LOST - Season 6

  On 5/25/2010 at 2:58 AM, messiaen said:

this finale made me go into macdonalds, calm as hell, and giggle softly while i slaughtered every man woman and child in the entire building. then i didnt even kill myself.

 

why the hell was eloise pidgen trying to not get desmond to find out what alt timeline was about?

did that mean Eloise was dead? That entire alt timeline was "purgatory" so if dead Desmond was getting dead Claire to give birth to a baby in purgatory than Eloise was dead there too. Also you can have a baby after you're dead and not quite in heaven yet? Lol

Heres the edit if my brain works this time. I reckon she wanted time to make it up with her dead son, or couldnt handle him knowing that she killed him. But frankly all of this is just gash.

Especially considering there is no time there. Christian explains that and then Kate says I couldn't wait for you to get here. Lolwut?

proper explanation of the numbers

dharma supply pallets dropping in the first couple episodes of season 1 (by this point in the timeline dharma was long gone??

absolutely no mention whatsoever of walt / walt's dad. walt was special or some shit, but no, lets just forget he was ever written into the show at all

smoke monster being explained away by making it equal a character. remember back in the day everyone was trying to give a real sci-fi explanation to it? 'cos that's the kind of show we appeared to be watching. yeah we all wanted to hear it was some dharma experiment or something, nanobots or some shit. not just, oh hey we found the smoke monster! it's this guy over here who can look like dead people because he fell down a brightly lit hole once.

whitmore's station in the plane fuselage in the snow which we saw for like 5 minutes once and never again

i'm sure there are more things the writers hope we just overlooked, but so much has happened i can't quite remember off the top of my head..

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all in all though i did enjoy the finale, taking it on face value for what it was. the final scene with jack + vincent was awesome.

lol.you all got screwed. just think of the time you all 'lost' watching it.

  On 5/25/2010 at 3:33 AM, alky said:

proper explanation of the numbers

 

dharma supply pallets dropping in the first couple episodes of season 1 (by this point in the timeline dharma was long gone??

 

absolutely no mention whatsoever of walt / walt's dad. walt was special or some shit, but no, lets just forget he was ever written into the show at all

 

smoke monster being explained away by making it equal a character. remember back in the day everyone was trying to give a real sci-fi explanation to it? 'cos that's the kind of show we appeared to be watching. yeah we all wanted to hear it was some dharma experiment or something, nanobots or some shit. not just, oh hey we found the smoke monster! it's this guy over here who can look like dead people because he fell down a brightly lit hole once.

 

whitmore's station in the plane fuselage in the snow which we saw for like 5 minutes once and never again

 

i'm sure there are more things the writers hope we just overlooked, but so much has happened i can't quite remember off the top of my head..

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all in all though i did enjoy the finale, taking it on face value for what it was. the final scene with jack + vincent was awesome.

the shack.

wtf did the bomb do then?. i guess its detonation was the incident after all.

  On 5/24/2010 at 11:57 PM, Plum said:

i'm pretty confident i've got lost figured. however there is one thing that does have me slightly perplexed and that is the turtle.

one minute it's there on the beach with young mib, then fake mum comes over and POOF turtle is nowhere to be seen.

did turtle ever exist? is turtle dead or just magnetic?

LOL

that was gold!

  On 5/24/2010 at 9:56 PM, plisb said:

major lol concerning the fact that they didn't even fix the lost intro-logo for the last fucking episode. Ever since I first noticed it during the first season it's just as hilarious every time - how they fucked up the rendering or just the 3d structure of the text in that sequence.

 

example

JJ Abrams said he basically had 10 minutes to create a logo, he just threw the words into Adobe After Effects. He said he didn't care for the obvious flickering, it was even charming.

just clear this off me, the island was real right?? jack was one of the 1st to die right??

Yeah. Well others did die before him (Locke, Charlie, Boone)

  On 5/24/2010 at 10:00 PM, GORDO said:

  On 5/24/2010 at 9:35 PM, jules said:

so i just want to be clear, the main consensus is that the church was all dead people. they all died at various times after jack? except for the people who died on the island like juliet and alex, etc, before jack? aaron died as a baby?

 

 

yes, xcept aaron. that's just a fuckup on their part.

  On 5/25/2010 at 5:07 AM, Philip Glass said:

Yeah. Well others did die before him (Locke, Charlie, Boone)

i have a reason to be confused right??

it doesn't matter who died before or after right???

claire having aron on the purgatory made me think that they probably just died on oceanic 815, doesn't it make sense'?

The literal ending is simple - Smoke monster is killed, he can't escape into the real world and wreck havoc. Jack dies. I mean we all die, no? Sawyer, Kate, Claire, Miles, Richard and Frank escaped and lived out the rest of their lives, the island is "done with them" and they can leave forever on the plane ( unlike the last time they left and had to come back ). Hurley and Ben continued to protect the Island for the rest of their days. Desmond escapes by boat. Everyone dies somewhere in their life. Some before Jack (Boone, Locke, Charlie). Others after. We do not know how. That, is left to the mystery of the viewer.

The metaphysical ending: Eventually, when all those remaining characters pass away for whatever reason come together in their own "deathly consciousness". They make peace with themselves and prepare to move on. The Flash-Sideways-Timeline was constructed to help people finally "let go" of their unresolved attachments.

Jack had to "let go" of his attachment to his father-- something that was accomplished by becoming a father himself and understanding the difficulties of fatherhood.

Locke had to "let go" of his guilt, accomplished by consenting to surgery.

Charlie had to "let go" of his attachment to fame and success-- as shown by his insistence that the concert was unimportant when compared to his vision of Claire.

Sayid had to "let go" of his quest for romance with Nadia, accomplished by having her as his sister-in-law and letting him voluntarily choose to leave her for her own good.

Boone "let go" of his protective/romantic attachment to Shannon, by consciously instigating the fight that would reunite her with Sayid, a reversal of his earlier role of paying her boyfriends to leave.

That is an interesting theory, Philip, but the finale still sucked.

  On 5/25/2010 at 5:36 AM, Philip Glass said:

The Flash-Sideways-Timeline was constructed to help people finally "let go" of their unresolved attachments.

i'm following, and i want to believe! believe me!

so "who/what" constructed this "purgatory/sideways/flashline"???

GOD? makes sense but.

i can see it working for just a sole person, i mean, jack dies, and we get to see HIS own path to recovery and acceptance, but instead, we were shown a GROUP of various people finding thier paths like a collective when you say deathly consciousness you mean like a GLOBAL consciousness?? like we're all connected so when we die we kind of allucinate togheter???

don't over think it. it doesn't really make much sense but what they are saying is that the the sideways reality was some sort of inbetween of life and "heaven".

actually i Just figured it out. i get it now.

you know how there was always this theme about Faith vs. Reason/Science. And many of us had Faith that the writers had something cool planned even when the evidence pointed out that the thing was headed badly. So what they did with this finale was to settle that debate and finally show us that believing on things based on faith is stupid.

genius!

so basically the ending of the show was symbolically telling people not to waste their time or invest into a story that would have an extremely unsatisfying climax, that is pretty fucking genius

"you have to let go".

I know right? it's almost as if they're telling us that maybe after all, appearences are deceitful and underneath it all, it IS worth it to invest all that time.

I thought it was fine, it got to me at the end when you consider all that's happened. All the unveiled secrets aside, it felt like closure to the main show and that's what mattered I guess.

I won't deny it makes you look back at all the episodes that pretty much sidetracked you to stuff that took up lots of the show, only to even at the end of it all still have no answer. But I think the blureray release is going to answer something, so at least there's that.

Either way it's ended and I could complain about all that was missing but I'm feeling better about just accepting it the way it went.

  On 5/25/2010 at 7:26 AM, taphead said:

"you have to let go".

Exactly. They all had to "let go", in those flash-sideways.

  On 5/24/2010 at 5:41 PM, Gary C said:

Lost has fulfilled its potential and succeeded in annoying, and wasting the time of, a throng of people stupid enough to ever get involved with it.

 

Hopefully they'll go and seek their own adventures on a badly paced and uselessly convoluted island and we can leave them all to fuck their inbred baby offspring until they die from societal-retardation.

I hit the note. Let's move on.

wow harsh

  On 5/25/2010 at 9:46 AM, Gary C said:

  On 5/24/2010 at 5:41 PM, Gary C said:

Lost has fulfilled its potential and succeeded in annoying, and wasting the time of, a throng of people stupid enough to ever get involved with it.

 

Hopefully they'll go and seek their own adventures on a badly paced and uselessly convoluted island and we can leave them all to fuck their inbred baby offspring until they die from societal-retardation.

 

I hit the note. Let's move on.

you have to let go, gary.

The sideways flashes weren't sideways at this point. They were flash forwards after everyones death right?