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Anyone watch Lost?
I'm pretty bummed it's over...
Re: Anyone watch Lost?
Me too!
How does everyone feel about the ending?
I'm okay with most of it. I really wanted it to blow my mind but I was pretty underwhelmed. I knew there would be loose ends so I didn't set my expectations that high.
I am still on the Fence. I can't decide if I am happy with how it ended or if I am furious! I mean, for a show that has had so much drama and twists and turns etc... to end with them all being dead and going to the 'after life' together.. come on, that's a little boring for this shows standards!
I am also still a little confused on how they lived both lives simultaniously. Obviously Jack never made it off the island and he watched the plane take off successfully, so how was he performing surgery on Locke in the hospital in the sideways life? I guess because they were both really dead it was all in this state of no where?! I need more time to think all of these things through I guess because I ask myself questions and then I end up answering them with my thoughts a few minutes later but that always brings up another question!
I LOVE Lost, but wasn't able to catch most of the season due to Tuesday nights being kind of crappy for me. I did get to watch the final episode though.
I liked the final episode, but like the pp mentioned I don't know how I feel about the ending. Did they all live one life on the island and then die and live another life (the side flash life?) in heaven/pergatory? I guess they didn't remember the live they had previously lived until they were touched by someone they knew? DH thinks they all died in the initial plane crash and that they were just in heaven living out the lost. I'm tempted to believe him, but then there's a bunch of holes in his theories.
What does everyone else think?
I really hope that another show similar to Lost comes back. I enjoy having to really think about the show and work out theories and have those ah-aw moments only to be taken back into the land of confusion during the next episode. haha I guess I like figuring out things myself and not having a show hand me everything on a platter and wrap it up in an hour. KWIM?
I asked myself the same question, but Jack's dad answered that one for us last night. When he was explaining things to Jack in the Church before they went out and joined the rest of the members he said "some of them died before you and some long after you" So.. I believe that however they died on the show is actually how they died. Like Locke was killed by Ben, which is why Ben said he was sorry to him before Locke walked in the church last night. Shannon and Boone both died on the island along with Charlie and the Kwon's. I don't know how Kate, Sawyer or Claire died because they never died on the show. My guess is that they successfully flew off the island last night and had a life back in the states for some time, until they actually died.
I was totally disappointed in the ending...seems like a real cop out after all the drama & different story lines they created. If this was their plan all along, it's a pretty weak plan, IMO.
Oh, and the real kicker was how the producers kept talking about how they weaved in different philosophers, writers, historic figures, etc. to give a "high brow" (my word, not theirs) appeal to the show & make it really be about something. And in the end it's a silly "we were dead and dreamed this all up" conclusion. So at first I felt like they were calling me stupid for not understanding/appreciating their grand vision, but then I decided they just used smoke & mirrors to make it look like they had a vision when they really just had to slap something together.
So yeah, I feel like I could have done something better with my Sunday night. I DVR'ed the Jimmy Kimmel thing...may still watch that at some point this week.
The Fluffy Cat says... "Boxes are the best toys ever invented!"
I think that what happened on the island was what was real - the remembered stuff - and when you died on the island, you died. And that basically, you went into a holding pattern after that - the flash sideways or purgatory or whatever you want to call it. Not everyone died on the island though - people who were off-island died in their own time, just like Christian said. I feel really stupid that I didn't see a somewhat 'Christian' ending to this with a focal point at the opening being 'Christian Shepherd'.
There's a whole school of thought on how after you die you're incorporate and you really don't care or remember what actually happened to you in life except that you don't move forward spiritually until you understand the lessons from that life which you were aiming to learn. So all of them 'remembering' that island reality and helping each other move forward - like John said 'I hope someone does for you what you just did for me' b/c John understands that Jack needs to remember in order to go forward, is to let go of their physical life.
And for Jack - who's been the central character all along - they kind of parlayed that into a variation on all of his loved ones and people he cared about meeting up with him to join him crossing over. Like people who say they see their loved ones in the light before they die (and then get revived to tell us that).
I also think Ben's choice to stay behind was b/c Danielle & Alex hadn't remembered yet. I did love Hurley calling Ben #2.
This is the best explanation of this idea I've seen so far... I don't know that I agree with it, but in that construct it does help the final scenes make more sense. If this is what they really intended, then they didn't do it very well (as in, you'd have to be aware of this philosophy first in order for it to make sense, which I'm guessing a lot of people aren't---I certainly wasn't).
The Fluffy Cat says... "Boxes are the best toys ever invented!"