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hahe
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| z4ck wrote: | | whoKnows wrote: | | z4ck wrote: | I mean lost is a goldshitter, relativly low budget production, high ratings. so they surely want to milk this thing until the ratings r low and they can dump it. (maybe up to season 5 or more...)
If the island would now be revealed it wouldnt take long until its discovered and the whole concept would be "lost"  |
This is so not true. Remember season one, ABC wanted to relocate the show from Hawaii to California to cut production costs, they were actually loosing money with it. And shows get more and more expensive the longer they run, because actors usually get a raise with each new season. The ratings are at an all time low now as well. Lost is only 14th on the most watched list, the show lost 20 percent of it's viewers at the end of season two. |
WTF are u talking about  Do you really think the salaries for actors are that high in a TV series?!
Ever watched Battlestar Gallactica? That are pretty high costs 4 an TV series that runs only in the middleclass, lost plays manly on a Island, on beaches etc...its low budget, believe me!
well whatever, we will se in season 3...  |
I do know that the pilot episode for Lost itself cost a couple of million to make.
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Jun 2006 21:35 Post subject: |
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| z4ck wrote: | | whoKnows wrote: | | z4ck wrote: | I mean lost is a goldshitter, relativly low budget production, high ratings. so they surely want to milk this thing until the ratings r low and they can dump it. (maybe up to season 5 or more...)
If the island would now be revealed it wouldnt take long until its discovered and the whole concept would be "lost" |
This is so not true. Remember season one, ABC wanted to relocate the show from Hawaii to California to cut production costs, they were actually loosing money with it. And shows get more and more expensive the longer they run, because actors usually get a raise with each new season. The ratings are at an all time low now as well. Lost is only 14th on the most watched list, the show lost 20 percent of it's viewers at the end of season two. |
WTF are u talking about Do you really think the salaries for actors are that high in a TV series?!
Ever watched Battlestar Gallactica? That are pretty high costs 4 an TV series that runs only in the middleclass, lost plays manly on a Island, on beaches etc...its low budget, believe me!
well whatever, we will se in season 3... |
With BG once the sets are created the production costs are relatively low, compared to lets say, renting out sections of a Hawaiian island and locating all your staff and actors nearby. Lost is not low budget at all.
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Jun 2006 22:44 Post subject: |
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| hahe wrote: | | I do know that the pilot episode for Lost itself cost a couple of million to make. |
Yeah, because of the plane crash and all the effects. Otherwise the series is rather low key on such things.
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Jun 2006 22:56 Post subject: |
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| z4ck wrote: | WTF are u talking about Do you really think the salaries for actors are that high in a TV series?!
Ever watched Battlestar Gallactica? That are pretty high costs 4 an TV series that runs only in the middleclass, lost plays manly on a Island, on beaches etc...its low budget, believe me!
well whatever, we will se in season 3... |
You seem to have no clue. Let me show you some examples. Lets take The King of Queens, both Remini and James will get 0.5 million each for one ep next season, that sums it up to $24 million dollars for two actors alone, you would call that low budget. Or what about Friends, all of the six main characters got around one million each for one episode during the last season. Thats 6x24=144 million, low budget, eh?. And actors usually have contracts wich guarantee them a nice raise if the show gets renewed for a season, one reason why the 7th Heaven (yea i know its crap) almost didn't get renewed because it's now coming to it's 11th season, wich would mean even higher salaries.
And you really think that shooting in Hawaii for a whole season is cheap, including the long list of actors
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Jun 2006 06:56 Post subject: |
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| Parallax_ wrote: | | hahe wrote: | | I do know that the pilot episode for Lost itself cost a couple of million to make. |
Yeah, because of the plane crash and all the effects. Otherwise the series is rather low key on such things. |
Thats what I meant, no sets have to been build(which costs also millions), not much special effects, stunts, etc. like for example in 24, BG, Deadwood... Ok, they have a lot of character in the show that all wants to get paid, but thats prolly the most expensive part of the whole production.
"You seem to have no clue"
yeah sure, and you know it all huh? 
I really dont want to argue anymore about who is right or wrong or closer at estimating the production costs of this show...I just wanted to get rid of my theories 4 season 3, jeez...
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Jun 2006 10:19 Post subject: |
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lost spent around $45 million on the first series, so i would assume that went up quite a bit for season 2.
And a quote from a lost fansite
| Quote: | | Hawaii production costs can be as much as 35 percent higher than in Los Angeles |
And they get paid just aswell as the ladies from desperate housewives for season 3 $80,000 a episode.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4638652.stm
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Parallax_
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Jun 2006 11:25 Post subject: |
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I thought Hawaii production costs were smaller, because they don't have to pay an immense amount of taxes there?
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pancake
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Jun 2006 15:02 Post subject: |
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That tax law is aimed at tech companys starting up, and a few films went to hawai to be filmed and used that rule and then the government realised they had been screwed out of quite a few ( 30 roughly) million tax dollars so i think they are changing it/not let them do it, as there was rumours of it being filmed in the states for season 3.
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| Posted: Fri, 21st Jul 2006 04:16 Post subject: |
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so when can we expect Season 3?
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SycoShaman
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| Posted: Fri, 21st Jul 2006 07:31 Post subject: |
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Sometime in September or October i assume
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| Posted: Fri, 21st Jul 2006 09:12 Post subject: |
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Season 3 premiere airs 10/04/2006
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hahe
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| Posted: Fri, 21st Jul 2006 09:15 Post subject: |
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I think I remember reading somewhere that it starts again October 4th.
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Ronhrin
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Lost Experience Update(ARG):
Check out the latest hanso video released. It gives an insight at what the LOST numbers means.
http://www.dharmasecrets.com/forum/index.php/topic,7961.0.html
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Ok Im resurrecting the really old thread as it is the the official one and the one is entitled season 3 ...
Lost - 4x02 - Confirmed Dead
May the NFOrce be with you always.
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Feb 2008 06:38 Post subject: |
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Great episode tonite! riveting i say!
seriously tho, it was really good. cant wait till next thursday. Lost should be one like 2 times a week or have 2 hour shows
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Feb 2008 15:21 Post subject: |
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Yeah, really nice episode. Looking forward to the next.
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Ronhrin
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| fraich3 wrote: | Ghostbusters!
And im gonna be pissed if the whole LOST plot revovles only around ben.. Unless its really good ofc  |
you're quite wrong, the biggest plots in the Lost story revolve around somekind of time cycle or parallel reality, even if there are some stuff that seem like parapsychological storyline, I'm sure it's only there to confuse the viewer more and more.
in the end we will see that Lost was nothing more than an outsanding story about the tragedies people suffer through out there lives, all this from the point of view of memories that a group of people that arrive on an island ,in several different occasions, that is suffering under the effects of a time distortion that is responsible for all the strange stuff they witness within that island.
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| Ronhrin wrote: | | fraich3 wrote: | Ghostbusters!
And im gonna be pissed if the whole LOST plot revovles only around ben.. Unless its really good ofc |
you're quite wrong, the biggest plots in the Lost story revolve around somekind of time cycle or parallel reality, even if there are some stuff that seem like parapsychological storyline, I'm sure it's only there to confuse the viewer more and more.
in the end we will see that Lost was nothing more than an outsanding story about the tragedies people suffer through out there lives, all this from the point of view of memories that a group of people that arrive on an island ,in several different occasions, that is suffering under the effects of a time distortion that is responsible for all the strange stuff they witness within that island.
| Spoiler: | and by the way, the man than Ben says is on their boat is Michael |
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True true, but then Jack, Kate, Hurley gets out of the time hole ? And it might still be something Ben "setup". But still so many many unansweret questions  I just hope it will all be tied together at some point
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Ronhrin
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| fraich3 wrote: | | Ronhrin wrote: | | fraich3 wrote: | Ghostbusters!
And im gonna be pissed if the whole LOST plot revovles only around ben.. Unless its really good ofc |
you're quite wrong, the biggest plots in the Lost story revolve around somekind of time cycle or parallel reality, even if there are some stuff that seem like parapsychological storyline, I'm sure it's only there to confuse the viewer more and more.
in the end we will see that Lost was nothing more than an outsanding story about the tragedies people suffer through out there lives, all this from the point of view of memories that a group of people that arrive on an island ,in several different occasions, that is suffering under the effects of a time distortion that is responsible for all the strange stuff they witness within that island.
| Spoiler: | and by the way, the man than Ben says is on their boat is Michael |
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True true, but then Jack, Kate, Hurley gets out of the time hole ? And it might still be something Ben "setup". But still so many many unansweret questions I just hope it will all be tied together at some point |
I'm sure it will, during the 2nd season until the middle of the 3rd season I was losing my faith on Lost, but not anymore, now they are really starting to answer some stuff.
the writers said several times that the entire story was finished on paper since the beginning, and that they wouldn't alter anything down the line, so we can't expect nothing less than 0 loose ties by the end of the show.
| Spoiler: | my theory for this season is that the Oceanic 6 (whoever they are) get out of the island somehow during this season, the 5th season will probably be some mixing between the storylines of the people that remain on the island and the people who got away, and the 6th season is when everything gets together, when all the answers to every single little mistery will be answered, somewhere down the line jack and kate will return to the island, because one of the most convincing small theories of lost, is that "Adam and Eve" that man and woman that jack discover in the beginning of the 1st season is himself and kate, it will all turnout to be a discontinuous time loop. (I say discontinuos because in a continuous time loop time tends to remain unchanged, and since the timeline on the island has suffered at least 1 or 2 interactions (when desmond turns the key by the end of the 2nd season, and probably the "accident" that the dharma orientantion videos keep on mentioning), one thing that I couldn't get my head around in making some sense was the little time travel desmond suffered, it seemed like he traveled in time only in his consciousness, I still don't know how the writers will explain this particular event. |
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Wouldn't it be really funny if it's all just a "I see dead people"-twist? =P
I also think fisk should be unbanned.
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