Lost!

[Gemini Cricket]

I posted this on FB already but...

The series finale of "Lost" entailed all of the characters waking up in bed with the late Suzanne Pleshette.

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by 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.

Oops, I hope the show doesn't inspire any copycats.

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

No, they swam to the boat.

Ok, so if they swam to the boat ... that means Desmond didn't take the boat.

WTF happened to Desmond??!?

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Ben and Hurley pulled him up.

Ben: "Desmond is going to be ok. Maybe you can help get him off the island."
Hurley: "But you can't leave the island."
Ben" "That was Jacob's way. Perhaps there's a different way. A better way."

Then Ben stabbed Hurley in the face and jumped down the island's light-hole to become Smokey 2. Ok, not that, but the rest happened.

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

WTF happened to Desmond??!?

Hurley used his island superpowers to send him back to live happily ever after with Penny and little Charlie. That's how it is in my happy place, and I'm sticking to it!

As for the finale... I was underwhelmed. The "Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Chapel" ending had me rolling my eyes.

Six years worth of questions, and very little pay-off. Blegh.

[RStar]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

By the way, who here watched the 2hr pre-show?

We did. While in the middle of it I found myself sort of wishing I wasn't watching it. I've purposely avoided the podcasts and such. I'm a TV show purist in the sense that I want what I need to know to be shown on screen during your allotted time slot. I want to see the show and decide what it means to me, not have the producers hold my hand and tell me what they want me to get out of it. If they can't communicate that within the confines of the show, then they've failed at creating their show. So I was kinda bummed that I was going into the finale with that "guidance" for the first time.

But in the end I was glad I watched it. I still take the points away for it needing to be there. But the show had gone wildly off track, and watching that helped me focus on what the creators and writers considered the important elements and forget about the extra stuff they tried on for size but never got to fit. Even if a lot of what they defined as important was only so in hindsight, I took it as, "Here are things we tried that worked and aided the themes that we had in mind, don't worry so much about the stuff we tried that didn't. Our bad."

I'm glad I watched it as well. I also watched the "Enhanced" (POP-up) pilot eppy on Sat. I'm glad I did, cause I picked up on stuff I might well have forgotten. Little things like the shoe hanging in the bamboo forest where Jack landed (and went to die), and how the very first scene was Jack opening his eye, and it ended with him closing it.

Originally Posted by Pirate Bill

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

Yes, but the Target ads were good, as Bill mentioned.

Did anyone get the "enhanced pop-ups" on their cell phones through Verizon? That was pretty fun as well.

[Gemini Cricket]

I was waiting for Jack to realize that he was wearing ruby slippers all along.


Okayokayokay. I give. I'm going to start inquiring around here in Honolulu who has all the "Lost" seasons so far on DVD so I can borrow them...

[innerSpaceman]

Um, CP, I meant after that. Once they pulled Desmond up, what happened to him? He simply disappeared. If he was going to Desmond-disappear, they should have left him in the cork room where that was supposed to happen. Instead, sloppy writing or editing had them "save" him only to have him completely disappear with no explanation.

And it was stupid having Jack "save" Desmond, since he knew full well that Desmond can withstand the energy of The Light, and all he had was a hit on the head - while Jack had a fatal stab wound. Dumb.


Stupid editing and poor post-production compensation were also responsible for Ben escaping the unescapable tree fall. Lame.



scaeagles - I would have liked it much better, too, if the sideways timeline actually converged with the Island. I think them all being dead the whole time in the sideways world of matrix-fantasy was a cop-out, and kinda too creepy.

In that sense, did Juliette's detonation of the nuclear bomb really "work?" Faraday was wrong. Flight 815 didn't go on to land safely in Los Angeles. I suppose it was successful in that the Island did not blow up, and I guess the Dharma-stuck Losties were all catapulted forward in time to meet up with the other present-day Losties. But I'm not happy that Faraday was made wrong and the alt timeline is just where most Islanders go when they eventually die.


I'm just happy to be right that the story was about Limbo the whole time and though the writers can create a lot of good stuff, they were pulling most of that stuff out of their asses.

[Frikitiki]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I posted this on FB already but...

The series finale of "Lost" entailed all of the characters waking up in bed with the late Suzanne Pleshette.

Check out Jimmy Kimmel's alternate LOST endings at the end of the show. They were very funny!

The whole Kimmel set reminded me of a Survivor reunion show. Sort of fitting.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

I hope ABC broadcasts a pop-up finale soon.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

They left the boat behind. Surely Desmond found it and used that to meet up with Penny. But I am sure there will be an extended version of the final on DVD, so maybe we'll see that along with Ben being freed from the tree that could not be moved.