ABC considers asking "LOST" producers to cut 13-week hiatus short ...
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There is no way ABC will run 16 episodes non-stop starting in January. Lost's season will be over by the end of April.
With Day Break's failure, I doubt any network will want to air any new unproven shows during the November-January period. I will fully expect to see 1-2 episodes of a current show and lots of repeats.
With Day Break's failure, I doubt any network will want to air any new unproven shows during the November-January period. I will fully expect to see 1-2 episodes of a current show and lots of repeats.
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While I am fine with ABC doing whatever it likes (and me making a decision whether or not to continue watching the show), I think the only way you bring the show back early is if you can beg another couple of episodes this season out of the producers.
If they stick with 6/16 next season, I would strongly suggest to them that they find a way to spin off a character or two from the show (perhaps Michael and Walt) and greenlight a miniseries about those characters made by a different set of writers and crew. Air that in the LOST hiatus.
If they stick with 6/16 next season, I would strongly suggest to them that they find a way to spin off a character or two from the show (perhaps Michael and Walt) and greenlight a miniseries about those characters made by a different set of writers and crew. Air that in the LOST hiatus.
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over my head
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They should just start showing repeats of the first part of the season now, and then viewers can both catch-up on what they may have missed, and ABC will be able to run the ENTIRE season with no breaks.
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Originally Posted by nateman241
i just want the show to stop dragging out storylines, through there is alot of "flashbacks" i really find them to be time consuming and very annoying. lets either show them getting killed or show them somehow getting off the island.
Originally Posted by johnnysd
I hope I never see Michael or Walt again. They were the worst part of the series.
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Originally Posted by Shannon Nutt
They should just start showing repeats of the first part of the season now, and then viewers can both catch-up on what they may have missed, and ABC will be able to run the ENTIRE season with no breaks.
The cost for beefing up LOST's post production temporarily seems well worth saving some face with a jaded fan base.
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Originally Posted by johnnysd
I hope I never see Michael or Walt again. They were the worst part of the series.
Fact is they couldn't keep a kid on the show because of the shows timeframe and the actor aging. Once they seperated them, they became the most annoying part of the show however.
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[QUOTE=Giles]I agree, I'm finding 'Lost' getting very repetitive and old.QUOTE]
I completely agree. I have been a staunch supporter of Lost since it began airing, but the series has gone nowhere since the S2 finale. Meanwhile, newer shows like Heroes have come out and have shown how to properly do an episodic series that has many questions/mysteries, without alienating your audience by raising 20 questions one episode and answering maybe 2 of those the rest of the season.
I can only think that the move to 10pm will cut the audience for Lost even further. I'm guessing that the show will not last however long it was projected(5 years? 7?). I'd guess that the writers will have to start answering some of the BIG questions, and soon, lest the viewing audience just give up on the show entirely.
I completely agree. I have been a staunch supporter of Lost since it began airing, but the series has gone nowhere since the S2 finale. Meanwhile, newer shows like Heroes have come out and have shown how to properly do an episodic series that has many questions/mysteries, without alienating your audience by raising 20 questions one episode and answering maybe 2 of those the rest of the season.
I can only think that the move to 10pm will cut the audience for Lost even further. I'm guessing that the show will not last however long it was projected(5 years? 7?). I'd guess that the writers will have to start answering some of the BIG questions, and soon, lest the viewing audience just give up on the show entirely.
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[QUOTE=PalmerJoss]
Let's be realistic. Heroes has had what, 11 episodes, and Lost has had like 50. I also don't think it has answered as much as people think it has, but that's just my opinion.
Start soapbox...
People just need to stfu up about Lost. The show's format should be well known to just about everyone by now, and if you didn't think the mysteries would be long and drawn out you must have missed that this was a JJ Abrahms creation.
The 24 threads became infintely better once people stopped whining about the plot and predictability and just watched the damn thing; I wish the same could happen here.
...end soapbox.
Originally Posted by Giles
I agree, I'm finding 'Lost' getting very repetitive and old.QUOTE]
I completely agree. I have been a staunch supporter of Lost since it began airing, but the series has gone nowhere since the S2 finale. Meanwhile, newer shows like Heroes have come out and have shown how to properly do an episodic series that has many questions/mysteries, without alienating your audience by raising 20 questions one episode and answering maybe 2 of those the rest of the season.
I completely agree. I have been a staunch supporter of Lost since it began airing, but the series has gone nowhere since the S2 finale. Meanwhile, newer shows like Heroes have come out and have shown how to properly do an episodic series that has many questions/mysteries, without alienating your audience by raising 20 questions one episode and answering maybe 2 of those the rest of the season.
Start soapbox...
People just need to stfu up about Lost. The show's format should be well known to just about everyone by now, and if you didn't think the mysteries would be long and drawn out you must have missed that this was a JJ Abrahms creation.
The 24 threads became infintely better once people stopped whining about the plot and predictability and just watched the damn thing; I wish the same could happen here.
...end soapbox.
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http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/ar...371206485.html
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Updated at 11:44 a.m., Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Fire destroys Kailua home of 'Lost' actress Lilly
By Dave Dondoneau and Mary Kaye Ritz
Advertiser Staff Writers
The Kailua home that "Lost" actress Evangeline Lilly rents with two other women was engulfed in flames this morning and appears to be total loss.
Five fire trucks responded to the call around 6:45 a.m. Neighbors said the fire started at least by 6:30 and quickly spread. There was nobody home at the time. "Lost" was filming at a Waialua Beach this morning and one of Lilly's roommates who works on the set returned home after the fire was out.
She declined comment.
The early-morning fire at 684 Iana St. in Kailua brought quick response from neighbors, many who said they heard "popping" noises as the fire raged.
"I woke up to my dogs barking," said Morgan Janus, a neighbor who lives across the street. "There were loud popping sounds, like something electrical."
Janus said by the time she got outside, firefighters had already been called and were on the scene within 20 minutes.
By 7 a.m. the fire was doused and soon after firefighters were able to enter the home. Part of the problem slowing the firefighters were the bars on the house's windows. Firefighters had to cut through the bars in order to get inside to check if anyone was home.
Nobody was, said fire department captain Kenison Tejada.
Jorge Duarte, a neighbor who lives across the street, was the first on the scene. He said when he saw the flames he ran across the street and broke the glass at the front door hoping to help anyone who may have been trapped inside.
However, when he broke the glass "smoke poured out," so he said he knew he couldn't go inside. He grabbed a hose and started to hose down the home and surrounding area until the fire department arrived.
Another neighbor, Jill Turner — a former firefighter — said she was in bed when she heard the popping.
When she got to the home smoke was pouring out, so she covered her mouth with her sweatshirt and started spraying water on the back and surrounding areas.
She said she heard popping glass.
"It was bad pretty quickly," she said.
Another neighbor who helped was Dian Grant.
"I was wrapping Christmas presents. I thought it was someone throwing packages through that window (by her house)."
Grant said when she saw the flames, she went outside and grabbed a hose to water down the house. She only left it to bang on the window of her own home where her 19-year-old grandson was staying.
The cast of "Lost" was scheduled to break for Christmas tomorrow.
Fire destroys Kailua home of 'Lost' actress Lilly
By Dave Dondoneau and Mary Kaye Ritz
Advertiser Staff Writers
The Kailua home that "Lost" actress Evangeline Lilly rents with two other women was engulfed in flames this morning and appears to be total loss.
Five fire trucks responded to the call around 6:45 a.m. Neighbors said the fire started at least by 6:30 and quickly spread. There was nobody home at the time. "Lost" was filming at a Waialua Beach this morning and one of Lilly's roommates who works on the set returned home after the fire was out.
She declined comment.
The early-morning fire at 684 Iana St. in Kailua brought quick response from neighbors, many who said they heard "popping" noises as the fire raged.
"I woke up to my dogs barking," said Morgan Janus, a neighbor who lives across the street. "There were loud popping sounds, like something electrical."
Janus said by the time she got outside, firefighters had already been called and were on the scene within 20 minutes.
By 7 a.m. the fire was doused and soon after firefighters were able to enter the home. Part of the problem slowing the firefighters were the bars on the house's windows. Firefighters had to cut through the bars in order to get inside to check if anyone was home.
Nobody was, said fire department captain Kenison Tejada.
Jorge Duarte, a neighbor who lives across the street, was the first on the scene. He said when he saw the flames he ran across the street and broke the glass at the front door hoping to help anyone who may have been trapped inside.
However, when he broke the glass "smoke poured out," so he said he knew he couldn't go inside. He grabbed a hose and started to hose down the home and surrounding area until the fire department arrived.
Another neighbor, Jill Turner — a former firefighter — said she was in bed when she heard the popping.
When she got to the home smoke was pouring out, so she covered her mouth with her sweatshirt and started spraying water on the back and surrounding areas.
She said she heard popping glass.
"It was bad pretty quickly," she said.
Another neighbor who helped was Dian Grant.
"I was wrapping Christmas presents. I thought it was someone throwing packages through that window (by her house)."
Grant said when she saw the flames, she went outside and grabbed a hose to water down the house. She only left it to bang on the window of her own home where her 19-year-old grandson was staying.
The cast of "Lost" was scheduled to break for Christmas tomorrow.
Chris
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Originally Posted by PalmerJoss
I have been a staunch supporter of Lost since it began airing, but the series has gone nowhere since the S2 finale.
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[QUOTE=dvd182]
Let's be realistic. Heroes has had what, 11 episodes, and Lost has had like 50. I also don't think it has answered as much as people think it has, but that's just my opinion.
Start soapbox...
People just need to stfu up about Lost. The show's format should be well known to just about everyone by now, and if you didn't think the mysteries would be long and drawn out you must have missed that this was a JJ Abrahms creation.
The 24 threads became infintely better once people stopped whining about the plot and predictability and just watched the damn thing; I wish the same could happen here.
...end soapbox.
Well said.
Originally Posted by PalmerJoss
Let's be realistic. Heroes has had what, 11 episodes, and Lost has had like 50. I also don't think it has answered as much as people think it has, but that's just my opinion.
Start soapbox...
People just need to stfu up about Lost. The show's format should be well known to just about everyone by now, and if you didn't think the mysteries would be long and drawn out you must have missed that this was a JJ Abrahms creation.
The 24 threads became infintely better once people stopped whining about the plot and predictability and just watched the damn thing; I wish the same could happen here.
...end soapbox.
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Originally Posted by bboisvert
I would argue that it's even worse than that... instead of going nowhere, they've actually gone backwards in terms of progress.
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At least not ALL of the tailies were a total waste of airtime.
Originally Posted by dvd182
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People just need to stfu up about Lost. The show's format should be well known to just about everyone by now, and if you didn't think the mysteries would be long and drawn out you must have missed that this was a JJ Abrahms creation.
People just need to stfu up about Lost. The show's format should be well known to just about everyone by now, and if you didn't think the mysteries would be long and drawn out you must have missed that this was a JJ Abrahms creation.
Also, keep in mind that JJ Abrams left Lost after the first season to work on MI:III. Even after wrapping the movie he still hasn't done much with the show other than writing the S3 opener, and I believe that it shows. Look at the quality of the show when he was actively working on it, and afterwards when he went to work on MI:III. And now with him working on the next Trek film, I don't think we'll see much involvement from him on the show which is truly a shame.
Here's the thing, though - I really like Lost. I hope that the show can get turned around and get back on track quickly, but I don't have high hopes. I hope I'm proven wrong.
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Originally Posted by nateman241
i just want the show to stop dragging out storylines, through there is alot of "flashbacks" i really find them to be time consuming and very annoying. lets either show them getting killed or show them somehow getting off the island.
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Looks like it's not going to restart earlier than planned (at least not new episodes). ABC sent out episodic information today for the February episodes, and it's coming back Feb. 7, as previously announced. But they have added a highlight/recap show (surprise!) at 9pm on the 7th before the new episode at 10.
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Isn't complaining that the show has gone nowhere since the S2 finale just a bit ridiculous? It has been 6 episodes, and the story has certainly changed in those 6 episodes. A lot hinges on the back 16 if you ask me. If we're in a similar place to where we are now at that point, perhaps it's time to start complaining. If things get going in those 16, I don't see the problem. I just think people are pissed for two reasons:
- They don't like the biggest thing to happen so far in S3
- They wanted more than 6 crummy episodes so far
I don't think the big event in S3 so far negates the season 2 tailies progress at all. Without the tailies story, you don't get Henry Gale.
- They don't like the biggest thing to happen so far in S3
- They wanted more than 6 crummy episodes so far
I don't think the big event in S3 so far negates the season 2 tailies progress at all. Without the tailies story, you don't get Henry Gale.
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Originally Posted by scott27
Looks like it's not going to restart earlier than planned (at least not new episodes). ABC sent out episodic information today for the February episodes, and it's coming back Feb. 7, as previously announced. But they have added a highlight/recap show (surprise!) at 9pm on the 7th before the new episode at 10.
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Originally Posted by PalmerJoss
I can only think that the move to 10pm will cut the audience for Lost even further. I'm guessing that the show will not last however long it was projected(5 years? 7?). I'd guess that the writers will have to start answering some of the BIG questions, and soon, lest the viewing audience just give up on the show entirely.
Originally Posted by bboisvert
I would argue that it's even worse than that... instead of going nowhere, they've actually gone backwards in terms of progress.
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I'm not sure how many comic book fans read this thread, but I just found out that (IMO) the best writer working in comics, Brian K. Vaughan, has been hired as an executive story editor on the show. Now, anyone who knows his work on books like Ex Machina or Y: The Last Man knows that he is a master at handling many plots and subplots, and knows how to dole out the info to satisfy fans. This could definitely be a step in the right direction for the show.
Here's the Link to his blog where he talks about it a bit.
Here's the Link to his blog where he talks about it a bit.
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Originally Posted by hardercore
Got a link to that episodic information? I'm guessing you mean episode descriptions and official airdates, right -- I'll take anything I can on upcoming episodes