LOST

[Bells]

So, is anyone catching up with season 4?

Im watiching season 3 and 4 at the same time here (quite the experience actually) and i just want to see where this goes... they need a pretty big "BANG" for this show because there is so much "WTF" factors here that an anti-climax is a show-in if the writers loose their grip.

or have they already?

[Lumenskir]

Im watiching season 3 and 4 at the same time here (quite the experience actually)
Man, I thought the Season 3 finale was one of the top ten single hours of television to watch happen, but it would have been completely castrated if I had known the twist like you do.
or have they already?
I don't think so. The "making it up as they go along"-camp has been a mainstay since the show started, but I think the flash-forward aspect of Season 4 alone sort of disproves that.

Where 'climaxes' are concerned...I mean, look at any Lost season finale and then look at the finales that, let's go with a prominent 'Lost-killer' example, Heroes has offered; Sure, the writers don't answer every question by the season's end (Oh no!), and sometimes they introduce new quandaries (OH NOES!!), but they can still craft some damn impressive and captivating scenarios. I will gladly take a cryptic finale that keeps me hanging on over a limp-wristed "Here, what more do you want?"-anticlimax.

Also, is the show supposed to be spelled in all caps? I always thought that it was just normal letters (i.e., Lost).

[Solid Snake]

Man, I thought the Season 3 finale was one of the top ten single hours of television to watch happen, but it would have been completely castrated if I had known the twist like you do.

I don't think so. The "making it up as they go along"-camp has been a mainstay since the show started, but I think the flash-forward aspect of Season 4 alone sort of disproves that.

Where 'climaxes' are concerned...I mean, look at any Lost season finale and then look at the finales that, let's go with a prominent 'Lost-killer' example, Heroes has offered; Sure, the writers don't answer every question by the season's end (Oh no!), and sometimes they introduce new quandaries (OH NOES!!), but they can still craft some damn impressive and captivating scenarios. I will gladly take a cryptic finale that keeps me hanging on over a limp-wristed "Here, what more do you want?"-anticlimax.

Also, is the show supposed to be spelled in all caps? I always thought that it was just normal letters (i.e., Lost).

First: yes, believe it or not, LOST (the title of the show) is "supposed" to be in all-caps.

Second: while the mythology of the show does intrigue me, I always thought LOST's strength was its near-flawless character development. Whereas most dramas of its type, like Heroes, present us with fully one-dimensional, static characters, the characters on LOST change and adapt (for better or for worse.) Look at Locke: lots of friends in Season One, practically a loner by Season Three. Look at Jack: unequivocably considered a hero in Season One, now distrusted and maligned by about half the castaways by Season Four. And of course, even my summaries are totally pedestrian and don't cover the details (Jack didn't want to be a hero in Season One and now he seems to revel in his iconic status as 'The Man' by Season Four, though in the flashforwards, that seems to go full-circle, etc.)

The characters are deep. We're set up to believe in Season One that Jin is essentially a bastard, then: surprise! Jin's centric-flashback episode arrives and suddenly by Season Two Jin has more fans -- and is considered a more moral character -- than Sun does/is. Locke and Ben's mindgames in Season Two and Season Three were so deliciously complex, it was like, damn, I didn't even know they'd write stuff like that in network TV shows anymore. (Usually they pander to the masses with a bunch of crude jokes and oversimplistic stereotypes.) Seriously, watch The Man from Tallahassee again -- that's the episode that won Terry O'Q the Emmy -- it's like a one-hour orgasm of epic porportions.

[Bells]

Alson, on season 4, i got 3 revelations:

1- I really like Daniel
2- Sayid is moar awesome than jack
3- Desmond's Flashfoward episode RULES!

[Ryanderman]

I love that they aren't just doing flashforwards now. They did say, hey, we've got this great new plot device, let's ruin it with over use! They decided to mix up the flashforwards and flashbacks. Sometimes we might not even know which is which until the end. It adds a great element to the show.

Though I'm still not going to forgive them for the dirty trick they pulled with Sun and Jin's latest episode.

And I like all four of the helicopter people from the frieghter, Daniel the most. Adding them to the show was brilliant.