This is why God created Tivo.

JFLNYC wrote:This is why God created Tivo.

But then you run into the comptroller at the water cooler, 'Grotewold, can you believe they iced Mr. Echco!', no, I have it waiting on Tivo tape, and now I'm gonna punch you in the throat

Grotewold wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:This is why God created Tivo.

But then you run into the comptroller at the water cooler, 'Grotewold, can you believe they iced Mr. Echco!', no, I have it waiting on Tivo tape, and now I'm gonna punch you in the throat

That's why God created sledgehammers.

JFLNYC wrote:

Grotewold wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:This is why God created Tivo.

But then you run into the comptroller at the water cooler, 'Grotewold, can you believe they iced Mr. Echco!', no, I have it waiting on Tivo tape, and now I'm gonna punch you in the throat

That's why God created sledgehammers.

and sick days

Grotewold wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:This is why God created Tivo.

But then you run into the comptroller at the water cooler, 'Grotewold, can you believe they iced Mr. Echco!', no, I have it waiting on Tivo tape, and now I'm gonna punch you in the throat

Exactly. Lost is one of the only shows I can't stand to watch later (although sometimes I'll Tivo and start watching 20 minutes after so I can skip commercials). BSG used to be.

I like and regularly watch certain shows such as Lost and Heroes, but TV is not that important to me that I have to spend money on cable/sattelite TV or Tivo. A DVD player and Netflix fills my entertainment needs just fine. So if two shows I watch go up against each other, I'd give one up and wait until the season comes out on DVD.

TheDude24 wrote:I like and regularly watch certain shows such as Lost and Heroes, but TV is not that important to me that I have to spend money on cable/sattelite TV or Tivo. A DVD player and Netflix fills my entertainment needs just fine. So if two shows I watch go up against each other, I'd give one up and wait until the season comes out on DVD.

Yeah, well, if you're so smart, why are you a Phillies fan?

JFLNYC wrote:

TheDude24 wrote:I like and regularly watch certain shows such as Lost and Heroes, but TV is not that important to me that I have to spend money on cable/sattelite TV or Tivo. A DVD player and Netflix fills my entertainment needs just fine. So if two shows I watch go up against each other, I'd give one up and wait until the season comes out on DVD.

Yeah, well, if you're so smart, why are you a Phillies fan?

The local team is the one that one can best follow on non-sattelite tv.

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JFLNYC wrote:

Grotewold wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:This is why God created Tivo.

But then you run into the comptroller at the water cooler, 'Grotewold, can you believe they iced Mr. Echco!', no, I have it waiting on Tivo tape, and now I'm gonna punch you in the throat

That's why God created sledgehammers.

and sick days

Yeah but taking a sick day after every Lost is not ...... a bad idea at all

VoxOrion wrote:

Grotewold wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:This is why God created Tivo.

But then you run into the comptroller at the water cooler, 'Grotewold, can you believe they iced Mr. Echco!', no, I have it waiting on Tivo tape, and now I'm gonna punch you in the throat

Exactly. Lost is one of the only shows I can't stand to watch later (although sometimes I'll Tivo and start watching 20 minutes after so I can skip commercials). BSG used to be.

Avoiding your fiscal responsibility?!?! You know how much they pay for those commercials?

Is Lost going to be affected by the writers' strike?

Didn't I? wrote:Some 'Lost' news

Will these Webisodes (hate the branding on that phrase..) will they be giving us key data that we can't get any other way? I don't like the marketing scam manipulation factor of having to track these to keep up? But I am starved for some LOST!

Philly the Kid wrote:

Didn't I? wrote:Some 'Lost' news

Will these Webisodes (hate the branding on that phrase..) will they be giving us key data that we can't get any other way? I don't like the marketing scam manipulation factor of having to track these to keep up? But I am starved for some LOST!

I figured they were just deleted scenes being wrapped in webisode packaging, but apparently it's all new footage.

Didn't I? wrote:I figured they were just deleted scenes being wrapped in webisode packaging, but apparently it's all new footage.

I suspect what is a scene which didn't make the final edit and "new footage" may be a distinction without a difference.

JFLNYC wrote:

Didn't I? wrote:I figured they were just deleted scenes being wrapped in webisode packaging, but apparently it's all new footage.

I suspect what is a scene which didn't make the final edit and "new footage" may be a distinction without a difference.

The article says it's all "newly-shot material." However, that probably just means they're deleted scenes from the upcoming season. Pretty novel use of the deleted scene though. Only a show like Lost could pull it off.

SideshowBob wrote:Is Lost going to be affected by the writers' strike?

Preston & Steve reported that the creators said that if the strike goes on, they would scrap the season and wait until next season (Jan/Feb 2009) to begin showing the 8 new episodes they have already filmed, along with new ones. I wonder if this means the next season then would be longer than 16 episodes (or begin earlier than January). Please strike end soon! This show is so detail oriented that the long layoffs (even as originally scheduled) make us forget important clues.

Says Lost cocreator Carlton Cuse, "Damon [Lindelof] and my concern about running the [eight] episodes we will have made is that it will feel a little like reading half a Harry Potter novel, then having to put it down. There is a mini-cliff-hanger at the end of Episode 8, but it's like the end of an exciting book chapter; it's not the end of the novel. Damon and I didn't write [the ending of Episode 8] differently [with the looming strike in mind]. We wrote it to be the ending of Episode 8." In any case, he concedes that the decision to hold or air the episodes isn't ultimately theirs. "It's really [ABC honcho Steve MacPherson's] call," Cuse notes, adding, "No one was happy with the six-episode run last season."

don't listen to stupid preston & steve

pacino wrote:

Says Lost cocreator Carlton Cuse, "Damon [Lindelof] and my concern about running the [eight] episodes we will have made is that it will feel a little like reading half a Harry Potter novel, then having to put it down. There is a mini-cliff-hanger at the end of Episode 8, but it's like the end of an exciting book chapter; it's not the end of the novel. Damon and I didn't write [the ending of Episode 8] differently [with the looming strike in mind]. We wrote it to be the ending of Episode 8." In any case, he concedes that the decision to hold or air the episodes isn't ultimately theirs. "It's really [ABC honcho Steve MacPherson's] call," Cuse notes, adding, "No one was happy with the six-episode run last season."

don't listen to stupid preston & steve

Waiting a full year and half for a new episode could kill off a lot of interest. Some would return, but it loses momentum. THe actors are getting that much older or distracted in other projects or shows and could lose some minor characters and thus continuity... air the 8, even if we're still hanging. If they can get back in production in a month, run the final 8 a month later and in to summer?

Honestly, at this point now. I like the HBO model. 12-13 high quality episodes from a high quality show like Wire, Sopranos, Deadwood, and air them in succession whenever...

Lost has 16 per now, similar in #, it's not like if they air them in June no one will watch. With Tivo, with On demand, with DVD -- people will see these episodes one way or another and it is doesn't tie-in to Sweeps month so much or whatever...

This is the only show I care about being affected right now... too bad... I need me some Lost... though Penny is pretty cute on Tell Me You Love Me!

stupid writers