Re: LOST Series Finale

[karadan]

I dunno, I really loved Lost all the way through. I actually enjoyed the ending. I don't think it was odd they chose the purgatory route. They didn't really say anything about heaven and hell. It was 'moving on' apparently, so that can be interpreted as you wish. I don't think it was a simple good v evil premise because Jacob was himself a mass murderer. It was Richard who told Ben to kill the people in the Dharma Initiative and Richard got all his orders from Jacob...

What did annoy me a little was the non-resolution of who the fuck makes up all the rules. Whidmore used to literally shit a brick whenever anyone potentially contravened any of these so-called 'rules' only to have every one of them broken in the last episode. I know Hurley said something like, 'I guess the new caretaker makes the rules' but why? I was expecting some kind of cosmic significance but apparently they were just some artefacts of a stupid game being played by Jacob and ole Smokey.

Why did Jacob's brother get turned into the smoke monster but not Jack when he went down there? I was expecting jack to turn into white smoke. I think they could have played with the hard science a bit more. Would have been nice for them to reveal some kind of quantum rift under the island which transmuted time into light, or something equally ridiculous

[karadan]

Ok, i just realised Richard has been to the real world before. In season 2 he was in an office trying to convince Juliette to come to the island.

Just found this. it is quite funny

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvid ... -cats.html

[pinkocommie]

Richard was sent to recruit Juliette to the island when the sub was still being used by the others to ferry in specialists and medicine to try to solve the pregnancy mystery (that apparently didn't have a resolution but was just kind of swept aside on the show), wasn't he?  I thought I remembered him being the one who drugged her for the sub ride to the island...

[pinkocommie]

OK, I thought so.  

[pinkocommie]

I made a pretty cool cake for our Lost series Finale party, though.

This photo doesn't show the four-toed, broken statue foot, though.  I have to get that photo off my partner's camera.

By the way, Kylyssa, that's sweet looking cake!  

[NoStupidQuestions]

I choose to forget Star Wars Episodes 1 through 3.  

Worst moment of the Galactica finale:
[spoiler:2zie8q5w]Kara Thrace's sudden disappearance after fulfilling her destiny.[/spoiler:2zie8q5w]

Worst moment of the Lost finale:
[spoiler:2zie8q5w]The way they handled the Man in Black/Smoke Monster.  All it took was Desmond unplugging the island's cork to make him mortal again?  What was his true nature and why would him getting off the island have spelled disaster for the whole world?  Was he going to black smoke everyone to death?[/spoiler:2zie8q5w]

[jrosebud]

I dunno, I really loved Lost all the way through. I actually enjoyed the ending. I don't think it was odd they chose the purgatory route. They didn't really say anything about heaven and hell.

You have to go back a week or two to get the Heaven/Hell thing.

Michael didn't get to go to Purgatory and then move on to Heaven.  He's stuck on the island as one of the whisperers.  He didn't earn redemption before he died on the boat, so he's in Hell.

I would have been fine with the ending (and "moving on") if everyone got to go.  But Michael stuck on the island (the gate to Hell) for eternity...  *shakes head*

[jrosebud]

Here's a post from someone in the writer's room of LOST:

http://lostmediamentions.blogspot.com/2010/05/someone-from-bad-robots-take-on-finale.html#comment-51784991

They set out to write a show about science vs. faith - and have faith come out on top.  Life as a heaven/hell test.

[Kylyssa]

You know, I really don't mind that the ending got all religious, I mind that continuity was ignored and the ending seemed slapped together.  They did it to be clever, to make a strained twist ending.

[McQ]

Listen, you guys want good "island" stuff with castaways? Two words for you:

Gilligan's Island

'nuff said.

[joeactor]

Listen, you guys want good "island" stuff with castaways? Two words for you:

Gilligan's Island

'nuff said.

"shhhh... I hear feetprints!"

(radioactive beets?)

[philosoraptor]

I'm going to watch the finale tonight with two friends-they were out of the country when it was on.  Should be interesting, considering I've only watched the first 2 seasons and part of season 3.

[karadan]

I'm going to watch the finale tonight with two friends-they were out of the country when it was on.  Should be interesting, considering I've only watched the first 2 seasons and part of season 3.

You will not have an effing clue what is going on. I guarantee it