Re: LOST Series Finale

happytobeme · May 25, 2010, 02:06:06 PM

Was anyone on this site into the "Lost" T.V. series? I watched it for 6 seasons and enjoyed it up until the last season, when a well-written, sci-fi type time travel show became an obvious religious based battle of good vs. evil, with so many ridiculous bible based story arcs. I continued to watch it right up to the end, hoping the writers would NOT take the easiest route of having all the characters "redeem" themselves and go to "heaven" and was so disappointed when that was exactly what they did!

Did anyone else feel cheated by this series that was so good for so long? :hissyfit:

Cecilie · May 25, 2010, 02:28:54 PM

I stopped watching it about two years ago...

JillSwift · May 25, 2010, 02:49:27 PM

Quote from: "Cecilie"I stopped watching it about two years ago...

Ditto. Mid season four I just plain Lost (har har) interest.

Cecilie · May 25, 2010, 04:13:17 PM

It wasn't fun anymore after they left the island. The whole thing got too complicated... I think the same thing happend to Heroes.

happytobeme · May 25, 2010, 04:22:06 PM

I thought they were doing a pretty good job with the whole series until this whole cop-out with the religious theme at the end! It really disappointed me.

Kylyssa · May 25, 2010, 04:30:40 PM

Quote from: "happytobeme"Was anyone on this site into the "Lost" T.V. series? I watched it for 6 seasons and enjoyed it up until the last season, when a well-written, sci-fi type time travel show became an obvious religious based battle of good vs. evil, with so many ridiculous bible based story arcs. I continued to watch it right up to the end, hoping the writers would NOT take the easiest route of having all the characters "redeem" themselves and go to "heaven" and was so disappointed when that was exactly what they did!

Did anyone else feel cheated by this series that was so good for so long?

Totally cheated. I was hoping for parallel timelines that would eventually merge as a resolution to the apparent paradox.

[spoiler:37bgzj14]And why was Aaron, as an infant, in the church/temple/whosiwhatsit? And why did Juliet say, "It worked" to Miles?

Yeah, the last season being purgatory - that sucks.

My partner says he has decided to think of what happened on the island as the real ending - the Man in Black getting killed, Jack dying, assorted people escaping in the plane, and Hurley becoming the island's guardian.[/spoiler:37bgzj14]

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.

Kylyssa · May 25, 2010, 05:04:53 PM

[Edited due to a WTF moment. Apparently I quoted instead of editing.]

happytobeme · May 25, 2010, 06:01:46 PM

I agree, I think they were almost leading you to believe the alternate flash-sideways was going to merge with the island time by having Juliet say "It worked". I think I like your partner's idea best. Let's just accept an alternate ending that we like better! Otherwise, I feel like I wasted 6 years on the show, even though it really was so well written and acted.

Awesome cake! :cool:

KDbeads · May 25, 2010, 06:03:40 PM

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joeactor · May 25, 2010, 06:07:34 PM

... I watched about 15 minutes of the series before I realized it was just another "string-the-viewer-along-with-crazy-shit-for-as-long-as-we-can-make-a-buck" show.

That being said, I like "Flash Forward", which of course means it's getting canceled after 1 season.

Davin · May 25, 2010, 06:40:18 PM

Quote from: "joeactor"... I watched about 15 minutes of the series before I realized it was just another "string-the-viewer-along-with-crazy-shit-for-as-long-as-we-can-make-a-buck" show.

That being said, I like "Flash Forward", which of course means it's getting canceled after 1 season.

Yes, it's getting canceled. I like Flash Forward as well.

pinkocommie · May 25, 2010, 07:08:22 PM

I said this in another thread where someone brought up the finale, but I'll go over it again.

First of all, I didn't watch LOST for the last 6 years...I watched it pretty much in the span of two weeks on Netflix and then watched the last season as it came out. I didn't really have the emotional attachment to the characters that a lot of people seemed to have, so the last episode to me just seemed like a poorly written story that allowed for tons of seemingly endless montages so that people could really LIKE the characters one last time. For me, LOST was interesting for the story, not for the characters, and I think that's why I feel pretty 'meh' about the finale.

I don't have any problem with the heaven/purgatory thing per se, because the whole show was obviously fiction so sure, throw in some more fictional concepts like purgatory and heaven, the more randomness the merrier - IF it made the story interesting. I felt like the ending they went with was an ending you could literally slap onto any given show to tie things up, and I guess I just hoped they would actually end with the same creativity that was used earlier in the series. But, they obviously went a more emotional route, and they must have done that for the sake of the fans. I think they missed the boat in a way though, going the route of what essentially amounts to two and a half hours of fanservice instead of dedicating at least a little more energy to making the last season and/or at least the final episode of the story memorable. Fans who love Kate, miss Charlie, wanna hump Sawyer (rrrowr though, seriously), etc. are not the only fans of the show. For me, the characters were all just parts of the story, and I felt like the ending didn't do the story justice.

I don't really feel like I can complain too much though, because like I said I haven't been watching the show for the last 6 years.

NoStupidQuestions · May 25, 2010, 08:13:11 PM

Lost was one of my favorite TV shows, as was Battlestar Galactica. Both included themes of secularism and/or skepticism in a spiritual/supernatural/religious setting, especially early on. Both shows did cop out at the end by essentially reaffirming that their supernatural aspects were indeed valid when all was said and done. Still two excellent TV shows that I will watch again and again, but both were somewhat disappointing in the end.

joeactor · May 25, 2010, 08:22:18 PM

Galactica - totally agree.

For me, the ending ruined an otherwise stellar series.
(kinda like Star Wars ep. 1,2,3 ruined 4,5,6 for me)

In many ways, just having an ending with loose-ends left over would be preferable to tying them up in a hackneyed way. Such a shame when it looks like they've painted themselves into a corner and have to pull out some tripe to justify it all.

Just leave it "unknown".
(wayyyyy off topic)
For example, had they ended Galactica with a beauty shot of them finding Earth, I would have been ok with that...

McQ · May 26, 2010, 12:27:30 AM

Quote from: "joeactor"Galactica - totally agree.

For me, the ending ruined an otherwise stellar series.
(kinda like Star Wars ep. 1,2,3 ruined 4,5,6 for me)

In many ways, just having an ending with loose-ends left over would be preferable to tying them up in a hackneyed way. Such a shame when it looks like they've painted themselves into a corner and have to pull out some tripe to justify it all.

Just leave it "unknown".
(wayyyyy off topic)
For example, had they ended Galactica with a beauty shot of them finding Earth, I would have been ok with that...

How about a good old, "St. Elsewhere" ending?

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