::dives head first into extra-crazy-land, just to help Jess look less crazy::
Could just be a hoax, though. I fake some headaches, everyone gets used to poor helpless Spike. Then one day, no warning, I snap a spine, bend a head back, drain 'em dry. Brilliant.
Spike ,'Potential'
Lost: OMGWTF POLAR BEAR
[NAFDA] This is where we talk about the show! Anything that's aired in the US (including promos) is fair game. No spoilers though -- if you post one by accident, an admin will delete it.
Sean K - Oct 25, 2004 9:47:26 am PDT #509 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Dana - Oct 25, 2004 9:48:02 am PDT #510 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I think you're all crazy.
Hey, is that a polar bear?
Katie M - Oct 25, 2004 9:50:12 am PDT #511 of 10000
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
OMGWTF!
Beverly - Oct 25, 2004 9:57:16 am PDT #512 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I'm a little disappointed cleolinda hasn't done any more recaps. She needs to get on that, I'm thinking.
Vonnie K - Oct 25, 2004 10:15:28 am PDT #513 of 10000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Cleolinda *has* been doing the recaps of the subsequent episodes of Lost, and some Veronica Mars for bonus as well. They remain v. funny, although the recap for the part 2 of the Lost pilot is in a class of its own. OMGWTF___ appears to have made it to the fannish lexicon already, which is kinda neat.
I'm not really here. Supposed to be working. And y'all are equally crazy.
Topic!Cindy - Oct 25, 2004 11:04:21 am PDT #514 of 10000
What is even happening?
No no, both of you, leave them! That way I look less crazy.Or at least, less alone. We should totally start a new political party.
Narrator - Oct 25, 2004 11:11:51 am PDT #515 of 10000
The evil is this way?
Right. 'Cause the current ones aren't crazy enough.
Kate P. - Oct 25, 2004 11:21:32 am PDT #516 of 10000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Not a fantasy universe != incoherent worldbuilding. I really don't see what the one has to do with the other.
I think we're using two different meanings of "mythology": there's mythology as " a whole lot of backstory" (all the stories of the various characters, for example), and then there's mythology as "a set of worldbuilding rules", which is more applicable to a fantasy or sci-fi show. I think Lost is building its own mythology in the former sense, but I don't think it needs (or has yet built) a mythology in the latter sense--by which I mean, essentially, that I don't yet believe that the world it's set in is not our own.
Did that make sense to anyone but me?
But if there's one thing that I've learned about TV fandom after all these years, it's that I can't place too narrow restrictions on what I'm willing to accept in a certain show or storyline. If I have a really specific outcome in mind, I'm usually disappointed when the story doesn't go the way I want it to (Spike/Buffy is a prime example of this, for me). Not that it's not fun to speculate, but I'm just saying that, though I rather hope it doesn't turn out to be an afterlife/purgatory kind of situation, I won't give up on the show if it does. I think it's probably possible that it could be done in a way that I would find acceptable and consistent with what's already been done on the show.
Pix - Oct 25, 2004 11:54:30 am PDT #517 of 10000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Wow.
I'm really glad we have this as a dedicated thread.
I will add more when I have something thoughtful to say. My brain is still hurting from thinking about the debate you've all been having already! Very intelligent, are the Buffistae.
Wow.
libkitty - Oct 25, 2004 11:56:09 am PDT #518 of 10000
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
I just have to say, I love having a show that inspires thinking and discussion and curiosity. I was so pessimistic when Angel and Wonderfalls were cancelled, but this is not a bad substitute. The only problem is I can't keep up with this AND Natter.
More on topic,
I'm still in the "lost his license" camp, especially after his conversation with his mother, in flashback.
This would work with him being called "mister," too, since he would hardly present himself as Dr. Jack (do we know his last name?) if he had lost his license.
For all that's it's fun to come up with various possibilities, and even probabilities, I actually hope that I'm wrong on some of them, because I want the writers to come up with something really fantastic that none of us has thought of.