That ad has undone all my good work pimping the show. The show has been on in Ireland for about six weeks now, and people haven't really been watching it, or they'd watch one or two episodes, get bored and not go back. So I've been telling people to catch the Channel Four episodes instead of going back to RTE because they won't know what's going on. And now pretty much every one I know hates those ads with a passion and refuses to watch the show at all.
Simon: Captain's a good fighter, he must know how to handle a sword. Zoe: I think he knows which end to hold.
'Shindig'
Lost: OMGWTF POLAR BEAR
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Jars - Jul 20, 2005 7:39:41 am PDT #8863 of 10000
beth b - Jul 21, 2005 8:29:50 pm PDT #8864 of 10000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Hated them . huh. I like my tv show, and movie ads to be somewhat ambiguoous. ( not product ads - I want to know what they are talking about). But then , I want a story. even a tiny story. So I don't want to know everything.
here is what I get from watching the add.
Plane crash
beach
People - some are oddly happy, some are terribly sad . some might even be dead. and who is with who - well. we'll see. Just enough to make me pay attention to the print.
DCJensen - Jul 22, 2005 12:08:26 pm PDT #8865 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Maybe they can get Roger Moore.
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2005 11:05:29 am PDT #8866 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Lindelhof outlines what will be resolved, and about when -- but not how.
He does refer to it as a genre show.
The Partyman - Jul 25, 2005 12:43:39 pm PDT #8867 of 10000
[insert something funny here]
Oooh, thanks for that linky,ita!
Four or Five seasons? AT LEAST!!!
sfmarty - Jul 25, 2005 3:57:04 pm PDT #8868 of 10000
Who? moi??
Once dead they stay dead? What about PapaDoc?
The Partyman - Jul 25, 2005 4:19:01 pm PDT #8869 of 10000
[insert something funny here]
Once dead they stay dead? What about PapaDoc?
Well one could make a case for Jack having imagined all that.
Then again... where is the body? *spooky music*
JenP - Jul 25, 2005 4:21:17 pm PDT #8870 of 10000
Well, that makes me want to tune in for the premier, so that's a good. I wonder what will be underground. I'm still thinking some sort of lab.
The Partyman - Jul 25, 2005 4:29:53 pm PDT #8871 of 10000
[insert something funny here]
Well, that makes me want to tune in for the premier, so that's a good. I wonder what will be underground. I'm still thinking some sort of lab.
I'm guessing it'll be something in between a lab or office with files on all the Passengers of Flight 815, or a big empty room with 4 8 15 16 23 42 written on the walls...
Whatever it is I imagine there'll be a two-part OMGWTF?!?! moment. An initial visual reveal ("OMG it's a [thing]") and and a later information reveal ("OMG we found [infomation] in the [thing]").
Or maybe it will just be a loooooong tunnel or cave system, or underground river or somthing.
JenP - Jul 25, 2005 4:33:34 pm PDT #8872 of 10000
An initial visual reveal ("OMG it's a [thing]") and and a later information reveal ("OMG we found [infomation] in the [thing]").
What do you want to bet that this was actual filler in the script for a dangerously long time?