Shut up TWoP people

[charliesmum]

I really enjoy reading the recaps of the shows, but some of the people who post in the forum get on my nerves. I was reading the 'LOST' forum and so many of the posts are bitching about how disappointed they are because it wasn't exactly what they expected. I know that's sort of the point of the whole site, but it is getting on my nerves. I occasionally think I should join there, but then I read all these whining posts from people who totally miss the point, and I change my mind.

My favorite post is this one: I can't believe there was no focus on what happened to poor frickin' Walt! This is a classic JJ season premiere - awesome previous season finale, but focus on the absolute wrong theme in the next season premiere.

Honestly. At the end of the season premiere everyone was whining about how they didn't show us what was in the bloody hatch, so they give us the hatch and now people are whining that it wasn't what they wanted it to be.

The whole point of the show is mystery and suspense. If they didn't give us mystery and suspence it wouldn't be Lost, it would be Gilligan's Island.

Sigh.

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[sing1118.livejournal.com]

The whole point of the show is mystery and suspense. If they didn't give us mystery and suspence it wouldn't be Lost, it would be Gilligan's Island.

Hee!

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

So what is in the hatch, anyway? I don't watch the show but I saw about 20 minutes of an episode once and my curiosity was piqued.

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Well it's slightly complicated... (SPOILERS AHEAD FOR ANYONE WHO CARES)





The show opened with a montage of some guy waking up, washing dishes, doign some laundry, working out, taking a shower, injecting himself with some sort of weird medicine, etc. There were shots of a very old computer, and the dude was listening to actual vinyl records, so at first one is led to assume this was some sort of flashback when suddenly there is a noise like an explosion and the figure, whose face we never see, grabs a gun and runs off to look through some sort of telescope thing and as the camera follows the telescope's view we realise - OMG!!! He's in the hatch!!eleventyone!!

At the very end it is revealed that the gentleman in the hatch is this Mysterious Stranger called Desmond that Jack (AKA Matthew Fox) met years ago in his flashback.

It's all very strange and compelling.

[nam-jai.livejournal.com]

I haven't watched the episode yet, so I skimmed and jumped over this post, fearful of spoilers, but I know what you mean about TwoP. I have an unfortunate tendency to absorb other people's complaining, so that characters or plot points that never bothered me, or I never even noticed, then start to bug me too, or at the very least I can't help noting them and thinking of how much people will explode over this or that. It's distracting, and then too often I'd be thinking, "Wow, that was an amazing episode," only to go to the TwoP forums and be brought rudely down from my high. So I had to back off following those forums on shows that I like. (I've never even checked out the Lost forum.) It's true of the recaps to some extent as well, but I can't help reading those because the funny makes up for it!

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Every time I see Kate I think 'oh, she's looking sad and pensive' because that's what the recapper said. That doesn't spoil the show for me. The whining in the forum very easily could though.

Can't wait to hear what you thought of the episode!

[nam-jai.livejournal.com]

Finally got to watch it this morning! (It's been a hellish week at work, but in repayment, the boss said to take Friday off. Yay!) I was just so tense the whole time, and actually, never going back to the people on the raft added to that. They would be brought up, or at one point I wondered for a fleeting second, "Where's Sawyer? Oh right..." and I felt this kind of scary void of just not knowing -- time was marching on for them, too, but what was happening? I thought it was very effective.

Conversely, being told right at the beginning what was in the hatch upped the suspense. So it all worked for me.

I guessed Desmond was the guy in the hatch as soon as I saw the runner (the fitness thing), and even though I wavered on that guess throughout the scene, he was still freaking me out anyway.

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

I'm going to guess that the raft storyline will pick up right where it left off, so we'll be going 'back in time' a bit. Hopefully.

About 1/2 through the beginning of that opening I shouted 'oh my god! It's the hatch!' and my husband looked at me like I was crazed.

I actually had fingernail marks in my palm. I've never gotten this into a tv show before.

Hurly rocks the world.

And, as I've said elsewhere, if I were in Kate's place I'd SO be borrowing Desmond's shower and laundry.

[rayvyn2k.livejournal.com]

Well, you do know that every one of them could write a much better script than anyone who actually works for the show, right? *eye roll*

I do like TWoP, and I'm a member, but really--sometimes the comments just drive me insane.

[crossbow1.livejournal.com]

I don't go to message boards about TV shows anymore. They're always full of people who think the show is a democracy and should do what they want it to do. Not just TWOP, and not just Lost, but like all of them.

[sierram.livejournal.com]

Tho I am not a Lost watcher,the same thing happens for the show House.The message boards usually have some folks who are "shocked" at the episode,disappointed,etcetc. You just can't please em all,I guess.Hugh Laurie used to visit the official House boards till he saw all the angry posters on there and now he stays away!

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Hugh Laurie used to visit the official House boards

We need to invite him to the community on LJ. Cause we're all nice and stuff. :)

Yeah, the House ones bug me too - 'oh he's acting too snarky/not snarky enough, woe!' Sigh

[zakkati.livejournal.com]

Is Jack still as irritating? I wish someone would've shot him :)

[fourthage.livejournal.com]

Yes. As I put in my post about this episode, he gives a little speech about how everyone needs to stick together and how they'll take the four guns and put guards on all the entryways to keep people safe till morning. And then Kate tells him she's going to go to the hatch to keep an eye on Locke, so Jack decides to go too, taking one of the guns with him. The hell?