Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

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?

well i mean yeah it didn't but people acting like his dead body floating down the river contradicts the MIB=Smokey thing are weird imo

*shrug*

So anyway, there's this magical other timeline that people can access somehow...

this episode ruled

That better be sarcasm, there.

what is in marcellus wallace's suitcase

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, May 12, 2010 11:57 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

said this to my wife while watching the episode

this was crap, imo

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!

OTM

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.

i appreciated all of this

This feels like something Cuse/Lindelof thought would be cool to do four years ago, and stubbornly stuck with even after it became obvious it was a semi-waste of an hour.― Grisly Addams (WmC), Tuesday, May 11, 2010 9:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

this is sorta otm. i mean, the actual episode itself was hammy and poorly done---it probably would have been better executed earlier in the series, when there was less pressure for it to be The Ep That Explains It All---but otherwise as ~explanations~ go, it seems about as reasonable as any bullshit sci-fi imaginarium backstory.

well i mean yeah it didn't but people acting like his dead body floating down the river contradicts the MIB=Smokey thing are weird imo

― some dude, Wednesday, May 12, 2010 1:37 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

no but what does contradict it is him really pointedly saying "GOODBYE, BROTHER" at the end. he practically said it to the camera

yeah, this wasn't amazing or anything but I'm going to go with the boilerplate response of "If you've been watching this show for 6 seasons, I don't know why you're complaining about this episode in particular." It wasn't any stupider than anything else that's been going on. I think people just complain more now because even though it's always been dumb, it used to have the potential that something awesome would happen and wrap everything up in a satisfying way, and now we're losing that potential.

While I am as guilty of speculating about the identity of Adam & Eve skeletons as anyone, it's a bit presumptuous to assume they'd be people from the cast who went back in time and not what old skeletons normally are -- people you don't know from a long ass time ago.

"it used to have the potential that something awesome would happen and wrap everything up in a satisfying way"
these are incompatible goals for a series! Can't be both awesome and satisfying.

guys seriously here is an exercise: start speaking, aloud, a well-crafted sensical reason for why there is a magic island that moves through space and time, powered by magnets, with two immortal weirdos trying and failing to kill each other, that crashes planes and gives people superpowers, and has hidden a magic well that teleports you off the island or turns you into smoke, and then see how long it takes to realize that you sound like a crazy person.

we are in the realm of radioactive spiders and wizards, ppl, i figure they tidied up the backstory as well as they could in one episode. would've been better if they'd established it as a point of order like five fucking seasons ago---nothing revealed affects the main characters ~that~ much beyond clarifying that the island needs protecting by some schmo willing to be a murdering sissy and that getting off, once you're there, is really fukkin difficult. there's still a lot unexplained, but i'm caring less about that shit, tbh---even after last week's garbage, i care more about the ppl on 815 than jacob and smokey

I get what you're saying about explanations being impossible but why do the final episodes have to be done in the style of some disney channel reject show

I'm not looking for sense just excitement

I'm american goddammit

YES! USA! USA!

lots of pregnant mother of twins killing for a disney reject show.

How come they both had Bieber haircuts.

like, i know it seems like a cheap dodge, but n/a is otm about this being sorta par for the course---expecting this to redeem the i dunno fundamental quality of the series' fantastical architecture i delusional. embrace your ignorance of a higher power~~~

~do you see~

what happened is exactly as bullshit as the premise that big magnets crash planes and boats and polar bears. imo they'd have been better off NEVER EXPLAINING ANYTHING and like not have The Gang Go To The '70s and live in an alternate reality, but that's what's happened, and at this point an rpg savepoint and a creepy momma's boy are what we get

The only way they can make this up to me now is by killing Kate. They can do it next Tuesday, doesn't even have to be in the finale.

I get what you're saying about explanations being impossible but why do the final episodes have to be done in the style of some disney channel reject show

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, May 12, 2010 12:55 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'm not looking for sense just excitement

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, May 12, 2010 12:56 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is otm, tho---like, since whatever i'm gonna get for backstory is going to be nonsense, at least make it artful nonsense, not pablum. this ep was definitely cheezeball, but since they felt the need to put in that ridiculous flashback, i'm guessing that this is some lowest common denominator bullshit that is inevitable when there's the expectation that this little story is somehow going to do a lot of dramatic heavy lifting for the entire series. if it had been an aside in the second season or w/e they'd have had the freedom to craft it better, imo---they've done "backstory" eps about characters that are actually pretty good, so there's no reason this shouldn't have been, too.

The Ben sideways episode is terrible on paper, but the actor made it pretty good.
The only reason this episode was bad was they didn't use forced perspective hobbit tricks to have them play kid versions of themselves.

The episode wasted the talents of Pelligrino and Welliver.