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  • But time doesn’t mean growth, necessarily. A whole lot of companies are one man businesses, which don’t even plan to grow.

    Hell, basically being an uber driver means you’re an entrepreneur with your own company, but slogging around drunks and pizzas all over town for 10 years doesn’t really improve the situation.

    The punchline is that the person is loaded, yeah, but it doesn’t follow from the premise, and that’s kinda my point. It hasn’t been set up properly, see?







  • “You All Everybody” is the song that Pippin (whatever his name is in Lost, I don’t know) sings with his band

    I had completely forgot that, but yeah, I did a bit of checking and while it’s a very understandable mistake, you actually mean Merry, not Pippin. Pippin is played by Billy Boyd, who did not star in Lost, but Merry is played by Dominic Monaghan, who very much did, a character called “Charlie Pace”. I sort of remembered a hobbit’s face in there as soon as I read your comment, but yeah, wrong hobbit. :D

    Also. I think not pressing the numbers caused a (apparently reversible) meltdown that resulted in a huge magnetic field like the one that pulled down the plane. Or something like that.

    Pulled the plane down… to the netherworld? See, it’s just not internally consistent, imo. Or was there like a gate to hell in a specific airspace if you flew through it you’d crash on the island or what the hell. It just doesn’t really work. Also I think I remember that Locke line, or at least context. Wasn’t he like paralysed before they crashed, or something, and he didn’t like people telling him what he’s capable of because of that or smth.





  • so I reject that.

    I mean yeah, cause it’s not consistent whatsoever, right?

    That was my main issue with it iirc. That the major reveal at the end wasn’t internally consistent with the 7 seasons we had had. Especially because at that point, it was quite a significant portion of my actually independent thinking (as in you’re not a kid anymore just watching what’s on but actually choosing and watching whatever you like) life, so like you say, it felt cheap and tacky.

    I don’t even remember those lines to be honest. I just remember the names of a few main characters like Locke and Sawyer, Jack and… the woman uhhh… I wanna say Kate? Spot on damn my memory isn’t as bad as I thought.

    You can’t be internally inconsistent if there’s never any established consistency.

    No but like we were led to believers there would be some consistency, and we just don’t know it yet. That was kinda the mystery that hooked people, no? Like pressing random numbers every now and then so… something doesn’t happen? I don’t even remember if that was ever properly explained.

    It’s so intriguing but then they just pull the mat out from under you by saying “lol it wasn’t even a thing actually”.

    I guess Lost just suffered from getting founded after it should’ve been cut. Let’s face it there’s several shows that I would’ve rather have be finished than Lost. Although if they never finished lost, I might feel differently, as then I’d think there was still a possibility of them making dense somehow.







  • They did a reboot of the show a few years later and did the exact same thing.

    I don’t think I’ve heard of this. wild googling

    All I’m finding is an up and coming remake.

    ‘Heroes’ Reboot in Development From Creator Tim Kring - IMDb. A new “Heroes” reboot series is in development from creator Tim Kring, Variety has confirmed. The reboot, titled “Heroes: Eclipsed,” is set years after the events of the original superhero series, as new evolved humans are discovering their powers