if you haven't....

 

minimal for the most part....

 

all short stories, cept At the Mountains of Madness (a novella)...

 

and I know you question my taste but trust me on this....

I don't question your taste at all. You're just more....generous...than I am. That's not to be confused with bad taste.

  On 5/14/2010 at 2:50 AM, Atop said:

No, the 'island' was fucking with their lives, so they had to go back...

Okay, I'm gonna have to on that one, but since I only got through the first two seasons before getting bored with the show, I'll shut up about it. Whatever blows y'all's skirts up!

it was their destiny