<![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> This makes me wish I watched Lost so I could participate.

Also, they should do this for Battlestar Galactica.

bluewyvern

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> It's the Magic Eightball method of script writing... "Not now, check back later".

tamoko

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> @munkles: Here's the video that they made to back what you said up:

+ Watch video

waytogeaux

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> Does this strongly imply to anyone else that the producers don't actually know what's going on in the show, so they're trying to get the fans to pull a rabbit out of a hat for them?

-Kle.

Klebert L. Hall

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> @tetracycloide:
It's almost as if the writers have just realized they have made the show too damn convulted, and are polling to see just how much has sunk into the heads of the audience.

JesusDeSaad

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> it's almost as if the writters are just making up random plot points to keep the audience strung out on an ever increasing number of cliff-hangers and unanswered questions and that they have now done so for so long a period that they must poll the audience for suggestions just to get their bareings on where the plot actually is. with this information they might be able to come up with an ending that satisfies a portion of the audience and avoid being damned to invent random plot points in perpetuity.

tetracycloide

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> MUST

STOP

READING

LOST

SPOILERS

...

AAaaaaagh!! I can't! I just can't stop...

ideaman2020

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> It's all the dream of the autistic kid from Saint Elsewhere.

B

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> The ISLAND is the fifth Cylon!

What?

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> I think the island might have a machine on it, maybe of alien origin, that acts as a thought machine just like the one on Forbidden Planet (one of my favs). I think Ben knows how to use it.

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> @Plague:
Oh, you tediously boring asshole, prove otherwise or shut the fuck up.

@Airport_Whiskey:
They could introduce the concept any number of ways.

@extracrispy:
I think it was more set up as a viral campaign

munkles

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> It's nice to know that the producers are exactly as confused as the viewers. This is why I stopped watching this after season one...

comp_wiz101

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> @munkles: Thanks for the explanation. What the heck episode was all that from? I swear I've never missed an episode!

extracrispy

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> Please don't give the producers any ideas; I want to see if they can figure it out for themselves.

Tim Faulkner

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> @Greasy Thumb Guzik: And the Dharma part was ripped off from that show with Greg.

moff

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> @munkles:

But since the Valenzetti Equation is an "off island" idea and nobody on the island, except perhaps Ben, knows anything about it, it makes sense that the numbers wouldn't get a whole lot of explanation by the characters.

@extracrispy:

If you want to know more about the equation and its relevance to the Island check out the lostpedia article about it at [en.lostpedia.com]

Airport_Whiskey

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> Parts of the show seem to be ripped off from "The Prisoner".

1. They're mysteriously brought to the island.
#6 was drugged & brought there.

2. They can't get off the island, something keeps bringing them back.
The Rovers kept #6 & anyone else from leaving The Village.

3. All the food & supplies have the Dharma logo & name on them, just as the food & supplies in The Village was marked "Village Foods" & had the big wheel logo on it.

There are certainly other similarities.

Greasy Thumb Guzik

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> @munkles:
No.

Plague

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> @extracrispy: The Valenzetti Equation is an incredibly complex (fictional) mathematical formula that predicts the exact date and time that humanity goes extinct. The Dharma Initiative is trying to use the island's strange properties, to alter the variables in the equation, to stave off human extinction.

The number sequence that kept popping up in the first few seasons are the key values in the Valenzetti Equation that Dharma must change, to keep the human race alive.

It's part of the bigger picture, that the producers spent waaaaaaaaaaay too much time setting up, and waaaaaaaayyyy too little time explaining ... since everything that happens on the whole fucking show basically hangs off of the Valenzetti Equation, you'd think they might want to make that slightly clear?

munkles

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> @moff:
Quit being silly.

It's the holographic 4-d version of what happens on a Risk board.

Capn_Marrrrk

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> You must read Lost: A Theory on Time Travel.

yochanan_marqos

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> @Seth L: I can only assume you've seen The Grid.

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> OK, I give up. The Lost producers win. I won't watch the show anymore.

Sihanouk-s-Poodle

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> @92BuickLeSabre: Yes! In regard to the Pleshette, I mean.

moff

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> @mattclary: REALLY???

moff

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> @moff: It's too bad Suzanne Pleshette passed away, otherwise we could really do this right.

(I actually really like all of the above theories, except the Vincent one; Old Man Aaron is crazy fun!)

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> @moff:

It was all an autistic kid with a snowglobe.

Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> @moff: That's been hashed to death.

mattclary

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> @moff: I don't watch Lost.

moff

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> I have been telling everyone that the coolest thing ever would be if they all woke up at the end of the last episode and it was just a dream.

I think America's ready for that old chestnut again.

moff

]]> <![CDATA[Explain Lost To Its Own Producers]]> The Valenzetti Equation

WTF? I should just give up 'cuz I've never even heard of that.

extracrispy

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