#355

If I could I would, but I cannot. @moderators?

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#356

CLOSE THE POLL

#357

6 episodes in to the rewatch now. Terry O’Quinn is brilliant isn’t he.

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#358

Fucking livid I missed my chance vote this shit show a 1.

Flashbacks are one of the worst forms of storytelling. Combining them with what’s in the box? Fuck the fuck off.

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#359

What about dream sequences?

#360

Oh Holy shit. Yeah fuck them too. It’s basically why I could never pick Sopranos over The Wire. I’ll take every duff edge of S5 of The Wire over the fact they had dream shit in Sopranos

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#361

Ah that’s one of the only acceptable dream sequences Theo! The end of that episode with Moby playing was just gorgeous

(Fuck Gandolfini was so good :cry: )

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#362

Ah bugger. Still, even though another 1 vote would’ve been good, it still got the kicking it deserved.

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#363

Most of the time yes, but there’s a comic writer I love who uses them SPECTACULARLY, so I can’t completely write them off.

#364

Always caveats obviously

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#365

I refuse to believe there’s 130 people using this site. Smells like a fix to me.

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#366

hey lurkers why don’t you post

#367

Word of warning, don’t engage with The Others.

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#368

Like that poll when all the Manics fans turned up to vote for them.

Reckon someone (probably Theo) posted this on www.wehateLostandalsofun.com and look where are now

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#369

I think your memory is playing tricks on you. For one thing the Sopranos ran for three years alongside Lost and for another, the ‘prestige successor’ is definitely Mad Men.

Lost definitely benefited from TV becoming bigger but I think it was only bigger because it was also a major network show. Including Dominic Monaghan in the cast helped a lot and it may have been first big show to pull in film talent - I note Glenn Close joined The Shield in 2005. (I feel like this move from film to TV is really what created that thing of TV being taken far more seriously.)

I guess Lost might be the last massive Network TV show, though?

#370

Nah, he’s right, mainly for the reasons you state.

Lost was the first major network show to acknowledge the leap forward that the Sopranos had made, in terms of how the network wanted it to be discussed by critics, how they funded it, how they made it, and how they marketed it.

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#371

I don’t recall anyone seeing it as a prestige successor to the Sopranos, though. That’s different to TV networks responding to the Sopranos, but the TV audience didn’t think of it in that way and they are who shapes how TV is seen that way.

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#372

You didn’t think of it in that way, maybe.

#373

No one was saying, “It’s the next Sopranos,” when it arrived.

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#374

i may have mandela effected myself.

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