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As I stated earlier, if you want to believe in a magical island with polar bears, ancient artifacts and immortals (et al) be my guest. Everyone "had to see it" because the show was a ratings grabber that earned an enormous amount of money for ABC. If the show had flopped, what we had seen would have been great abbreviated. |
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And this totally obviates the whole "Who you link yourself to in this world is who you have to find in the next to move on". If he just constructed it in a nano second before death, it completely dismantles that whole sentiment - one I find intriguing.
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Not once ever did someone change to another person or change clothes before our eyes. Never did anybody stray away from what they were doing on a completely unrelated tangent. All the minute detail we got in the show just doesn't happen in dreams. P.S. The comment that got me upset was the one about you (Dane) saying that you've talked to many people in the show business and not one of them has a different theory than you. You make it out to seem like we are lesser people when it comes to our opinion about Lost. Show me one person you talked to that was as into the show as me that you talked to. I bet you can't. |
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I still don't think I agree with your interpreation, if this is the case, but at least it makes more sense to me. |
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And this too.
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But, for the record, I don't think that being an "industry" person makes you any more or less qualified to interpret and/or appreciate the show than a "civilian." The obvious exception being, an "industry" person who wrote and/or created the show. |
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There's really no functional difference between a dream and whatever the mind constructs in the instant between life and death. Dane - you yourself seemed to understand this when you invoked the word dream many posts ago in the immediate aftermath of the finale with your defense line - Do people always wear the same clothes when they dream?
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Also if you don't want me to take it personally dint try and back up your claims with the support of Hollywood unless you are going to name names ad those names are people associated with the show Lost. |
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It seems that too many people are misinterpreting everything that I am stating and that people are becoming "angry" because they think I'm talking down to them. The bottom line is this: LOST was a show that existed on several levels. I see the show entirely through the eyes of ONE man: Jack. Other people see it differently and it appears that there is no common ground between the two, nor is there any reason for me to continue to reiterate myself repeatedly. |
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FYI - for those of you who aren't in the practice of studying literature or whatever - you support yourself based on the "text." What inside people think is fallacious reasoning. Basing an argument on what the author[s] even intended is fallacious reasoning (the intentional fallacy). What is the book/film/show actually saying?
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I've read forever throughout this thread that the producers had absolutely no idea where this show was going, and I repeatedly said that they did. It's not an insult. I wouldn't begin to try to tell an expert in auto mechanics or physics or nuclear engineering or any number of professions that they don't know what they're talking about. But I DO work in film & TV and I DO understand screenwriting and its process and I DO understand just about everything about this business. Again, I didn't mean to insult anyone but I'm kinda ****ing sick of being railed at for my understanding. |
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It's just tv. And I'm fine with other having different interpretations than I do. I guess I'm just not following the logic of your POV. |
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Believe me, sir, I also understand screenwriting. Very well. Since we both understand screenwriting and it's process so well, and we can't see eye to eye on this... what does that mean? |
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