Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

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.

I'm kind of annoyed that this Bad Robot dude is saying that MIB was behind the Dharma purge. I liked it much better when I thought that Jacob was going Mother on these drilling hippies.

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

Not that I'm apologizing for the choice, but it's meant to mirror/reference/whatever Locke getting pushed out of the window by his dad, eh?

I still wonder about the magic box.

That was one of my favorite bits that went nowhere

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

Yeah? I was thinking that I was pleased that so many people seemed to be unsatisfied with, or at least had serious reservations about the finale (NYT, Slate, Sepinwall, etc.)

The Slate TV club, e.g., featured three commentators, two of whom came into Season 6 feeling sort of skeptical about the direction the show was taking and the third who was a pretty big apologist. After the finale, however, the apologist was just like, "Yeah, that pretty much sucked."

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.

ya know I noticed this as well, even said something at the time.

yeah jaymc, the overall negative chatter about the episode is exactly why i'm amazed that avclub readers give it a B+ on average and the darkufo ratings break down as:

Awesome 63.4% (29,951 votes)
Great 12.6% (5,959 votes)
OK 10.2% (4,828 votes)
Poor 5.5% (2,586 votes)
Awful 8.2% (3,889 votes)

the comments on the post i wrote were like 2:1 positive about the dumb thing. but i got an email that said 'GURL YES'

Maybe people are still in denial. Or haven't stopped to really think about it yet. I think the episode offers a lot of immediate pleasures, and so for some people they may have to step back a bit to realize how shitty certain parts of it were. Me, I'm not really incensed at the finale itself, but I think the finale is absolutely endemic of the squandered potential of this season (and maybe the last couple).

It's too bad Juliet became popular enough that Elizabeth Mitchell spun off into V. Keeping her around for S6 would've facilitated an ending in which the whole show was just something Sawyer was thinking about while the two of them were having sex.

BTW I guess Jack being married to and producing a child with Juliet wasn't quite enough of a memory jogger to get him to heaven.

Yeah, the real loser in all this is David Shepard, who seemed like a really nice kid, but unfortunately WAS NEVER EVEN REAL.

Uncanny how much that kid looked like him

^ yeah I was thinking that.
The golden light stuff incensed me at the time but I've made my peace with it a bit now, I just lump it with lol-finale stuff. Yeah they didn't need to put it all the way through s6 but tbf s6 was shitty anyway. It's s6 as a whole that's really annoyed me, mainly for the blatant lack of consistency in the one storyline that was meant to be the whole origin of the whole damn island.

Would try out Fringe but stupid Hulu only has season 2.

lol at this. JJ Abrams' show turned out to be a piece of shit, I'm gonna go watch his other show now instead...

I stopped halfway through S1 of Fringe, but apparently it got completely retooled in the interim and is now essentially a different show. I'm curious, but still not compelled to revisit.