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QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 27, 2013 -> 02:51 PM) I disagree. It was part of the world. It was part of the island's story. All of that stuff happened. It was all experiences that the characters had on the island. Why does that have to fit into the larger story of "what the hell is going on?" I agree with the second bolded. But everyone bought into it right up until the finale. See, the last sentence is exactly what's wrong with the first section of your post. Lost was a 'mystery,' plot-driven show. It was presented as if they were giving you all of these different puzzle pieces for you to figure out, and eventually it'll all (mostly) make sense by the end as more and more is revealed. Except the problem was that most of the stuff was completely irrelevant other than providing a sense of "mystery" for whatever episode they threw it in and was never relevant again. I accept that "dragons just exist" in ASOIAF, but they're pretty key plot elements. They didn't appear in the first and second books and then just vanish in the background. Lost repeatedly broke Chekhov's rule that goes "remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there." There was so much there that, ultimately, had zero relevance to the story. Compare the way Lost presented itself to Pulp Fiction or Ronin. Those movies had a briefcase whose contents were never revealed but still drove the plot. The difference is that those movies never pretended to be mystery movies that would give the viewers clues along the way as to what was in the case or how its contents all tied back to the rest of the plot. The contents were irrelevant. If you remove the mystery element of Lost, though, you're left with a cheesy soap opera.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 27, 2013 -> 12:24 PM) Yeah I can't think of a ton of major mysteries that they didn't explain by the end of the show. edit: a good read http://www.cracked.com/blog/108-answers-to...ered-questions/ They "explained" some things but basically the whole first three or four seasons ended up being completely irrelevant to the end of the show. All of the mystery around Dharma, the one lady's dad's company, the bunkers, all of it really meant absolutely nothing by the end. eta: that article is horrible. Every "answer" is basically "who cares" or "magic," i.e. not actually answers at all. eta2: this is a good comment on that article. You can suspend disbelief and accept magic, unique physics, etc. in a story as long as it's internally coherent. I've no problem with magic and dragons in ASOAIF (GoT) because Martin took the time to establish the rules of his universe and stick to them. By the end, Lost was one deus ex machina after silly idea after another.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Sep 27, 2013 -> 01:09 PM) I still think they tried to make too many episodes of Lost . The good thing about Breaking bad is there was always an end point and better yet the entire story was completed before the series even began shooting. They knew where they ultimately wanted to go with Walt, but most of the episode plots evolved over the course of a season, e.g. Jesse was supposed to die in Season 1.

90% of Lost's story ended being completely dropped or irrelevant. All of the 'mystery' built over the first three seasons or so ended up not mattering at all.

QUOTE (Brian @ Sep 27, 2013 -> 07:50 AM) Whomever thought that episode of The League was a good idea should be fired. I've been watching Season 4 on netflix. It feels like a huge drop off from season 3.

Just finished re-watching season 4 of breaking bad last night. Those last four episodes are incredible.

I'm not getting the love for Lost, though. Yeah, I stuck with it through the end, but it got silly early on and then bad later on. I can't see myself ever going back and watching it, and it sort of disappeared from the face of the earth after the finale.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Sep 26, 2013 -> 12:01 PM) nah it's true. It's a good show but people calling it the greatest of all time and putting it next to the Wire and Sopranos are so far off. It's closer to something like Homeland. Over the top, unrealistic when you stop and think, and completely ridiculous at times but you'll still enjoy it if you turn your brain off for an hour a week. It is still great TV. I haven't finished all of The Wire but it's definitely better than the Sopranos.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Sep 26, 2013 -> 11:39 AM) Breaking Bad is incredibly overrated by those caught up in the moment, but it's still pretty good. Definitely worth watching through it. This is false.

A break-down of some of the visual rhetoric/techniques used in the first episode of Season 5, Part 2. http://www.avclub.com/articles/sometimes-i...r-pictu,103361/ If anyone's interested, this guy has some similar breakdowns for earlier episodes. I may have posted them already in this thread.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 24, 2013 -> 10:44 PM) Depends on which variant you have. You mean which carrier? I'm on Verizon.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 25, 2013 -> 09:54 AM) I was going to say, do you have your windows open? I have a Ford with sync and it works pretty well 90% of the time. "Mom cell" definitely works well. Sometimes it gets similar names mixed up, but that's to be expected. The accuracy definitely drops if windows are open though. My major complaint with Sync, at least in my vehicle, is that the volume of the prompts and the volume of the calls do not match...at all. To hear someone clearly you have to turn the volume up, which means the Sync prompts are loud enough to hurt your ears. It's really annoying. We've noticed that sometimes, the GPS is whisper-quiet but other times it's SHOUTING IN YOUR FACE TURN LEFT

QUOTE (Tex @ Sep 25, 2013 -> 02:57 PM) I wonder at which price point. I suspect that Tesla may have cut them a sweet deal. Given their current luxury rental rates ($300+/day for a mid-level Mercedes), I can't imagine it will be very cheap.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 25, 2013 -> 08:00 AM) Ford's (and Microsoft's) Sync system has had problems since day 1, it has been a real issue for them. Its a shame because Ford has done a lot of nice work with their vehicles in the past 5-6 years or so, but thei reliability numbers aren't as good as they could be specifically because of Sync. I've had to pull the fuse to reset the Sync in my wife's Fusion twice in four months now. It just stops recognizing the USB port and her iPod. Frustrating.

i checked xda but it looks like there's not a reliable method for rooting the HTC one right now?

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 24, 2013 -> 09:32 AM) I have a 1A and it is just freaking the f*** out. It's actually an HTC brand charger too. Maybe my wall station at work is just too low. the phone specs list it as a 5V/1A charger, could be something wrong with the charger.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 24, 2013 -> 09:09 AM) Anyone with HTC One notice you can only charge your phone with their charger that came with the phone? Super annoying, I bought a generic usb charger for work, forgot to charge my phone last night and it's just freaking out. Works fine through USB and the other random charger I have (think it was an iPod charger?)

If Denver's D and DMC get less than 17 points, I'll actually win this week even with forgetting to sub Rice out. Got demolished in my other league 48-138, though.

Oh they remembered that holding is a penalty

Picked up an HTC one this weekend,liking it so far

You're not supposed to pass anybody on the right.

Hey! A decent offensive play!

This offense has looked pathetic.

Pay the $450 and sell the 5 for a few hundred.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 18, 2013 -> 04:20 PM) Because other audio apps are working fine, such as Yamaha's? They need to build a new framework and use the new ios7 APIs. And it's not just Yahama's that works, as does Tracktor...so it's sounding to me like Audiobus waited too long and didn't make their deadlines. http://www.djtechtools.com/2013/09/18/ipad...pdate-to-ios-7/ They pretty much say there are always issues, but for the most part, in their studios, this software all seems to work on ios7 just fine. It looks like Traktor is also recommending waiting? So I don't know why you said it's working fine.