Lost!

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

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

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

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

Oh.



EH1812, you were right and I was wrong.



I'm still smug about me being right about the series all along, though.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Oh.



EH1812, you were right and I was wrong.



I'm still smug about me being right about the series all along, though.

No right or wrong! I keep going back and forth about how I feel...I talk to you and I feel one thing, I read this article and I feel another. Heh. At the end of the day, my initial reaction remains: Emotionally satisfied, intellectually deprived. Though his article makes me even question the former.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

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

Oof.

I do feel much the same way, though I enjoyed it anyway. It had a lot of appeal, though I guess that guy would say it was only pandering to the audience. Good job on the pandering!

[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.

[innerSpaceman]

Ah, thanks, CP. I didn't remember he was seen lying unconscious and they made a remark about it. And I guess I didn't read your earlier post clearly enough.


BTD: How was Island Underwater answered? We were left puzzling about that. Some people said that's just how it was in the sideways universe. But if the sideways universe is simply a matrix limbo where no one even KNOWS ABOUT the Island, how is the Island somehow underwater?

[BarTopDancer]

Loving the links!

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

BTD: How was Island Underwater answered? We were left puzzling about that. Some people said that's just how it was in the sideways universe. But if the sideways universe is simply a matrix limbo where no one even KNOWS ABOUT the Island, how is the Island somehow underwater?

I *think* that when they pulled the cork out of the island and it started shaking it eventually sank. We saw the plane take off and there were cracks in the ground (that reminded me of the Tommyknockers - no idea why) and Jack put the cork back in. The water reappeared with the light, we see Jack escape back into the forest and died. I think somewhere after that the island sank.

That's just my interpenetration of what happened, and it's probably completely wrong.

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

Loving the links!


I *think* that when they pulled the cork out of the island and it started shaking it eventually sank. We saw the plane take off and there were cracks in the ground (that reminded me of the Tommyknockers - no idea why) and Jack put the cork back in. The water reappeared with the light, we see Jack escape back into the forest and died. I think somewhere after that the island sank.

Then Hurley and Ben were Island guardians for an even shorter span of time than Jack?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

That's just my interpenetration of what happened, and it's probably completely wrong.

No, Jack putting the cork back in stopped it from sinking. The island underwater was (according to the pre-show) just a way of saying, "This is what life would have been like if the island didn't exist."

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

No, Jack putting the cork back in stopped it from sinking. The island underwater was (according to the pre-show) just a way of saying, "This is what life would have been like if the island didn't exist."

Which is weak if you ask me.....they're trying to tell us parts of the sideways flashes were "what life would have been like if the island didn't exist" and other parts are a "place created to meet up with the people who matter most"???