tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36331360.post3793558497783721784..comments2023-10-12T05:09:46.380-04:00Comments on Guilty Displeasures: LOST's season finale: Maintaining the mystery through misdirection; or, Giving the audience what they thought they wantedneilshyminskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14745442660488961314noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36331360.post-19924046105835892742007-05-31T12:19:00.000-04:002007-05-31T12:19:00.000-04:00Hi Craig, thanks for dropping by!And I agree that ...Hi Craig, thanks for dropping by!<BR/><BR/>And I agree that S4 should be the new S1. It'll probably feature the island and its mysteries once more, but our sense of wonder and desire to see the Losties discover the island's secrets has been reinvigorated with the removal of the "will they or won't they get rescued???" question that was starting to overwhelm all else.<BR/><BR/>I like your t-shirt idea (I actually have a t-shirt with the numbers written across its front) and would counter with a t-shirt idea of my own: 'Locke was right' ;)neilshyminskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14745442660488961314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36331360.post-66649617382532072032007-05-30T22:50:00.000-04:002007-05-30T22:50:00.000-04:00Neil: I found my way here from Geoof Klock's blog....Neil: I found my way here from Geoof Klock's blog.<BR/><BR/>I am a huge fan of LOST. The show has made me really sit up and take note of what goes on underneath in terms of structure and theme. I also love the characters. I am into my fourth viewing of season 1. In Australia (where I live) Season 3 is past the halfway point, but I was incredibly excited by reading up on the S3 finale (I don't mind spoilers, as it's the long strange journey that's important). I am looking fwd to S3 DVD release, and I reckon that S4 will be the new S1 - but in a good way.<BR/><BR/>The reason I say that is with the Others/Hostiles largley defeated, it makes sense that the Losties will be rescued. It doesn't make sense to keep the Losties on the island back where they started: on the beach waiting to be rescued. This would be demoralising for them, and boring for the audience (and the writers), so it makes sense that the narrative will jump fwd in time to 2007 and tell, in flashback, what happens immediaetly after the final scenes of S3 finale.<BR/><BR/>Yeah, Lost is genius (that would make a great t-shirt). Thought I'd throw some comments in. Cheers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36331360.post-51913819187222473672007-05-28T21:12:00.000-04:002007-05-28T21:12:00.000-04:00anonymous: That would be too cute an ending, I thi...anonymous: That would be too cute an ending, I think. It would probably be perfectly appropriate, too - the whole show is about misdirection and disrupting expectation, leading us to believe that one book or obscure movie can explain everything before leading us in another direction altogether. To find out that none of it meant anything would be fitting. That said, I don't think they'd dare do it - if nothing else, Cuse and Lindelof have shown that they can read an audience and learn from them, and they've learned how to keep their audiences happy by giving them <I>just enough</I>. And that minimum level of satisfaction will require more than 'no deep meaning'.neilshyminskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14745442660488961314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36331360.post-40990065387161178092007-05-26T00:36:00.000-04:002007-05-26T00:36:00.000-04:00part of me is hoping that lost will end with there...part of me is hoping that lost will end with there being no real discernable reason for what the island was all about, meaning that there was no deeper meaning to anything and everything that was built up about the island and it's attraction to these characters and all this redemption of the human spirit thats going on isn't part of some master plan of the writers. it's all just sizzle, without the juicy steak. juicy steak. steak sandwich. with mushrooms.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36331360.post-60714549486457183092007-05-24T21:01:00.000-04:002007-05-24T21:01:00.000-04:00As someone has noted on a Lost forum, flashforward...As someone has noted on a Lost forum, flashforward is technically inaccurate. The show always begins and ends in the narrative present, flashing back in between. Since the show began and ended in 2007, this would make the details of the rescue in 2004 a flashback. So narrative time has already been re-oriented, and the flashback structure was not actually broken.neilshyminskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14745442660488961314noreply@blogger.com