Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

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.

Only planned for 3 seasons, then 5 seasons, then it got chopped to shit imo

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

― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Wednesday, May 16, 2012 9:57 AM (5 minutes ago)

to further my frustration, my best friend was dating a camera man on the show during the final season and i have a memory burned in to my brain of her going to visit him on his 10:30 PM lunch break the night they shot that scene, basically making it possible for me to ever forget that that horrible episode was ever brought in to this world.

should it have ended like the cheers finale instead?

There was an alternate timeline where the 6th season was the most amazing thing ever; sadly we are not in it

i've been re-watching the entire series! just saw charlie drown in the looking glass. re-watching was my gf's idea because she's not a vile cesspool of spite. to my surprise i still find it entertaining, albeit in a different way now--how did those assholes do it?

I also get mad about s6 from time to time. love this revive, everybody otm. they could have tied up a lot of the plot elements with just a little effort, but we kept waiting all season for that to happen and then... nothing.

the second to last episode is actually the only one i never saw-- i was traveling that week and missed it, then didnt want to have to wait to see the finale after my friends (and i knew it was all going to shit by that point anyway) so i just said fuck it and watched the finale

was it actually that bad??

What do you think of Roman matrons?

i just now remembered the crumpled up water bottles

http://i50.tinypic.com/2uzbczp.jpg

remember how the writers petulantly refused to have anyone say the name of titus welliver's character in that episode, just because the internet had gone ahead and assumed it was esau? an hour of monotone references to "my brother"/"your brother."

also remember when alan dale hired a lady who looked like tina fey to go to the island and then she served no purpose and died

remember how Whitmore was like this huge villain for years and years and then in the end he was unceremoniously shot just to get the character to go away b/c they had no idea what they were doing, really

Can we start some sort of class action suit against Darlton? Like to get them to do our laundry and grocery shopping and whatnot until they've worked off all of the hours they stole from us?

^ there were 121 episodes of lost. pretty sure I'm not the only one who has seen all of the (pre-season 6) episodes multiple times.

Guess they better get those mowers mowin', then.

I think the statute of limitations is up for bad TV.