Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

i'm weirdly and unexpectedly satisfied

I think "could've been worse" is about as far as I'm willing to go.

the Twin Peaks movie didn't tie up loose ends!

Max, do you think that SPIRITUAL and BEAUTIFUL and MEANINGFUL are bad and stupid things to shoot for, or that the Lost producers just failed in their attempt?

― Grisly Addams (WmC), Monday, May 24, 2010 12:17 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think these are awesome things to shoot for! but i think that when you fail, you tend to fail pretty spectacularly

snoop dogg's take on the finale is actually pretty good

i think these are awesome things to shoot for! but i think that when you fail, you tend to fail pretty spectacularly

― max, Monday, May 24, 2010 11:40 AM (27 seconds ago)

ok, cool -- it just seemed like you were sneering at the idea of even making the attempt -- my bad if I misinterpreted that

no, sorry, not at all

It bums me out that they didn't have the guts to actually give anyone an unhappy ending.

Sayid ending up with Shannon while Boone hangs out unattended is total bullshit. I mean, clearly Shannon is not the love of Sayid's life. That part was so ugh.

How come John doesn't care about his fiance? How come Ben doesn't want to go to real heaven? I don't get it.

Also, for a show that has spent so much time talking about babies and and fertility, all those plots turned out to be a huge waste of time and energy.

its tv

they just put stuff in there and I watched it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyKyjeRodd4

I definitely think they'll be milking this for an opportunistic movie wrap up in a few years if not sooner.

Ben not wanting to move on yet was ok with me. I read that as 'dude is so complicated he needs another 100 years in limbo to figure himself out'

Still not sure how Ben ended up as a sort-of good guy again at the end after agreeing to help Smokey and shooting Widmore. I guess none of the other Losties knew he shot Widmore so he's just not going to tell anyone and let them assume he was on their side the whole time?

"cut out all the smokey/jacob shit"

the smokey/jacob shit was probably the best anti-religious propaganda I've seen on TV, especially when couched in a show that has crazy new age unitarian stained glass windows.

xp to n/a - ^^another good example of where the claim that it's all about the characters falls really flat.

x-post And, like, menorahs and Buddhas as shit. But also of course a giant Jesus and a dude named Christian Shepherd that shows them the way to heaven.

turns out that there are a lot of people who thought the ending was--im gagging here--like, SPIRITUAL, and BEAUTIFUL and, christ, MEANINGFUL

Some of those gawker comments were genuinely lolarious, like Nicholas Sparks mini-novellas.

Ben finally got to be special, which is all he ever really wanted. It's pretty sad.

x-post And, like, menorahs and Buddhas as shit. But also of course a giant Jesus and a dude named Christian Shepherd that shows them the way to heaven.

Yeah, I thought they made a really half-hearted effort at saying, "Oh, no, no, no. This isn't a Christian thing. They're not necessarily going to heaven. Didn't you see the yin yang?"

Still not sure how Ben ended up as a sort-of good guy again at the end after agreeing to help Smokey and shooting Widmore. I guess none of the other Losties knew he shot Widmore so he's just not going to tell anyone and let them assume he was on their side the whole time?

yeah that was weird - he's holding sawyer at gunpoint and then like 15 minutes later it's all "oh no ben is stuck under a tree branch we have to save him" and then he's a good guy. odd that they ended a character who basically drove the show for 2.5 seasons on such an incoherent note.

ya the ecumenical stained glass window was pathetic

"This isn't a Christian thing."
except for sayid, everyone at the church party are catholics, right? was totally expecting camera to pan to re-frocked Mr. Eko delivering a sermon.

i thought that window was awesome -- did you miss the polar bear on it?

so did anyone think, as Smokey lay dying on the rocks and it cut to Locke coming out of surgery in the alt, that Locke was going to be EVIL and kill them all in the alt? I might have actually liked that, too.

I don't think I'm getting enough props here for predicting this ending two years ago, either. (In a way...)

As soon as Christian started talking to Jack I totally predicted that someone would walk through a door into golden light as well (ask my husband).

Driveshaft plus Farraday music was god awful. I'd hate the show now just for making me listen to that.

that might have been the single dumbest idea of the entire series. who the hell wanted to see that? in heaven daniel the scientest is a prog rocker! ???????? in heaven ALL your secret wishes can come true!

scientist

or mathmetician or whatever

http://cdn.videogum.com/files/2010/05/church.jpg

mathematician!

"in heaven daniel the scientest is a prog rocker!"

That wasn't heaven. That was just a place like near heaven.

I know writing a long TV series with a clear ending in mind must be tough work, but seriously the level of suckitude on display for the last season has been mind-boggling.

why you hating on faraday when andrew wk does the same thing?

is it the hat?

It is definitely the hat.

guys WTF was up w Boone like bein in on the joke w hurley? when did he get ~spiritualized~

I totally remembered that Labyrinth post during the church scenes

thank you, thank you. Even down to the "they all need you!" talk.

Seriously, first thing my brain went to

xpost Wagonwheel Pastatarians

I definitely wouldn't have teared up when Vincent laid down with dying Jack if I'd been watching Jack puttering around his suburban home doing yard work on weekends.

At least, not unless something blew up right afterwards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_5ZQW0BCFU

giant spaghetti monster swoops into church, eats hurley

i'm just gonna say this one more time, my problem with the finale and this season is that they could have done ANYTHING. they had SO MUCH to work with. lots of cool characters and myths and backstories and all kinds of ingedients to make a truly WTF OMG DID YOU SEE THAT FINALE NO WAY I ALMOST DIED!!!! ending to the show. and they chose to go quietly into the night. which is kind of a bummer, even though, like i said, i had low expecations. when i think of how COOL some of the first episodes of some seasons where or some of the season finales were i know that they had it in them to do it. this show, for those who may have forgotten, could be AWESOME at times. this ending was not very awesome. or cool. i kept thinking of that intro with desmond in the hatch getting up and playing music and how mysterious and wild that was. and how much i really did like most of the characters. and wanted to know more about them. man, that seems like a long time ago. this whole year i didn't care what happened to anyone. they were all so dreary. granted we were stuck in limbo with them - a seemingly dreary place - but still, kinda sad overall.

@polyphonic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmacakra

unless i'm missing something?

Oh I didn't know that! I just assumed it was related to the show's many wheels.

thinkin the folks at videogum don't know that either!

BURP

totally forgot desmond waking up in the hatch

That scene is so much better than anything in the finale.

Yeah, remember when this show was awesome?