Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

'a chronological fan edit', that should've read.

to clarify it seems the writers intended the alt as a process which each person had to go thru before heaven, on the basis that something they all wanted to do was to enter the afterlife together. i'm kinda forgiving this because i do think it was necessary for as many of them as feasible to be together at the end.

Nah they'll never get a pass from me on this. They stumbled past it-was-all-a-dream only far enough to land on they-were-all-dead-the-whole-time and that is just shitass godawful writing.

the series beginning with jack eye opening and ending with his eye closing lends more to "it was all jack's dream."

Jackob's Ladder

Lost ranks behind Mr. Belvedere for number of viewers of series finales.

belvedere was straight up genius.

Remember the Belvedere newspaper comic? He was kind of a snooty terrier iirc.

Dozens of people died to protect the set from Land of the Lost, but they all got to go to go to heaven because they remembered the first five seasons at a benefit show in LA. Also, people who do bad stuff are a metaphor for evil.

I rarely post on this thread (or ile in general) but have like many of you been reading this thread for as long as I've been watching LOST. Anyhow for the moment I just feel supremely disappointed. I agree that this was a fairly satisfactory end to S6 and the alt-storyline, but as a series closer it was pretty weak, and anticlimactic in a big way. I was prepared for a big zinger of an ending, a last gotcha in a show committed to gotchas above everything else. Instead it felt like they skipped past the big finale in favor of doing the 10-years-later reunion show. Thinking back, literally none of the stuff that I found so intriguing about the show, especially as it pertained to the first few seasons was addressed at all, indeed it clearly didn't matter.

Anyway whatever. I'm glad it's over.

wesley on belvedere also better and more realistic than anyone on lost. funnier too.

when they announced 'here's daniel faraday and driveshaft' i thought i could actually hear my neighbor's say 'please don't make us actually listen to this'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKKMB9vRkIg

my perfectly perfect last five minutes? after they defeat the MIB in the alt/sideways world, everyone - everyone who didn't die during the show - goes back to the island for a big party on the beach and hurley and ben and desmond join them. that would have made me very happy. but no dead people allowed.

I'm still boggling that the whole Daniel Prog Show was actually nothing to do with anything, simply a little divertissement at which to bring some more characters together. Like, why come up with something that retarded if it's just window dressing?

I still think they MUST have planned to have some sort of Harmonic Convergence Of Topographical Oceans shit, but then abandoned the idea as the finale got closer.

That is a really good question, re: retarded window dressing.

www.theackattack.net/?p=1991

"E!’s Watch with Kristin gave some answers to some burning questions we had about the finale last night!

. . .

3. We will find out what happened to Walt on the DVD."

Dear Lost Producers:

FUCK YOU.

Love,
Jenny

almost at the end

FUCK CLAIRE

http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/lost/lost_the_series_finales_burnin.php

Television Without Pity's "Burning Questions left by the Lost finale" is kinda the dumbest thing ever.

I mean Jack is in a pool of water in a room filled with water slides--how the hell could he possibly end up in a rocky river? This will keep me up at night.

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

"Why was the light so easy to turn on and off?" is a pretty valid question, though.

it wasn't it turned you into smoke and made you angrier unless you were desmond hume

This one, too:

How bad do you have to be to get stuck in island whisper purgatory?
What criteria determined who was able to move on to the sideways afterlife, and who got stuck whispering on the island? We'd seen Michael as one of the whisperers, which presumably explained his absence from the church, but all he'd done was shoot a couple of strangers under duress in order to save his son. Yet ruthless killers like Ben and Sayid were granted the opportunity to move on? Who made up these rules?

Racial disparity in sentencing on the island, too, I guess.

yeah none of it seems to add up

Oh, yeah, good point about the light, conrad. Although Jack didn't turn into smoke. Or did he???? That would explain how he went from the bottom of a light hole to the banks of the rocky river.

Television Without Pity's "Burning Questions left by the Lost finale" is kinda the dumbest thing ever.

Ahahahaha. Seconded.

Come on, this one is also pretty valid:

"How much money did a successful band like Drive Shaft have to get paid in order to agree to be back-up to some weird nobody on piano?"

A couple bucks more than a diaper commercial pays?

"Why was the light so easy to turn on and off?" is a pretty valid question, though.

Wasn't it pretty clear that if you weren't Desmond trying to turn that light off would kill you instantly?

claire seemed equally hate-able on the after show kimmel thing

A couple bucks more than a diaper commercial pays?

Haha okay OKAY.

Then why didn't it kill Jack right away to turn it back on? xxpost

Cause he needed to die in the bamboo. Obviously.

confusing isn't it

the entire alt-world was just heterosexual heaven

Well, the island did start to freak out when Desmond removed the stone wang from the vagina of light, so that is at least consistent.

I swear I saw the hieroglyphics for "no homo."

I think this was on the stained glass window in the church:

http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/HeteroSym-pinkblue2.svg/150px-HeteroSym-pinkblue2.svg.png

I think most of the answers to our burning questions are revealed once we realize that the deus ex machina in this narrative is a couple of mediocre writers.

are they named jacob and esau?

Michael Ausiello confirmed today that Boone (Ian Sommerhalder) isn't the gay character on Lost--if there even is a gay character. (Getting a clear answer from the show hasn't been easy.) Why would anyone be daft enough to think there was in the first place? Oh, maybe because Lost executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof have twice hinted that there would be, including on their March 21 podcast where they said the upcoming "Expose" episode might reveal a gay character. That was the episode where Boone was chastised for hitting on guys while running through the airport.

remember when it was exciting when there might be a gay character on this prog no me neither

Anyone else noticed how there was no 'proper' smoke monster in the finale at all? Might have well have just written an entire hour hour series wrap-up and left Ben Linus out, ffs.

no smoke monster and no reference whatever to the numbers

remember when it was exciting when there might be a gay character on this prog no me neither

I do! It was Mr. Friendly!

xp or the dead Others who lived on the island for bloody ages

lol forgot about that dude

Was there smoke-monstery noise during the credits when they were showing plane wreckage and stuff? WHO GIVES A SHIT?!

fuck friendly

nothing about Cindy or the kids

nothing about the vintage WWII pins worn by the Oceanic staff

nothing about Walt

jesus christ this sucked. my wife was still pissed when she woke up this morning.