I confess never having watched a full episode and only having the slightest idea what’s goig on there, but it seems that evety time I catch an episode there’s something completely bonkers going on. The scientific base, the “deus ex machina” hatch, the Michelle Rodriguez castaways, the future/past/flashbacks…
What would be too unbeleivable even for Lost? A dinosaur? Jesus? Aliens?
Well, we’ve discovered in the recent season finale that theres
two, semi-immortal, possible Egyptian gods living on the island that can apparently raise the dead as well as possess them.
I think that covers the Jesus angle.
As far as Dinosaurs or aliens, the horribly rendered submarine has shown that they have a very small CGI budget.
I’m curious if they fix that effect for the DVD. It was an unusual moment where everyone noticed a poor shot at the same time.
About the only thing that pops into my mind is Yoda and Bigfoot, being a happily married jewish couple, having twins.
And I think it would only be the mechanics of it that would put it over the top for Lost.
I bet Lindy and Cuse could pull it off. If you have told me in the middle of the first season that they were gonna time travel back to the 70’s, I would’ve turned it off right then and there. But they made it work.
It’s always had subpar special effects, with the occasional exception (plane crashes were impressive). The smoke monster has always looked like a flying turd that doesn’t at all blend in with the surroundings, and the polar bear was also embarrassing.
None of those are really any more fantastic than many things already featured in the show. Lost has an already well established fantasy/scifi premise, so if dinosaurs were to show up, it wouldn’t be like adding them to a show that’s otherwise grounded in reality.
Also, the hatch wasn’t really Deus Ex Machina.
The little kid falls out of his bed and swears off rarebit for-ever!
Then a snowglobe rolls out from under his bed.
Agreed. The show – and there’s no reason for the OP to know this – isn’t about all the wacky shit, although that’s compelling. It’s about the characters, and seeing how people you wouldn’t otherwise consider exceptional cope with the extreme situations in which they find themselves. Ergo, there isn’t anything too weird to deal with so long as it’s introduced the same way everything else has been introduced, as a platform for exploring character. (Which is why LOST is a much better show than its imitators – because they are about crazy happenings, and LOST uses them as scaffolding.)
–Cliffy
The only thing that would be too much would be to discover that Charlie, instead of dying, traveled back in time to the 70’s to found the band Geronimo Jackson, and had a hit song which entered the charts at # 42, rose to 23, then 16, 15 and 8 before finally peaking at # 4. And Casey Kasem relating this history was the voice reciting the numbers being broadcast from the island.
On alt.tv.lost there is a guy named Bob that has a theory that the entire show is giant con. According to him, nothing that you see on the screen can be taken at face value. Claire’s baby? Not actually hers. Kate had it hidden in her backpack prior to the birthing scene (seriously he is that out there). All this done in an apparent attempt to fool the world for some reason similar to what apparently happens in the Watchmen, which Lost supposedly references a lot.
While he thinks this revelation would be delicious, I think pitchfork wielding mobs would be chasing the writers.
I always figured the Jesus angle was covered thru Jack’s dad (“Christian Shepard”) who seems to have come back from the dead in one way or another.
Or the lame (Locke) being made to walk.
(my bolding)
Maybe no 100% Deus, but it allowed for the fat guy to remain fat without further complications.
Dude. That would be awesome.
I don’t know how much further “out there” they can go before they have to start reeling it in. They have one season left to do it and while I doubt they can reel it all the way back into a neat and tidy explanation that will satisfy everyone they do need to start pulling it back in and fitting a few pieces together.
The only thing that could be “too much”, although it may also be the only thing that could tie everything up, is for one of the characters to realize just before he hits the beach after the plane crashed that he imagined the whole thing, sort of like Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurance At Owl Creek Bridge.”
Damn that was a good show/Twilight Zone episode. Lost can only wish it were that compelling.
It was also a short story. Which Locke was reading at one point.
But the head guys have repeatedly stated that there will not be any sort of “it was all a dream” type ending.
Technically, a psychotic break isn’t a dream. Neither is a fever hallucination.