Lost!

Chernabog · 05-25-2010, 07:13 PM

Lost lost me after season 1. I watched periodic episodes and the damn show moved at such a friggin glacial pace. Like, I missed all of season 3 except the season finale, and I wasn't confused as to what was going on, after a 1 minute recap from my mom (who doesn't follow these things all that closely). Judging from everyone's reactions here, it's a bummer that the end was such a letdown... really, it was a bizarre way to end things.

bewitched · 05-25-2010, 07:41 PM

I personally loved the finale...but I wasn't expecting most of the questioned to be answered, I didn't need most of the questions answered...except as they pertained to the characters. (although I really, really wanted to know what became of Vincent, and I was very satisfied to find [or believe] that he lived a happy doggie life with Rose and Bernard, after he, of course, comforted Jack [and who knows how many others] and helped ease him into death and what was to come.)

I maintain that LOST has always been about the humanity and the redemption of the core characters. In fact, I believe I posted at one point that I thought that we would discover that ultimately the show would be about love. How it binds us to people, how it leads us to extraordinary actions and how ultimately, it determines the path(s) we chose to pursue. And I think that was confirmed. Because of the love these characters had for each other, because they had become integral to each other's very existence, they were compelled to form (separately, yet in unison) an other worldly plane where they would each wait for each other until they were once again whole. Sure, they were reunited with their true loves...but that was only a minor consequence of needing to remember their bond. "Live together, die alone"..."live together, move on together" because none of them were whole as long as any one of them was missing. The sideways world transcended time and space; as Christian said (something to the effect of), "some of them have been here a long time, some of them a short time."

More to come, but I need to fix dinner....

Ghoulish Delight · 05-25-2010, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by bewitched

I personally loved the finale...but I wasn't expecting most of the questioned to be answered, I didn't need most of the questions answered...except as they pertained to the characters. (although I really, really wanted to know what became of Vincent, and I was very satisfied to find [or believe] that he lived a happy doggie life with Rose and Bernard, after he, of course, comforted Jack [and who knows how many others] and helped ease him into death and what was to come.)

I don't think most people's beef is that they didn't answer all the questions. I think think the issue (at least for me) is that so many of the questions were simply negated.

sleepyjeff · 05-25-2010, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I don't think most people's beef is that they didn't answer all the questions. I think think the issue (at least for me) is that so many of the questions were simply negated.

Exactly!

05-25-2010, 07:13 PM	#1
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bewitched 101% Yummy! Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: I know Kung Fu. Posts: 1,413	I personally loved the finale...but I wasn't expecting most of the questioned to be answered, I didn't need most of the questions answered...except as they pertained to the characters. (although I really, really wanted to know what became of Vincent, and I was very satisfied to find [or believe] that he lived a happy doggie life with Rose and Bernard, after he, of course, comforted Jack [and who knows how many others] and helped ease him into death and what was to come.) I maintain that LOST has always been about the humanity and the redemption of the core characters. In fact, I believe I posted at one point that I thought that we would discover that ultimately the show would be about love. How it binds us to people, how it leads us to extraordinary actions and how ultimately, it determines the path(s) we chose to pursue. And I think that was confirmed. Because of the love these characters had for each other, because they had become integral to each other's very existence, they were compelled to form (separately, yet in unison) an other worldly plane where they would each wait for each other until they were once again whole. Sure, they were reunited with their true loves...but that was only a minor consequence of needing to remember their bond. "Live together, die alone"..."live together, move on together" because none of them were whole as long as any one of them was missing. The sideways world transcended time and space; as Christian said (something to the effect of), "some of them have been here a long time, some of them a short time." More to come, but I need to fix dinner.... __________________ ~Whitney Wondering about the future of Ellington Woodard's punk@ss sh!t.
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