Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

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.

not watching their next show...

I'll watch it if they work with Michael Emerson again.

it's kinda funny how the whole thing was placed in the hands of these 2 guys who, given their resumes, which were full of unremarkable shit like Nash Bridges (OK Cuse created Brisco County, which is kinda badass), people really had no reason to expect great things from. and they did better than anyone could've predicted for a while, but it probably was bound to come crashing down eventually.

but then i've never totally understood the whole WOAH IT'S JJ ABRAMS thing and am not sure it would've gone so much better with him at the wheel the whole time either.

a lot of people who create interesting stuff often labour on un-interesting stuff for a while first. that's the nature of the tv biz.

i don't think one of those dudes working on nash bridges meant lost was doomed

Mitchell Hurwitz: "Empty Nest" --> "Golden Girls" --> "The John Larroquette Show" --> "The Ellen Degeneres Show" --> "Arrested Development"!

yeah i know journeymen types often have unlikely arcs -- but i'm saying only 1 of those 2 guys was even a minor player in the actual creation of the series, and it's hard to say how much they contributed to its early greatness, so maybe these guys with somewhat hacky background being put in charge and eventually giving the show a hacky ending was maybe an avoidable mistake.

we'll never know.

Echoing shit up thread, yeah, man when Jacob and MiB was first revealed, so goddamn mad and confused. Who are these aging surfer goombas and why are you making me care about them JJ Abrams! The incredibly sharp disparity in the quality of casting on this show makes me wonder what was going on with that process.

Actually considering I think it was mostly bad, guys like Michael Emerson or dude who played Sayid must have just been darts in a dark room.

i'd say the casting was far more often good than it was bad

Yeah I totally just came to backpedal on that one after looking over a cast list. This last season made me really bitter!

But srsly can't believe they cast Tom Verlaine to play one of the series biggest and most mysterious characters
http://www.gazillionmovies.com/Actor/M/Ma/Pictures/mark-pellegrino.jpg

it's kinda funny how the whole thing was placed in the hands of these 2 guys who, given their resumes, which were full of unremarkable shit like Nash Bridges (OK Cuse created Brisco County, which is kinda badass), people really had no reason to expect great things from. and they did better than anyone could've predicted for a while, but it probably was bound to come crashing down eventually.

Ha, read this thinking you were referring to Jacob and MIB for a minute

haha