Lost!

[scaeagles]

So....I'm curious. Does anyone have a specific way they wished it had ended?

I was somehow hoping that the two sideways timelines would merge and they would all end up back on the island. There was never really an explanation of how the people at the temple ended up at the temple. I was hoping for a sort of Matrix-like regeneration of Zion....that this group of people would end up back on the island, but they would be the inhabitants of the temple. The people who understood what the island was and what the powers of the island were....almost becoming the others to anyone else who ended up on the island.

Maybe that's lame....don't know. I just wasn't happy with the walk off into the light thing.

[Pirate Bill]

Am I the only one that was really annoyed by what seemed like extra commercial breaks? And yet when I do the math it had the typical amount of commercials (Actual running time: 105 minutes. A typical 1 hour show has a 42 min runtime. So 105 minutes would be right for a 2-1/2 hour block.) But boy, all the commercials were ruining the experience for me.

Maybe it's because a 1 hour show has a 7 act structure (with 5 breaks) while movies with no breaks have a 3 act structure. This was movie length with more breaks than I bothered to count. Structure? It was painful. I need to watch it again without all the breaks.

Other than that it was pretty satisfying. It seems like most of the mysteries have been left unsolved. Not that I need to have them all solved, but I mean, we still don't know MIB's name. But I seem to be okay with that.

The sideways world seemed a little bit too much like a reunion show. Lots of "good to see you again," and "you did great," and "I've missed you so much." It just seemed too meta. The flashes where they remembered their previous life were touching though.

I want to see the Hurley and Ben spin-off series.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

The people who understood what the island was and what the powers of the island were....almost becoming the others to anyone else who ended up on the island.

You'll have to tune into the animated series to find out.

I think the only big thing that I'm bugged about them leaving unanswered is the gap between the massacre of the Dharma project and the Others inhabiting Dharmaville. All very murky and confusing. And frustrating that it goes away with a bunch of, "eh, the island was what you bring with you" hand waving. I'm not broken up about it, just wish I knew what they were thinking when they set all that up.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Pirate Bill

Am I the only one that was really annoyed by what seemed like extra commercial breaks?

DVR.

Originally Posted by Pirate Bill

I want to see the Hurley and Ben spin-off series.

"Hurley! Did you eat all the mangoes again?"
"Guess I have to fess up, dude. There's no one else here."
"Huuurleeeeeeey!!"
*wumpwoe music cue*

It writes itself. And yeah, absolutely must be animated. Think Beetlejuice, or Clerks.



That, and James Ford, Detective. Gritty but always ends with James patting Miles on the back, saying with a grin, "Son of a BITCH!"

[Gemini Cricket]

I hope no one actually tries to dive into the water where Sawyer and the lady who killed Locke did. That area is hugely dangerous and there are rocks just beneath the water. People commit suicide in that area all the time. Also, they are quite the swimmers. They swam 41 miles.

And iSm is wrong. Sawyer is hot with or without his shirt.

[mousepod]

I'm glad I got to see the characters make their journey. That was nice.

I'm also glad that I don't need to buy the BD set of the complete series... there's absolutely no need to watch it again. It's amazing when you consider that most of the discussions about the show for the past six years have been about "the mystery", which turned out to be the biggest MacGuffin in TV history.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Also, they are quite the swimmers. They swam 41 miles.

No, they swam to the boat.

Ooh, remembered another thought - throughout the series, Jack would say "this is what I am supposed to do, this is what is supposed to happen" and be totally wrong. For him to push Desmond out of the way and say he knew he was the one who should plug the hole left me wondering that perhaps he was wrong. Maybe if he just let Desmond do it, they could have both lived. I kind of like that ambiguity. It ties into what GD's been saying about Jack's flaws. Jack finally learned to deal with the possibility of being wrong.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

No, they swam to the boat.

Ah. That's what that boat was doing there.



Question:
So after Jack shoved the stone carrot into the hole, the only way for him to get out was by climbing the rope or did he do a water flume out? I was kind of confused by him being on the rocks and all dry and all that.

Also, dogs = cool. That's the message Lost has been trying to convey all this time.

[Pirate Bill]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

DVR.

I do, and I did. But a break to skip past the the commercials is still a break. And while less annoying than a 4 minute wait, it's an interruption to the flow.

The Target commercials caught our attention and I did back up to watch those. Hilarious!

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

So after Jack shoved the stone carrot into the hole, the only way for him to get out was by climbing the rope or did he do a water flume out?

I think there's a way out downstream. He got flushed just like MIB's body.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by mousepod

I'm glad I got to see the characters make their journey. That was nice.

I'm also glad that I don't need to buy the BD set of the complete series... there's absolutely no need to watch it again. It's amazing when you consider that most of the discussions about the show for the past six years have been about "the mystery", which turned out to be the biggest MacGuffin in TV history.

The Island *was* Kaiser Soze!

At least at the end. At the beginning, I think it was Limbo. I am going to whine about all day today, and then I'll shuddup about it.