LOST Finale

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by JTULLOCK

Did anyone watch it? I just got done watching it. If you have watched it let me know what you thought about the ending. I personally thought it was a fabulously done ending and most of the stuff started to make sense after a while.

To me it was the best Series Finale. Cheers was a good Series Finale as well, but the LOST Finale was awesome. I am not a crier. I hardly ever do it even at church, but I did tear up a bit at the end. Tuesdays are NOT going to be the same.

I watched it and it was probably a mistake since it was the first season 6 episode we saw. We watched 1-5 with our Netflix account, but they did not have 6 posted and probably won't for several months. I am one who likes as many hard questions as possible answered so was feeling a bit "lost" at the end and was fully expecting the final scene to be Hurley sitting in Jacobs old cave having taken his spot as island protector.

[notofworks]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

I cried myself.

I cried when they cancelled the Andy Griffith Show. Well, I didn't know they'd cancelled it until 1998 when the channel I was watching reached the end of the re-runs, but I cried anyway.

[MawMaw]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Yes they were. A small satellite component fell from space which the professor was able to use to repair a device which predicted the weather, to which he discovered a major typhoon fast approaching. They all joined together -quite literally and lashed their huts together creating one big floating barge so when the tidal wave swept over the island it carried them all out to see. Once floating on the endless ocean all hope seemed lost until one of the survivors decided to "treat" the other ones to an actual cooked dinner not realizing that the whole floating raft was made of bamboo and grasses. While everyone was frantically trying to put out the fire the smoke was seen by a coast guard helicopter and they were all finally rescued!

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by notofworks

I cried when they cancelled the Andy Griffith Show. Well, I didn't know they'd cancelled it until 1998 when the channel I was watching reached the end of the re-runs, but I cried anyway.

I didn't cry when it was canceled but did hold back a few sniffles when Barney left at the end of Season 5. They should have called it quits right there.

[notofworks]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

I didn't cry when it was canceled but did hold back a few sniffles when Barney left at the end of Season 5. They should have called it quits right there.

Really, that was the end of the show, wasn't it? And Barney was a complete after-thought in the grand scheme of the show. He wasn't a part of the original plans. Can you imagine what the show would have been without him? Well actually, we can.....the 66-68 seasons. Not very good.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by notofworks

Really, that was the end of the show, wasn't it? And Barney was a complete after-thought in the grand scheme of the show. He wasn't a part of the original plans. Can you imagine what the show would have been without him? Well actually, we can.....the 66-68 seasons. Not very good.

Exactly. Not only did Barney leave, but Gomer was replaced by Goober (I believe a year earlier), Opie got bigger and they went from B&W to color. It was almost like the difference between I Love Lucy and the Lucille Ball Show in terms of quality.

I could also say the same thing about Happy Days. They should have ended the show when Ritchie and Ralph departed for the military. A FEW would even say when Chuck left -for wherever it is he vanished to.

[notofworks]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Exactly. Not only did Barney leave, but Gomer was replaced by Goober (I believe a year earlier), Opie got bigger and they went from B&W to color. It was almost like the difference between I Love Lucy and the Lucille Ball Show in terms of quality.

I could also say the same thing about Happy Days. They should have ended the show when Ritchie and Ralph departed for the military. A FEW would even say when Chuck left.

Goober just wasn't funny. And neither was Howard with his "attached-to-his-mother" stuff. And that deputy they brought in....Warren.....awful.

Just recently, I recorded and watched all the color episodes. I might have worked up a slight grin here and there, but I never came close to laughing. But I had to wipe away tears with Barney.

I'm not a big fan of sit-coms, but it seems like the humor mostly revolves around the quality of characters, not the quality of the writing.

[StillStanding]

My favorite finale is the last game of the NFL season each year - The Super Bowl!

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by notofworks

Goober just wasn't funny. And neither was Howard with his "attached-to-his-mother" stuff. And that deputy they brought in....Warren.....awful.

Just recently, I recorded and watched all the color episodes. I might have worked up a slight grin here and there, but I never came close to laughing. But I had to wipe away tears with Barney.

I'm not a big fan of sit-coms, but it seems like the humor mostly revolves around the quality of characters, not the quality of the writing.

Ugh. I forgot about Howard -well, not really but forgot to mention him as another reason the last several seasons were so poor.

I'm not a sitcom watcher either. Some are just hilarious and I can get a stomach ache from laughing so hard but there has never been one I went out of my way to sit down and watch. One of my favorites was Frasier (and King of the Hill) but again I would only watch it if happened to be on when I was sitting and channel surfing.

[notofworks]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Ugh. I forgot about Howard -well, not really but forgot to mention him as another reason the last several seasons were so poor.

I'm not a sitcom watcher either. Some are just hilarious and I can get a stomach ache from laughing so hard but there has never been one I went out of my way to sit down and watch. One of my favorites was Frasier (and King of the Hill) but again I would only watch it if happened to be on when I was sitting and channel surfing.

The only two I've watched in recent times, is "Coach" (LOVED the Luther Van Dam character played by Jerry Van Dyke) and "The Office." With "The Office" I am SO glad I have a "Pause" button on the DVR. I often tell people, when they say something funny, that I "Fell outta my chair". I literally have done that with The Office...down on my knees gasping for breath. Supposedly, Steve Carrell is leaving and if he does, I'm afraid it's going to go the way of the Andy Griffith Show.