Well, it did have a small purpose of showing a little bit about the natives (the group Dharma was fighting against or where they lived at one point at least. But yeah, still wonder why the hell Sayid came back to life in that pool...That's probably going to be answered in some deleted scene or commentary because it was in this season so it's not like they forgot about it.Ya, nothing really came of the temple except Smokey killing 90% of the population, and getting the other 10% killed along the way.
I already got seasons 1-5 on blu ray last year for $108 from amazon. I thought about waiting for the complete set, but I figured they wouldn't put anything significant in a series set and the extra display or whatever isn't worth the additional money.AWesome..19k views and 34 pages of posts. Let's keep talking about this show until the end of time! Looking forward to seeing what else they'll stuff in the 6 season set released in August [I won't order the set - I'll wait for the videos/info to be posted]
Christian mentioned to Jack that some died before you and others after. Hugo and Ben could have lived a thousand years on the island after Kate/Sawyer/Miles got off. They were in a limbo world (not really purgatory since they didn't have to prove anything here) until they all were united once more before moving on.
Okay. I thought the plane didn't able to get off the island and crashed after a few miles. So the people in the plane got to live some more years and then they fast forward it when everyone is dead already.
I hope they do another 1 hour special for some of the unanswered questions.
Rewatched it tonight on ABC.com, cried again at various points, watched it this time more for the little easter eggs in the background of which there were many many...plus I just paid more attention period...still a really good finale and for the moment I'm still in denial, I will be definitely looking forward to the DVD and hope for more answers in the commentary/deleted scenes though.
Presumably Hurley and Ben lived for a long time, hundreds of years even.
and there is no concept of time in the flash sideways world. there really is no fast forwarding. by each character's reckoning they just got there; even if they lived many, many years longer in real life than other people they meet in the flash sideways.
Sounds like the Nexus. Time has no meaning there. Was hard enough to make sense of in Generations.
Probably a repost, but How Lost should have ended
The show should have ended revealing that the entire island was a spaceship that crash landed millions of years prior, and that wells were tapping into an exhaust port from a hyperdimensional engine that was going haywire.
HORRIBLE finale
Why was it horrible? You got off the island and reconnected with Juliette!
Well, think about it. In real life, what does anything that we do matter? We are all going to die in the end. Even if your actions while alive had an impact, the heat death of the universe will make sure any of that means nothing in the end either.
But LOST was a world where those things did matter. That light that Jack saved was presumably the same light that Christian walked into in the end. In the lost fantasy, Jack appears not only to have saved the world, but the afterlife and in a sense, all of existence. In that fantasy, his actions DID matter.
He did this without truely understanding why, something we all have to do in the throught our lives. My favorite scene in the entire series was near the very end, and it's significance was only truely apparent after you knew they were in the afterlife. The scene where Kate approaches a confused Jack at the end of the concert with a smile and a twinkle in her eye. Jack is standing there and just loses it and proclaims "what is happening to me???", but Kate already knew what he didn't. That he saved us all, that it DID matter. It was a look of gratitude, of love, of the way a sort of condescending way a parent looks at a child that doesn't understand what she does but will eventually. With the suspension of disbelief required to enjoy any work of fantasy, it was an absolutely moving and beautiful moment.
It was moments like that which made the series so magnificent. If all of the questions were answered, if the "light" was just an alien artifact, that would have been an empty moment. If you were just focusing on the "quality" of the writing, you might have completely missed the emotional impact.
I've changed my mind about LOST's ending. I believe The End is actually a brilliant meta comment about the willingness of the religious to accept nonsensical spiritual contrivances and ignore unanswered questions; and about the irony that "beauty" or "meaning" is often used as a justification for delusion. On the surface, LOST seems like it's just trolling the rational members of the audience, but it's really a satire, and the last season or two have been done with a wink and a nod for the fans paying close enough attention.
What do you guys think?
Sounds like the Nexus. Time has no meaning there. Was hard enough to make sense of in Generations.
I've changed my mind about LOST's ending. I believe The End is actually a brilliant meta comment about the willingness of the religious to accept nonsensical spiritual contrivances and ignore unanswered questions; and about the irony that "beauty" or "meaning" is often used as a justification for delusion. On the surface, LOST seems like it's just trolling the rational members of the audience, but it's really a satire, and the last season or two have been done with a wink and a nod for the fans paying close enough attention.
What do you guys think?
I'd respond that Battlestar Galactica ended with what many consider a quasi-religious cop out, but that episode was almost universally panned, unlike the lost finale, because while it did in fact provide answers to almost every mysterious question, the resolutions were hasty, unemotional and empty. I'm not a spiritual person but the Lost finale was fairly transcendent, and the BSG finale left me cold and dissatisfied.