Lost - Season Finale - What Did You Think?

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DANFAN

Thursday, May 26, 2005 3:39 PM

My thoughts on the episode:

1) Security System - I had figured that the security system was mechanical. But I had thought it was a mecha stomping around the island. Not true... the mechanical parts are IN the island.

2) The Black Smoke - My guess is that the security system is part mechanical, and part living. The mechanical part is the stuff in the ground that grabs and hoots and throws stuff around. But it is just a machine (like a crane or a backhoe)... it needs a driver. The black smoke is the driver (Jack and Kate saw it slipping around just before all hell broke loose... the black smoke was slipping into the driver's seat for the local defense mechanics). But what what is the nature of that driver? Undefined. Clearly not life as we know it. So I'm thinking it is life as we don't know it.

3) The Hatch - This seems to strengthen my personal belief that the island is host to an extensive, fairly technological facility (apparently underground). The facility appears to be somewhat abandoned, but not entirely shut down (witness the working radio, the functioning security system, etc.). I think that the facility may have been biowar research (as evidenced by Danielle's statements in an earlier episode that the Others were carriers and her companions all got sick after the Others met them coming back from the Black Rock and she had to kill her companions before they left the island because she couldn't let them get back to the rest of the world could she?...)

4) The Others - I think that the facility had some kind of serious contamination or leak of some kind. The sponsoring country cut the facility loose and covered up. The Others are abandoned staff... infected with something that makes them Not Good.

5) The Child - The Others stole Danielle's daughter Alex. They tried to steal Claire's child by taking Claire. They've stolen Walt. Could it be that the contamination from the facility has made them sterile? Do they need something from children to fight their infection? Or to do something that their infection prevents them from doing? Not enough information.

6) The Number, the Island's ability to manipulate reality - How was the plane brought down? How could ANYONE survive a breakup at 35K feet? Why did the number confer such good/bad luck on Hurley? How was Locke healed? Not enough information...

Tentative conclusions - I think that there are two forces at work. One is the abandoned facility, its abandoned staff, their infection, and the staff's survival goals. The other is the supernatural force that can bring things to the island, heal miraculously, twist probabilities to make improbable things happen (like Hurley's lottery win and the incredible run of coincidences that made him a multimillionaire). This supernatural force might be the black smoke that sits in the driver's seat of the island's unmanned defenses.

Perhaps the supernatural force is something that can bend the rules of quantum physics to make the improbable probable?

I'm talked out.

DANFAN

Thursday, May 26, 2005 3:46 PM

I can poke holes in my own reasoning...

If there is a supernatural force separate from the abandoned facility, then why is its number stamped in the entrance to the facility? That fact would indicate that the supernatural force is linked to or part of the original purpose of the facility.

And yet, the supernatural force was bringing ships to the island as far back as the 1800s. Perhaps the supernatural force has existed onthe island for a long long time. And in more modern times, it manipulated the sponsoring country to install the facility on the island to provide a steady supply of the humans it needs/wants for its mysterious purposes?

STILLSHINY

Thursday, May 26, 2005 4:27 PM

I absolutely loved it. Don't want to speculate just pointin out some of my fav moments. I'm quite a fan of the Sawyer story. It's very redemptive. "Who the he** is Hugo & why is he leaving his mother $__________million " - I loved that!!

I'm curious to see what's gonna play out with Charlie. I knew it would come back to haunt him when we first saw the other plane.

I'm even warming up to Shannon a bit.

It's just such a great story. Did anybody see the clip on Good Morning America??? I haven't yet.

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MYSWORD

Thursday, May 26, 2005 4:38 PM

Maybe the Island is alive or something. And maybe it's just me but I'm kinda glad they took Walt, that is one badass lil boy. Poor Sawyer, he got shot, so I'm excited to see what happens when they are 15 miles from shore. As for the the school teacher, that was just...funny. He had to pick up the most exposed piece of dynamite. Wasn't a smart move in my opinion. All in all I loved the season finale and I'm eager for next season. On a side note, I would like to think that I'd be used to cliffhangers by now, but damnit, sometimes they still bite me in the ass.

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GWEK

Thursday, May 26, 2005 4:43 PM

I thought it was definitely a good episode (or, rather, two episodes), but not a great finale. Maybe Abrams just talked it up too much by calling it "mindblowing", but I didn't think there were any great surprises.

The only real twist was Walt being abducted, and that certainly wasn't "mindblowing" to me.

There was also a lot of talk that, based on the finale, most of the cast are uncertain as to their fates. Well, seems to me there's, like, 3 folks who that applies to, and everyone else is sitting pretty.

Good stuff, but not up to the hype.

JADEHAND

Thursday, May 26, 2005 4:55 PM

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..5) The Child - The Others stole Danielle's daughter Alex. They tried to steal Claire's child by taking Claire. They've stolen Walt. Could it be that the contamination from the facility has made them sterile? Do they need something from children to fight their infection? Or to do something that their infection prevents them from doing? Not enough information.

I thought Danielle took Claire. The scratches on the arm[Danielle's] were made by Claire when see escaped. as revealed, Danielle was hopeing to trade for her child.

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SICKDUDE

Thursday, May 26, 2005 5:00 PM

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Originally posted by StarPilotGrainger:
With the X-files I think the problem was that even the writers didn't know where they were going, and so when they started revealing stuff, that became obvious. If Lost is the same way, I'd rather know now.

I've read that the creators expressly don't want to pull a "X-Files". They said they do have it figured out and will slowly reveal the mystery. They've also said it was nothing 'weird', like the afterlife or UFOs.

Danfan, really like your theories. I was the island is a long-time smugglers (drugs, slaves, etc) base and the "others" were nefarious sorts.

Definately have been hearing mechanical sounds from the guardian from the beginning, and especially last night. Weird since black, wispy non-corporeal beings and machinery don't really go well together. I agree with the assumption that the machinery is underground. Also, I believe the guardian is not in cahoots with the others, and may be working against them. Notice the way it came and checked them out the first night, and then left them alone (after it found out they weren't smugglers). Also, could it be attracted to smoke, and the fire on the other side of the island was a lure? Maybe they want Walt (and his ability to cause death and breakages (think rudder and batteries from last night) to stop the guardian.

As to Arnst, remember even though he knew about TNT, it was his first time handling it. He is a teacher, and when explaining things it helps to use your arms a bit. He just forgot where he was.

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SICKDUDE

Thursday, May 26, 2005 5:05 PM

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Originally posted by Jadehand:
I thought Danielle took Claire. The scratches on the arm[Danielle's] were made by Claire when see escaped. as revealed, Danielle was hopeing to trade for her child.

Sorry, Jadehand, I disagree. We know Claire was taken by Ethan, and I just don't see Ethan and Danielle working together. I think the plot to offer the baby just occurred to her while looking at the baby, and the scratches may have been if Danielle helped Claire to get away. We still don't know how or why that was....

"Don't say 'ka' until you've tried it." Daniel Jackson

SHINY

Thursday, May 26, 2005 5:43 PM

Claire was remembering back to when (she claimed) someone try to steal her baby when she was still pregnant. She remembered clawing at the attacker when she saw the scratches on Danielle's arm.

Jayne, your mouth is talkin. Might want to look into that.

DANFAN

Thursday, May 26, 2005 7:23 PM

And another interesting clue I think the writers dropped for us...

As Michael, Walt, Jin, and Sawyer were leaving the island, Michael looked back and said "How could something so big go undiscovered?"

He's right. I think the "supernatural" force on the island that manipulates reality is masking its existence from the world as a whole, while bringing select people to the island for whatever reason it needs them.

The same force that could bring a wooden slaving ship into the middle of the island could levitate pieces of an aircraft to a reasonably soft impact that would allow 40 people to survive.

I agree with what one of the other posters said... I don't think that the Force and the Others are necessarily working to the same ends. They are just on the same island.

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