Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

But there was a dog

fuck this show

i wonder how many people own just the first 5 seasons on DVD and will never complete the collection like my fam

---> this guy

fuck this show

― tpp, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:38 (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

Still feel thankful that I never even started with this show.

When it was good, it was SO good. Plus the mystery aspect made my friends & I come together for weekly Lost Parties to eat yummy food, watch the show, discuss. We're still looking for another show all of us can get on board with.

Two and a Half Men, in which you can discuss the mystery of its very existence.

:*(

this morning im working myself up in a lather about the finale for no reason

I prolly do this about once a month on average. The experience isn't terribly dissimilar to a long-term relationship that's going really well for a long time and then quickly turfs out for no immediately discernible reason. There's a lot of residual bitterness and tarnished memories and burning stuff in your backyard.

entertaining pseudo-science old-timey dharma videos > mysterious shit from early season that may or may not have a pseudo-science explanation (but later was hand-waved away as mystical) > human character drama > everything else about the show

In retrospect, I should've started getting super wary when the showrunners were talking up how character driven the show was when, really, the characters were by far the least compelling facet of the show.

No kidding! The beginning was kind of stock characters thrown on to an island who happen across some interesting characters (Desmond, Ben, etc.) and how they reacted to them. Once it became completely about how the stock characters were learning and evolving it got boring.

http://i.imgur.com/y3jZe.jpg

anyone who watched enough of this to care about the finale deserves what they got, tbh

yeah i mean my hopes had been deflated so steadily over the course of the whole season that i don't know if i had any expectations left to disappoint by the time the finale came around, just a kind of bemused disbelief at exactly how steep the falloff was

it was more disappointing than anyone could have imagined. it was so unbelievably lazy and stupid. i still hate "darlton" and their smug fucking faces laughing off how anyone expected them to even bother to make it good.

The show intrigued me most in Season 2 when it was about the suspicious and nefarious Others. The strange interest in Walt and the fertility experiments. The black-light map in the hatch. A cult engaged in covert activities. But over time it became apparent that this was as vaguely sketched in the writers' room as it is in this post.

so are we talking about the actual finale or the episode beforehand with her from the west wing, because that one was so ridiculously bad i can't imagine that the actual finale somehow bothered people that much more

yeah the penultimate episode definitely dug the ditch so deep that the finale couldn't go lower (though it tried).

it succeeded! the "heaven" reveal. ffs. all that "it's a place where you meet those you love" nonsense.

The BSG finale was the kind of bad that still allows me to look back on earlier seasons with fondness and occasional love. The Lost finale/final season actually retroactively ruined the entire run of the show, just fkin scorched it flat.

Still like the music tho.

lg i thought the unbelievable bathos of the whole 'well, at the time when we said they weren't in purgatory, we were telling the truth then' bit was really entertaining

has anyone broken silence on what went on inside the writer's room yet

finale was pretty dumb but it wasn't mind-numbing torture like the alison janney flashback imo

like if i was doing a listicle of the worst hours of series television ever, that would be in the top 5

I can't believe I'm gonna do this . . .

But they weren't in purgatory! Not on the island! The only parts that were in purgatory were the "flash-sideways" in the final season. All the island stuff was real, Jack died there, all those other people got off and lived out their lives, Rose and Bernard stayed behind, etc.

It's on

I've moved on to the Acceptance phase of grief, so I keep an "It's about the journey, not the destination" attitude.

Sayid was finally able to go to heaven with his true love Shannon, via the white light in the omnifaith church.

finale was pretty dumb but it wasn't mind-numbing torture like the alison janney flashback imo

To me nothing was worse than the episode w/Bai Ling.

I keep an "It's about the journey, not the destination" attitude.

I'm down with this, except it's like you had massive diarrhea throughout the entire last day of your otherwise amazing six-day trip. And then you arrive to find that your destination has been razed to the ground. And the architects are peeing on the rubble.

the diarrhea initiative

Still, those 5 days...

I convince myself I would have had diarrhea anyway.

To me nothing was worse than the episode w/Bai Ling.

re: "It's about the journey, not the destination"
it's more "it's about process"
and if your writing process consists entirely of vamping, the lost finale will be the result
deadwood would have ended the same way if it had a few more seasons.

2 years since the lost finale, still mad.

remember when sun left her young daughter behind in order to find jin, and then she found jin and said "we have a young daughter," and then sun was about die and she said "leave me behind" and jin was like "no it's cool i'll die with you" and neither of them mentioned the fact that they had a young daughter?

i know technically that's not the finale but it's the same first-draft nonsensical bullshit that became lost's hallmark in s6

haha oh god yeah

Wow. I was aggrieved by so many other holes and dangling threads that I don't know if I ever even thought about that one before.

wasn't it a purga-daughter?

nope, real daughter.

the flash-forwards, flashbacks, and everything on the island were "real", only the alternate universe "what if the plane never crashed?" in LA shit was purgatory.

that said, everyone OTM.

i drive past the church where the last scene was shot almost daily and it pains me just to look at it.

in purgatory the island is underwater for no reason whatsoever but there is still a dharma shark roaming around.

jj abrams...remember how you spent half of the last season in a useless temple full of useless characters that contributed nothing to the plot or emotional resonance? die in all the fires that ever were.

― a dry, airless meringue (reddening), Wednesday, August 3, 2011 4:37 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i had totally forgotten this part of the show. man the writers were really just fucking around. "what if we make a guy look like john lennon hur hur high fives"

that was just deadwood and lost converging, though.

i drive past the church where the last scene was shot almost daily and it pains me just to look at it.

I think this would annoy me to the extent that I would find an alternate route.

I understand that there might be business reasons for not doing so at this juncture, but I would really love for some of the writers to come forth after the DVD sales have bottomed out and explain/apologize for what went down with this show. Actually, that might make for a really interesting book.