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Post by acooper on May 24, 2010 19:12:21 GMT -5
When Lost started 6 years ago, I was sure it would end like Jacob's Ladder. I stopped watching it in season 5 because it was becoming boring. Then I've checked the finale and I was right, they were all dead. What's you opinion about the show ?
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Post by Art Vandelay on May 24, 2010 22:30:44 GMT -5
That's the big explaination for all the wierd shit?!
Well, I see I made the right choice when I stopped following it during season 3.
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Post by Art Vandelay on May 24, 2010 22:31:39 GMT -5
Speaking of which, if they were already dead, what about the ones that died twice? Or the Korean chick who got pregnant? Is the kid dead too?
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Post by HarleyThomas1002 on May 24, 2010 23:12:16 GMT -5
Haha, I stopped watching after a few episodes of season 1.
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Post by Vene on May 25, 2010 0:26:00 GMT -5
Ha! I stopped watching before the show even aired.
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Post by Hades on May 25, 2010 0:37:14 GMT -5
I found the finale to be quite disappointing. Too many loose ends were left, and I thought the actual ending was a cheesy cop out.
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Post by Yaezakura on May 25, 2010 2:13:37 GMT -5
I found the finale to be quite disappointing. Too many loose ends were left, and I thought the actual ending was a cheesy cop out. Doesn't that basically describe absolutely every episode in the series? |
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Post by HarleyThomas1002 on May 25, 2010 2:25:34 GMT -5
Ha! I stopped watching before the show even aired. My pride! |
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on May 25, 2010 3:04:56 GMT -5
I didn't watch the finale and stopped watching the show after the first couple seasons, but I have caught a few episodes here and there. So, the purgatory theories were true, then? I was telling my dad (who's a loyal Lost fan & likes to send me messages on Facebook about the show) the other day that it would kinda make sense (at least, as much as anything on Lost can make sense) if somehow the 'souls' of the passengers in timeline A got switched with the souls in timeline B or something along those lines, resulting in the wrong souls being killed in the plane crash, thus leading to all kinds of weird shit happening as the universe tried to 'correct' itself. That alone wouldn't account for everything, but they could have worked in the other stuff to sort of tie it together. Was my theory anywhere close to being correct? Mind you, I haven't watched enough to make a fully informed guess here.
Of course, I'm still convinced that they started it off wanting to go for a couple seasons before the big reveal that they were all dead & in purgatory, then when the show got so popular, wound up having to extend the show and basically ended up making it all up as they went along. There was just no way they could have a satisfying ending with all of that buildup. It seems to me that they were backed in a corner, and ended up going with a slightly modified version of the original ending.
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Post by the sandman on May 25, 2010 7:19:15 GMT -5
No, the "purgatory" theory wasn't really true. I'm not a huge fan of the show; it lost my interest back in season 3, and I found the finale to be disappointing.
**SPOILERS**
It seems Jack does die at the end of the finale "fixing" the Island and ends up in a "place they (the people on the Island) made so they could meet." A kind of afterlife, if you will. The others were already there because the afterlife exists outside of time (a concept borrowed from the more intellectual side of Christianity, to be honest.) But the survivors on the Island weren't always dead for the run of the show. I kind of thought that myself at the end of season 2, but such was not the case. All of the "dead" people they saw turned out to just be the "Man in Black" in a different form.
As for their presence on the Island, it seems the writers borrowed the basic (although altered) concept from the obscure SF novel "Seahorse In the Sky," in that when they got to the Island their lives divided into two parallel paths: one with them on the Island and one with them going about their normal lives. While not entirely without merit, this concept could have been much better explored and developed, rather than used as a "Confuse-The-Shit-Out-of-The-Viewer" gimmick.
"LOST's" primary weaknesses in my opinion were:
1) Padding the show with an extra season forced the writers to pull shit out of their asses that frankly did not work and weakened the story as a consequence.
2) It suffered from too many primary characters, making the entire thing ridiculously difficult to follow without either taking notes, religiously watching the recap shows, or buying some sort of guide.
3) It simply dragged on too long. The writers needed to take a lesson from Hitchcock. Suspense sustained for too long rapidly becomes boredom. Which is why Bush had to constantly re-energize, escalate, and shout about terrorists: the longer we went without an attack, the more bored with the situation the public became, and the less anyone cared. The same thing happened to LOST. The longer they made me wait for any kind of answers, the less I cared about the answers, so that when the big finale finally aired, I found the answers no longer really mattered to me.
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Post by Sleepy on May 25, 2010 13:18:21 GMT -5
In one of my high school classes, we watched a Lost episode every Friday. With all the loose ends at the end of every episode, I became increasingly curious and tried to follow the story. Of course, that was impossible since we only watched every third or fourth episode with quick explanations in between. It's been about two years since I've seen a single episode now, and my curiosity still lingers.
Anyone know a good site that explains EVERYTHING about Lost? I know the characters and most of the stuff from seasons 1 and 2, but after that I'm lost (heh).
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Post by Tiger on May 25, 2010 15:38:49 GMT -5
In one of my high school classes, we watched a Lost episode every Friday. With all the loose ends at the end of every episode, I became increasingly curious and tried to follow the story. Of course, that was impossible since we only watched every third or fourth episode with quick explanations in between. It's been about two years since I've seen a single episode now, and my curiosity still lingers. Anyone know a good site that explains EVERYTHING about Lost? I know the characters and most of the stuff from seasons 1 and 2, but after that I'm lost (heh). |
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Post by id82 on May 26, 2010 23:33:16 GMT -5
Good luck getting everything explained: Here's a video of all the stuff that doesn't get explained: www.collegehumor.com/video:1936291And no they were not in limbo the whole time they were actually on a mysterious island, where none of the mysterys are explained, but they live happily ever after and some shit. |
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Post by Vene on May 27, 2010 10:47:23 GMT -5
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Post by SimSim on May 27, 2010 15:14:54 GMT -5
Whoever made that video saw the Simpsons Sunday night. The start of the episode had Bart writing on the board, about how it was all the dog's dream, watch us instead.
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