Comments on: LOST Their Way? : Rudie Obias

By: Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:25:55 +0000

Joss Whedon is a great director, most of the science fiction series that i love are created by him.*~”

By: Keith

Keith — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:53:09 +0000

I don’t know what you were expecting. You can’t go on being mysterious forever. Sooner or later the mysteries need to be solved and answers need to be given.

By: Stan

Stan — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:32:45 +0000

I know I heard or read a qoute from Darlton sometime before season 5 started that they felt season 5 would be hard for some people to take. I think they meant that in the sense of the calm before the storm - having to move all the characters into place to set up season 6, the climax.

By: Raph

Raph — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:58:10 +0000

Sorry but if you thought the final scene of season 6 was a cheat then the final scene of season 1 was a cheat too.

By: Jwatari

Jwatari — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:28:55 +0000

James(Jrg1990) (A very good name BTW)

You have stated my opinion perfectly.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:12:34 +0000

As Eric says, the finale of season 5 being changed probably didn’t actually happen; people were just assuming that them stepping off the plane in LA or landing on the island again are the only two ways they could go, and so people are putting their THEORIES into the show itself.

Since when have people been that accurate on a major theory in lost? It’s one thing to guess at where the show is going. It’s another to say that they are doing a poor job because of what your theory says, when we haven’t even seen what’s to come.

By: BW

BW — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:21:42 +0000

Mystery will always be more engrossing than answers. That is the nature of imagination. That does not mean that Lost has lost it’s way at all. The brilliance of Season 1 created such a dense mystery that NO answer/payoff could ever be as satisfying as the search for the answer.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:16:58 +0000

Your theory that they changed the final scene of Season 5 because of fan backlash is a stretch at best.

By: ScottD

ScottD — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:27:01 +0000

While I agree the writers shouldn’t have killed of Nikki & Paulo just to please the fans I do think they have some sort of goal at least in mind. Perhaps they didn’t have the path to that goal mapped out but they did have a goal, they have stated that Adam and Eve’s bodies are proof of that goal.

I guess I was one of the few that didn’t mind Nikki & Paulo’s addition to the cast. Also I don’t think the writers should be blamed when the actor who played Eko and Danielle wanted off the show.

Honestly I loved the cliffhanger of Season 5, I do hope that Charlie’s death is some how justified at the end of this show. I didn’t like how his death has so far been made meaningless.

By: BrettR

BrettR — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:53:02 +0000

The mystery of the show is why people in general like the show. Even though every ounce of disbelief has to be suspended to make the show remotely plausible, we all still eat it up because of the mystery surrounding the characters and their element. Therefore, for most of us viewers, finding out the mysteries is fascinating at first, but that fascination is short-lived. In the end, knowing is unsatisfying.

Therefore, no matter how good the writing, production, acting, set design, pacing/editing, etc., there will be a large chunk of fans that will not like how it ends (and the revealed answers) no matter what. Unless they leave the mysteries in tact and disenfranchise the larger majority of the viewers (of which does not necessarily include the fans) who buy the advertised product.