Prometheus

[crisosphinx]

To the "Lost" director thing... He planned out the entire series. There's just a lot of filler.

If you really believe that, then I have just one question: What was the black smoke? ...and if you can answer that question, I have hundreds more.

This is how you write Lost: You have no shame, and feel no responsibility towards the viewers, and then you just make shit up. You can make up aliens, time travel, people saying cryptic stuff, rituals, whatever, and while the viewers will stick around, patiently waiting for explanations for years, you Just Don't Give a Fuck. That's how you write Lost. People will stick around until the final episode, waiting for everything to finally be revealed, and then you just go "...and everything was revealed to the characters, off camera. The End". They you'll get tons and tons of hate mail from people, calling you things like "an emotional terrorist", but again you Just Don't Give a Fuck.

There was no "story development", because there was no story at all. There was just people mysteriously bumping into eachother for no reason. Nothing Was Planned In Lost. It featured dinosaurs, black smoke and mystic number sequences, and nothing had any reason for it. It was all just bullshit to sucker people on a massive scale, and people thought that Lindelof couldn't possibly be that evil, because he must have been aware that the viewers would literally kill him dead if he didn't plan everything, or at least he would lose so much credibility that Hollywood wouldn't hire him again. How wrong we were.

Yes, Star Wars is as fictional and bizarre as you can get, but for its time, it was mature and realistic compared to movies like Flash Gordon, and the first three movies didn't feature too bizarre things. That's generally why fans hate the latter movies: They lack maturity, and were literally for kids, while the first movies were for teens to adults.

Did you read that I hated Lost? I watched bits and pieces from each episode, enough to conjure the story, but too much filler to read into it. It's like an episode of the Americanized version of DBZ. You're bloody right it was cryptic and the show was interesting, to some extent, but I don't remember seeing any black smoke.

Glad we agree on Starwars. Never watched Flash Gordon, because the movie was uninteresting to me. The other reasons people hated the latter Starwars was due to Lucas literally sitting on his ass in the building next door to where the actors were, telling a guy/ talking through walkie-talkie to tell them what they are suppose to do while he watches 3 monitors going, "hmm... oh.. yeah.. that looks golden... yeah" was his idea of a good director.

Lost, from what I can recall, was interesting the first couple episodes of every season, but was not enough to keep me interested. From what I saw, it's a story about people who have had an experience of catastrophe together, wonder where everyone else is, find them, find out they are being backstabbed, all due the "FATE". I think that series was just a big middle finger to people who had too much time to watch TV, but hey, it was entertainment.

Slowly, but surely we are agreeing on stuff. Now, I like to see how people feel about films and what their points of view are, on things. My feeling, from a filmography standpoint, was that the movie was a success in many points. Just like all the other alien films, the "Science" never really made sense, but that's ok, it's a different universe. Philosophically, it was a little overdone, but it was ok. Religiously, it was a bit annoying. Actor-wise, eh...