Would You Watch A Lost Sequel?
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Agreed with this.The only thing that could be expanded upon is background material secondary to the main show, but even that was covered by spin-off books, websites, easter eggs, and ARGs during the TV show's run. But a sequel to the established storylines would not add anything to the show and would only serve to detract from it.
LOST was a special place that people created together. Time to let go and move on.
I think I'd like to be fooled twice. What can I say? I'm a glutton for punishment.
I feel like there are potential stories to be told that wouldn't have to solely focus on plot alone. I think the first idea that people have is that a spinoff will start rattling off answers, but that would probably be a foolish thing to do for a show. And sequel implies the returning of many of the same characters, which isn't really possible.
I do think, however, that the show wasn't as neatly wrapped up in a bow as some here think. It was pretty incomplete as a show.
They should say from the start that some of the questions, or possibly all of them, will go unanswered, or will be answered in ways you don't like or don't understand. View at your own risk. This message should be displayed at the start of every episode.
They shouldn't re-use characters or the island location. At most, maybe one or two characters can have a cameo. They should devise an entirely new premise and storyline, with entirely new characters, keyed off the universe they've created that includes mysterious areas of power throughout the world, the Dharma Initiative, etc.
It should take place in an elaborate series of Magic Light Caves.
You and I really don't look at this in the same way.
They should say from the start that some of the questions, or possibly all of them, will go unanswered, or will be answered in ways you don't like or don't understand. View at your own risk. This message should be displayed at the start of every episode.
I'd give it a try if it actually answered some of the questions and mysteries that were raised during the original series, and made some sense out of that cop out of an ending. But you'd probably have to assign a completely different creative team to do that....
I'd take a shot at it.
But you said who in his right mind....
But you said who in his right mind....
Well, I was a huge LOST fan...until the last 15 minutes of the finale, when the whole thing fell apart for me. The sideways being some vaguely defined afterlife...Jack's pointless, let's-kill-off-the-main-character-for-no-reason-except-to-fuck-with-you-one-last-time, death...Hurley (with Ben, who was fucking with people right up to the end, as a sidekick) ending up being 'The Guy' despite the fact that at no point during the series was he ever even HINTED at.....it was all just LAME.
I don't care about stuff like answers regarding Walt and all that backstory stuff. But I DO care about honoring what you've intentionally led people to believe about main characters over the course of 6 seasons - at least the 'big stuff' about them, anyway. And so I'm still pretty angry at the writers.
Given all of that, I doubt I'd watch a sequel. Jack would still be dead...so what would be the point? Watching a couple of seasons of Ben fucking with Hurley's head? Been there, done that.
For me, LOST was, at it's core, Jack's personal journey. Or at least we were led to believe that until the last 15 minutes, when we discovered it was actually Hurley's journey.
If Jack is dead...I don't have much interest in any of the other nonsense. And the funny thing is that Jack wasn't even one of my top 4 favorite characters!
I am definitely a part of the "Fool me once...." contingent. But it has nothing to do with lack of answers on some of the trivialities. It has to do with the ending we got being LAME and coming out of nowhere.
Sort of like VOY's "WTF?" ending in "Endgame'. Only LOST was a much better show beforehand.
I don't care about stuff like answers regarding Walt and all that backstory stuff. But I DO care about honoring what you've intentionally led people to believe about main characters over the course of 6 seasons - at least the 'big stuff' about them, anyway. And so I'm still pretty angry at the writers.
Given all of that, I doubt I'd watch a sequel. Jack would still be dead...so what would be the point? Watching a couple of seasons of Ben fucking with Hurley's head? Been there, done that.
For me, LOST was, at it's core, Jack's personal journey. Or at least we were led to believe that until the last 15 minutes, when we discovered it was actually Hurley's journey.
If Jack is dead...I don't have much interest in any of the other nonsense. And the funny thing is that Jack wasn't even one of my top 4 favorite characters!I am definitely a part of the "Fool me once...." contingent. But it has nothing to do with lack of answers on some of the trivialities. It has to do with the ending we got being LAME and coming out of nowhere.
Sort of like VOY's "WTF?" ending in "Endgame'. Only LOST was a much better show beforehand.
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Sounds like a job for fanfic. And I'm sure more than a few "rewrites" are already underway. Someone post a link if and when any of them are worth reading.
The biggest problem with the fanfic route, though, is no Kate, no Sun, no Alex....
Yeah, LOST, for me, is a complete and immensely satisfying story. I still want to know what happened to Cooper in the Red Room, on the other hand.
For the most part, I found him annoying and far from amusing.
I liked Hurley but I could see why people might find him annoying sometimes.
I'd definitely watch it for sure. I don't think one is necessary since I think Lost told a complete story and doesn't really need a continuation. If we got more Lost I think I'd rather have it tell stories set in the island's past. I think a story taking place before Mother, Jacob and MiB were on the island could be interesting. Who built the chamber seen in The End where the light is. We saw skeletons there...how and why did they get there? Or something more about how the Others came to be. We could see how Jacob brought some people to the island and how Richard formed their group. I listened to the commentary on Ab Aeterno earlier this week and they mentioned that originally they were going to do a montage showing Richard greeting people Jacob had brought to the island over the years. I forget why they dropped that. It sounded interesting.
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