Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

According to Richard Alpert, a gif is bestowed on everyone who is touched by Jacob.

The whole thing was bobbins.

http://www.collider.com/2010/05/26/lost-epilogue-12-14-minutes-michael-emerson-jorge-reyes/

annoying

I'm glad I avoided this thread for S6, since I actually enjoyed both the season and finale. The Christian zombie scene was pretty lame for obvious reasons, but the rest of the finale made me bawl and shriek in all the right spaces so job well done.

ok that collider thing you linked to is fucking infuriating, esp when i reread it and realized you only get it if you buy the complete series on DVD. what a blatant dick move (on the plus side, i am sure that it will be unsatisfying and will suck).

eh it'll be on youtube etc. as soon as it hits DVD, who cares? it'd be a rip off if they expected people to shell out money for the big DVD box and there WASN'T some pretty nice bonuses. anyway it sounds like they shot a chapter/scene for the finale that they just weren't able to fit without making the episode a full 3 hours, might as well clip out something relatively standalone that'll be of interest to people and make it a way to sell DVDs.

my issue is more that cuse and lindhof (err i think) said that after the last ep they'd be dunzo

but actually there is more 'mythology' to pay out coz they were too busy showing us how in purgatory ben actually learned to be a mensch, only not that much coz he still has some issues blah blah blah

I only watched the first season of Felicity, but a read a description of its final season that involved time travel and magic. It makes me fearful of Fringe's future seasons

This is when Felicity went off the rails. The whole Nole/Ben thing was the big deal but they added the death of the pink power ranger, or did the wiccan girl die? Anyway Felicity had this "what if I didn't do this one thing" time travel sequence for an entire season which was incredibly frustrating and then the show ended. The last episode iirc was: hey we're in college (med school) and I think my boyfriend is cheating on me, as usual! Lame.

Lost finale was jerkin the emotional chains but wasn't really substantial enough. The best series finale ever was 6 feet under. I cried so hard when I watched that.

me too.

that collider link calls him jorge reyes in the url, like reality and alternate reality are MERGING

my issue is more that cuse and lindhof (err i think) said that after the last ep they'd be dunzo

but actually there is more 'mythology' to pay out coz they were too busy showing us how in purgatory ben actually learned to be a mensch, only not that much coz he still has some issues blah blah blah

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well, like i said, i'm betting it's 90% likely those 12 minutes were written/filmed as part of the episode, which obviously ran really long as it is, and just got cut out because it wasn't essential to the story, but is still theoretically interesting enough to show to fans somehow.

btw I get the feeling that, esp in the last season, an actual episode of Lost became not that much more to 'fans' (ie us) than "let's see what the writers have given us" rather than a real world (ie we were asking what Darlton would do, rather than would Jack etc would do) so the finale kind of lost its impact compared to if it had been a different show. I don't think I'm articulating this very well, but I'm not sure if it was the nature of that kind of TV show or whether the writers popping up everywhere and promising what they were going to 'give us' was the major factor. Or maybe it just becomes like that when you dissect a show to the extent this thread has...

The best series finale ever was 6 feet under. I cried so hard when I watched that.

I had to give up HBO sometime early on in the 4th season, so I've never gotten to the end of 6FU. I've been meaning to for years, but I may have to actually do it now because I want to see something with a good finale.

yeah, 6FU had an emotional "about the characters" finale that totes worked.

an actual episode of Lost became not that much more to 'fans' (ie us) than "let's see what the writers have given us"

yeah i'll cop to this. it wasn't helped by the fact that characters became increasingly cardboard and rote as time went on: see sun and jin wandering blandly around for fourteen episodes before jumping up like twenty emotional pitches to "tragic death." but yeah i was predisposed not to want to just kick back and take an emotional ride when they were wasting valuable plot time on dogen/lennon/temple shit.

a lot of the finale elements really smack of "oh well we ran out of time to come up with anything better." for all this talk of "for the characters," i have a really incomplete sense of what the people on the escaping plane felt. making claire the next crazy island lady never really turned into anything. i guess miles has nikki and paolo's diamonds so that's nice for him.

damn i forgot about that -- i hope miles lived out his days being awesome and rich and never had to go hug those dorks in a church

but yeah the man behind the curtain really swallowed the show-as-show toward the end unfortunately. up to a certain point those guys doing podcasts and answering questions was refreshing but eventually it sucked away a lot of your ability to engage in the narrative as an actual story and not the machinations of some high profile behind the scenes dudes.

lived out his days being awesome and rich and never had to go hug those dorks in a church

put this on my tombstone, plz

i had the same attitude about the Six Feet Under finale that a lot of people are copping about Lost right now -- never got really into it, tuned back in for the last couple episodes and was like 'lol this shit blows, i feel bad for people that care about these characters' but maybe context is everything

I thought it was great

and I wasn't even that into the last couple seasons of 6 Feet

never got really into it, tuned back in for the last couple episodes and was like 'lol this shit blows, i feel bad for people that care about these characters

Yeah this was exactly how I felt about 6FU too.

Best finale is The Shield, for sure.

So according to Jorge Garcia, in that final Jack/Locke fight O'Quinn forgot to swap the real knife for the fake one and stabbed Fox with it. He had a kevlar pad on, but had only grudgingly been talked into wearing it.

"forgot"

man that wd have been so fucking metal, if fox actually got stabbed

THAT would have made for a rad finale

Kimmel's show set moved to the emergency ward...

Is that why Fox chose to sort of sit-lean instead of sit on a chair like everyone else? Probably bruised at least, no?

Biggest "Lost" mystery: why they decided to end it when they did, when clearly they could have piled on at least another season of bullshit while they worked on a better ending. I mean, why the rush, dudes?

they were probably losing audience like crazy. don't know any numbers, but abc might not have wanted another season? or am i totally wrong.

I thought they made a deal with the network during the third season to set an end date?

Yeah, the definitive end date had been determined long ago. The problem lies with Damon and Carlton for not wrapping it up all tidy, despite having three years to sort it out.

Would you guys feel more or less cheated if they ended on a cliffhanger never to be resolved?

I guess in this case there's an actual cliff!

If they would have ended it with MIB escaping and beginning to wreak havoc on the rest of the world I would have been fine with that.
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Yes. Unequivocally. An ambiguously cliffhangery ending would've been vastly preferable to me.

enh ... I'd rather it at least partly wrap up, I just thought the way it wrapped was lame

would've been stoked for wtf cliffhanger

I seriously held out hope until the end that they would deliver one more massive WTF. Oh well.

I should've specified that I would've appreciated an ambiguous ending to the ending we got, not necessarily to the theoretical well-resolved ending that we didn't get.

Like I said somewhere above, I almost prefer to think of the season 5 end as the end of the series at this point, knowing how little else was resolved to my own personal satisfaction over the course of s6.

If MIB escaped, I'd have ended it with him on another beach lounging, sipping girly drinks. Ben is in the chair next to him going "couldn't you have done this at the old island?"
and MIB just shrugs.

W H A T T H E Y D I E D F O R

I would have totally loved if it ended with MIB escaping and it having basically no effect on the outside world

I almost prefer to think of the season 5 end as the end of the series

Well, it's the only episode ever of the show where the title card at the end was on a white background instead of black. Juliet detonating a hydrogen bomb with a rock after she'd fallen about 75 feet into a hole and the very last spoken line of the show being "Come on, you son of a bitch" (as an ode to James/Sawyer, her true love) is a much better finale, even if it leaves every question ever completely unresolved.

I think if you followed up that with selected IRL island scenes from S6 plus the Richard and Smokey episodes and the IRL half of the finale, you'd have a dece thing.

would really prefer to not have the smokey ep

i don't know if anything would have worked. first mistake was casting two blase beach bums to be your EPIC GREEK TRAGEDY CLASH OF THE TITANS GOOD AND EVIL FATE OF MANKIND protagonists. two dudes hangin' on the beach waiting for the perfect wave. zzzzzzzzzzz....

i mean you literally had to have another actor play one of them to make things interesting.

I hate jacob

i hate that fucking light

Ending in a nuke would have been very "Sledgehammer!" of them.

I have no doubt ABC would have Ok'd another season at least. It's not like "Lost" was pushed under the bus. The dudes just wanted to call it a day, I think, and no doubt are convinced they did it in the coolest and most satisfying way possible.