Author Topic: Lost (Read 158641 times)

Spak-Spang · « **Reply #525 on:** May 19, 2010, 11:20:31 PM »

ThePerm: Yes, that would be the ultimate way to end lost...The last 5 minutes being a Rick Roll. It would be KING!!!

Adrock · « **Reply #526 on:** May 20, 2010, 01:54:26 AM »

The fate of The Island will be decided as it should be.... in MORTAL KOMBAT!

/queue techno music

Jack and Locke use their Animalities.

That's how I envisioned Lost ending. It's the only logical way to end the series...

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #527 on:** May 20, 2010, 04:03:38 AM »

....Jack and Locke face off on the beach. Both take fighting stances. They charge at each other with fists pulled back. Right before the collide...it fades to black.....LOST

Plugabugz · « **Reply #528 on:** May 20, 2010, 07:46:36 AM »

I said at th beginning of the episode I need more Bad Ass Ben. Just one. more. time.. I got my wish!

gbuell · « **Reply #529 on:** May 20, 2010, 10:52:49 AM »

Quote from: Spak-Spang on May 19, 2010, 10:16:48 PM

I don't think we will see Jack with super powers...that isn't how Jacob works...we never saw him with secret powers.

Well, I think Jacob created the storm that brought the Black Rock to the island. And he can magically get off the island, and he can heal people by touching them. But besides that, yeah, he can't shoot lasers from his fingers or anything.

Spak-Spang · « **Reply #530 on:** May 20, 2010, 06:19:58 PM »

Yes, true....but we never see it. It is all implied powers, and it is a kind of just manipulation of time and natural events...that causes people to come. Not direct powers, but some sort of odd nudging of world around you to get the results desired.

So, when I say I don't think we will see Jack with Super Powers...it just means now that Jack is like Jacob....doesn't mean seeing amazing abilities.

Halbred · « **Reply #531 on:** May 21, 2010, 03:15:15 PM »

It'll be like the final fight between Solid and Liquid in MGS4. Lots of slow-motion fisticuffs.

vudu · « **Reply #532 on:** May 23, 2010, 09:37:22 PM »

Hey Dale, since I'm a couple hours ahead of you, would you be terribly upset if I told you what's gonna happen?

ShyGuy · « **Reply #533 on:** May 23, 2010, 09:51:27 PM »

I'm going into radio silence from now until it's over, TRICKSTER

vudu · « **Reply #534 on:** May 23, 2010, 10:38:14 PM »

You would not believe WHO ISN'T DEAD.

vudu · « **Reply #535 on:** May 23, 2010, 11:31:06 PM »

O M G

We'll talk tomorrow.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #536 on:** May 24, 2010, 02:34:25 AM »

Oh wow, I am still trying to come to terms with the end.

ShyGuy · « **Reply #537 on:** May 24, 2010, 02:44:50 AM »

L O S T

Spoilers don't matter any more. The unanswered questions don't matter. What a great ending to the show.

Caterkiller · « **Reply #538 on:** May 24, 2010, 02:46:53 AM »

I laughed, I cried, I threw up! I loved the final episode. It is the first and last episode that I watched live.

I am only dissapointed with one little thing, what about the brothas? Walt and Mike!?

ShyGuy · « **Reply #539 on:** May 24, 2010, 03:14:38 AM »

I missed them too, Eko as well. I guess the people at the end, they were the people whose most important life/death experiences were tied to the island in some form. Walt grew up and had his own life, and Michael probably moved on with him.

ThePerm · « **Reply #540 on:** May 24, 2010, 03:53:57 AM »

Lost trys to have its cake and eat it too, it has scifi with the time travel and the alternate reality, mythology with the cartho/egypto gods, it has religions with the whole ending.

the ending was familiar... go watch Passengers with Anne Hathaway....

i don't know 2 + 2 =4, but in the lost world 2+2= ((20+20)/10) - ((4+ (-2)) * 2)-8)+4)+6

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #541 on:** May 24, 2010, 04:01:08 AM »

Quote from: ThePerm on May 24, 2010, 03:53:57 AM

Lost trys to have its cake and eat it too, it has scifi with the time travel and the alternate reality, mythology with the cartho/egypto gods, it has religions with the whole ending.

the ending was familiar... go watch Passengers with Anne Hathaway....

i don't know 2 + 2 =4, but in the lost world 2+2= ((20+20)/10) - ((4+ (-2)) * 2)-8)+4)+6

I read the spoiler for that movie, it isn't like Lost's ending at all.

The world that was created in the alternate verse was kind of a holding world that is outside of time, some of the characters died previously, some long after Jack dies on the island. The island was real as were the events. It falls back to a repeated statement "Everyone dies"

ThePerm · « **Reply #542 on:** May 24, 2010, 04:18:38 AM »

yeah, i got that, but it is a world where someone doesn't realize their dead, realizes their dead. Like Sixth sense and whatnot, but it being an alternate reality and also "the next level of the game".

I find there to be a dichotomy of being "the next level of the game" and also being an alternate reality. That is like saying when you go to another country you'll be pregnant, people will be shooting at you, you've got kids that apparently aren't real, you'll be married to people, and until you remember who you actually are your just going to live in this strange world that seems to be active despite you. Its like some crazy Descarte/Bhagivad Gita stuff. On one hand it brings up the philosophical question is this all going on in my head, and everyone else is a false perception, and or are things working independently of me? Locke says he Jack doesn't have a son, and he could be correct, it is really strange though that this false perception got cooked up just so he can move on to the "next next level of the game", because if I were playing a game that would be the weirdest level. I would hope the "next next level" wouldn't have stupid redundancies. Thats why I say 2+2= ((20+20)/10) - ((4+ (-2)) * 2)-8)+4)+6, instead of 4 = 4, but even the beginning is a redundancy when you can just say 4. The creators have been saying that the characters are not in purgatory(from the plane crash) the whole time, but the flash sideways was kinda like purgatory(although they werent like ghosts and they all didn't die at the same time)

ShyGuy · « **Reply #543 on:** May 24, 2010, 04:45:05 AM »

I donno, I feel like when I'm at the end of a Zelda game. I may have missed some heart pieces and not found every fairy fountain, but it doesn't matter because I just beat Gannondorf and it's over.

ThePerm · « **Reply #544 on:** May 24, 2010, 04:53:20 AM »

thats a pretty good analogy, although in majora's mask if you don't solve everyones problems you get a bad ending and there is no ganon. That must have been what happened to Michael.

Sundoulos · « **Reply #545 on:** May 24, 2010, 09:56:05 AM »

I'd totally watch a show called Hurley's Lost Fantasy Island, as long as Ben played the Tattoo role.

Halbred · « **Reply #546 on:** May 24, 2010, 03:44:06 PM »

I DIDN'T GET IT.

Why were Kate, Claire, and Sawyer there at the end? Why WASN'T Lapitus and Miles? I ARE CONFUSEDED.

Plugabugz · « **Reply #547 on:** May 24, 2010, 04:44:25 PM »

I'm disappointed. So much to explain in other storylines, but instead this primarily focussed on the main A storyline through the latter half of the series.

They had 18 and a half hours to tie up, or even talk about, everything else.

Vudu can claim his $10 bet.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #548 on:** May 24, 2010, 07:31:46 PM »

Quote from: Halbred on May 24, 2010, 03:44:06 PM

I DIDN'T GET IT.

Why were Kate, Claire, and Sawyer there at the end? Why WASN'T Lapitus and Miles? I ARE CONFUSEDED.

It is easy, the people there were those that grew most connected to each other, the originals so to speak. The purgatory is outside of time, so Kate, Sawyer and Claire most likely lived long lives and died. This is also shown quite clearly by Hurley and Ben when he said that Ben made a great number 2. Why do you think Kate told Jack it was a long time? She was referencing the real world. This place was a world created by those with the strongest bonds to each other. Lapitus nor Miles were ever significant to lives of those in the church.

The show went out full circle, about the characters, and the theme that was consistent throughout the series, redemption. What was the island? Who knows, though for those characters it was their way to salvation, especially Jack.

Adrock · « **Reply #549 on:** May 24, 2010, 10:03:01 PM »

I'm actually glad they didn't flat out say what The Island was. That'd be like explaining Silent Hill.

And I beg to differ regarding Miles. He spent 3 years in Dharmaville with Sawyer, Juliet, Jin, and (kind of) Faraday, who was also MIA from the final scene. Miles had to mean something to some of them. Also, I thought there was no Michael in the final scene because he's still trapped on The Island, punishment or serving time for killing Ana Lucia and Libby, even though he died postponing the Kahana from exploding sooner, saving many of them. It just seemed like the final scene was poorly planned.

All in all, I liked the ending, but it wasn't great. Fitting but kind of cheap. The whole "We can't answer everything" line isn't a free get out jail card. They wrote the show, they wrote themselves into those dead ends and ultimately that's poor storytelling. So I only buy that excuse to a certain degree. For the most part, I didn't mind letting go of some of those nagging questions. However, others I was like "Really, not going to touch on that?" They did bring back Juliet (who seemed ridiculously tall the entire episode for some reason) so that was about all I needed to enjoy the finale.

The only things I absolutely detested were all the Jesus references. It wasn't even subtle. I'm not anti-religion, I just felt like it was heavy handed.

My favorite line: "You're not John Locke. You disrespect his memory by wearing his face, but you're nothing like him. It turns out he was right about most everything. I just wish I could have told him that while he was still alive."

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Author Topic: Lost (Read 158641 times)