Dear People Who Make Lost:I like your show. It is a lot of fun. But sometimes it is confusing. Maybe someday you can tell the story in order.
Love,
A Lost Fan
How sweet would that be. I was watching the latest Faraday extravaganza and thinking about all the stories we've gotten through the years, the flash forwards and flashbacks and jumps through time. It's getting pretty hard to keep track of what happened before and after what.
So here's what I'm thinking (and maybe they've already thought of it). After it's all said and done next year, we need a special Blu-Ray set that offers two viewing options. In one you can watch the episodes as they aired, and in the other, you can watch the events of the entire series in true chronological order.
I'm not sure how good the narrative would be, but what a fascinating way to experience the entire saga. It would also show us how well the writers kept all the cohesive parts together ... or didn't, as the case may be. So, now you've got something to work on for Summer 2010. I'll be waiting!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
5-02-2009 @ 6:47PM
Karen said...
Had the exact same thought after Wednesday's episode. Too many things I had forgotten about!
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5-02-2009 @ 6:28PM
CRanga said...
Yeah right. Lets dumb down the best show on TV for the stupid section of the population. Great idea.
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5-02-2009 @ 6:38PM
Michael said...
Your "Graduate" parallel seems dead-on, but I think the more immediate parallel the show was making was to Tom Cruise's whole "who's coming with me to start a new company" speech in "Jerry MacGuire," a movie that Michael Scott probably knows by heart.
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5-02-2009 @ 6:49PM
OK DeSign said...
you read my minds!
seriously, that should be consider..
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5-02-2009 @ 6:57PM
Bart Smith said...
Considering that such a thing would likely cost $300+, I can't imagine it's something that anybody other than the most hardcore LOST fans would even think about purchasing.
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5-02-2009 @ 9:25PM
sid said...
i'd rent it
5-02-2009 @ 7:34PM
rp said...
I think the biggest issue with this is that scenes wouldn't quite match up or show linearity in which multiple viewpoints were shown. A good example of this is the original Oceanic 815 flight. Through flashbacks, the flight was shown from the perspectives of multiple characters, and since a lot of those scenes were filmed at different times, many continuity errors would become very visible.
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5-02-2009 @ 8:00PM
robert said...
the show has many possibilities
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5-02-2009 @ 8:01PM
Andy said...
Stupid idea. Why don't we just get a cut of Memento that's in order, too?
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5-02-2009 @ 8:33PM
edgore said...
Bingo! Could not have put it better.
5-02-2009 @ 8:53PM
Jake said...
I believe the DVD cut of Memento features an option that allows you to play it order....
5-02-2009 @ 8:38PM
Brian said...
I believe there was a special edition DVD that had the option to watch the movie in chronological order. Or maybe it was a bootleg version. Still, I believe that exists.
5-02-2009 @ 8:40PM
Brian said...
I found it, it is in the special edition, it's just a hidden option:
http://www.eeggs.com/items/34998.html
5-02-2009 @ 8:03PM
robert said...
Perhaps this season will end with the incident being averted and the plane landing in Los Angeles. Since all the characters are somehow connected or relatied, the last season can focus on these strangers "reconnecting" their relationships in a mirror image of the relationships on the island
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5-02-2009 @ 8:36PM
Brian said...
I like the concept, but the execution wouldn't work. There would be parts that were filmed in Season 1 that were supposed to be happening a week apart from things that were filmed in Season 3, so while it would be subtle, the people would look older when they're only supposed to be a week or day older.
I just think that would be too difficult to overcome, along with the different perspectives of the same event challenges that others have mentioned.
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5-02-2009 @ 8:53PM
Tostie14 said...
Well, I know most of us fans are above watching the clip shows, but "The Story of the Oceanic 6" essentially put all of the last season and a half in chronological order, so maybe them doing something like that for the entire series isn't totally bogus?
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5-02-2009 @ 9:24PM
sid said...
also, who's timeline are we following? are we doing to watch jack and sawyer in the darhma initiative before the plane crashes?
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5-02-2009 @ 9:55PM
kip said...
The Season 4 DVD bonus features had a chronological showing of all the flashforwards featuring the Oceanic Six from Season 4 (and S3 finale). (I happened to watch this last night, which is why it is fresh on my mind).
For the most part it was really boring. There were a few continuity things I noticed, like Jack started growing that awful beard when he played basketball with Hurley, but then he's clean-shaven in several subsequent scenes before the awful beard comes back in full force.
I could see this being a bonus feature on the Season Six DVDs, although they'd have to edit them way down (otherwise it'd be something like 130 hours long!). I will be amazed, though, if there isn't some fan who painstakingly does this and releases a torrent. It'd be illegal, of course, but probably one of those things the studios would look the other way on.
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5-02-2009 @ 10:24PM
rp said...
It wouldn't be that long. Remember, each episode is only about 41-44 minutes long. When you cut out credits and intros, they get even shorter. Still, it would be interesting to see if fans could do a good job of editing to gloss over some of the continuity errors in scenes that would need to be addressed.
5-03-2009 @ 12:43AM
Roger Thorpe said...
There is a lot of material that didnt make the shows, but is available on line, The scene with Jack and his Dad talking about the watch. I would like to see LOST: the chronology, there is the crash on line on You Tube that has multiple boxes when the action takes place on the same plane of time...It could be really cool....I would buy it.
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