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For what it's worth - the creators of the show have said from the very beginning that they had always invistioned a 5 season story arch. It wasn't until mid-way through season 3 that ABC granted the creators request by announcing an official end date. So, while many aspects of the show have been created as "filler" and the show does shift and adapt (like any good writing must, IMO) the overall arch of the show has been imagined since the beginning. Not every detail, obviously. But the what the show is and where it is headed has been present from the beginning. And from the beginning the show has had roughly 5 seasons of story to tell. The show was never meant to be just one or two seasons.
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And I think you're right (to a degree) about the arrows. They didn't need to run. But I'd be willing to bet that if someone started shooting flaming arrows at you, you'd ****ing run like hell too. Even if some scientist told you you didn't have to. It's instinct. |
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01-22-2009, 09:51 AM | #3318 |
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I was fairly annoyed by last night's episode. Moving an island through space AND time? Ugh.
I'm just waiting for somebody to utter the old Star Trek time-travel catchphrase: "We can't afford to start second-guessing ourselves now." It also seems apparent from the latest catch-up episode that Dominic Monaghan will have nothing further to do with the show - he wasn't shown in any of the clips, nor was Charlie's name mentioned. |
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IIRC didn't Desmond visit Farraday in a time jump last year? Why didn't he recognize him?
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01-22-2009, 11:14 AM | #3321 |
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I enjoyed it. Makes my head hurt, but I enjoyed it.
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And Desmond did recognize him. He has a line about it. Something like, "Don't I know you, brother?" |
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So now we know why Locke's leg gave out on him when he went to the plane with Boone, he was retracing the timespace where Ethan shot him.
A little more evidence that these guys MIGHT have a plan here.
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Short answer: You CANNOT go to a network, ask for a few million dollars per week for a television series without having a plan in place. Especially for a show as complex as "Lost". The creators have always known the beginning and the end to the series. It's been just a matter of time as to how long they have to fill in the blanks. As for the time travel thing, I mentioned that the whole show is based on time travel in the this very thread in either 2006 or early 2007. Everyone thought I was nuts. |
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People who have been paying attention haven't been thinking all those savants who said it was based on time travel were 'nuts.' They were trying to reconcile the showrunners saying it wasn't purgatory and was all based in nonsupernatural science with what they were seeing, which certainly hinted at either purgatory or time travel. Alpert not aging, getting big band on the radio, the black rock, endless other clues had others leaning the same way.
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Of course what Faraday said to Sawyer may have been meant to address the "changing the past" issue. Des never met Sawyer before the plane crash so that is proof that Sawyer could not have talked to Des at that moment in the past. No matter what. Maybe that was the point being made... See how time travel ****s everything up?! |
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I think the question about changing the past will be one of the paramount themes of the season. Remember that the episode started with Faraday in the past. Doing...something in the under-construction orchid station.
And I never expected to see Michelle Rodriguez on the show again, not even as a ghost. |
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