I'm so Lost

[smeddley]

Thank goodness for the internet, otherwise I'd be completely confused. Can someone who watches Lost help me out?

So I'm only at the end of Season 3 - I have Season 4 on my DVR and I'll get to it soon, maybe it will help. But I have a few questions...

...okay, more than a few.

* How in the hell were we supposed to know those were flash-forwards Jack was having? After years of flashbacks telling the story, that wasn't really a logical conclusion to draw. I, for one, was confused.

* Especially since in one of the 'flash-forwards' he talks about getting his father - and says something about 'if I'm drunker than he is'. Wait, what, his father was dead... Before the whole plane-crash thing. Still makes no sense.

* Please tell me they don't mean the whole 'dead people' thing. That would be way to obvious and trite.

* Those bastards killed Charlie!

Seriously, could it get more confusing? If I need a flow chart (not to mention the time to re-watch every episode ten times to decode it) what fun is a TV show?! Really, this does not make me want to watch more. I can see why so many people were down on this show after the last season. It's really getting sucky. But I guess there's hope in that a lot of you also said it gets better in season 4. Man, I hope so, or that's a lot of my life wasted.

Also, do any of us really believe that they're ever going to tell us the whole, coherent story and explain everything?

Comments

[crimsonlotus84.livejournal.com]

I think that's why they call it Lost. You watch it and you don't know what the shit is going on.

[http://users.livejournal.com/anam_cara_/]

I haven't made it to season 3 myself, but came across this link awhile back...
5 Qs (http://www.cracked.com/article_15838_5-questions-lost-writers-need-answer-why-they-wont.html)

[aeamek.livejournal.com]

You weren't supposed to know it was a flash forward until the end.

What's the dead people thing you're talking about? I don't remember that part.

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

Okay, good, because I had to go back and re-watch it after I saw the scene with Kate and went, 'wait, what?'

Ben's mom on the island, mostly. Oh! And John's dad mentioned it, too, that he was in an ambulance and then *poof* on the island. And he said 'it's too hot for heaven'.

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

Man, they really do need to start answering questions. Like, yesterday.

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm not alone, because that is the most confusing show I've ever seen. It'd be fine if they'd at least solve a few mysteries, but I think the writers have gotten so far in over their heads they don't even know how to explain it all!

[aeamek.livejournal.com]

Oh, gotcha. Yeah, I don't think it's simply purgatory, or whatever they want to call it. I don't mind the inclusion of some sort of paranormal activity though.

[akirad.livejournal.com]

"Also, do any of us really believe that they're ever going to tell us the whole, coherent story and explain everything?"

Once they tell you everything the show's over. But rest assured, once everyone's sick of it and the ratings plummet, they'll rush out the ending just before it's cancelled.

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

Well, true. But honestly I can see them saying, 'Huh, viewer-ship is going in the crapper, let's just end it here. No, no, we don't have to tie up any pesky loose ends, let them figure it out.'

Only the joke's on us because it's impossible to figure out - they've put in so many weird twists and turns that there can't be a real explanation*. And even the writers don't know what they meant by it, it just poured out of the computer one night after a bad batch of burritos was delivered to the writer's room.

* I can speak with some authority on this, as I've had many stories that 'get away from me'. Sometimes 'Much Ado About a Giant Meteor' is the only way to go...

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

Well, it has to be somewhat paranormal, because of the black smoke thing. And the time issue.