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Find Out What's Next On Lost, Smallville, Jericho and Doctor Who

TheAlmanac — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:46:50 PST

@PVIII: Perhaps you should try watching Forever Knight or Highlander: The Series, to cite just two examples of previous genre shows which used flashbacks "week in, week out"...

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Find Out What's Next On Lost, Smallville, Jericho and Doctor Who

Grandjester — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:15:16 PST

Tron without Lebowski, Sheridan and Lacey Underall is not a Tron movie I want to see.

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Find Out What's Next On Lost, Smallville, Jericho and Doctor Who

Macloserboy — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:20:32 PST

@PVIII: Everyone's free to be an obsessive geek. Just as I am free to say, "Hey, you're an obsessive geek."

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Find Out What's Next On Lost, Smallville, Jericho and Doctor Who

PVIII — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:02:32 PST

@Macloserboy: If geeks want to cite something in their genre's pantheon why not let them and chill out? If I saw a sequence in a sci fi movie of soldiers walking down stairs, I could say, hey that's something Gilliam did in Brazil! I don't have to go back to the Battleship Potemkin. Get off it.

PVIII

Find Out What's Next On Lost, Smallville, Jericho and Doctor Who

Plague — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:55:38 PST

@Hart:
And Lost is actually a good show, unlike Heroes.

Plague

Find Out What's Next On Lost, Smallville, Jericho and Doctor Who

Macloserboy — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:54:37 PST

@Hart: Exactly, so to attribute Smallville's utilization of a device to a dissimilar show rather that a similar one proves my point. Geeks aren't geeks because they can look at the things they love objectively. They obviously love Lost here so if any other scifi/fantasy show uses a flashback, well then it's just gotta come from Lost.

Macloserboy

Find Out What's Next On Lost, Smallville, Jericho and Doctor Who

Hart — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:33:20 PST

@Macloserboy: Nobody acts like Lost is the first show with flashbacks. You're just obviously defensive about ... well, everything you don't like. Also, just letting you know, Lost isn't a "superhero show" like Heroes.

Hart

Find Out What's Next On Lost, Smallville, Jericho and Doctor Who

Jim (The Canuck One) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:00:14 PST

In the second episode, set in ancient Pompeii, there are rock monsters.

And if DeForest Kelly staggers into scene with a bag of shackling compound, I am SO out of there.

Jim (The Canuck One)

Find Out What's Next On Lost, Smallville, Jericho and Doctor Who

Angryrider — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:35:35 PST

Aasif Mandvi a surgeon?! From pizza guy to correspondent to doctor?! Amazing!

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Find Out What's Next On Lost, Smallville, Jericho and Doctor Who

Macloserboy — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:31:48 PST

@SavannahJack: Thank you. Flashbacks as a storytelling device existed long before Lost, kids.

Macloserboy

Find Out What's Next On Lost, Smallville, Jericho and Doctor Who

SavannahJack — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:28:30 PST

@PVIII
Regarding consistent use of flashbacks as a story-telling device:
Can you say "Kung Fu"?

Good try. Have cookie.

SavannahJack

Find Out What's Next On Lost, Smallville, Jericho and Doctor Who

PVIII — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:18:53 PST

@Macloserboy: It was the first show to use Flashbacks as a consistent story-telling device, week in, week out, starting with the very first episode. Heroes S2 ratings are on average about 3-4 million viewers short of LOST S4 to date.

PVIII

Find Out What's Next On Lost, Smallville, Jericho and Doctor Who

zerofritz — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:04:22 PST

@Macloserboy: whereas you probably have a semi-valid point, when one has literally just read about flashbacks being used in Lost 2 paragraphs ago, i think you can probably let it go as 'writer's license' - i'm pretty sure nobody here thinks Lost has patented the flashback-as-plot-device.

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Find Out What's Next On Lost, Smallville, Jericho and Doctor Who

Macloserboy — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:45:32 PST

Remember what I said about pulling your head out of the ass of Lost? Well, it's not the first show to have flashbacks, so please stop acting like it is. If anything this, plot development is a result of being totally eclipsed as a supehero show by Heroes. You know, that show with flashbacks where the families of the various heroes were once working together? To paraphrase 10 Things I Hate About You: "Remove head from sphincter, then write!"

Macloserboy

Find Out What's Next On Lost, Smallville, Jericho and Doctor Who

Loserface — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:37:41 PST

If you guys don't use a image of Scorpy whispering to Crichton as a Morning Spolier Image, I might cry.

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Find Out What's Next On Lost, Smallville, Jericho and Doctor Who

kevinjwoods — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:11:12 PST

According to the cinema trailer Beernard Cribbins 9the newspaper seller) is actually her grandad

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