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Heh, gotta love The Onion. http://www.theonion.com/articles/lost-possibly-still-airing-in-parallel-dimension-d,17485/

yeah really that being said *SPOILER ALERT* Well-said. I was happy that everything was resolved for the characters, but it's almost like the plot itself was abandoned just so we could know that all the characters can appear in a warm-fuzzy after-life-ish reunion. And while that is good for warm fuzzies, it basically tells us "oh, all that other stuff wasn't really important in the first place." Here's an example/analogy I've been thinking of. If Lord of the Rings started the story right about where, say, Return of the King begins, and then doesn't really explain what led to the sequence of events unfolding before you, and then just as the ring is making its way up the slopes of Mt. Doom the movie cuts over to a sideways-reality in a similar fashion and everyone is just living their lives normally until, say, Gandalf decides to round them all up and explain that they had all died, and this alternate-reality was just a way they could all gather to sail to the undying lands, that would be a reasonable comparison to how the ending of Lost made me feel. Yeah, it's great to see a "happy ending", but I want to know what happened in the "real" world. I'd want to know where the ring came from, and why the hobbits were trying to destroy it, and why it made Frodo invisible, and why Gollum was following them, and why etc etc etc etc etc. That's exactly the case here. There were sooo many episodes and characters that apparently didn't matter (again, I'm guessing that was partially the network's fault because they elongated a series that was originally intended to be shorter than it turned out). And I guess that's what's going to bug me in perpetuity here. It's not a perfect analogy, but I think it explains my perspective a little at least. Concerning I wondered that as well. And don't modern film-editing techniques offer plenty of ways around that? Where were half the characters there? I really feel like them showing so few characters in the chapel only added yet another gaping, never-to-be-answered-only-speculated-upon hole in the face of what might have otherwise been a more satisfying ending. Yeah really Again, all in all, as I've said, I think the ending was reasonably executed, at least from a "Character round-up" perspective--after all, the show is called "Lost" so it only makes sense that they all "find" each-other in the end, more or less (but mostly less ). But I'm afraid the lack of reasonable explanation for so many of the other strange, and seemingly urgent/important issues in the series are going to leave me with a perpetually disappointed feeling that will conflict with my ability to enjoy the series with complete (or near-complete anyway) satisfaction. And knowing that after all the time I've invested into the series that many questions will NEVER be answered is saddening to me. ******************************** If Lost was a submission to OCR, my vote would go like this: Pretty decent track, great use of instrumentation (characteres). One of the most amazing intros I've ever heard. The first minute of the song is fantastic, I could listen to just that part on repeat. After that however, the song sort of coasts and starts to lose focus. Some instruments just pop in or drop out (or both) at random and it's a little distracting. The mood and progression of the song are interesting enough, but the pace just becomes ridiculously plodding around the 4 minute mark, and the instrumentation and progression of the song has become a little hollow. The ending is executed very well and leaves me on a warm fuzzy note, so nice job on that. Ultimately however, there's just not enough substance here to carry the track for a full six minutes. Quite frankly, this really ought to be cut down to 3-4 minutes tops. The instrumentation needs to be reworked to be a little more consistent throughout the piece so that the ending, while warm-and fuzzy, is also actually cohesive. NO (resubmit) Hope that explains things on my end

Since you mention it, I have indeed been trying to be careful to express my general feelings without spoilers, but on that subject, if soneone has not watched more than a few episodes of the show, would anyone really have the right to be upset if they're reading a thread called "Lost: the final season" and they happen to read one? I mean, that'd be like opening a book titled "the last 30 minutes of Return of the Jedi" when one hasn't seen any of the other SW films.

yeah, to be fair, I suppose I'm not really upset at the ending, I thought it was fairly moving for what it was. I think the thing I'm a little bitter about are all the plot holes that exist from prior in the series, and I'm sick to death of people saying "oh, but all that wasn't important anyway", because if it wasn't important, then why was it in there in the first place??? And again, I guess it goes back to the fact that it shouldn't have been in there, but ABC wanted to milk the series, so they had the writers drag it out and bloat it with probably 2 seasons worth of episodes (collectively) that DIDN'T MATTER at ALL. That's why I'm annoyed I think.

That's a fairly odd thing to say... Anyway, I think part of good writing is the ability to wrap up the loose ends you create. It's one thing to leave a few things "open ended", but the thing is, that was the end. There's not going to be a follow-up episode or movie or expansion of any kind. So rather than leaving me with a feeling of "Oh, I'll just use my imagination for this/that issue" I'm instead left with a "Why did they bother to even show us that in the first place since it just turns out to not matter at ALL after waiting patiently for six friggin years? Blah.

So what'd everybody think? Ultimately, I have pretty mixed feelings about the Lost finale. Not quite sure what to make of it, and there's still a slew of questions that I'm not sure were answered. I realize it was said a while ago that "not all questions would be answered", but IMO that was more of a cop-out than anything. It just gave them an excuse to dismiss a ton of the nonsense that happened throughout the series. I can't say I hated the ending, but I will say it seemed a bit forced. I guess all things considered, they did a reasonable job wrapping the things they actually did wrap up, but I've also got some pretty steady disappointment floating across my mind right now. I'll probably watch it again and hit up Lostpedia to try to make further sense of it, but at any rate, there it is. Guess it's time to find a new series to get drawn into and hope that it's just as engaging, but manages to answer viewer questions a bit more easily.

Anso knows I <3 him. This remix makes me <3 him more. In all seriousness, I was really flattered/honored when he said he wanted to do a remix of Tali's theme

it's ok man, like I said, I've done the same thing earlier in this thread. Also, I spelled deer "dear". Kind of creepy.

lol, that is indeed what I meant, and I myself have confused that very term when someone once commented on my monitor placement

Actually, I'd say my problem is that I work with samples so much that samples all start to sound fake...

I mean, I get that, but I'm just saying speed/stability are not a problem. I can watch clips on other video sites without any problems. Filesize isn't the issue either, Youtube vids choke frequently whether they're in HD or whether they're phone cam videos from 2006.

I suppose if you're referring to the general placement of the video, then sure. while I don't waste a lot of time with comments, occasionally there's a few videos that I enjoy reading comments on 12 Mbps and I need better? I doubt that.

looks worse than it ever has, comments and ratings are oversimplified, and I can't even remember the last time I've been able to watch a video that doesn't choke a fourth of the way through it.

I on the other hand would be appalled. They've ruined Youtube, Chrome never worked right for me when I tried it a few months back (normal sites would crash the browser/not load constantly) and I DL'd the google 3d earth app the other day ad it crashes firefox pretty regularly. I do like gmail though, so that's one thing they've done right.

Two questions: 1) Do the dear heads do anything for the acoustic treatment of the room? 2) Where's your other monitor in those last pictures?

awesome song, epic video!!!

Imogen Heap is going to be in Atlanta on June 4 I believe, and Nashville the day after. I'd like to go to one of these. Anybody else nearby planning on attending one?

Why is this not an offtop thread anyway?

(seconded)

I used to use Joomla. I switched to Wordpress recently and hoooooly crap, it is 1000x better. Joomla is horrible IMO. Doing things that should be simple (like building a navigation bar or adding a new page) are extremely complex and take about 5 more steps than they should. With Wordpress it's like a "click here, type words, click here" thing. Themes are super easy to install/change to if you get bored easily or just enjoy variety.

jetpacks made the game fun again back when I'd played it enough to get through each campaign with my eyes shut

you all rock

haha, WUT, that's awesome:)!! Nice work, man! :nicework:

hahaha, has anyone seen this?

I am slightly alarmed at the lack of response that this thread has received. Are people simply not concerned with the fight against cancer?