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Originally Posted by Treebeard4life
Somebody needs to watch Donnie Darko. And watch Cloverfield while your at it. Then start watching LOST over again. Red Glory there are very few facts of Time Travel. Therefore writers can be creative about this. They don't have to say why Time Travel works this way. They just show us how it works in the show and we go along with it. Then theres a good bit that we enjoy and we wait a weak for some more good bits.
All and all we really like good and we like it in bits and peices. Althought sometimes they throw us a big bit of good and its not really a bit. Therefore some of us are very confused. I think that is you. You are confused with this show. Because the theme of the new season is getting to the point and realisticly revealing answers in a correct fashion of bits and big (yet not very bitly) bits.
Therefore you should watch those movies and then rewatch LOST from Season 1 to the current episode. Also make sure u pay attiention to the current episode this time.
There are no paradox's. You just don't get it. Therefore I must asume you aren't a extremely attentive viewer. He traveled to and back. Sort of like teleporting. Yet he teleported to, not just a diffrent place, but a diffrent time. He was jumping back and forth like the movie jumper but it was a bit more complicated then that. Plus he was jumping through time. As Daniel said "You can't change the future". So he didn't change the future in the past. He changed the future via using the past to help him change the futurer future in the less futurer future that we, and all but Desmond, call the present. Therefore he was using the past to help him change the future in the present.
You guys don't understand this whole time travel thing. I think you overthinking it or under thinking it. I got it perfectly well and was left, unfournately, with very few questions. The worst part about this episode is it raised very few questions. Infact at the moment I can't think of a single one besides what on earth were Daniel and Charlotte doing in the trailer for the next episode.
This was a straight foward and exciting episode. Extremely satisfying although no major questions have appeared to us. Which was a bit dissapointing I must admit.
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Somebody already watched Donnie Darko - an entertaining and thought provoking movie that I really liked, but it's also a movie that was designed to make you think
infinitely, because the story is open-ended and has loose ends that were only there for "thrill value" - the audience can interpret their meaning forever, but as far as an "all powerful" answer goes - there is no such thing. LOST is the same way. Things happen all the time to make you feel scared or excited, but they don't tie into the big picture (if there is one), and sometimes they contradict other aspects of the show. Where Lost and Donnie Darko go wrong is in presenting themselves as if there is
something going on that will explain everything. They lead the viewer on. They can't decide if they want to be Back to the Future, or Blue Velvet (both great movies that present themselves honestly - one with answers, the other with no answers).
As for writing with the concept of time travel - just because something doesn't exist in real life doesn't mean "anything goes" and the audience will accept it no matter what. Good writing is taking a fantasy concept like time travel, saying "what if", and laying out a logical and consistent system so the story can move forward within that system, not jump around forever within a system that is constantly modifying itself. To expect the audience to believe, "Well... sometimes the castaways experience it this way, and other times that way... because this island is crazy and anything can happen - just go with it," - that's not consistent.
Before you get excited, let me add that I re-watched "The Constant" and found it enjoyable and understandable the second time around - so I have to eat my words and say that my initial criticisms don't really apply. This time, I watched it on ABC.com, rather than my fullscreen TV through fuzzy antenna reception, and I realized how important the look of the show is. For me, if it looks terrible, I can't get absorbed in the story. I was wrong to say that the episode blew. It is easily the best episode of Season 4 so far (which is still the worst season so far).
And the acting and dialogue still suck.
Treebeard, I don't think I need to use your suggested movies as Cliff's notes for LOST, then start watching the show all over again. That's condescending advice, and I'm sure that's the only reason you gave it - to make me feel like an idiot who hasn't been watching the right movies and shows.