On Mar 2, 7:31=A0am, thinbluemime <thinbluem...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:58:51 -0500, A Watcher <stocks...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > thinbluemime wrote:
> >> On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:32:51 -0500, Steven L.
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> >>> In January 2005, Damon Lindelof discussed "Lost" in an interview:
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> >>> "We're still trying to be ... firmly ensconced in the world of
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> >>> fact. =A0I don't think we've shown anything on the show yet ... that
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> >>> no rational explanation in the real world that we all function
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> >>> We certainly hint at psychic phenomena, happenstance and ... things
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> >>> being in a place where they probably shouldn't be. But nothing is
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> >>> flat-out impossible. There are no space****ps. There isn't any time
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> >>>http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/handheld/30246.html
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> >>> Well, didn't this new episode, "The Constant," involve at least a
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> >>> And BTW, do you think that Lindelof's definition of "science fact"
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> >> Duh!
> >> =A0Do a google group search of my posts for the last 8-12 months and
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> >> how many contain the phrase, "They lie...they have to"
> >> =A0Of course they have lied. They have lied on several levels and for
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> >> =A0Read where they lied about the Roger Workman Blueprint. If Lost
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> >> would investigate just that one issue of Lost, they would know where
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> >> the metaphoric Lost island is located.
> >> =A0Duh!
> >> =A0BTW, I define a lie as any information that is propagated to
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> >> mislead from the truth.
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> > Is it a lie if they change their mind?
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> The producers have said they never introduce an element into the Lost
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> The producers have also stated, they have known from the beginning, the
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> starting point and ending point of the multi year Lost saga. The middle
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> meandering, was dependent upon the length of time abc required them =A0
> (producers) to tell the story. 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years, 10
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> years...the more years the more filler, the more beach sand castle =A0
> building, the more tap dancing.
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> The fibbing, in part, was an attempt to fullfill the contractual
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> The fibs also conceal the metaphor behind Lost, which again is an
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> If you have not listened to the Elvis Mitchell interview of JJ Abrams
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> blueprint for his (Abrams) method.
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> In a nut shell here it is:
> Tell the story in a straight forward way, and loose advertisers and =A0
> network sup****t.
> Tell the same story, concealed in a metaphor, win advertiser and network
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> sup****t, and awards.
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> Now Abrams aint no dummy...which do you think he chose?
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> Remember, Cloverfield was a thinly disquised metaphor for the terror of
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> 9-11.
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> Do ya think Abrams just recently thought of using 9-11 for a metaphoric
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> Hell no.
> Listen VERY closely to the Elvis Mitchell interview.....
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What does Abrams has to do with Lost ? He left the series almost 4
years ago.
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