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It's the only show I regularly watch on TV, ever since my roomate brought home the pilot before it had even been sold to ABC (it was great, used music from random soundtracks). Anyhow, does anyone else kinda feel let down? Hopefully they'll do what "The Office" on bbc did and end after season two despite the money. you can only drag things on for so long before people don't care to be lead around anymore.

theory: the guys from the perfect storm. they washed up on the island and are know the grizzled (and disgruntled) boatmen/others.
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It's the only show I regularly watch on TV, ever since my roomate brought home the pilot before it had even been sold to ABC (it was great, used music from random soundtracks). Anyhow, does anyone else kinda feel let down? Hopefully they'll do what "The Office" on bbc did and end after season two despite the money. you can only drag things on for so long before people don't care to be lead around anymore.

theory: the guys from the perfect storm. they washed up on the island and are know the grizzled (and disgruntled) boatmen/others.


They need to start resolving some issues. It's becoming like the X-Files and Twin Peaks in that they constantly just ask more questions...never provide answers, and it's pissing people off. I know two people personally who've said they will not watch it anymore because of this.

I'm a big fan of Babylon 5, which had a 5 year story arc, but would always resolve stuff brought up during the season by season's end or the next 1 or 2 episodes in the next one. As J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of it was always saying, leaving unanswered questions for too long cheats the audience who are investing time in the series.
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It's the only show I regularly watch on TV, ever since my roomate brought home the pilot before it had even been sold to ABC (it was great, used music from random soundtracks). Anyhow, does anyone else kinda feel let down? Hopefully they'll do what "The Office" on bbc did and end after season two despite the money. you can only drag things on for so long before people don't care to be lead around anymore.

theory: the guys from the perfect storm. they washed up on the island and are know the grizzled (and disgruntled) boatmen/others.


They need to start resolving some issues. It's becoming like the X-Files and Twin Peaks in that they constantly just ask more questions...never provide answers, and it's pissing people off. I know two people personally who've said they will not watch it anymore because of this.

I'm a big fan of Babylon 5, which had a 5 year story arc, but would always resolve stuff brought up during the season by season's end or the next 1 or 2 episodes in the next one. As J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of it was always saying, leaving unanswered questions for too long cheats the audience who are investing time in the series.


i agree with you both, i felt really cheated. Dont get me wrong, i love the show, but they just keep dragging it out. I hate getting some sort of titalating info only to have to wait through 3 weeks of farging reruns in order to get nothing but more titalating info. I will still watch it next year, but i am the type that will wade through horrible forms of entertainment to have a conclusion drawn. Most other will not.

In summery make with the steady revealing of conclusions and closer of sub plots, even if it is a mere trickle it is better than what we got going on now...
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SPOILERS for those who haven't seen the finale. Beware.



Yeah, I'm a bit ticked off as well. J.J. Abrams was interviewed on a local radio morning show a little over a month ago and he said that the finale would answer all questions except maybe one or two (gotta have something to make people want to come back for season 2). But I feel like nothing was really answered. No reason as to why they were there, nothing about the numbers, nothing about the Black Rock other than it's a big ass ship that somehow got stranded two miles inland, nothing about what's in the hatch. Nothing was answered.

We were only left with more to ponder.

What will happen to Walt?

Are Jin and Sawyer still alive?

Will karma strike the pirates and they will be stranded on the island as well only to become yet another adversary for the survivors?

What the hell is the black cloud (some people are hypothesizing that it is a cloud of nanobots - it's the only thing that can look like a cloud, take the form of something else, and actually be able to exert the force necessary to drag a person through the woods)?

Yes, the episode was thrilling as hell just like any other. Actually even more so. But there are too many loose ends to resolve. Finales need to resolve something.

But I will definitely still be tuning in to season 2.
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I happen to think the season finale was great. Lost may be the best show on television(the only other contenders are Arrested Development and Deadwood). I don't care that they didn't answer many questions. What I do care about is they continued to develop interesting characters and situations. I don't mind if they drag it a little like the X-Files did. The main problem with the X-Files is the creaters forgot the point of the show and had Samantha die in a barn and dance with a bunch of other ghost children. Also, if they expect you to pay for a movie, then they have to answer some questions and it should be better, not worse, than the television episodes. The X-Files could do episodes focusing on things other than alien mythology. Lost cannot do that.
I loved the Locke-Jack discussion on faith. It made a connection to the X-Files. Locke is Mulder, the believer who will stop at nothing to find his truth. Jack is Scully, the doctor who believes science will show the way to his truth.
I think Abrams has become the king of Season Ending Cliffhanger. The best Season Ending Cliffhanger is Star Trek Next Gen's "Best of Both Worlds" with Picard being assimilated and "Mr. Worf, fire.", but Abrams consistantly comes up will great ones.
Felicity Season 1-With whom does she go on summer vacation
Alias Season 1-"Mom?"
Alias Season 2-"You've been missing for three years"
Alias this Season-Vaughn's partial revelation and then car crash
Lost this Season-kidnapping, Sawyer may be dead, Hatch opens, etc.
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There's no question that, as an episode and a cliffhanger, it is great. And yes, JJ is becoming the best. Can't believe that someone else out there appreciates Felicity. My wife is a junkie and has all the seasons.

I'm more worried about the popularity of the show. Finales without many answers can scare away the viewers. They get frustrated and bored and don't want to come back. I admit to wanting some answers, not all, just some. But many people want a lot more and may be so upset about it that they won't bother to come back. The show is still too young to risk losing that many viewers.

I can't wait for the DVDs with all the proposed features. That will be one set of features I will watch!
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Yeah, I loved the first two years of Felicity. I think it went downhill a little in the third season and I stopped watching after the first few episodes of the fourth season. They used the 'she slept with someone while dating someone else' plot one too many times for my taste. Then everyone seemed to expect Ben to just get over it and forgive her because...well, because she's the star of the show.

Back to Lost, I think if they let some of the plotlines go, like did when Claire was kidnapped, then they will be in trouble. But, if they pick up the plot where they left off and the first episodes show what happened to Walt/Sawyer/the Hatch, then they will be on the right track. I like the idea that the audience learns things as the characters learn things. If the characters learn all the islands secrets, the show might be over or become boring. People have little patience for intelligence writing and want to be spoonfed like reality shows and mainstream movies/television. I hope some people abandon ship, but not enough to get the show cancelled. Patience will be rewarded.
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They apaprently have been signed on for 6 years of Lost.... honestly I think that's WAY too much for a concept like that. What does that equal? Say 24 episodes a year, at 45 minutes a piece....108 hours? You'd have to start making up the dumbest crap to sustain a story that long. Personally I don't want to waste 108 of my hours... just watch the last finale 6 years from now.
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I don't consider it wasting my life since I enjoy the show so much. If I was to watch American Idol, that would be a waste of an hour and brain power.
*No offense to anyone who likes American Idol, I just don't get the appeal. I'm sure it is wonderful for those who are musically inclined*
Waiting to watch the last show would be like reading the last page of a mystery novel. You get to know the secret, but miss how you got there. The mystery is only part of the appeal. It is one of the best written and best acted shows on televsion. The characters of Lost are so well done, except for the annoying and basically useless Shannon, that I think it would be great even without the mystery.