From: buffhunter@my-deja.com   
      
   In article , your.name@isp.com says...   
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   > "Hunter"  wrote in message   
   > news:MPG.26817ef49071254198a4d2@news.optonline.net...   
   > > In article , your.name@isp.com says...   
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   > > > "Hunter"  wrote in message   
   > > > news:MPG.267fcba08c96718098a4cc@news.optonline.net...   
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   > > > > There is a new Lost like TV show on NBC called "Persons Unknown"   
   > > >   
   > > > Why?!?!?   
   > > >   
   > > > Lost turned into a complete waste of time and the first clone show   
   > > > (Flashforward) has been cancelled. Why waste time and money making   
   > another   
   > > > one?   
   > >   
   > > Well I strongly disagree with you in thinking that Lost was a   
   > > complete waste of time. You may have a problem with the way it ended,   
   > > perhaps on a philosophical grounds but it was by no means a complete   
   > > waste of time.   
   >   
   > I didn't even bother watching the final season. Personally I thought it   
   > turned to confused nonsense and the makers lost the plot at about season two   
   > or three ... but many other people are highly unhappy with the way it ended.   
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   People who didn't follow it properly or forget that some mysteries   
   were solved and either forgot the answer or missed it the first time,   
   (like in BSG with another poster's complaint in another post recently   
   regarding BSG not giving the answer about why they had fertility   
   farms on Caprica or why Caprica Sharon ran off with Helo. It was   
   given in the show in the very episodes) while others are unhappy   
   because they didn't like the supernatural way it did (just like some   
   didn't like the ending of BSG for that reason) even if the show was   
   showing paranormal phenomena like ghost all along; and some are   
   unhappy because their own personal theories didn't pan out; and some   
   weren't happy about it relying heavily on personal relationships with   
   one another including romantic ones (even if just like with RDM with   
   BSG, the Producers of "Lost" repeatedly said over the years that it   
   was about people and how the problems they were going through   
   affected and changed them).   
      
   And if you think the producers lost the plot I don't think so, going   
   back over the show you can see things that started as far back as   
   season one and build up all the way to the end. Some people misread   
   the clues but in hindsight the clues to the end were there including   
   the producers repeatedly saying what the island wasn't They even   
   produced 13 clip shows that gave answers to the previous season if   
   things were clear enough.   
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   > > It was as great a series as BSG was I am going to miss   
   > > it just as much, especially since like BSG it had a definite ending   
   > > with no hope of a sequel.   
   >   
   > Another personal opinion: Ron Moore's so-called "Battlestar Galactica" is   
   > garbage.   
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   That is fine for your opinion, but in the specifics like about   
   mysteries not getting solved you could be quite wrong.   
   >   
   > > As for "Flashforward" being a clone if you saw it you wouldn't say it   
   > > since it almost had nothing in common except maybe being in the same   
   > > universe; although I would had liked to know how they would explain   
   > > how notorious quantum physicist Simon Campos looked exactly like the   
   > > deceased Charlie Pace, the bassist of "Drive Shaft." :-)   
   >   
   > I only saw a couple of episodes, but didn't think it was worth watching   
   > (like many other people apparently, since it's been cancelled). Lots of   
   > people call it a Lost-clone, mostly because it has all sorts of on-going   
   > mysteries ...  and will also probably now end with no answers.   
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   Actually a lot of mysteries were solved. We knew exactly who created   
   the black out. And people are being too simplistic call it a "Lost"   
   clone merely because it had mysteries. And while yes a lot of   
   individual mysteries on "Lost" didn't get solved, like who made that   
   DHARMA air drop (I suspect The Others) or what was the reason as to   
   why women started dying in pregnancy in the late 1970's and who was   
   that strange apparition in Jacob's cabin. However, a lot of mysteries   
   some fans thought wasn't solved in the show were, like hints about   
   the smoke monster and its nature goes all the way back to season one   
   and not a recent invention or idea. Or why Eko was killed (he   
   refused to repent his sins). It was the same in some cases in BSG.   
      
   It is the nature of shows like "Lost" and BSG and "Flashforward" that   
   have unfolding mysteries if only because the show is intended to last   
   four five, six seven seasons and so can't give away too much too soon   
   or what would be the point.I myself while wanting mysteries to be   
   eventually solved, I am not going to expect the writers of "Persons   
   Unknown" to tell me who is behind all of this for at least the next   
   four years. That is the nature of these shows. And despite the   
   complainers, millions of people loved and still love "Lost".   
   --   
   ----->Hunter   
      
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    a fellow that's in the right and keeps on acomin'."   
      
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