I'm afraid of that too. What a great pay-off to a season+ worth of suspense. Like finding a patch of dirt under the hatch.
Lorne: You know what they say about people who need people. Connor: They're the luckiest people in the world. Lorne: You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, Kiddo? Connor: Just kinda popped out.
'Time Bomb'
Lost 2: Tied to a Tree in a Jungle of Mystery
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Wolfram - Dec 27, 2005 6:53:35 am PST #524 of 5968
Visilurking
§ ita § - Dec 27, 2005 7:34:36 am PST #525 of 5968
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Fury did say they had no plan.
In fact, the plan they said they had has been contradicted so far as the non-supernatural explanations go--how can they pull that out? Answer--they won't, because they don't have an explanation for the numbers, period.
Steph L. - Dec 27, 2005 8:00:37 am PST #526 of 5968
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Fury did say they had no plan.
Though they are beltless.
Polter-Cow - Dec 27, 2005 8:19:55 pm PST #527 of 5968
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Aside from them saying in the meeting with ABC when asked what happens:
"That's a good question,'' they said. ''We think it would be interesting to find out.''
I think that "We" refers to the viewing audience, mostly. Even if they didn't know what happened when they initially pitched it, I think they figured it out before they broke the season, you know?
§ ita § - Dec 28, 2005 3:59:36 am PST #528 of 5968
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Even if they didn't know what happened when they initially pitched it, I think they figured it out before they broke the season, you know?
Like with the numbers, or the other details of their much-vaunted plan?
Frankenbuddha - Dec 28, 2005 4:52:35 am PST #529 of 5968
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I pretty much don't care if the writers know what the button does or not. It's what it turns out to do that I care about. If they never explain what will happen if it doesn't get pushed, I'll be annoyed. But I don't care if they pull the answer out of their asses as long as it isn't lame.
For the record, it all being a cognitive experiment wouldn't bother me as an explanation.
Jessica - Dec 28, 2005 4:57:49 am PST #530 of 5968
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
But I don't care if they pull the answer out of their asses as long as it isn't lame.
This, pretty much. Though there is a point at which they will have made me wait too long for any explanation to be a good one, so I hope they figure it out before then.
§ ita § - Dec 28, 2005 5:16:42 am PST #531 of 5968
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's the meta that annoys me. Announcing things cheerily and backtracking on them bothers me. Leads me to think we're not being led, that they're ambling around and plucking stuff out of their asses at every turn, without regard for the long term.
Wolfram - Dec 28, 2005 5:38:25 am PST #532 of 5968
Visilurking
It's the meta that annoys me. Announcing things cheerily and backtracking on them bothers me. Leads me to think we're not being led, that they're ambling around and plucking stuff out of their asses at every turn, without regard for the long term.
Exactly. I want the storyteller to know how the story ends. Or at least refrain from saying, "I'm just making it up as I go along." It's even okay if, after the fact, the storyteller admits he made it up as he went along. But while the story is incomplete, I don't want to know that nobody knows the ending.
If that makes any sense.
Jessica - Dec 28, 2005 5:44:18 am PST #533 of 5968
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I want the storyteller to know how the story ends. Or at least refrain from saying, "I'm just making it up as I go along."
Huh. I'd much rather they honestly say "We're making it up as we go along" than pretend to have it all worked out in advance, which I know is a lie because that's just not how television shows get written. Making it up as they go along is par for the course in the medium they're working with, and it irritates me that they feel the need to hide that.