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My thoughts on it exactly. I officially declare that grown-ups are allowed to watch professional wrestling.

1993.

Yeah, still love that Titanic 2 video. I think this is the first time I noticed the "Diamond Finder" label on the guy's VR helmet. That Titanic 3D one is pretty tired, though.

You might say it works better as the actual video. I don't understand why people transcribe funny videos into images like that. Like this: I find a bit obnoxious.

Darth Insidious.

I'm not sure if this is one of those "genre" books I shouldn't be reading, but I'm currently very much enjoying The Forever War - 'Nam in space!

One part frightened and three parts erotic?

For shammack it's one part frightening and three parts erotic.

My carefully set up joke RUINED.

Did you look at my link?

Thanks! My voice wasn't deepened as far as I know - all my own work!

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF UNGA MEETS MUMBA, THEN, THUNDER?

Basically, yes, although some of the background characters may be left alone. So, now I've finished plugging Thunder's shit, I'm going to plug my own: I am pleased to announce that after warming up my vocal talents for an unreleased Dan and Ben episode (leaked clip here: ) (not really, just a joke recorded for this thread), I have voiced the main character for Unga Needs Mumba, a freeware AGS game! Free download here. Production thread here. It has just been released. Please give it a go, even if you don't play all the way through! It's a tough little game but if you examine everything, the descriptions give a lot of clues. And the presentation is gorgeous. Please promote, Tweet, etc! http://twitter.com/TimeGentleman/statuses/186757235282681856

Ha ha, I also find this site very interesting even if my interpretation of certain stuff is a little different: http://lostanswers.tumblr.com I find it all makes general sense, but there are a few little logistical things that are a bit confusing. The writers have talked about how they decided not to go into a lot of that stuff because of the midichlorian effect. If you have a general idea of the rules and how things work, that's all you need. I didn't get that feeling. The sense I get is that there are plenty of questions you're supposed to (and 'allowed' to) wonder about, but they won 't get answered. As Mother says "every answer I give will only lead to more questions". The show answered pretty much everything to do with Jacob's lifespan on the island, but left a lot of stuff outside of that open to interpretation. It seems like a few people don't like the Jacob vs Man In Black story, and as that only started getting introduced in Season 3 I can see how that would be a change of story style that would put some people off. Personally, I'm glad that they widened the scope of it. That's what changed it for me from "people on an island where weird shit happens" to a full, deep story where everything ties in. Thanks everyone for explaining your different views, I find it very interesting to see how the same show can illicit such a variety of visceral and intellectual responses. Some of you may not have seen this second mini-epilogue which didn't make it onto the DVDs and further explains the Jacob/MiB mythos: http://www.sl-lost.com/2011/07/22/new-official-lost-video

Chris, I just followed the instructions, but immediately realised I had used my non-Kickstarter email account and repeated with the correct account. It's not impatience, just bumbling. Sorry for any confusion/annoyance!

Especially the hairy gay bearded male ones.

This kind of thing is why Americans get subtitles added to their film titles.

Can't think of any off the top of my head, what I'd do is use beerintheevening.com or fancyapint.com and try to find one five minutes away from the main roads. Thunder and Nach might be able to suggest some. Which was that pub near Channel 4 where we went on the night I left my bag in a flowerbed?

I've got to be quite quick with this post (and I might be sloppy with spoilers, so beware anyone who might possibly watch it in the future), but I loved the flash-sideways. At first I was reading them as new sides to the characterisation - how different would they have been without the island? Then the Desmond episode happened and I got incredibly excited that just when I'd resigned myself to the fact that they wouldn't. I'll admit that I was a little disappointed at the final reveal as well, at first. But after I thought about it, and looked back on all the flashes in a new light ( ), I felt it gave the show the ending it needed. If all we got as an ending was finding out which characters got off the island and presumably led pretty dull lives for another 40 years, it would have been a bit of an anti-climax. This takes it to a higher level and speaks to the characters rather than another sci-fi high-concept. And it was pretty much worth it just to get that Ben episode.

That's something else that can affect your enjoyment, I guess. Whether you watch it one episode a week with season breaks or not. I did that even when I was buying it on DVD and didn't have to (seasons 3-5) because I felt like that was the structure they were writing for and it kept the value of the mysteries and cliffhangers up. It negates the filler and repetition a bit as well, which I agree was there at times (mostly season 3 when they had a few redundant flashbacks and also had to dance around the writer strikes or scheduling or something).

Blown in red, green or blue? But surely everyone does that? Goes through all their unread topics with the 'Next Thread' button? Everyone?

I don't respect your misspelling "hee hee hee", though.

Ahhh, I see, I misunderstood you. Well, people's attitudes vary, obv, but I was quite happy watching season three and thinking "hmm, the monster seems to be judging people and killing them accordingly, but I'll wait and see what other evidence comes to light" and not getting annoyed because that's what it currently was. I totally respect your opinion if you didn't like their storytelling, but personally I thought there was plenty of magic stuff for there to be room for science as well, and the way the two jostled up against each other gave the show its own flavour, otherwise it would have been Supernatural On An Island.

They started seeing the monster at the end of season 1. And your explanation of it is totally not what it was revealed to be. Did you watch the final season? I know what you mean about it changing tack completely, but I think that was necessary to keep it fresh. If they'd just stayed in the same mode, adding more and more mysteries for this one group of people on an island to react to, it would have got stale very quickly. It can't be to everyone's tastes, though, and I do think of the first two seasons as "classic Lost" myself. I do love watching them back now with knowledge of all six seasons-worth of mythology. I'm half with you on the polar bears, but if they didn't make sharp left-turns from fantasy to science or vice versa like that, the audience would get bored or see all the twists coming. In fact, the term "polar bear" was used to refer to anything in Lost that seemed magical but was given a (relatively) rational explanation.