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People keep calling this film predictable, but predictable would have been "it turns out they're all robots."

Waaaaaaalt! You're irelevaaaaaant!
This Lost commentary is way more effusive than I thought it was going to be, especially the prediction that the show is going to age well (which almost no TV shows ever do). I'm curious to see what people will have to say after watching the DVDs. For all the show's strengths, it had

A non-fan asked me today "how many of the mysteries actually get solved." I said "that depends on what your definition of solved is," which accidentally invited a bunch of terrible Clinton impressions.

@nakedfoul, I can't agree enough. How was this not already a rule?

geh
I'm not going to totally bash it. It was a solid 2.5 hours of TV, and I didn't need and airtight explanation of every mystery. Lost has always been about front loading the drama. If you think about last season, Jack screaming "we have to go baaack!" with a beard seemed to hint a way more complicated and

Yeah, it looked pretty haunted house at a frat. Kind of in bad taste to do a mass grave scene that cheesily.

cat
Is the island as cork analogy making anyone else think of hatch? I know that way back then - especially when we saw the hieroglyphics - I expected to find out that pushing the button was keeping some evil lovecraftian demon under control.