Lost Season 3 Discussion
Pittsey said:
Seems the creators of Lost are trying to bring the rest of the world inline with the US. By the next episode UK and US episodes will go out at roughly the same time. They were losing money by too many people downloading and not watching it on TV. Therefore networks wouldn't pay too much for the rights.
I need episode 4.
i'll bring more abc-lost-related news..
- the episode schedule utilized in season three seemingly worked even though it's not even fully tested, because abc are doing the same thing for season four - a mini-series followed by the rest of the season after a longer hiatus.
- once the show returns on february 7th, it will run seamlessly until the end of the season. no re-runs, no breaks, no nothing.
- a tv show called "day breaker" will take lost's place on television during the break, and lost-fans are encouraged to tune in because part of the day breaker promotional campaign is that they're gonna be showing sneak peeks of the upcoming lost episode some time during every day breaker episode (if i'm not mistaken).
- season 3 will have re-runs with additional footage in every episode that wasn't included in the initial airing. for instance, in the locke-centric episode there is a scene that involves a lot of police and police cars in locke and co's little haven. i've seen tons of behind the scenes photos from various scenes that never aired on television. one thing that i want to mention here that's pretty cool is that according to the people behind lost, you can count every deleted scene and unaired flashback on the dvd sets as part of the history that just didn't make the final cut. that doesn't mean it didn't happen in the lost lore, it just means you didn't see it on tv
- appearently, the hawaii premiere of "a tale of two cities" contained like what, half an hour of extra footage or something? it better be featured on the re-run!
so episode six was awesome. here's a small portion of an article which i think described the awesomeness of the cliffhanger perfectly:
If we were to examine this sociologically, I would be willing to bet that there is a common thread between old-school Star Wars fans, and the people who loved this episode; particularly ones who are old enough to have seen the first flick on it's original run.
Star Wars is this crazy thing. If you ask people why it was so successful, they say things like "the visual effects", "the music", etc. etc. Only a few people like Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers nailed it out of the chute: it was the combination of the purest elements of hero mythology mixed with the impossible-peril formula of 30's serials.
Impossible-peril is basically exactly what it says: nobody, but nobody, gets in this much trouble. The cinematic example that gets revisited over and over again is "The Perils of Pauline" which came out in 1914. The success of this serial was the completely unbelievable amount of dangerous situations this character found herself in and the Dickensesque "plot conveniences" that she escaped through. Why would something so unbelievable be so enjoyable? For the same reason sound in space and banking space-craft are enjoyable: they are too ridiculous to be dismissed. Things happen too fast, are cut too well, and there is such a staccato of plot redirections, that the idea that his much adventure could never manifest for one little group of characters doesn't really have time to take hold. That is what George Lucas injected into the core of Star Wars, and that is what beats at the heart of LOST as well, and it came to the front last night.
Face it, if we were given just another weird, inexplicable paradigm shift, wouldn't we all be chalking it up to "LOST" business as usual? Rather then give us what we expected, they left us where Louis J. Gasnier would have left us back in 1914, with our characters tied to a railroad track, steam engine barreling towards them, screaming for help as the iris constricted taunting us that we'd have to return at some future date to find out what happened. Did we really want another reality-shaking reveal? I'm with the gang that says no-more-mysteries, just keep the story moving forward.
i want to think that ben is on top of all these things, that he's got a grand master plan that incorporates all of what has happened so far this season. why? because michael emerson's character is the bomb, and he's very good at playing it, and so far we've been lead to believe that he is a master of manipulation. however, with every episode that's aired i'm starting to think maybe he actually just is some stupid guy who needs to have a tumor removed.
that sounds too easy though. it's been sixty-seventy days since the plane crashed on the island, and if they've been working on getting jack to operate on ben's tumor ever since then, then i don't really know what to say lol. then there's the people they kidnapped.
okay my faith is renewed thanks.
