Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

seriously, post synopsis of the season? go to the lost wiki you jerk

dude, relax

this ending=AI, so that means in about 9 years it will be widely hailed as a masterpiece right? [citation needed]

Lost Wiki tries to avoid spoilers, so it isn't really very informative

Try Lostpedia.

there are no spoilers anymore

Can't escape the spoilage.

Season 1: What is this crazy place?
Season 2: What's with these crazy people?
Season 3: Let's play ping-pong, dudes!
Season 4: Can we please leave soon?
Season 5: Someone set us up the bomb.
Season 6: <Unintelligible>

OTM

^^^thanking u

they all died when the bomb went off btw. richard said he saw em die.

shakey do u understand that

When all is said and done, people are going to point to the skeletons and say, "That is proof that from the very beginning, they always knew that they were going to do this."

I am, in fact, pointing to the skeletons right now and I feel like telling everybody that they were proof that Darlton always knew they were going to do that.

That's so fun. "Isn't it clear that we intended, from the beginning, for one of the skeletons to belong to a character who was obliquely mentioned once and never introduced until the third-to-last episode of the entire series?"

Having had a day to mull it over, the thing that I think is the absolute worst is how they just carried on adding more and more unanswered stuff in season 6, saying there were rules then just confusing those rules particularly wrt Jacob, Man In Black - I still have no idea what their capabilities or limitations were and I think that's one of the worst things they left out/fudged. If you don't know the rules you can't anticipate what the characters could do or root for them to do the right thing - you're just as lost (ha) as they are and no actions have any significance - the audience just continues to be passive waiting to be told what does and doesn't matter.

I could forgive, to a point, a lot of the other storylines being left open-ended but considering Jacob v MIB was the over-arching, defining, under-pinning of EVERYTHING they needed to put in a few definite bold strokes - and this could have been done so easily. Just set a few ground rules, so everyone knows where things stand - probably at the start of season 6 - and all the other bullshit can happen around it. If they'd had a definite mythology there they could point to THAT and say they always knew what they were doing. Biggest wasted opportunity of the whole series, and that's saying something.

Why didn't Mr. Eko come back?

It's one of the most asked questions about Lost's final season. After all, everyone else returned! So what gives?

Sources tell me exclusively:

Lost's Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje--who played the iconic Mr. Eko--was offered a guest spot in last night's Lost series finale, but he...wait for it...turned it down.

According to ABC and Lost insiders, Adewale was offered a hearty sum to do one scene in the last hurrah, but the actor wanted five times the amount that was offered. It didn't work out.

his stick didn't have a yin yang on it

Because you were wondering:

You know those Oceanic 815 plane crash images that ran after Jack's (Matthew Fox) eye closed and the "Lost" logo appeared on our TV screens? Some "Lost" fans and TV critics have wondered if they were a last Easter egg from the producers, a clue meant to lead us to conclude that no one survived Oceanic 815's crash landing — and therefore everything we've seen over the last six years never really happened.

Well, ABC wants to clear the air: Those photographs were not part of the "Lost" story at all. The network added them to soften the transition from the moving ending of the series to the 11 p.m. news and never considered that it would confuse viewers about the actual ending of the show.

"The images shown during the end credits of the 'Lost' finale, which included shots of Oceanic 815 on a deserted beach, were not part of the final story but were a visual aid to allow the viewer to decompress before heading into the news," an ABC spokesperson wrote in an e-mail Tuesday.

That means, Losties, that we were not supposed to think that Christian Shepherd (John Terry) is a liar. What Christian told his son, when they were reunited at the church, should serve as guidance for our interpretation of the series' ending.

So let's review: Christian told Jack that he was dead and everyone else in the church was too — some had died before Jack, as we already knew, and some died long after. The sideways flashes then were a step in everyone's after-lives, a way to reconnect before moving on permanently. While there still may be unanswered questions related to that religious and spiritual conclusion to the "Lost" story, the photographs were really just a nostalgic, transitional touch added by ABC executives — and not executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.

Love or hate it, that's the final answer.

I never thought I'd like meddling execs version better.

I wonder what happens to people who are murdered in the purgatory world (Keamy).

:( Triple A

I wonder what happens to people who are murdered in the purgatory world (Keamy).

double secret purgatory

I read some dude's recap of the finale and there was a bit mentioned which seemed interesting and presumably deliberate-- when we came into view of the rpg save point, it was blatantly much less bright than when we first saw it in the Jacob/MiB origin story.

^^^ oh I didn't mean ILX user 'some dude', just y'know, some dude.

still wanna know why jacob let dharma people drill into the earth where majik energy was. that wasn't a threat to the island?

i know, i know, nothing matters now. but still...

Apologies if this was already linked/torn apart upthread, but this is supposedly a response to fans from one of the Bad Robot/Lost staff about the show and its ending: http://is.gd/cp6YT

I wasn't mad about it like most of the people in this thread, so whatever. I thought the part about the final scenes of the show being written in 2004 was interesting, though, and explains why it kind of seemed incongruous when considering how the show evolved over time.

xp he "sent" daniel back to stop them.
who knows.

I wasn't mad about it like most of the people in this thread, so whatever. I thought the part about the final scenes of the show being written in 2004 was interesting, though, and explains why it kind of seemed incongruous when considering how the show evolved over time.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, May 25, 2010 6:48 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

i bet u anything that the "final scene" they knew would happen was just the jack-closing-his-eye shot.

yes

Shouldn't a professional writer be able to spell words.

Naw, I actually kind of buy that J.J. set up the premise that they would all crash on the island and would eventually meet in the afterlife because of what they ended up meaning to each other over the course of the show. That seems reasonable. But then he left it up to "Darlton" to get from A to B as bizarrely as possible.

You imagine he'd also know that Juliet wasn't in the show, around, say, 2004. But whatever.

http://darkufo.blogspot.com/2010/05/lost-writers-talk-about-series-finale.html

at 2.09, FFS! They say the cut on Jack's neck in s6 premiere was a really important clue to what happens in the finale. What, Jack gets an injury of some sort? We already know it's an "alt" timeline. "Fortunately no-one figured it out!!!!"

In the writers' room:

http://avionod.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/then-a-miracle-happens.gif?w=300&h=364

But, yes, I'm willing to concede that perhaps the gist of the last 10 minutes was already in the can, back in the day.

Libby isn't in season 1 either.

Neither are Desmond and Penny.

I'm not saying the specifics and participants were plotted to the last detail, but the "afterlife meetup" was probably J.J.'s idea from the beginning.

I know *you're* not saying that, but the Bad Robot guy is.

omg did Johnny Fever write for the show.

Shame on you.

I WISH. MiB would've been redeemed rather than pushed off a cliff to a lame death.

I think I just realized that Desmond's real purpose in s6 was to get the viewer to let go and realize that nothing mattered. "It's just a show, brotha. Don't bother looking for sense and resolution where there's none to be found. Let go."

And then the last episode was him hitting us with his car.

lol

HA!!!

it really is mind-boggling how positive the user ratings are for the episode on the avclub, darkufo, etc.

Yeah, but if you think about the fact that there were Lost message boards that earnestly discussed who Kate would choose, rather than making bird-flinging jokez, you might understand the superfan reactions.

at this point i am genuinely wondering about the horse

was it smokey?

do you think Island Magic allows hurley to talk to animals, if so he could go find that bird and personally ask it why it said his name.