LOST TV Show • Page 31

just finished the episode where they figure out this ethan dude wasn't on the plane. i can only imagine having to wait a whole week off that cliffhanger haha. now we're cooking.

 

truly an all-time TV moment, I can still feel the goosebumps and chills I got when that scene happens

 

man, I really wanna do a re-watch now.

I've only seen it twice. once as it aired week to week and then a season binge when each DVD boxset came out

 

Same, I just cannot get my girlfriend on board even though I know she'll like it once it gets going.

 

13 years ago today the finale aired

 

Remember binging this on Blu Ray after I broke my ankle. Got me through some tough times haha

 

a top 5 jaw drop/brain leaking out of my ears TV moment.

what i would give to be able to experience this show for the first time again.

 

the final scene of season 3 is up there as well.

 

i remember being in high school when this show came out and all the hype and discourse around it. at that point in my life i did not give a shit about television. would have been cool to be apart of it but here we are.

 

I was in college when this was live and every Thursday the entire bar would be debating on what happened that week and what was going to happen.

that Ethan revelation was quite the mind fuck haha

 

16 years later and I still get chills thinking about that moment. I dont think anyone could honestly say they saw that twist coming. That episode set the bar so high for television at the time.

 

My favorite all time scene of Lost is the one where Kate and Sawyer go to rescue Jack from the Others and find him spiking a football. Just a great WTF ending to that episode, and one I think pretty much sums up the show.

 

i have so many shows to watch and now i'm about to drop everything and start my 10th(?) LOST rewatch

 

‘Lost’ Illusions: The Untold Story of the Hit Show’s Poisonous Culture

 

A very good read and makes me very sad as a huge fan growing up, although it all makes sense when you really reflect on the show

 

This was tough to read. It’s interesting how a whole book is dedicated just about this and Lost. There’s gotta be a lot more to it.

 

Extremely tough read. This section in particular, absolutely horrific. Warnings for racism, sexism, spoiler tagging in case anyone does not want to read.

“Here is a partial roster of statements sources heard while working at Lost. The first four were heard by Owusu-Breen, as well as another individual I spoke to:

When someone on staff was adopting an Asian child, one person said to another writer that “no grandparent wants a slanty-eyed grandchild.”

When actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s picture was on the writers room table, someone was told to remove their nearby wallet “before he steals it.”

When Owusu-Breen and others were riding in a van on a trip, in answer to a question about the luggage, one writer—using a Yiddish word—said, “Let the schvartze take it.”

The only Asian American writer was called Korean, as in, “Korean, take the board.”

When a woman entered the writers room carrying a binder, two sources said, a male writer asked her what it was. She said it was the HR manual for the studio, and he responded, “Why don’t you take off your top and tell us about it?”

There was apparently some discomfort around the show’s cleaning staff using the bathroom in the Lost offices, and there were “jokes” about “putting up a Whites Only sign.”

Finally, when Perrineau’s Lost departure came up, Lindelof said, according to multiple sources, that the actor “called me racist, so I fired his ass.”

 

It is clear from both the article and their responses that Cuse was way, way more of a problem than Lindelof and that makes me feel the tiniest bit better. But obviously Lindelof is still hugely to blame and this is extremely disappointing.

 

Man that article is so upsetting. It does retroactively explain a ton though.

 

Yeah, definitely no excusing Lindelof here, but I guess he does at least accept his culpability. Cuse on the other hand is extremely defensive, accusatory, and dismissive. Clearly an old white man from the old world, boys club Hollywood era.

 

Gets worse upon reading this letter from Javier Grillo-Marxuach further elaborating on the interview he gave for the book:

http://okbjgm.weebly.com/uploads/3/1/5/0/31506003/final_statement.pdf

 

Woof. This show meant so much to me when it aired. I spent so many late night excavating clues with APers back in the day. I feel like such an ass for being so into Cuse and Lindelof's shtick on the Official Lost Podcast and thinking so highly of them.

 

watched the hurley origin episode today. what do the numbers mean?!

 

I would like to think Lindelof has learned and grown, even though accepting criticism now is like throwing water on a house that’s already burned down.

Cuse just seems unapologetic and knows he’s made his money and will be fine either way. The whole “It was 17 years ago” holds no water when you haven’t been held accountable for all those years.

 

It’s hard to think Lindelof has changed all that much when he’s on record worrying about what’s going to happen to his career after the books released. Colors all his answers as a way of adapting to mitigate criticism instead of genuine remorse and change (that’s how it came off to me, at least)