TV Lost Discussion Thread [NO SPOILERS]

Started by Mikey, Jul 12, 2021, in Entertainment Add to Reading List

  1. Slyk
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    Slyk God made a prophet.

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    controversial opinion:
    The best 2 series ever made are Lost & Breaking Bad.

    Scoff at the inclusion of Lost next to BB, but what made it so great was that it was the most fun to watch, speculate, & discuss as it progressed.
    I think I started watching at season 4-ish and was nearly driven insane having to wait a week at a time to watch the next episode.
     
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    triple post:
    Prior to jumping in, I thought it was some sort of cheesy modern-day Gilligan's Island :emoji_sweat_smile:. My tiny brain didn't realize how tiny it was until I stumbled upon an episode while flipping through the channels and saw a re-run on SyFy. The scene that I stumbled across remains one of my top 10 favorite scenes in the series today.
     
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    I respect that, theres a lot of value in mindless entertainment, same reason TWD is one of my favorite shows ever but it fell in the same pit as Lost
     
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  4. Mikey
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    I think it is the best part.

    Locke confuses me. I dont know if he is complete weirdo or actually a decent guy.

    Shannon i find quite annoying.
    Sawyer is a great character. I can sense he was popular on RB back in the day. Edgy lol
     
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    Both of these shows were similar in that that they were such huge cultural moments that were fun to discuss each week and try to speculate on what was gonna happen. I love them both but neither can touch Sopranos, Mad Men, or The Wire imo.
     
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    have you found out about lockes thing yet, idr how far into the series its revealed
     
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  7. DKC
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    DKC hank trill

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    The last show to have that week to week cultural impact was Game of Thrones. And even tho I don't hold it in as high esteem as my top 3, I still really appreciate shows like that that are things I can talk about with virtually all social circles—family, friends, coworkers, twitter fam, sxn80 fam, etc.

    Succession is the only thing I can think of that has that potential, but idk if it'll ever appeal to an audience as wide as GOT, Breaking Bad, LOST.
     
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    the rendering on the title sequence always drove me batshit:
    upload_2021-7-13_11-33-1.png

    top of the "O" comes in as well a second later. shoddy & was never fixed
     
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    I watched this whole series last summer. It was a fun watch. It did start to creep into game of thrones territory as far as falling off in the later seasons.

    shout out to the polar bears. Also it was funny as f--- randomly listening to Memories by Weezer the other day, and seeing not only was Hurley on the cover of that album, they actually named the whole project after him lmao.
     
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    Yeah Locke had no feeling in his legs before the crash.
    It was his destiny
     
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    when you're ready, @M.I.C. dropped a couple Lost-inspired albums back in the day. The Constant, The Incident, and The Variable (the titles will make sense later)
     
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    Retro Fo also dropped a single called "I Love Lost" that's on youtube (won't post it here since it has mad spoilers in the track).
     
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    There will be no driveshaft slander in this thread

    You All Everybody was the biggest hit in the early 2000s
     
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    Ohhhh I forgot abt that sawyer locke thing too
    Link?
     
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    https://www.last.fm/music/M.I.C./The+Variable
    https://www.last.fm/music/M.I.C./The+Constant
    ...can't find The Incident.

    not sure how much of the content was inspired, or if it was just the title & covers themselves. maybe @M.I.C. will visit and bless us with the rundown
     
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    :bookah:
     
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    Don't disagree with this in the slightest
     
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    Man I want to watch this again not knowing what happens next.

    One of my favourite memories in life is sitting in the living room of the flat I shared with 4 other guys and all of us just enthralled by Lost every week. And then being left in complete awe at the end of every episode. More questions than answers all the time!
     
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    Prison Break seasons 1&2 are up there too!
     
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    I’m so used to modern “prestige TV” that it’s kinda jarring going back to Bush-era network TV tropes. The idea of 24 episodes in a season for a drama series is insane to me now.
     
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