Green Room - Week 27 - 4

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Thank you to kithan for stumbling in here over the weekend half out of her mind rambling about something or another!! I figured people would appreciate knowing that she was still alive and not locked in a dungeon somewhere that she couldn't see the sun for months at a time. *shakes head* Nope. That's not that case AT ALL. She's doing perfectly fine. Perfectly. fine.
No need to continue to search and rescue operations. :)

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So. Lost.
Some people loved it. Some hated it.
Some liked some parts but didn't like other parts. Some liked it emotionally but not intellectually.
And some people haven't seen it yet so they haven't made up their mind yet.
(and some won't be watching it at all)

The one thing I *can* say though is that something that *everyone* loves and appreciates are the topic threads!! 9 out of 10 dentists agree that an Idol topic thread is good for your teeth and gums!!

The Home Game: http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/343954.html
The Contestant thread: http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/342300.html

It's something that everyone can enjoy, and each piece end however it is that the writer wants them to end!!! :D

Comments

[kittenboo.livejournal.com]

I don't want to spoil things, but what the writers said wouldn't happen, didn't happen. I don't think a lot of fans predicted the end of the show back in season one. How could they? The sideways world didn't exist.

The island was the island, and it was all real.

Without the sideaways world the show on the island had a normal resolution, one that i don't think could have been completely predicted in season 1. And I thought that resolution was really good.

I'm not trying to be rude, I just am not sure where you are coming from saying the writers said this wouldn't happen. They simply said it wouldn't happen on the island. The ending only affects the sideways world, which has only existed for one season.

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

From a thematic literary perspective, it's exactly the same thing. Whether it happened on the island or another place doesn't refute the fact that they ended the show by copping out of trying to create a cohesive reality with a stereotypical "we're really in the afterlife" ending. To me, your argument is the same as a teenager who says they won't go to the home of a kid that their parents don't like, so they go to meet the same kid out behind the school. Fudging it to make it not identical doesn't make it not poor writing or not predictable.

[kittenboo.livejournal.com]

i guess we'll have to agree to disagree on that one. because i see it as two really different things. if it was true for the island then everytthing we saw, the entire show would have been false, meaningless. Like Newhart waking up and having his entire series be a dream. But it resolving the sideways world, while not the best option, really doesn't affect my view of the show as a whole. It maes me feel like the entire sideways world was sortof unnecessary, except in that it makes desmond want to go into the light on the island. Or in that it shows what kind of lives the characters could have had if Jacob had not been involved with their lives.

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

No, I get your perspective, I just don't agree with it, and that's cool. And I agree that the resolution on the island itself, of the island plot, was really good. And anyone who says that once episode is going to change the way they perceive six years of television is being a little silly. I haven't been happy with the last four or five, but that's not going to affect my feelings about the first season or the fifth season. But yeah, see, I don't like the fact that they constructed this really interesting alternate reality and then just dashed it away with a few minutes of expository dialogue. That's bad writing to me and it wasn't necessary. I would have preferred them to keep it open ended and leave everyone to come up with their own ideas about what the sideways world was, especially since there are some things that really bother me about the suggestion that that ending was the ending that was most important to all those people in the room-- especially Sayid's. Or, if that was what they were intending the ending to be, it would have been better if they had played it in such a way that the Christian Shepherd exposition wasn't necessary. I just hate when good TV and movies have to bring in a deus ex machina to explain everything rather than making it clear through the actions of the characters-- it's show, don't tell, and all.