Posted on 02/29/2008 9:28:28 AM PST by Scythian
It definitely has not jumped the shark. This season has been great. My husband has not liked it as much as I have, but he says it has gotten much better this season.
The new characters are interesting, and the time travel aspects are interesting.
Lost is a sci-fi soap opera.
Whether he’s right nor not, this is fascinating...but there be spoilers ahead...
Wow. That’s a great site! I think this guy really has it figured out.
It’s science fiction. There are no time loops. There is no time travel.
Have watched all LOST shows since 1st episode.
A cross btw. two great TV shows :
Gilligan’s Island & X-Files
Complex it no doubt is, but are you sure it can’t be boiled down to a paragraph? I mean, pretty much any literary work or motion picture can be reduced to an essence, no matter how complicated they seem on the surface.
My son is 13 now, and he’s been wanting to watch lost for awhile. He’ll see my husband and I watching it, and he’ll ask tons of questions. It was so complicated, and I couldn’t answer his questions.
I finally told him that it was okay for him to watch it, but he should start from the beginning.
He watches it online, and he is now on season 3. He loves it!!!!! He really liked Heroes before he started watching lost, but now Lost is his favorite.
I’m really looking forward to him being caught up to us, so he can watch it with my husband and me.
booky marky for later
Lost has had over 100 hours of shows, and it is very complex. I could summarize it into something simple:
A plane crashes on an island and strange things start happening to the survivors.
After that, it is way to complex. You could write a whole essage just on one of the characters.
I don’t know of anything quite like it.
That’s supposed to be essay not essage.
I finally went to this guy’s website and I think I get it now - it’s all explained by a time travel conundrum. Which is perfect sci-fi material.
Have you read “The Saragossa Manuscript” by Jan Potocki? It’s a classic of interlocking stories that are initially baffling. If you like Lost, I think you’d like it as well.
Of course there’s time travel. We all travel through time every millisecond. Changing speed and direction is the problem.
We have started to let our son watch it too, it’s good for his mind, causes one to think and think deeply, I couldn’t agree more. It’s as close to reading a book as one can get, and my son reads all the time too.
Is it something a 13 year old can read? I’ll have to read it, but it also sounds like something my son would like.
I would like to see a sci-fi soap opera take on the "If there is a good God, then why is there evil?" question. I'm not sure what device could be used for the story, but it would have to take on the utopia-distoptia dichotomy. I think Star Trek did a lot of harm with naively representing a relatively problem-free utopian society.
I’m still holding to the theory that they’re in purgatory, waiting to be judged.
I wish there were more shows like this on TV. The language is okay, they don’t show too much sex, and you have to think.
So many shows are just mindless.
I also like Battlestar Galactica. We haven’t let our son watch that one yet. It has a little too much sexual themes in it, and the language is rougher. However, when he’s old enough I know my son will like it.
Time speed manipulation isn't out of the realm of possibility. Going really fast through time relative to someone else is a matter of nearing the speed of light or a very heavy planet. Actually going back in time is the real point of time travel stories. You can go forward by many means, including freezing yourself and unfreezing later. But the other direction is where things get difficult.
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