LOST Finale

POSTED BY: cljohnston108
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 13:30
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CLJOHNSTON108

Sunday, May 23, 2010 1:37 AM

Just some cool stuff I've found this past week...

http://fuckyeahlost.com/

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WHOZIT

Sunday, May 23, 2010 12:25 PM

www.zap2it.com is posting alot of "Lost" storys and other things today.

LWAVES

Sunday, May 23, 2010 5:18 PM

Excellently funny clips.

Really looking forward to the finale in a happy/sad way.

Just remember that Des is Daniel's constant and Des is in both timelines seemingly playing a major part. Daniel will save the day through Des.

"The greatest invention ever is not the wheel. It's the second wheel." - Rich Hall

WHOZIT

Sunday, May 23, 2010 11:30 PM

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/05/22/lost-finale-ratings-take-a-guess/
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I guessed between 15 - 17 million.

OPPYH

Monday, May 24, 2010 3:57 AM

I loved the finale.
It's probably gonna be ripped apart by the non-Christian crowd though.

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CORNCOBB

Monday, May 24, 2010 1:01 PM

The Lost Finale was abysmal. Yes, I'm non-christian, but that's only a small part of it. This was very badly written and cliched. I personally feel I'd have to be very deeply religious to be able to embrace that pointless ending.

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Seriously, they sacrificed giving us the answers for giving us flash-forwards to their afterlife dreamworld? Why couldn't they, if they're good writers, resolve the characters' issues in life? What part of this ridiculously convoluted quest to give the charcters all their memories back was relevant to the plot or the character development? The big reveals and character resolutions turn out to be
A) Everyone dies eventually - well duh.
B) They go to heaven - You can either believe this or not. If you believe that, you don't need to be told. If you don't then it's trite. We don't need yet another show ripping off the bible(s) instead of daring to be inventive. It was ultimately pointless and a waste of half the season either way. It also negated a lot of the previous events, rendering things like the time travelling utterly pointless and thus undermining the shows narrative structure.

They had a preset amount of time to resolve things and the writing ability to tell an original story. They just didn't bother.

"Gorramit Mal... I've forgotten my line."

ZEEK

Monday, May 24, 2010 1:42 PM

I thought that the episode was good in and of itself. If you look at it as the end of the whole show though it's severely lacking.

I think it's safe to say we were cheated. All those mysteries that probably never had any solutions to them in the first place. It just shows why I love Joss's work so much more. I don't see him ever cheating the audience like that.

The worst I ever felt from Joss was the lame way he handled Dawn's interaction with her mom in Conversations with Dead People. I thought that was a pretty weak pay off.

CLJOHNSTON108

Monday, May 24, 2010 1:50 PM

Since I don't have a TV, I'm waiting for a decent torrent to show up.
Now I'm wondering if it's even worth the effort.

LWAVES

Monday, May 24, 2010 3:05 PM

I'm going to disagree with the naysayers

I'm a non-Christian, in fact I'm non-anything religious but I really liked the ending.
I felt it gave a nice sense of closure while leaving stuff open to further speculation and repeated viewings. Yes the Christian/heaven thing was a bit heavy, like BSG was although Lost never said it was heaven but it is a logical jump from the name Christian Shepherd. But it is just a story, it's not like it's preaching to anyone, you can just take it as it is - a story.

And CornCobb the sideways tomeline wasn't a flashforward to what the afterlife was going to be like (at least IMO) it was just a place they created to meet up when they died before moving on. Time had no meaning there and in this one they were waiting for Jack as he was the last one to realise the situation and what was really going on. The show didn't say what the afterlife was going to be like or what it actually was.
Also the character resolutions weren't all that they eventually die. Each had their own. Jack's was finally accepting his place/destiny and effectively 'fixing' the island. Hurley was to become a leader, someone with a purpose. Ben was to finally find someone he could be friends with, who wanted him, rather than just using him or putting him down. Kate's was putting someone else first (Aaron then Claire) rather than just thinking about herself. Claire was accepting that she was a mother. Sawyer I'm not quite sure on yet. Richard was finally being able to grow old.

I think given time and another viewiing of this last season I could answer most of the questions I have to my satisfaction.
The creators have said they weren't going to answer every question, there's no way they could, and that not everyone will be happy. I think they've done a pretty good job (not perfect) and although it's not how I thought it would end (I think I only guessed two bits right) I'm happy with it.

"The greatest invention ever is not the wheel. It's the second wheel." - Rich Hall

ZEEK

Monday, May 24, 2010 3:40 PM

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Originally posted by lwaves:
I think given time and another viewiing of this last season I could answer most of the questions I have to my satisfaction.

Really? I mean you either have a very small list of obviously questions or you're delusional IMO.

There is just way too much left open that we don't have enough evidence to answer. You can make stuff up for it, but there's no way to really figure it out.

For instance how did Eloise Hawking know to meet Desmond in the jewelery store? From what we can tell her future knowledge all came from Daniel's notebook. Desmond never discussed that event with Daniel so it should not have been in his notebook. There is also the issue of how she knew the man in the red shoes would be killed. How could that have made it in Daniel's notebook? There just isn't any evidence to figure out what was going on.

Lost is full of mysteries like that. I think it's pretty safe to say there's no answer because the writers don't have an answer. They wanted to make that scene to move other plot points along. If they needed a flying dishwasher to move something along then there would be a flying dishwasher with not explanation of where it came from. Shoddy writing IMO.

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