Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

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?

Hurley wants us to remember the good times, you guys.

if the old lost writer thinks that jack having a wee cut on his neck in the first ep of season six is a clue

"my problem with the finale and this season is that they could have done ANYTHING."

once they committed to having some sense of conclusion, they have their hands tied. all the previous "awesomeness" was predicated on there being more to come.
I can't name a single series that went out guns blazing and simultaneously committing to some semblance of conclusion. are there any?

whole church bit at the end plus the strings made me really just think:

http://polaroidsofandroids.com/images/news/2007-10-31-november-rain/slash.jpg

the old and young lost writers saying anything now can only make it shitter

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

a friend posted this on facebook

therefore, the entirety of this sideways universe was not so much for the characters of lost. it was ultimately completely irrelevant... See More to the storyline on the island. what the sideways universe did, was it created an opportunity for the viewers to pause and reflect on the series. the flashes that everyone experienced was not just their characters remembering their time on the island - it was for us to remember the show from its glorious six year run. that little bit in the church was the writers saying goodbye and allowing for us to have that happy time with the characters.

what that also does is really affirm everything Darlton said about the nature of the show really being about the characters - they wrapped up the storyline for the island, and maybe that wasn't satisfactory in a lot of ways (I know I had a lot of issues with it). but the point was that the island was really just the background. it was the characters all along who made the show important to us, and the rest was just, in a lot of ways, noise; or rather, a means of telling the story of these characters. so Darlton, with this episode, are saying, "yo dudes, we'll tell you the end to the island, but what matters here is all of the people you've followed the last six years."

perfect.

my god what kool-aid drunk shit!

The more stuff that I think about that was brought up for the first time this season and left dangling (or at least unsatisfactorily unresolved), the more chagrined I am. I neither expected nor particularly wanted everything spelled out, but a lot of this shit was just sloppy.

& again last night was only the second time i'd seen lost, but that defense of the ending makes it seem like the most indefensible cop out of a final episode ever

so they never explained how jacob managed to get off the island to go touch everybody at significant moments in their lives. before i thought it was ~magic~, because he was ~like a god~, but it turns out he's just some dude? with no real knowledge or mystic understanding of what he's doing? and he created a bunch of complex rules for controlling the island that don't actually have a basis in fact, so when hurley takes over he can just, like, make up new rules?

also i guess allison janney wasn't the smoke monster, just a really strong woman who can move huge quantities of earth with her bare hands.

she's not a monster?

x-post "The Shield" went out guns blazing and in top form. Seven seasons, right? And ended on the perfect note. Eat that, "Lost."

all i know about jacob is that he was WORST GUARDIAN EVER. he let dharma dudes drill holes into the heart of the island for years. why did he even let those guys ON the island in the first place?

jacob made up all these crazy rules because he was an uneducated savage.

he was like that little kid in the twilight zone episode. if he didn't like you you would disappear.

Also, bullshit to all of the 'it's about the characters' nonsense. The characters have largely become annoying cyphers or lost what was once awesome about them (see: Ben). The show was increasingly plot-centric, to the point of turning most of the characters into little more than cogs in some big Rube Goldberg machine worked by Smokey, Widmore, et al over the last season. I remarked to someone sometime during s6 that I couldn't think of another show which I'd been so invested in and (with only a handful of exceptions) didn't really care what happened to the characters. I don't think the producers were terribly cognizant of their strengths or their weaknesses, which is why we got what we got.