Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

kind of amazed at how highly the fan/recap sites seem to be rating this episode

jacob/MIB/mom = worst deux ex machina ever in fictional serialized drama in popular culture. not hyperbole in the slightest.

Still really struggling to understand people's problems here. I guess after all these years I still don't get the internet.

well, what's GOOD about it? i mean was there any point in the episode where you thought "that's a clever way to tie that together" or "that's a big surprise" or "that satisfied my curiosity"?

kind of amazed at how highly the fan/recap sites seem to be rating this episode

― some dude, Wednesday, May 12, 2010 10:21 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

Seriously. I guess that people can convince themselves of anything. Some serious WWII Germany parallels, here, in the Lost fanbase.

president keyes i'm struggling to understand your appreciation of this steaming pile of shit we were presented with last night

still don't get why the island or the light or whatever wanted MIB to leave the island. if he had never seen his dead mom he would have stayed with fake mom forever probably. and i gotta think that the island is the force that allows people to see dead people. this is turning into m. nightmare shamalama territory.

am i supposed to think that it was the "evil" part of the light that turned MIB against his family?

if the adam & eve skeletons were meant to prove they had a plan all along they failed miserably.

my first thought last night was: i can't BELIEVE this is one of the last episodes of this show.

i mean, which of these revelations do you appreciate the most?

the island is protecting an incredibly vague "light" entity that is everything and nothing imaginable.

stick a wooden wheel in the light and shit happens.

smokey is a truly sympathetic character has every reason to want to leave the island.

adam & eve are smokey and his fake crazy mom.

we already knew about the island's crazy energy. we knew about the wheel. we knew smokey was tortured. so that leaves the skeletons. big whoop.

Related questions, in the wake of last night's shit-a-thon;

How was Jacob getting off of the island to fuck with the 815ers off-island lives? And, for that matter, how the FUCK was he getting back? And who was holding down the fort when he was gone? Shouldn't Smokenstein have been able to peace out, as soon as Jacob was gone?

Jesus, this show.

if the adam & eve skeletons were meant to prove they had a plan all along they failed miserably.

― abanana, Wednesday, May 12, 2010 11:27 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

seriously -- it was a character not mentioned until halfway through season 3, and a character not introduced until the end of season 6! feels like they planned it out well to me!

this show is making a good argument for why complicated sci-fi/fantasy epics are usually created by one obsessive writer/auteur with a vision and not built up by committee by dozens of people just trying to put on a show from week to week.

I never read it (I never followed much of the non-show-related ephemera), but wasn't there a spin-off book called "Bad Twin" all the way back in Season 1?

yeah if they dont explain why or how jacob can go off-island before the end of the show thats just bad writing at this point tbh xposts

not only can he go off-island, he has no problem integrating into modern society as opposed to some savage & fruity lord of the rings kid

WHAT IS BOAT?

also getting a real original sin angle here re: people are bad, jacob u r the innocent moppet, gotta get us some born on the island babies which is making me v v wary about any further explanations of the magical light in the ground.

Seems to be some division on whether or not Smokey is actually an entity that predates MiB or if he's actually the unbodied spirit of MiB. If he's the former, he probably needs to be confined there for some reason, but if he's the latter, I hope he fucking kills everyone and finally gets off the island...because that dude got a raw deal from all ends.

what is in marcellus wallace's suitcase

yeah if they dont explain why or how jacob can go off-island before the end of the show thats just bad writing at this point tbh xposts

i was thinking other peeps like dharma or whatever found various was to exploit the island's powers through new technologies and shit

smokey just wants to buy an ipad, ride a bike, go to the cinema

Well, the donkey wheel got built by someone at some point. Seems a little crude to be a Dharma action, though.

I like how this episode was all about "Jacob, the messiah figure/person with all the answers that Jack and Locke and Ben (and others) have been pursuing as the answer to all their problems for the past several seasons, is actually kind of a moron." I'm glad the LOST creators are cruel enough to do this.

sure some other dudes came along before dharma and messed around with crap xp

yeah i'm sure the mother finished building the wheel in between bashing MIBs head against the wall and killing the villagers and filling the well up

why not? chick has some chops

yeah she's good at the loom and bashing peoples heads with rocks

so basically the island because some homicidal woman alone on a island introduced in the second to last episode says so

so basically the island is important....

SHE’S THE PROCECTOR OF THE LIGHT YO

protector WHATEVER

fucking show

I was literally watching it salivating at the chance to complain about it

this show has turned me into something I was not before I watched it

obsessed with birds, dogs, and puns?

the proctor of the light

this episode should have been narrated by ben

ben who?

ben...dover

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island better be a spaceship

i was really hoping for some magnetic incident, similar to what we saw with desmond in his episode, which turns titus into smokey. was this too much to ask? i mean i thought this show was about how magnets work. now it's about light.

cause when the light hits the water...

who are some of the past season characters they haven't shown this season
cuz if they are going to shoehorn a bunch of people into the last episode I doubt it'll get to the heights of

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'How was Jacob getting off of the island to fuck with the 815ers off-island lives? And, for that matter, how the FUCK was he getting back? And who was holding down the fort when he was gone? Shouldn't Smokenstein have been able to peace out, as soon as Jacob was gone?'

Dogen's magic baseball was holding down the fort I think.

who are some of the past season characters they haven't shown this season

walt
be-a-clue
juliet's sister
annie (i figured the reason they never did a ben/annie episode was to avoid the mistakes of the phantom menace. i guess not, after this ep)

i can't wait until the series is long over and some of the writers start speaking out about how ridiculous their jobs were

I bet the writing staff is simply the first five homeless guys who asked Lindelof for "a little help" one day.

Seems to be some division on whether or not Smokey is actually an entity that predates MiB or if he's actually the unbodied spirit of MiB. If he's the former, he probably needs to be confined there for some reason, but if he's the latter, I hope he fucking kills everyone and finally gets off the island...because that dude got a raw deal from all ends.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, May 12, 2010 11:54 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not to force the issue, but i really don't understand how anyone can still be on the fence about this, unless they basically would accept nothing less than a long lingering shot of MIB's body dissolving into black smoke, which they all but stopped short of doing.

if his body dissolved into black smoke, what's that thing that jacob buried with octomom?