Does anyone her watch "Lost"? I'm interested in what you thought of the finale. Personally, I thought it was the most disappointing and unimaginative end imaginable. It was like a listening to a long joke with not punchline.
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Does anyone her watch "Lost"? I'm interested in what you thought of the finale. Personally, I thought it was the most disappointing and unimaginative end imaginable. It was like a listening to a long joke with not punchline.
I thought it was amazing, because it made me realize, I've been watching the wrong show. I thought it was about the mystery of the island, and the crazy monster and stuff...but it was really about the people. And realizing that, I understood that what was best about the show WAS the people.
Loved it.
But what was the joke you refer to?
I agree, the people were the best part of the show. But which people? Sawyer the con man or Sawyer the cop? Locke the wise, survivor who could suddenly walk, then turned killer, then died or Locke the substitute teacher in the wheelchair? Ben the diabolical cult leader or Ben the concerned and dediated high school teacher? My objection to the finale was that they totally disregarded the other lives these characters seemed to be living elsewhere after the bomb restored (or destroyed?) the timeline.
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Originally Posted by leadduck
Ahhh...I think I see the problem.
The bomb never went off. That other timeline was them after they eventually died. They made this kind of...limbo. It was a place where they could resolve all of the little problems they needed to come to terms with before moving on. Each of them would die, and they would all be together and they would come to terms with their lives, and then move on to whatever comes next.
Those lives were all...imaginary, for want of a better word. The Island was real, and it was the most important point in their lives.
I kinda got bored with it around season 4, but I did read up on the finale. Found this humorous image today titled How Lost should have ended:
http://i.imgur.com/wtzBE.gif
I lol'd... :D
:rofl2:
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Originally Posted by commiecat
Fantastic!!!
At first, I was really satisfied, then a few days later was annoyed at how anticlimactic it was, and then I went back to being satisfied. It wasn't a huge roller coaster ending. It was the last episode of a series. It was closure. I can now live my life free from the clutches of Lost!
I'm a big fan of the show. I enjoyed the ending and I agree with JimR it really was more about the people and their relationships.
BUT, there were a lot of unanswered questions
YouTube - LOST: "ULTIMATE LIST OF UNANSWERED QUESTIONS"
And here is a link to my Favorite LOST Blog.
Lost... and Gone Forever
That is one unfortunate thing about lost:
The writers cast a lot of lines in the water, but only a few had any fish.
A good way to put it. There were many unanswered questions in my mind. I could appreciate the view that the alternative lives were in the afterlife as they were waiting to cross over if it applied to across the board but it just doesn't ring true. For example, how did Jacob contact the candidates in their lives before the island, when he couldn't get off the island? Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed the show while it lasted but the ending reminded me of a term paper that was only half done and then finished the night before it was due.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timedwards
What he said.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimR
In the episodes leading up to the finale, I thought a lot about what would be a satisfactory ending...and there weren't many to choose from. Aliens? Horrible. All a dream? A complete rip off. They all died in the plane crash and the entire series was in the afterlife? Not impressed.
It seems to me that rather than picking an explanation that might not satisfy people, they just skipped the explaining part. What's the island? Figure it out! <laugh> As for the parts of their lives that were actually set in purgatory, I thought it was an interesting way to reveal how the characters really felt about themselves. Some were living how they wished they could have been, and others were living how they feared they might have become. Both were very interesting to me.
That all said, I'm fascinated with character, so my enjoyment might not translate to those more interested in plot.
I found it the most frustrating thing, the story allways promised to lead somewheres but just never got there. Some other movies have been like that. You wait all through the movie for it to happen and it doesn't. I watched on the net once a whole years worth of lost synopsis and still could not fiqure it out, consequently I did not bother watching it again. Pity because I do enjoy a good scifiQuote:
Originally Posted by leadduck
cheers
The last Lost....
When you want an actor to go you kill him or her
off in the script and write them out of the show.
When you want to kill a show you end it like Lost did.
In all fairness it is the only way to make sense of the
tangle that was Lost.
I've only watched a couple of episodes of lost.
It made me think about 'the wheel of time' by Robert Jordan.
At first very interesting, but then after the 5th book, you get the impression that the author doesn't have a clue what is happening either, and just spins new threads in the hope that it'll all turn out in the end.
And as with Lost, the wheel of time is still a mess. Still, since the family hired someone to finish the story based on Jordan's notes, we might find out who killed Asmodean :)
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Originally Posted by Bruno
There's one series I've lost all faith in...By the time book...ummm...8 I think, rolled around I was so disgusted that working my way through the next book was mentally painful; then I found out that the "last" book was going to be a TRILOGY. Fired. So fired.
I feel your pain. I stopped reading around book 9 and vowed not to start over until the final chapter was written. And for a moment it looked as if it wouldn't happen at all.
However, since the new books are actually the ending, the major story points are set, and they are written by a new author. So I am willing to give them another go if and when the final chapter is published. The first 5-6 books were good, so perhaps the final books will redeem the series.
The new author closes threads like crazy. I was so happy when he killed off a very annoying character in the prologue. The first hundred pages I was going "this is not Jordan," then after a while I was enjoying the heck out of it and can't wait for the next book. He finally explains Verin as well!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruno
Skip book 10. Nothing happens (for 1000 pages).
That sounds exactly as I remember it...Perrin sits in a field for about 700 of those pages, IIRC.Quote:
Originally Posted by jeffus
Glad to hear the new author is going somewhere. Maybe once the end trilogy is complete I'll actually give them another go.
Agreed. Sadly, it changed my opinion of the entire series, which I had regarded as an intricate piece of story-telling genius. Looking back, the whole thing seems like a disorganized and pointless mess.Quote:
Originally Posted by leadduck
I had been planning to rewatch the series once it ended, but I don't have any interest now.
It goes down in history as one of the biggest copouts ever. Very sad.
Josh