tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post6330884697578602303..comments2024-02-04T05:13:04.501-05:00Comments on Nik at Nite: Nikki Staffordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463618183850438914noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-83791614578503771052007-06-30T09:22:00.000-04:002007-06-30T09:22:00.000-04:00I'm finally reading 'Finding Lost' - and I think t...I'm finally reading 'Finding Lost' - and I think this passage from your section on The Turn of the Screw is appropriate in light of the Sopranos finale.<BR/><BR/>"Perhaps the writers will eventually end the show as abruptly as James ended his novella, leaving the real ending and interpretation for the audience to decide. But if they do, they'd better not be walking down any dark alley near fan conventions afterward..."<BR/><BR/>Do you think the Sopranos writers read your book? Do you think you were just being prescient?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-62571800838611789892007-06-17T09:36:00.000-04:002007-06-17T09:36:00.000-04:00Nik:On an unrelated topic, here is video compilat...Nik:<BR/><BR/>On an unrelated topic, here is video compilation of the crash sequence of events from Lost that I thought you might enjoy:<BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu3SxqSrAOMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-61356463720875166542007-06-16T19:02:00.000-04:002007-06-16T19:02:00.000-04:00I know this is COMPLETELY off topic, but it is LOS...I know this is COMPLETELY off topic, but it is LOST related. What do you think next year's season opening song will be? I was thinking maybe "Good Vibrations" because it kind of fits the theme/genre of the previous two and it also would be an ode to Charlie. Of course, it'll probably bee a more Ann-Margret, female singer type song. I love that kind of music...<BR/><BR/>Anyway... love the site. This particular entry was a great read for some reason. Can't wait for the book! Ah!<BR/><BR/>-Brian (www.furtherinstructions.com)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-48869984909934706042007-06-15T13:52:00.000-04:002007-06-15T13:52:00.000-04:00"SON of a BITCH, I HATE this song!"^ROTFL. Sad thi..."SON of a BITCH, I <I>HATE</I> this song!"<BR/>^ROTFL. Sad thing is, he probably would scream that.<BR/><BR/>I never considered LOST ending like The Sopranos (I don't watch Sopranos, but my Mom told me about the ending). If they did end it like that, it wouldn't be as satisfactory. Noone would know any answers, and fans would be horrfied. <BR/>Glad to know the writers aren't doing that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-58270040683729205812007-06-15T09:36:00.000-04:002007-06-15T09:36:00.000-04:00Last Lost song?Gotta be Wonderwall.Last Lost song?<BR/><BR/>Gotta be Wonderwall.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-30579793210555715172007-06-15T08:24:00.000-04:002007-06-15T08:24:00.000-04:00I really believe more people are claiming to 'like...I really believe more people are claiming to 'like' the Sopranos ending, because it is the cool, artsy thing to say. Just like all those people that go to funky poetry readings. You know many of them are there just to look cool, not because they actually like or understand the poetry being read.<BR/><BR/>What is wrong with wanting a typical ending with an actual conclusion? Somehow I am made to feel like some mouth-breathing troglodyte (not here, Nik, but other commentaries on the finale) because I didn't 'get' or like Chase's vision.<BR/><BR/>It is very much like the debate that goes on about literary vs. commercial fiction. And I'm just tired of it. <BR/><BR/>Most of the Sopranos audience was not there for Chase's artistic take on the mob. Wish he respected that a little more.<BR/><BR/>But...I am SO glad that LOST will not have a similar ending. I never thought it would, but it's good to be reassured by the powers-that-be.K J Gillenwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12023089365553324315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-68736903746155194512007-06-14T23:01:00.000-04:002007-06-14T23:01:00.000-04:00And in the latter, that amazing sequence where Bar...<I>And in the latter, that amazing sequence where Bartlet walks through the rain to the strains of "Brothers in Arms" by Dire Straits, and deliberately avoids the easy question to take the question on reelection ... so cool.</I><BR/><BR/>definitely one of my all-time favourite season finales of any show, ever. it was simply beautiful. just thinking of that final sequence gives me chills.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-23274611985110085412007-06-14T21:36:00.000-04:002007-06-14T21:36:00.000-04:00Roland: Man, you've got me thinking now... As much...Roland: Man, you've got me thinking now... As much as I'd love to see Jeff Buckley's version of "Hallelujah" somehow, it's been overused. Maybe it'll be something new like the song they used for the finale of Six Feet Under. I'd never heard that song before hearing it there, and now I can't hear that song without immediately associating it with that ending. <BR/><BR/>But then again, as Chris says, "Barbie Girl" would be the perfect ending, don't you think? <BR/><BR/>Or perhaps a Manilow classic, but in Jack's grieving state, he'd hear different words:<BR/>"O Katherine<BR/>You came and you sle-ept with Sawyer..."<BR/><BR/>Chris: Great question... and great minds clearly think alike, because if I had to choose what my favourite season finale was that was NOT a series finale, I'd also choose "Becoming Part 2." Slays me every single time. And actually, the recent Lost finale. I thought "Through the Looking Glass" was brilliant.Nikki Staffordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04463618183850438914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-85042254677434285212007-06-14T19:18:00.000-04:002007-06-14T19:18:00.000-04:00Most clever/funny finale of all time:The Newhart S...Most clever/funny finale of all time:<BR/><BR/>The Newhart ShowSazahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14780144923138887048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-13822808735746108302007-06-14T17:31:00.000-04:002007-06-14T17:31:00.000-04:00Really, at that point, I think anything by Aqua wo...Really, at that point, I think anything by Aqua would fit the mood. ;-) <BR/><BR/>This post has me thinking, Nikki, further to what I was saying in my last comments about series finales tending to be anticlimactic. It's not really the case with *season* finales, is it? Again, I think because seasons tend to have a relatively cohesive story arc, their finales can pack a bigger punch ... <BR/><BR/>what's everone's fave season finales? I'll nominate my number one -- or number ones, since it's a dead heat between two season twos: Buffy and the West Wing. I can't watch the former without tears welling ... the Sarah McLachlan, the distressed and isolated Buffy, that bus departing Sunnydale ...<BR/><BR/>And in the latter, that amazing sequence where Bartlet walks through the rain to the strains of "Brothers in Arms" by Dire Straits, and deliberately avoids the easy question to take the question on reelection ... so cool.<BR/><BR/>And to link this up to today's theme: both finales that made great use of music, no? (in fact, "Brothers in Arms" would be a great Lost finale song -- maybe enough time will have passed that they can plunder it)Chris in NFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06064023598020493124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-69147771341017330182007-06-14T15:07:00.000-04:002007-06-14T15:07:00.000-04:00Just for the heck of it, us Lost fans should come ...Just for the heck of it, us Lost fans should come up with a song that would be great to end Lost on, in case they did do the blackout thing...<BR/><BR/>Picture it...Jack sitting all by himself...in the dark with his Chia beard, with tears streaming down his eyes...he turns the radio on...a song comes on...<BR/><BR/>Silence...<BR/><BR/>LOL...I gotta think about which song :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com