Lost

[shodan]

anybody still watching lost? I adore it.
Is season 4 any good?

Lost- David LaChapelle Promo (All Pieces Together) - YouTube

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Lost- David LaChapelle Promo (All Pieces Together) - YouTube

[qasrose]

anybody still watching lost? I adore it.
Is season 4 any good?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XBtWYBPTns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG2E1hsAJv4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XBtWYBPTns

I've not really been a fan of lost. I'm more of a Heroes fan :D.

I only watched one episode of Lost but didn't really like it.

[john galt]

Season 4 was great.

The only time I think Lost has dragged is in Season 3, when Jack, Sawyer and Kate were captured by the Others. Apart from that, it's been good all the way through.

[sniffle]

Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coercion, brainwashing, and manipulation. Television induces a trance state in the viewer that is the necessary precondition for brainwashing. As with all other drugs and technologies, television's basic character cannot be changed; television is no more reformable than is the technology that produces automatic assault rifles.
Terence McKenna, American psychonaut;

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
John Lennon


I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
Orson Welles

I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence, There's a knob called brightness, but it doesn't work.
Eugene P Gallagher

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.
Mariah Carey did not say this. See Snopes.

When I was a child, there were times when we had to entertain ourselves. And usually the best way to do that was to turn on the TV.
Jack Handey, American comedian

They call television a medium. That's because it is neither rare nor well done.
Ernie Kovacs, American comedian

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
Rod Serling, TV producer and director of The Twilight Zone

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
Eric Sevareid, ' The Press and the People', television program, 1959

The marvels – of film, radio, and television – are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.
Milton Mayer

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming.
Lee De Forest, American radio pioneer and inventor of the vacuum tube, 1926

I do not believe television will come to stay until the picture shown is sufficiently larger, cleaner and more detailed to permit a family of five to see what is going on, without exerting any great amount of effort on their part.
L Waters Milbourne, WCAO Baltimore, US, 1944

Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
Darryl F Zanuck, President, 20th Century Fox, 1946

Television won't matter in your lifetime or mine.
Rex Lambert, The Listener, Editorial, 1936

Television won't last. It's a flash in the pan.
Mary Somerville, pioneer of radio educational broadcasts, 1948

Television? No good will come of this device. The word is half Greek and half Latin.
CP Scott, 1846 - 1932

Television in the home is now technically feasible. The difficulties confronting this difficult and complicated art can only be solved from operating experience, actually serving the public in their homes.
David Sarnoff, RCA, October 1938

The average American family hasn't time for television.
The New York Times, 1939

On September 10, half the world was already living, if one can call it that, on less than $2 a day, with a fifth surviving on half of that. Thirty thousand children were already dying needless deaths daily. Inequality is exploding both within and among nations, and perhaps contrary to the poor of the nineteenth century, today's poor know they are poor. The plausible fantasies of Western television constantly remind them of their own failure to capture the material rewards of modernity.
Susan George of the Transnational Institute

Channel One, an advertiser-sponsored school television program, beams its news and ads for candy bars, fast food, and sneakers directly into the classroom for twelves minutes a day in more than 12,000 schools. In exchange for a satellite dish and video equipment, for each classroom, the school must agree that Channel One will be shown on at least 90 percent of school days to 90 percent of the children. Teachers are not allowed to interrupt the show or turn it off.
David C Korten, When Corporations Rule the World

Our grasping arms are being crammed with the produce of an age of abundance, our eagerness to grasp being more than matched by the zeal of the people who shower such produce upon us. Abundance in the West has become a menace threatening to inundate us under mountains of television sets, houses, clothes, flowery toilet paper, cars, snowmobiles, books, furniture. In order that we may avoid being deluged, goods must be "kept moving." Advertising has been carried to lengths never before known. Our mailboxes, telephones, radios and televisions are channels for would-be sellers of merchandise who are hard put to get rid of what the manufacturers produce. There is nothing wrong, of course, with a proper distribution of goods and services. I am not talking about that but about the promotion of superabundance. We need food, clothing and shelter. Even abundance and comfort are gifts of God. But we are no longer his creatures accepting and distributing the goodness he pours upon us but the feverish and slavish worshipers of abundance itself.
John White, The Golden Cow, 1979

Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude. That is presumably the object of the multibillion-dollar global advertising industry. Tea drinkers are improbable prospects for Coke sales. Long-lunch traditions obstruct the development of fast-food franchises and successful fast-food franchises inevitably undermine Mediterranean home-at-noon-for-dinner rituals—whether intentionally or not hardly matters. Highly developed public transportation systems lessen the opportunity for automobile sales and depress steel, rubber, and petroleum production. Agricultural lifestyles (rise at daylight, work all day, to bed at dusk) are inhospitable to television watching. People uninterested in sports buy fewer athletic shoes. Health campaigns hurt tobacco sales. The moral logic of austerity contradicts the economic logic of consumption. Can responsible corporate managers then afford to be anything other than immoral advocates of sybaritism?
Benjamin R Barber, Jihad vs. McWorld, 1995

So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer of his hire. There is another: to instil in him paltry desires so compulsive that he is willing to sell his liberty and his honor to satisfy them. We are all guilty of concupiscence, but newspapers, radios, television, and battalions of advertising men (woe to that generation!) deliberately stimulate our desires, the satisfaction of which so often means the degradation of the family.
Dorothy Day (1897 - 1980), The Catholic Worker, April 1953

The gospel preached during every television show is 'You only go around once in life, so get all the gusto you can.' It is a statement about theology; it is a statement about beer. It's lousy beer and even worse theology.
John Silber, president of Boston University quoted in Time, May 25, 1987

I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman.
Bruce Baum

Heaven would be a place where bullshit existed only on television. (Hallelujah! We's halfway there!)
Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book, p. 234

Art does not reproduce the visible. Art makes visible.
Paul Klee, Swiss painter and etcher, born on December 18, 1879

[sireertsch]

They call television a medium. That's because it is neither rare nor well done.
Ernie Kovacs, American comedian

lol best comment I ever heard about TV :)

well yes I admit I enjoyed watching it but I lost track about all things happening a while ago ... but I love the way of making all the interesting stuff happen at the end of the episode - making you crave for MORE MORE MORE :D

did anyone watch Invasion (series, not the movie in cinema lately though I enjoyed it too)? same as with lost --> addictive

at the time I was watching it both series I consciously decided to do so and enjoyed it as pure entertainment ... now and then I need to "help myself" to some good old fashioned mind control stuff :)

[zarah]

I used to really like Lost, but Ive found in the past few months I don't actually possess the patience or the concentration span to sit and watch tv for more than about 10 minutes at a time without having to go and do something else.

[drael]

I love it. Not sure which is the forth season...is the one where they shift the island in the final? if so, i liked it alot.

Time travel/distortion, energy sciences, mystery. Its pretty visionary IMO, even without the good acting and character storylines. Possibly the best series on TV ever?

[shodan]

Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coercion, brainwashing, and manipulation. Television induces a trance state in the viewer that is the necessary precondition for brainwashing. As with all other drugs and technologies, television's basic character cannot be changed; television is no more reformable than is the technology that produces automatic assault rifles.
Terence McKenna, American psychonaut;

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
John Lennon

Fantastic quotes. I spoke to BBC TV Licensing and told them I'm not paying my license (I havn't plugged my aerial into my TV for 7 months).
I'm going to do Season 4 via dvd or online.

I love it. Not sure which is the forth season...is the one where they shift the island in the final? if so, i liked it alot.

Time travel/distortion, energy sciences, mystery. Its pretty visionary IMO, even without the good acting and character storylines. Possibly the best series on TV ever?

yeah fantastic themes going on, Mind Control, Numerology, Ayahausca, fate, spirituality, telepethy, time travel, energy weapons, comradeship, etc etc etc

Its one of the best series I've seen, 'Spaced' would be another. I've heard Hero's is very good too, might give that a go at some point.

[psych641]

Series 4 is a lot better than 2 & 3.

If you were prepared to sit through the soap-opera tedium that bulked out 2 & 3, patiently waiting for the good bits then series 4 will be a welcome return to form.

[shodan]

Series 4 is a lot better than 2 & 3.

If you were prepared to sit through the soap-opera tedium that bulked out 2 & 3, patiently waiting for the good bits then series 4 will be a welcome return to form.

cheers that sounds like just the job, time to sort out Season 4 :)

[light seeker]

I love Lost. I'm up to date with whatever series we're up to here in the UK.

Sayid is definitely my favourite character. He's stealthy, a protector, intuitive, helped his girlfriend escape prison. He's sincere, wary, handy with the old radars, and handsome to boot. ;)