Did the continuity guy die?
What was great about Lost was the tight scripts. One amusing DVD extra discusses keeping track of the guns.
This last season begs the question – did the person in charge of continuity die?
I mean, they had a few years to make sure there weren’t major slip-ups. Sure, there’s always been a few – like how Widmore sired someone off island who is grown up within 4 years after ‘the purge’ would have given him submarine access … or that Richard takes off a gas mask and tests the air after the purge when couldn’t die if he tried.
For a closing that was years in the making, this season seems a bit … well … ‘incontinent’. Like, how can Miles and his dad be almost the same age?
How about postings of the worst … and a raise of a glass to the one who is clearly no longer with us.
There have been a ton of continuity errors and there are bound to be more.
Human error is impossible to avoid, and it’s much easier for 1000s of dedicated viewers to detect them than it is for 20 department heads to curtail them.
Does it really matter that they didn’t add a ton of makeup to Chang in the sideways to make him look like he’s 60 instead of 50? He’s obviously not 30 years old in the sideways, and Miles is probably 30…I don’t think they look anything like the same age.
I don’t see how minor oversights like that affect the culmination of the show.
risebysin – Unfortunately for us, we rely on these minor details to culminate theories. I know you’ve written some long theories in your day that have seemed plausable at the time. Then you realize you were basing an idea off an inconsistency all along. If you’re truly content with that happening, I wish I had your patience and understanding.
I understand human nature as well. I’m not gonna damn these writers to hell for making a few mistakes. But you can’t tell me it’s not damn aggravating when everyting you thought was set in stone slowly starts to unravel due to some mistakes/errors in the script. It’s especially true towards the end of the show, when things need to start coming together more than ever.
Not blamin’ the writers … just taking the opportunity of no-Lost-this-week to honor the memory of the continuity person by listing our favorite ‘what the!?!’ incontinence.
Whoever that may be 😉
(The Rise doth protests too much me thinks … RU a writer, silently stalking us?)
Wait a minute, I question some of your continuity error’s that you pointed out…
And then maybe I’m missing something here, let me know… Richard could be killed by the poison gas if someone else set it off – he just can’t kill himself. The reason he didn’t die when Jack lit the dynamite was because Jack couldn’t die, or maybe even for the fact that Jack can’t kill Richard (Rules…?).
As for Widmore, Ben had mentioned prior to booting him, that Widmore had left the Island many times… how do you know he didn’t leave the Island in the ’70’s and came back (similar to what Richard was doing since – at the very furthest during the 1950’s – and I’m even willing to bet he’s been going back and fourth for a lot longer then that). That seems logical, right?
I’m in agreement with the others as far as small continuity errors go – we are all human… I think you are knitpicking… I edit movies and music everyday, and no matter how close you go over the edits with a fine tooth comb there’s always something that turns up down the line… If you really take the time to go over every single movie that was ever made, you’ll eventually find some sort of error on each one… its only natural.
We are clearly on the same wavelength today 🙂
The continuity guy was discontinued?
I’d love to see the episode about how Richard, etc. left the island!
Hmmm …. Richard and the purge … but, wouldn’t taking off a gas mask in a room filled w/poison gas be the same as killing yourself? I mean, if you run in front of a car or jump off a cliff.
And wasn’t ‘the gift’ he got from Jacob was ‘I never die’ … not ‘I can’t kill myself regardless how much I hate being on this island since I only asked not to die because I din’t want to go to hell and danged if this place ain’t hell’ ?
OK, here’s another one … MIB saves him if Richard does whatever MIB wants … but then Ricky turns around and does whatever Jacob wants. Must suck for MIB – and, if Alpert just can’t stand that danged island, why didn’t he just flee once he got to Portland?
Perhaps Richard just thought the gas smelled bad.
Ardent Kknight!!! Good debating my friend…
I have to agree with continuity errors so far this season.
Knight does a good job covering my thoughts on Widmore…but what about Richard?
I agree with his take on this as well…
But also, I would assume that the gas has some sort of smell or taste of some sort.
I know that there is also the possibilty of this particular gas being odorless…but I cant lie…I’d have the seemingly invincible man check it out himself first as well.
I can tell you why Richard doesnt just leave the island…because he cant.
Sure, he could just hop a flight from Portland to New York, catch a Yanks game, relax and see what he missed over the last hundred and fifty years…but dont you think the island would just bring him back…or Jacob even.
We will most likely never see a scene with Ricky trying to run away, or Jacob telling him, “You can run, but the island/I will bring you back”…but Im sure that at some point there was an understanding, just like the losties, that Richard was going to be a part of this.
If we saw the island call the Losties back the way it did…Dont you think it would scream in Richards face…maybe even send his dead wife to haunt him until he returned?
I honestly think that if there was anything that was THAT inconsistent this year, in a manner in which the Lost world called foul…the writers would address it, as they have in the past…and it would make its way back to this site like the island drawing a lostie in…
Basically…the simple act of someone wearing a different colored shirt from scene to scen at this point could be continuity error…or some sort of time/universe/flashing travel…
and yes…I am very aware of the frustration that it causes…but thats the fun…thats the game…it always has been, and it always will be with Lost.
@ waycurious
I have to agree, they are doing a shit poor job of keeping the continuity in order.
Take Widmore for example, where does he get all of his information? How the hell does he know Desmond turned the fail safe key and how come he had a different objective when he sent the freighter to the island.
Ben doesn’t seem very dangerous compared to MIB so wtf? Ben and Widmore secretly shook hands and dropped the beef?
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Why did Richard tell Sun that he “saw them all die” when later on he is standing with Jack, Hurley, Kate, and doesn’t mention shit.
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The Pylons, really!?
MIB can’t ask a random other to knock down one of Widmore’s baby pylons and how did MIB get into dharmaville to look like Ben’s mother and drag him out into the jungle.
How did MIB get into dhamraville to recruit Sawyer?
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Why did MIB need to kill everyone at the temple, Dogen was stopping MIB from doing what now? Dogen seems pretty useless at this point. What was the significance of the temple?
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As far as Christian is concerned, if the answer has been given, and they don’t plan on being like “Locke lied, he’s no the only Christian”
Then the writers ROYALLY fucked that up.
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I do not think we will ever get an explanation to what Horace was doing with the blue prints of the cabin, sorry 🙁
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I can go on for days, they f-ked up the whole season, im sorry.
simoposting ilie…excellent point…
And to say that the writers/producers can make these tiny errors because they have so much going on, BULLSHIT!
If I can remember all of this, surely they can remember it and have everything tie together and make sense the way it used too.
I may be jumping the gun a little early. Take for example how they explained Richard in Locke’s past (brilliant).
I just think at this point it is too late, any question or statement made that they didn’t touch on, they just said fuck it, left us shaking our fists
I am not talking about errors like a different shirt, or one scene being at night and one being during the day.
I mean statements made by Richard, how did he know, why did he say it?
How/what did Ben know about the cabin and the FDW?
How did the MIB know every thought of John Locke, even off the island, but he can’t tell Sayid is bullshitting him about Desmond.
MIB asked Sayid why he let Widmores people live, then MIB let them walk away after giving him the walkie talkie – stupid bullshit.
Who thought any of this made sense?
Why did dharma use eyptian symbols in the swan hatch?
How does the ash stop MIB, he still went into the temple at sundown, what is the ash?
Again I can point this shit out all day, makes me really kind of angry that I bothered to follow and the writers/producers have dropped the ball and cop’d out on all of these mysteries.
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Here is a list of things I am pretty sure will never get explained, if they do I will be shocked and the answer will probably be stupid.
1. The Cabin
2. The Pearl notebooks
3. Ben’s island knowledge
4. Walt (probably a stupid answer)
5. Aaron
6. Widmore’s island knowledge
7. Desmond’s past
8. Hanso
9. Hurley Bird
How about what Libby was doing in Sydney before 815, oh yea, we don’t know!
10. How does/did Jacob/Richard/Tom Friendly get on and off the island?
Sorry I am so negative, just feel like every answer so far (whispers, the statue, the black rock, christian) has been extremely disappointing.
I remember understanding and figuring out why Richard visits Locke as a kid (Locke told him to do it before he was born) and I loved it, I miss real creativity.
concerning Richard with the gas mask; I’m thinking just because he wouldn’t die, that doesn’t mean he wouldn’t suffer terrible consequences inhaling the gas.. meaning he would probably choke, pass out, vomit for a week..then still live and eventually recover. I am so confused with this gift of not dying via suicide; I mean, what kind of superpower is that?! The miraculous power would be protection from OTHER people killing you! I’m hoping Richard was just confused; and that maybe he’s protected from circumstances killing him..period..
But by Jacob not allowing people to kill himself, that will leave everyone in awe to find out that Jacobs real “stepping in” that he and Ricardus talked about is eventually him eliminating the choice of “suicide”…
With choice being a serious candidate itself as the ultimate point of the show…It would actually put Jacob in the wrong more than it would put MIB.
Im sure there could be other purposes, possibly religious or for the sake of them not getting to the other timeline.
Charlie didnt just die when he almost died and saw love…he almost kiled himself.
Once with the heroin, once with walking through traffic, and once in the car with Desmond.
Something tells me that the choice of death may have more meaning than just death.
right on AES good stuff
sadly, i think the continuity guy died in the pilot episode.
I think my favourite ‘error’ that comes to mind has gotta be female crewmember/ghost Claire that ‘appears’ behind Sun when she encounters Christian in Dharmaville. Spooky.
This season i think Pierre Chang still looking the same age he did in the 70s is a pretty big booboo, unless of course Dharma had a breakthrough in their life extension program…
i think for everyone who needs an answer to everything is going to be really disapointed and should have realized this rite from season one. they will never give all the answers and they never intended on giving them. at this point i am just enjoying this season episode by episode and if they give some answers great. they want us to talk about this for years to come and we will. if we are lucky a few years from now they will do a special that exsplains all the questions and mysteries.
If you’re crazy hungry for answers, I’m not sure there’s a reason to panic quite yet. Just make sure you’re praying in Sunday school this weekend that these final four episodes (NOW it’s four) have a lot more to offer than this season has to this point.
I bet the answers will come on there own. I assume two or three MAJOR reveals will happen, and many answers will come from those indirectly. I think that’s the way it should be. Let us figure this show out on our own. Just give us the frickin tools to do so for once.
The inconsistency problem with the show is a plausable argument in my eyes. The writers are the ones that purposely got us addicted to this show. When they abuse us with errors and inconsistencies in the script, and try to make it sound like it’s no big deal, I want to lose my mind. Our purpose for watching this show isn’t to add to the total number of viewers every week so that your paychecks can increase with each season. Give us some damn substance.
Desmond’s wedding ring being on in LA X was a prime example. It’s crazy to miss something like that when you’re filming/editing the biggest show on television. It simply should have been prevented. Like I said earlier, mistakes will happen. But when someone on set gets complacent and stops caring about what they’re doing, fire the reject. If you want this successful show to end in style, get your shit straight. It’s not asking too much. I expect errors from the lower budget WB, not a Disney owned, mega-wealthy network like this.
Joshcgs – Your frustration is understandable. I know what you mean. I’m sticking with this show though until the end. I’m hoping the end will be so ridiculously awesome, that nothing else matters. They always found a way to EXPLODE with awesomeness in the season finales in the past, you know the series finale’s going to be even better. At least we hope anyway.
Mixen Dixon…hell of a point…wasnt even thinking about that…
Everything will be explained in the finale, dear people. Nothing to see here!