Where can I download Lost, the TV series?

[Disme]

Lost is a Tour De Force in experimental split-structure narrative. In this it is completely unique. It is told from multiple POV's and we perceive the action from a first-person perspective. We learn as the characters learn. On-island events are smash-cut with character flash-backs (well, up until the end of Season 3 anyway). These flash-backs widen the arc of the story to interconnect each disparate character in a cross-hatch style never before attempted in television. Each episode is laden with literary/filmic references which, while pertaining to that episode's theme, also provide a rich treasure trove for movie/literature geeks like myself. To take just 'The Numbers' as one example, they reoccur in the most inventive, mind-bogglingly latent ways. One is constantly on the look-out in the background for new, subtle employment of them. They are based on an actual exercise in mathematics dubbed The Valenzetti Equasion which produces a mathematical formula for the end of the world.

Yes, loads more to follow.

I agree with you if you say there are various very clever aspects to the series, but it has to lead somewhere and remain believable.

By that I mean it can be an incredible series with genius turns and twists and references but it has to lead somewhere and on a certain point in the series I begun to doubt seriously if anybody still knew where all of it would end or why certain things happened.

I feel it wasn't on purpose that various things that happened weren't explained later and will probably not be explained ever. Because they were written from a particular point of view the writers had at some point in the series, but what was later abandonned to choose for another direction.

I agree that this series could be the best by far, but that will only happen if the writers come up with some genious story that explains everything that has been happening.

If they won't do that you can say/believe all you want but than you have been watching a shitty show imho, full of random twists and turns that aren't based on a coherent sory and than you have a very weak plot-line.

[chalice]

Disme, before I respond to your post, can you not edit it to at least spoiler tag the spoilers.

I'm trying to convince JP to watch the bloody thing and I don't want it spoiled for him.

You'll notice I've stayed away from any obvious spoilers.

[Proper Bo]

Hoi JP, there's a plane crash.

[Proper Bo]

spoiler above.

[IdolEyes787]

Chalice Lost may be unique for television but J.J. Abrams got the split narrative idea from watching Rashomon.
And Disme the whole concept behind Lost is all about the not being Locked in time(both figuratively and literally).Hence anything is possible.

[Disme]

Disme, before I respond to your post, can you not edit it to at least spoiler tag the spoilers.

I'm trying to convince JP to watch the bloody thing and I don't want it spoiled for him.

You'll notice I've stayed away from any obvious spoilers.

Done ... and my sincere apologies for this ... got a little carried away I guess and wasn't thinking 'straight'.

[Barbarossa]

Disme, your questions answered below.

Spoiler: Show

For example in the first series there was a polar bear on the island, we are now at season 4 and there has not been any answer to that question up till now. And this is just one example, but there are a lot more...

Well, presumably they escaped from the Dharma bear testing station where the Others imprisoned Kate and Sawyer at the beginning of Series 3. When Sawyer worked out how to get a fish biscuit, one of the Others said "The bears did it quicker than that"

Spoiler: Show

At a certain point a guy with a patch on one eye appears in the series, he dies when crossing the fence and a few episodes later he pops back up and kills Charlie without any explanation how that is possible. I'm sorry but I don't like that kind of twists in a story.

I just assumed he wasn't actually killed by the sonic fence thing, just rendered unconscious. Anyway, the "island" has the ability to bring people back. For example Locke was brought back to life near the end of Series 3

[IdolEyes787]

Lost is a Tour De Force in experimental split-structure narrative. In this it is completely unique. It is told from multiple POV's and we perceive the action from a first-person perspective. We learn as the characters learn. On-island events are smash-cut with character flash-backs (well, up until the end of Season 3 anyway). These flash-backs widen the arc of the story to interconnect each disparate character in a cross-hatch style never before attempted in television. Each episode is laden with literary/filmic references which, while pertaining to that episode's theme, also provide a rich treasure trove for movie/literature geeks like myself. To take just 'The Numbers' as one example, they reoccur in the most inventive, mind-bogglingly latent ways. One is constantly on the look-out in the background for new, subtle employment of them. They are based on an actual exercise in mathematics dubbed The Valenzetti Equasion which produces a mathematical formula for the end of the world.

Yes, loads more to follow.

I agree with you if you say there are various very clever aspects to the series, but it has to lead somewhere and remain believable.

By that I mean it can be an incredible series with genius turns and twists and references but it has to lead somewhere and on a certain point in the series I begun to doubt seriously if anybody still knew where all of it would end or why certain things happened.

I feel it wasn't on purpose that various things that happened weren't explained later and will probably not be explained ever. Because they were written from a particular point of view the writers had at some point in the series, but what was later abandonned to choose for another direction.

I agree that this series could be the best by far, but that will only happen if the writers come up with some genious story that explains everything that has been happening.

If they won't do that you can say/believe all you want but than you have been watching a shitty show imho, full of random twists and turns that aren't based on a coherent sory and than you have a very weak plot-line.

Maybe if you watched it in HD?
Still doesn't explain Richard Alpert though.

[JPaul]

... at some point in the series the writers didn't have a clue why, what, where, why it all was happening.

Particularly why.

[JPaul]

I agree with you if you say there are various very clever aspects to the series, but it has to lead somewhere and remain believable.

By that I mean it can be an incredible series with genius turns and twists and references but it has to lead somewhere and on a certain point in the series I begun to doubt seriously if anybody still knew where all of it would end or why certain things happened.

I feel it wasn't on purpose that various things that happened weren't explained later and will probably not be explained ever. Because they were written from a particular point of view the writers had at some point in the series, but what was later abandonned to choose for another direction.

I agree that this series could be the best by far, but that will only happen if the writers come up with some genious story that explains everything that has been happening.

If they won't do that you can say/believe all you want but than you have been watching a shitty show imho, full of random twists and turns that aren't based on a coherent sory and than you have a very weak plot-line.

Maybe if you watched it in HD?

:earl:

That's probly it.