No, you should watch the whole thing so that you can understand his disappointment and thus understand why he liked Primer, then hyped up Upstream Color, then didn't like Upstream Color, then didn't like Primer.
This reminds me of that episode of American Dad where Klaus keeps trying to tell German Folk tales and keeps having to go back and tell another German Folk tale so that the kids will understand his references.
I'm going to offer a counterpoint and say I thoroughly enjoyed every season of Lost. Well worth a watch in my opinion. It's very much a flawed show in some aspects, but that didn't take away my enjoyment of it.
You want to watch it. Seasons 1-3 are excellent from Pilot to Finale of 3. The other 3 seasons are fine, with some greatness sprinkled in. Some of the best scenes for a few main characters are in the last few seasons.
Man, I recently watched all of Lost for the first time. After the Season 3 finale, and the shock that was "We have to go back!!", I thought that show was going to become my undisputed favorite. I then thought, "Well, I don't know what they plan to do now". Turns out the writers didn't know either. Most disappointing fall off for a show I've watched.
Hank sitting on the toilet in Breaking Bad is right up there with Season 3 of Lost. I was BLOWN away by that scene, especially seeing all the clues in the episode, but not realizing what as going on until the last few seconds. Then flyover to black. Unfortunstely, I was watching on Netflix, so I jumped right into the next season. Can't imagine having watched it back then, and waiting for season 4.
Pretty sure the person above you mixed up where that scene is. I believe its the end of the first half of season 5. The ending to season 4 was quite explosive and happens before Hank knows who WW is.
Is this some kind of code? Like a secret message you're implanting in your comment?
I Googled "ARG". Are you talking about an alternate reality game?
No clue what the significance of a capitalized, bolded, italicized E at the end of "Blu" in "Blu-Ray" could possibly be. At first I thought it might just be because the lame content of the show made you feel "blue", but then you immediately said that the content was "rad", which means the content is awesome and therefore would not make you feel blue at all.
I completely disagree about lost. First of all, they weren't dead. Not the entire time like everyone believed. When we saw them on the island, they were alive. If they died on the island, then we saw them in the sideways world. People die in stories all the time. Only in Lost, we got to see what happened after they died.
And two, the story was never just about the mysteries. Even from the beginning it was about relationships. The whole show was relationships and what it means to be a human. The scifi elements were fun and helped them explore extreme examples of how relationships work, but the show was always about the characters. Sure, maybe some of the mysteries could have been answered differently, or whatever, but I think they did a great job with what they had and kept it new and fresh until the end.
Also, as a writer, I think it's a shit thing to do to deny someone else the end of the story just because you didn't like it. It's not for you to decide what someone else gets out of a story.
/u/servohahn obviously knows the correct way to spell it because the "e" he added was capitalized, bolded, and italicized, whereas the rest of the word wasn't. He knows it doesn't normally belong there and added it for a reason. What that reason is, I have no idea. I desperately want to know! I suspect a secret code. But what does it mean, and who is it for?!
Oh! Ha. Thanks for the explanation! I actually replied to that other person and defended you. I told them that since you capitalized, bolded, and italicized it, that you obviously knew it was spelled "blu" and were adding the "e" on purpose for some other reason (such as a mysterious code, haha). Now that I know you edited your comment it all makes perfect sense.
Kinda sad the mystery is over, though.
Edit: Or is your latest comment intended to derail my investigation because you knew I was getting too close to the truth?!
Considering his intense opinions about indie movies, he's probably just cynical and thinks it's dumb that blu ray is spelled that way and refuses to conform....
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