Bhairitu wrote: > TurquoiseB wrote: > >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> I'm a fan too. I'm glad they are going to extend it, I thought this >>> was going to be the end of the show. From the last show it almost >>> looks like a typical Hollywood glorification of people who believe >>> things without evidence. >>> >>> >> ARGGGGHHHHH !!! >> >> Ignore anything I may have said about this episode >> that didn't quite "fit" right with you having seen it. >> >> I've just heard that the episode was two hours long, >> and I only got the first half of it. Back to the >> drawing boards before I can comment further on some >> of the plot points you mentioned that I didn't seem >> to understand. >> >> ARGGGGHHHHH !!! (And not in a good Pirate way.) >> >> >> > <snip> > Good thing you mentioned that as I was planning to make some comments > VERY MUCH based on the second hour. :) Also having an HD copy of the > show I was able to freeze the frame where Jack looks at the newspaper at > the beginning and see exactly what he was looking at. Nuff said for now > .... ;) > > You should also locate the "Lost Answers" show that played last week as > well as before this weeks finale. It's a very interesting discussion > from the producers on how they do the show. They really don't know > where the show is going but unlike "24" are more talented and skilled at > producing a show that way. They take unanswered questions they > introduced even by accident in the series and create episodes from those > answering them. They treat the show as a mystery and I think it harkins > back to the way old radio mysteries were done (very much on the fly). > > The last few episodes have been a bit "Lost" meets "Las Vegas" with > Marsha Thomasson from the latter show's first couple of seasons showing > up and I thought could Mike Cannon be far behind? And there he was in > the finale! I kept expecting him to drop from the serious doctor > character into some of his typical LV humor. Now that you've seen the 2nd part of the finale you saw that Jack attended a funeral where no one else showed up. That was what was in the clipping he tore off. The obits were on the left column. I froze that frame and though I couldn't make out the name the number of letters were enough to be "John Locke." Which makes sense. We'll have to see. Of course "misdirects" are very much the art of screenwriting.
Maybe next season will take place mainland and with some "flashbacks" to the island. It was probably getting expensive to shoot in Hawaii and it may have made it difficult for the cast members to take other projects. I hear episode numbers have been cut to 18, I think. Sometimes I'm surprised the networks don't just do 6 or 8 since that is often what the BBC does with success. Of course we also had a little bit of "24" meets "Lost" as the brunette in the underwater place was on 24 a couple seasons in case you wondered where you had seen her before. Speaking of actors showing up on several series at the same time, Jack's sister-in-law on "24" also plays the politician's wife on "Heroes" which runs at the same time. :) BTW, Heroes topped the ratings over 24 for the finale. As for Ben "guru" thing I think the writers were going after his "father issues" that we saw in the episode that traced his arrival at the island with his father aptly played by Jon Gries. So we have a psychological archetype of someone neglected by his father and developing into a tyrant. I think the point of the finale was that Ben's luck ran out and no one would further believe him. Do you think that MMY had "father issues?" I don't, I just think he exploited Indian culture to his advantage which of course many Indians do and don't think much about it. Good gurus like the one I am studying with are more like "I've learned some stuff I'd be happy to show you." There are no control issues. Movie tips: "The Holy Mountain" and "El Topo" have been released on DVD and a very nice job of restoration done. I purchased "The Holy Mountain" as someone I knew back in the 1960's has a role in it. I rented "El Topo" for this weekend as I have never seen it.
