Thread: LOST: The Final Season

Sooo close! Anyone else pumped? Been watching the previous season 5 episodes on DVD like I have?

I used to be cynical about this final season until I heard some semi-spoilery hints about what it contains. Now I'm going to sit back and enjoy it enthusiastically.

This is the thing I'm most looking forward to in life, in the near future. Maybe that is sad, but yes, I'm stoked.

LOL, I know what you mean. Sometimes I think, "With all that's going on in the world right now and all that may happen in the future, at least I get to see the ending of Lost." And then I feel great.

I didn't start getting stoked about it til like last week, and I had a lost dream where I was Jack and breaking open Dharma crates full of chocolate bars. lol

I'm not saying there aren't some good things happening in my life in the near term (well, nothing terribly exciting before Tuesday), but still: this is #1

Yeah, I just finished watching the latest season recently. I'l really excited for season 6

Final episode on Monday morning at 5am here, totally getting up to watch it! Anybody got any massive theories about how they could tie it all up?

10 bucks say that the island is an alien spacecraft.

Haha that's not actually a bad theory! Could explain how it moves around, and the "light" is... I dunno, its power source!

Wow.. I don't know if they could've possibly made a more emotional and profound end. The ending of that show just changed my life..

I like how they managed to not answer most of the important questions. It was a nice touch.

I don't know they really only answered that which was relevant, the rest I think they leave up to your imagination which I'm down with.

Sketch dude you have 666 posts..

I'm feeling solid closure.

I liked that ending. They didn't quite explain the ins and outs of the island but it wasn't really important in the end.

I don't know, I'm trying to let it settle in, but now I feel really shafted as a Locke fan and as an atheist (since they went for broke and made a religious ending in no uncertain terms). But especially as a Locke fan. Okay, he's alright in the end, he's happy and he gets to be with his girl Helen, but for six years of leading me on to think that Locke in particular was "special" and meant for a very specific and epic destiny..... well, I guess it was no more or less noble than Jack's. They both died to save the island and basically the whole world.

Originally Posted by DeeryTheDeer

I don't know, I'm trying to let it settle in, but now I feel really shafted as a Locke fan and as an atheist (since they went for broke and made a religious ending in no uncertain terms). But especially as a Locke fan. Okay, he's alright in the end, he's happy and he gets to be with his girl Helen, but for six years of leading me on to think that Locke in particular was "special" and meant for a very specific and epic destiny..... well, I guess it was no more or less noble than Jack's. They both died to save the island and basically the whole world.

I loved the ending. I wouldn't call it religious so much as agnostic--agnostic toward all the events in every timeline and universe, including, by extension, our own. I doubt any television series has ever brought its themes and character arcs to such a masterful conclusion. From the beginning, the show was not a work of sci-fi or fantasy, but magical realism, which was made utterly apparent in the finale, when the fantastical events and setting moved to the background and we saw that the focus had always been the characters, how they represent all of us, and our ever-present capacity to "let go" of struggles largely of our own making, and come together in love. No one died to save the island, but to save each other, and themselves.

Originally Posted by Taosaur

and we saw that the focus had always been the characters, how they represent all of us, and our ever-present capacity to "let go" of struggles largely of our own making, and come together in love. No one died to save the island, but to save each other, and themselves.

I agree with that. I liked the part where Jack's dad explained that they all needed each other... I just wish it wasn't him saying that... Jack would have been more suited. How would Jack's dad even know that stuff? He was in a coffin before any of them knew each other...

Originally Posted by Jamal

I agree with that. I liked the part where Jack's dad explained that they all needed each other... I just wish it wasn't him saying that... Jack would have been more suited. How would Jack's dad even know that stuff? He was in a coffin before any of them knew each other...

Or was he?

Originally Posted by Taosaur

I doubt any television series has ever brought its themes and character arcs to such a masterful conclusion.

*cough* BSG *cough*

Anyways, here's hoping they do have a spin-off where some of the bigger questions get answered. The "leave it your imagination" bull just isn't good enough for me.

Originally Posted by Taosaur

I loved the ending. I wouldn't call it religious so much as agnostic--agnostic toward all the events in every timeline and universe, including, by extension, our own. I doubt any television series has ever brought its themes and character arcs to such a masterful conclusion. From the beginning, the show was not a work of sci-fi or fantasy, but magical realism, which was made utterly apparent in the finale, when the fantastical events and setting moved to the background and we saw that the focus had always been the characters, how they represent all of us, and our ever-present capacity to "let go" of struggles largely of our own making, and come together in love. No one died to save the island, but to save each other, and themselves.

I agree 100%. I couldn't contain myself in the final scene... If only the rest of the world watched Lost. I can only hope I find in my life what those characters found.

After the finale, I just didn't care for the unanswered questions about the island, and etc, because that's not what the show was about.

what

The ending was terrible. It failed to explain anything that the fans deserved to know. It is clear that the writers are either amateurs, assholes, or idiots. I spent 6 years invested in this show because I wanted to learn what the island really was. Who the hell is jacobs "mom"? How did she get to the island? how does she have the power to give immortality by saying a few strange words and offering a glass of swamp water? what was walt's significance? How is jack's dad alive... the justification was that Jack died too so they both defied what is possible.. But jack's dad died in both realities and was resurrected by what??? I'll tell you what the last season was... It was a cop out... It was an easy way out. To be a good story teller one must take all information into considering when wrapping it up. Lost pumped out so many questions with no answers... I'm very disappointed. Am I the only one?

Originally Posted by Jamal

The ending was terrible. It failed to explain anything that the fans deserved to know. It is clear that the writers are either amateurs, assholes, or idiots. I spent 6 years invested in this show because I wanted to learn what the island really was. Who the hell is jacobs "mom"? How did she get to the island? how does she have the power to give immortality by saying a few strange words and offering a glass of swamp water? what was walt's significance? How is jack's dad alive... the justification was that Jack died too so they both defied what is possible.. But jack's dad died in both realities and was resurrected by what??? I'll tell you what the last season was... It was a cop out... It was an easy way out. To be a good story teller one must take all information into considering when wrapping it up. Lost pumped out so many questions with no answers... I'm very disappointed. Am I the only one?

I think people are focusing too much on irrelevant aspects of the show. The rest of what they didn't explain I think they left for your imagination - which is, in my opinion, a great ending. You don't need to know the specifics behind why one is immortal or why the electromagnetism even exists, it just does. I think they answered all that needed to be answered.

Originally Posted by Jamal

The ending was terrible. It failed to explain anything that the fans deserved to know. It is clear that the writers are either amateurs, assholes, or idiots. I spent 6 years invested in this show because I wanted to learn what the island really was. Who the hell is jacobs "mom"? How did she get to the island? how does she have the power to give immortality by saying a few strange words and offering a glass of swamp water? what was walt's significance? How is jack's dad alive... the justification was that Jack died too so they both defied what is possible.. But jack's dad died in both realities and was resurrected by what??? I'll tell you what the last season was... It was a cop out... It was an easy way out. To be a good story teller one must take all information into considering when wrapping it up. Lost pumped out so many questions with no answers... I'm very disappointed. Am I the only one?

After 6 years of waiting, being lead on a wild goose chase to this episode where I thought there would be answers, for the writers to say "just kidding about those answers!, LOL!" you're not the only one who is dissapointed.

To those who were happy, surely then if it had just been hurlys immagination that would have been just as good. A glowing gold light (that turned red for a few seconds) just doesn't cut it. Why did they even make so much focus on electromagnetism if they didn't even bother explaining it, they lead us to believe it was all real, when it wasn't.

Funny how so many people seem to have interpreted the ending as them being on purgatory and moving on to heaven-ville to live happily ever after. The way I see it, the alternate timeline existed through the light, making the situation of the characters in the ending similar to (if not the same as) that of the "whispers". The final scene with the light seeping in from the church's door signified the characters getting dissolved into it after having let go of their unresolved issues. (ie letting go of themselves, dying)

And I don't get the deal with whining for explanations. Do we really need an explanation as to how miles knew the last thoughts of the dead? Or how the smoke monster could do the things that it did? No, we just need to know that they did those things; the answer would simply be some vague and purely made up explanation. ("oh, smokey is made up of XYZ-particles attached to a something-field which allows him to reconstruct himself and change form at will")