Lost!

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by mousepod

Alias turned into a gooey mess.

You say that like it's a bad thing...

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[Betty]

I thought the island didn't sink because of something that changed when they set the bomb off and what's her face said "it worked" right before she died.

[BarTopDancer]

The alternate endings from the Jimmy Kimmel special are worth watching.

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by Betty

I thought the island didn't sink because of something that changed when they set the bomb off and what's her face said "it worked" right before she died.

I am afraid that the thing that "worked" was unplugging the vending machine in order to drop the candy bar.

I know, truly lame, and so not her last thoughts before dying, and so not "really important" like she said at the swan......but, well, there you go.

[Pirate Bill]

Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

I am afraid that the thing that "worked" was unplugging the vending machine in order to drop the candy bar.

D'oh! You just...d'oh. Thank you and d'oh!

[Pirate Bill]

Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

Very well written review.
http://chud.com/articles/articles/23...ING/Page1.html

That was a good read. And it helped me come to the realization of what's been bugging me about the finale and why I also keep going back and forth on it.

Since the sideways world just turned out to be a pseudo-purgatory, everything about it is flawed and is completely unnecessary. All it did was to serve the viewers with a happy ending. I would have been fine with a much darker ending without the happy purgatory party. Cut the sideways world out entirely and insert more island story, let it end the same, and I'm good.

[sleepyjeff]

From Eliza's link:

To spend six years with these characters, in these increasingly bizarre scenarios, going through pain with them, examining the most basic aspects of good and evil... just to suddenly say 'What really matters is that they were important to one another' is whiplash inducing. Over six years the show kept widening the canvas, pulling back to show us more of the picture. Then at the last moment it slams to the most simplistic, trite place it could end up. The better ending would have been pulling back on the canvas to show that it was all fractal - 'As above, so below' - that the larger picture was the smaller picture. Instead the show dumped this for an easy, lazily metaphysical ending.

That pretty much sums it up.

[innerSpaceman]

Eh, I'm gonna have to go all Star Wars on Lost (in my head, Star Wars is a stand-alone film, and its official sequels and prequels, which even George Lucas admits contradict major plot points in Star Wars, are all shadow worlds, on the level of books and fan fiction).

So with Lost, I'm going to self-create in my own head something along the lines of what I believe was intended all along - that THE ISLAND is limbo, and the sideways universe is a matrix-like illusion that the Losties eventually wake up from. Some of them, like Sun and Jin, find themselves not waking up after all - since they are "dead" on the Island Limbo - - but it doesn't matter, since everyone else soon finds out the Island is also an alternate world of limbo - and they will all soon or someday move on to full-scale death and whatever afterlife and other alternate worlds lie beyond.


Sheesh, Lindelof and Cuse, do I have to do all the work for you??



I don't take this schizophrenic course often with mere works of art. It was necessary for my Star Wars sanity ... and now I'm afraid it's necessary with Lost to save my soul from being Lost.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Sheesh, Lindelof and Cuse, do I have to do all the work for you??

I've done similar work with Star Wars and The Matrix. On this one, I can't wrap my brain around such a complex edit, but I can at least shut the fire door and remember how great the first season and much of the other seasons were. The flashbacks we got in the finale make me want to rewatch the show, though I doubt that will ever happen.

[Betty]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

So with Lost, I'm going to self-create in my own head something along the lines of what I believe was intended all along - that THE ISLAND is limbo, and the sideways universe is a matrix-like illusion that the Losties eventually wake up from. Some of them, like Sun and Jin, find themselves not waking up after all - since they are "dead" on the Island Limbo - - but it doesn't matter, since everyone else soon finds out the Island is also an alternate world of limbo - and they will all soon or someday move on to full-scale death and whatever afterlife and other alternate worlds lie beyond.

Thank you. THIS is the closure I was looking for and didn't get.

Love is nice and all but come on - it's not much of an explanation for ANY of the mysteries.