The Syndicate

Spacedaisy wrote:I want to watch Westworld, but I don't have HBO or whatever pay channel it is on. :pouts:

Tis why I just wait to get DVDs for everything.

The next generation is side-eyeing my DVD collection and calling me an old man.

MovingPictures07 wrote:So Annie and I did a rewatch over the last few months, and finally got to the finale this past weekend. To my incredible surprise, I actually liked it. I stayed away from rewatching the show for so long because I fell into the 'increasingly unhappy with the finale' side of the camp, but I just watched the show and stopped demanding all of the answers, and I liked it. I can't believe it.

I always liked it. Nice to have another person who has moved to my side of the ledger.

I don't think season six is the best season - too much filler for me. But I liked it's basic storyline and endpoint. I liked the flash-sideways. And I liked the much maligned Across The Sea, which was basically the writers way of saying 'we've given you answers, but you just ask more questions' - it set out their philosophy, and I was cool with it.

Today I discovered that Lost has the same birthday as one of my other very favourite shows, The West Wing! So I can celebrate both of them at once

Claire. It was always Claire.

Honorable mention to the version of Eloise Hawking that was in Jughead.

timmer wrote:I'd have listed Ana Lucia but I like to pretend that the tail section never existed. Easily the worst part of the show.

But I really liked Mr Eko (until the actor ballsed it up) and Bernard.

I never minded Kate as much as other people. Her flashback episodes were usually the weakest, though, so I don't think that helped. Jack was definitely my least liked for most of the show, although season 5 and 6 Jack I didn't mind so much. He mellowed out.

I loved Henry Gale in season 2 but I didn't much like Ben's character in season 3 (or is it that I didn't like Locke's arc in season 3, and it was Ben's fault? Hard to say - the whole others thing just didn't work so well for me). Then he felt he regained his mojo in season 4.

I also didn't love Ana. Ilana and Charlotte could have been good if we'd had a proper flashback of them - in the end they both just felt wasted for the most part, although I never disliked either.

And here I will be at my most controversial... I wasn't much of a Juliet fan. I really liked her early season 3... possibly all of season 3, maybe. But, I never bought her romances with Jack OR Sawyer. Especially with Sawyer. I feel like the story would have benefitted from her getting off the island in season 4 and coming back somehow to help the end game but without her Sawyer relationship. I know I'm in a pretty sizable minority with that.

Otherwise, I liked all the major characters.

timmer wrote:I'll always love this show. I love it in a way I've never loved a show, it is anchored to my damn heart. And sure, there are odds and ends that don't fit, and the polar bear is silly, etc. but the thrust of it is just so grand, nothing's ever been so emotional on the TV in this way. And the music... ugh, I almost tear up just playing it in my head.

Brilliantly said, timmer. The show is a part of me in a way that can only make sense to others who truly know. It's great we still have this community with one limb still firmly rooted in our shared Lost background.

Indeed, LoRab. It brought so many of us together, eh?

Neverwhere wrote:I remember being quite disappointed with the ending when I initially watched it. I was expecting more in some ways.

Last year I went and rewatched the entire show and I think I enjoyed it more than I did the first time. When it was airing I found the middle couple of seasons boring, but I actually enjoyed them all right the way through. Being able to watch them one after the other with no breaks or wait periods really highlighted just how incredible the character development on this show really was. When I was able to see it all more clearly like that, the ending didn't bother me as much.

I was actually scrolling through the forum looking to see if there would be a LOST mafia game going.

A decent chunk of this site originally starting playing mafia on a Lost fan site (including me). The island brought us together, or something.

I remember when sophie was called sophie_locke!

I agree Zeek. Plus, I don't think Locke was 'just' a pawn. I think his death was a significant part of the reason that the island was ultimately able to be saved.

Long Con wrote:It was the trick they pulled with the flash-sideways... They pretended it was an alternate reality where the Island had blown up in the 70s, but it was really just the Afterlife. I would have really loved it if it had been an alternate timeline in which the Losties were actually getting memories from another timeline from near-death experiences.

It would have been perfect. It would have saved Boone. It would have meant that the plan for which Juliet gave her life actually worked, and been a happy ending. Instead , everyone just died and went to heaven together, as though nothing BUT the Island had ever been important in their lives.

Maybe it's just because I'm religious, but I got the same feeling from the actual ending that LC would have gotten from his.

That is, Boone was saved, and Juliet did give her life for something, and everyone did get their happy ending. And I kinda get what you are saying when you say "as though nothing BUT the Island had ever been important in their lives" LC. But wasn't that the point of the final season - to tell us that they were all people without anything, all lost in the real world, and that the island was the only thing that was important in their lives?

Everyone is gonna love the finales they love and hate the ones they hate. I tend to love the ones everyone else hates lol. I loved the end to Lost. I loved (most of) the end to Battlestar Galactica... except the very end bit (I'll avoid spoilers on BG in a Lost thread). I loved the end of How I met your mother... perhaps I'm just crazy.

I didn't think the final season of Lost was perfect by any stretch, but I did like the finale.