I fnally saw the rest of "Lost" recently. I'm really not sure of what exaclty happened, with the live characters on the plane and the dead characters elsewhere. And how long they were dead and all.
How did everyone else like it, if you saw it, and did you figure it all out?
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Generally speaking, I liked it. I thought it was a little too on the nose and obvious for most of the episode but that obviousness created some excellent and emotional moments so I forgave the show.
As for the last 15 minutes or so here is my take. Christian told Jack, "some of them died before you some after you." and that they "created sideways world so they could find each other again." To me that meant that everything we have been watching for six seasons (except sideways world) happened as it happened on the show. The people who flew off the island probably went on and had lives and eventually died. The people who stayed on the island went on and had lives and eventually died. Once they were all dead and all ready, they could move on to the next place together.
I liked it a lot more on a second viewing but even after the first one I was okay with the ending. I think it stayed true to the characters and to the show. It was never REALLY about the mysteries, it was about how the people interacted and grew.
Well, I can't say that I cared that much for it.
Okay, so I guess that the point is that everybody died. Okay. When did they die? Is it like it looks and most people died on the island and a few people got away on a plane and died much later? Did they die last year when the bomb went off? Or maybe since we get this last look at the beach they all died in the crash.
I think my main complaint is not so much the last episode as it is this whole last season, or last several seasons. Way back when they killed off Danielle and Alex, it really surprised me. And then I thought, Oh, right, they can kill off everybody if they want to, cause the show is almost over. Only then the show wasn't almost over, and then instead of explaining a few mysteries they just added more mysteries. And then some of it they just never explained.
I kind of think that Natalie is right, except that it can't be everyone in that room that was ever on the island waiting to go to heaven or whatever. That can't even be everyone on the island that Jack knew. There should have been more extras, and Micheal, and the back of someone's head that could have been Walt.
Walt is a whole nother thing. They screwed up with that. More proof that they had no plan.
Okay, not going to keep going on like this. Enough said.
Natalie said: "The people who flew off the island probably went on and had lives and eventually died"
I found myself more interested in those characters than I was in the apparently long-dead ones. Lapidus more than the others: isn't he the only character without a back-story?
Not sure if I am interested enough to see a second viewing, but maybe.
Also, I found myself missing the Locke character. The smoke guy was just not as interesting as Locke was on the usland
Laughing: When did they die you asked? Good question. I have been wondering myself. One obvious point might have been the very beginning, when Jack was on his back in the bamboo. Maybe that was when he and the others really died, and when he got up and the first episode continued, that was really in the afterlife. Or maybe the bomb did it?
So, did that Heart place remind you of the Heart of the Land of the Lost? Not sure it was really done better here, at least as a concept. Instead of a glowing thing with tumbling Barbie-dolls, you have a giant bathroom plug with yellow water.
Yeah, Walt was a dead end. Him and his comic book and polar bears. Mr. Eko: why did he ever happen??? And who put the dynamite on the "Black Rock"?
As for the afterlife, that's not heaven, that's The Matrix. No pearly gates, but there are car crashes and hit-and-runs and jail and instead of Morpheus with pills, you have Desmond.
Generally speaking, I was disappointed. I tend to agree with the negative reviews I sent you.
Well, here's my take:
Over the six years of this very popular show, it moved farther and farther into the realm of mysterious, other-worldly events. This was great for the audience, which really enjoyed thinking about what it meant, but the result was that, by season 6, the writers had walked themselves so far out on a limb that there was really no way to tie up all of the loose ends and have a really intelligible conclusion of the show. That's okay- in my opinion, it is a small price to pay for the six years of entertainment that the show provided for an enthusiastic audience.
Remember, that Lost was a TV show- it existed to entertain people and maybe give them some puzzles to try to sort out, at which it succeeded. It wasn't some sort of account of reality, from which we have a right to expect total consistency.
Disclaimer: I worked on about two thirds of season 6 of Lost, so I had an opportunity to see the scripts as they developed. This may well have warped my view of things.
Mr Eko happened because he was awesome and I think a lot more would have happened but the actor wanted off the show. I'm not entirely sure why. I know he was invited back for the finale but declined the invite.
I don't think it was everyone who was on the island that ended up in the waiting room. Penny was there and she didn't even set foot on the island. The people who were there were the core group that meant a lot to each other in some way or another. I'm hoping Walt wasn't there because he went on and had a great life and the things he did on the island weren't at all the most important parts of his life so he didn't need to move on with the group. Michael saw his actions on the island as horrible, I'm guessing he wouldn't want to be with those people for eternity.
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