Lost!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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 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.

[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.

[Gemini Cricket]

An early report...
13.5 million watch "Lost" finale
I was expecting a whole lot more...
Hmm.

[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.

[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...

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

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...

Don't all Hawaiian residents get a copy? Like the oil money in Alaska?

Speaking of Bigfoot - GD pointed out to me that Hurley doesn't really have any flaws, so how is mixed up in all this mess anyway?

I suppose his flaw is allowing himself to become controlled by his belief in "the curse", an inability to take responsibility for making the best of his life despite any bad luck he might have. Still seems like a weak flaw compared to everyone else's.