The Syndicate

Haha, yeah, sorry Matt.

If I recall, wasn't the 3rd season written amidst the writers strike that happened that year? That's the same year Heroes wrote it's 2nd, and unfortunately, dooming season.

I'd like to think that the writers had overarching themes and answers to their questions, but realized that their web was too tangled by season 4 and backtracked mostly to shore up the big questions. So while we had all these intricate mysteries as a fan base to meticulously pour over, there was no way in hell they could answer everything in only 6 seasons. Another season would have maybe answered those, but then it would have felt like it was dragging.

Zebra, I do so say give it a shot and just try to figure out mysteries as they happen. It's so much more of a journey than the solution. I mean, that's what Lost is, summed up: the journey and relationships you make on that road.

Scotty wrote:If I recall, wasn't the 3rd season written amidst the writers strike that happened that year? That's the same year Heroes wrote it's 2nd, and unfortunately, dooming season.

I'd like to think that the writers had overarching themes and answers to their questions, but realized that their web was too tangled by season 4 and backtracked mostly to shore up the big questions. So while we had all these intricate mysteries as a fan base to meticulously pour over, there was no way in hell they could answer everything in only 6 seasons. Another season would have maybe answered those, but then it would have felt like it was dragging.

Zebra, I do so say give it a shot and just try to figure out mysteries as they happen. It's so much more of a journey than the solution. I mean, that's what Lost is, summed up: the journey and relationships you make on that road.

Season four was writers strike.

Dom wrote:

Scotty wrote:If I recall, wasn't the 3rd season written amidst the writers strike that happened that year? That's the same year Heroes wrote it's 2nd, and unfortunately, dooming season.

I'd like to think that the writers had overarching themes and answers to their questions, but realized that their web was too tangled by season 4 and backtracked mostly to shore up the big questions. So while we had all these intricate mysteries as a fan base to meticulously pour over, there was no way in hell they could answer everything in only 6 seasons. Another season would have maybe answered those, but then it would have felt like it was dragging.

Zebra, I do so say give it a shot and just try to figure out mysteries as they happen. It's so much more of a journey than the solution. I mean, that's what Lost is, summed up: the journey and relationships you make on that road.

Season four was writers strike.

Woah. No way! That was my favorite season aside from the 1st! I can't believe it.

Thanks for the recommendations folks. I'm curious as to who I'm going to end up agreeing with the most.

First was the best season.

How ironic, my paranoia about being bandwagoned led to me being bandwagoned. I'm going to cite this game as evidence in every game where people think I'm being paranoid.

2nd was my favourite, but I think fourth really holds up after multiple viewings as mostly very strong.

In season three they had to have a 6 episode mini season followed by a break of several months. This feels affected by the writers strike, but was just the network. On the bright side, it made the show runners agree the end date because even they knew how much that 6 episode stretch sucked.

I loved season 5, one of the few to do so iirc.

S~V~S wrote:I loved season 5, one of the few to do so iirc.

THANK YOU!!!

Everyone's always lumping season 5 with 6, and I'm like "Whaaaa?"

Season 5 was awesome, and those final seconds in the finale...WOOT!!

Btw Bullzy, you best come out here and bow down to Queen Baddie Killa or I will have to continue sussing you in every game.

I haven't rewatched Lost in years, but all of this talk is making me want to....

Silly 6th season

Also, Zebra, I hope you do give it a shot. Fyi, I often flip flop on my feelings for the sixth season. I'm not going to go into details, but despite not liking it so much, I personally believe it picks back up in the final 4 episodes or so.

If the ending ending is good then I'll like it. I dislike the most of the second season of Twin Peaks but the very last episode is my favorite in the whole series.

Golden wrote:

Ricochet wrote:Lost didn't exactly fizzle out, but it derailed out of the fucking orbit of logic, narrative and any cinematic sensibilities and just got too addicted to a never-gonna-tell-ya style of mystery, mythology, murders and mindfarks. That's why I'm saying it became painful after the first 2 seasons, not after 5.

The first half of season 3 was lost at its worst... But arguably the second half of season 3 and season 4 were its peak. A lot of people gave up early in season three and I don't blame them, but I think it's still well worth persevering through.

I understand the objection to season 6. I don't agree, but I do understand why it's divisive.

This is how I feel as well.

That stretch from Left Behind to Through The Looking Glass is some of the best television out there. I found the worst parts of the show is when it became too enamored in its genre-- Mid-Late season two through early season three. There are a few exceptions, but in general, those episodes showed the weaknesses in the set up of the show.

I truly didn't mind not having every answer (or even close to all of them). The thing that bothered me most was Walt and his lack of resolution-- and that Nadia was fucked over in the afterlife.

The thing that bothered me most in the after life, and during the body of the show,

S~V~S wrote:The thing that bothered me most in the after life, and during the body of the show,

Spoiler: show

actually, was Sayid & Shannon.

He had this deep intense backstory about Nadia, the love of his life. The woman he risked it all for, and whose loss drove him into a spiral of despair. The fact that he hooked up with Shannon just seemed WRONG for him when it happened, but the fact that she was his eternal true love was such a huge *W*T*F* for me. Out of all the bitter awfulness of that ending, that irked me the most. He had his eternal, deep forged-in-fire true love, and he's spending eternity with a vapid beach bunny?

A big thing for me was

Epignosis wrote:

S~V~S wrote:The thing that bothered me most in the after life, and during the body of the show,

Spoiler: show

actually, was Sayid & Shannon.

He had this deep intense backstory about Nadia, the love of his life. The woman he risked it all for, and whose loss drove him into a spiral of despair. The fact that he hooked up with Shannon just seemed WRONG for him when it happened, but the fact that she was his eternal true love was such a huge *W*T*F* for me. Out of all the bitter awfulness of that ending, that irked me the most. He had his eternal, deep forged-in-fire true love, and he's spending eternity with a vapid beach bunny?

A big thing for me was

Spoiler: show

Jin forgetting that he was a father in the submarine.

I agree with both of these.

I still can't bring myself to rewatch Lost, I don't think I ever will be able to. I loved the show so much while it was on, but the culmination of events in Season 6 just tainted it.

Is there an MVP from this game?

Turnip Head wrote:Is there an MVP from this game?

Why yes, yes it does.

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