Film & TV Lost Season 6..
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I've believed this from the start. And I hope it's really good so the haters get corrected. I've been more into the behind-the-scenes politics in this show than any other show. At some point they started dragging things out and people had that experience, so they associate it with the show and now they just say "it's gone weird". Well yeah, because you haven't kept up with it. If you remember back in the first season, it was a pretty big deal back then to commercialize such a serialized drama. Miss one episode and you miss a very important plot point that changes how you view the show. Lost has always been like this. Each season has a new "narrative". In season one and two it was present/flashback. Then they introduced flash-forwards in season four, in season five time was an abstract concept altogether, and in this last season they introduced flash-sideways. They recovered from the dragging towards the end of season three, and by the start of season four, the Lost producers had negotiated a deal for how many seasons to keep lost running for. Which is sensational for any commercialized drama, and very unique. In my opinion, they have been back on track since season four, Everyone just stopped watching the show before then. The last season has been so rewarding for me who has remained a long time fan of the show. And I know that episode 15 will be huge. It's basically the back story for Jacob and the man in black (smoke-monster).
I've believed this from the start. And I hope it's really good so the haters get corrected. I've been more into the behind-the-scenes politics in this show than any other show. At some point they started dragging things out and people had that experience, so they associate it with the show and now they just say "it's gone weird". Well yeah, because you haven't kept up with it. If you remember back in the first season, it was a pretty big deal back then to commercialize such a serialized drama. Miss one episode and you miss a very important plot point that changes how you view the show. Lost has always been like this. Each season has a new "narrative". In season one and two it was present/flashback. Then they introduced flash-forwards in season four, in season five time was an abstract concept altogether, and in this last season they introduced flash-sideways. They recovered from the dragging towards the end of season three, and by the start of season four, the Lost producers had negotiated a deal for how many seasons to keep lost running for. Which is sensational for any commercialized drama, and very unique. In my opinion, they have been back on track since season four, Everyone just stopped watching the show before then. The last season has been so rewarding for me who has remained a long time fan of the show. And I know that episode 15 will be huge. It's basically the back story for Jacob and the man in black (smoke-monster).
Word. I re-watched the episode. At first glance the whole "light" thing seemed corny. Then I thought, okay, this is a woman telling her child about a power on the island a few hundred years ago. The Dharma initiative called it "unique electromagnetic properties", while Mother called it "the light". She showed this to her sons in an attempt to give them a reason to stay on the island and protect it. The more I think about it, the more sense it makes tbh. It looked a bit weird but it's a TV show afterall. I buy it.
Finale tonight. I don't know if I'm sad or happy. It's good that they are coming to an end, but damn do I wish we could rewind the clocks. Season 1 and 2 were so great imo.
Finale tonight. I don't know if I'm sad or happy. It's good that they are coming to an end, but damn do I wish we could rewind the clocks. Season 1 and 2 were so great imo.
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Well, Jack asked his dad whether they were all dead, and his dad explained it in a way that I think was intentional on the writer's part. He said that they everyone dies some time. Some before him, some after him. Jack asked why they were all here now, and his dad responded "there is no 'here', 'now'." In relation to the flash-sideways. Everything that happened on the island this season, and everything that happened in every previous season, all of it was real. The producers have explicitly stated time and again that the ending of Lost won't be that it was all a dream or that they were all dead the entire time. It all happened.
Now my criticism of the finale is this flash-sideways. I don't get what it is. It seems they all had lives there, and a bunch of others did too. In these lives, apparently they were somehow in denial. It was their afterlife. So they all had an epiphany and remembered their old life, got together, and moved on. I kind of like it, especially considering the role dead people have played in the show. But dead people have been reappearing and giving people hints and guidelines about what to do. Now what's raised questions to me over the years were how these ghosts seemed to work for different sides or something. Now with how the show has ended, I'm left to believe that rather, the ghosts were acting upon own "personal beliefs". So whatever the ghosts that have appeared before people instructed them to do, they were acting based on what they believed was right and wrong. They didn't necessarily have any "special inside info" or whatever lol.
I have some thoughts/ideas/theories about some things like this but I'll save it. Overall I like how they approached the story. We've been presented the story of the island in glimpses from different points in time, and now at the end they've managed to tie it altogether. The time loop that connected the first four seasons with how the main characters had run into the Others before they ever even landed on the island was very interesting to me at least. Brilliant.
for Chronic ;p
Well, Jack asked his dad whether they were all dead, and his dad explained it in a way that I think was intentional on the writer's part. He said that they everyone dies some time. Some before him, some after him. Jack asked why they were all here now, and his dad responded "there is no 'here', 'now'." In relation to the flash-sideways. Everything that happened on the island this season, and everything that happened in every previous season, all of it was real. The producers have explicitly stated time and again that the ending of Lost won't be that it was all a dream or that they were all dead the entire time. It all happened.
Now my criticism of the finale is this flash-sideways. I don't get what it is. It seems they all had lives there, and a bunch of others did too. In these lives, apparently they were somehow in denial. It was their afterlife. So they all had an epiphany and remembered their old life, got together, and moved on. I kind of like it, especially considering the role dead people have played in the show. But dead people have been reappearing and giving people hints and guidelines about what to do. Now what's raised questions to me over the years were how these ghosts seemed to work for different sides or something. Now with how the show has ended, I'm left to believe that rather, the ghosts were acting upon own "personal beliefs". So whatever the ghosts that have appeared before people instructed them to do, they were acting based on what they believed was right and wrong. They didn't necessarily have any "special inside info" or whatever lol.
I have some thoughts/ideas/theories about some things like this but I'll save it. Overall I like how they approached the story. We've been presented the story of the island in glimpses from different points in time, and now at the end they've managed to tie it altogether. The time loop that connected the first four seasons with how the main characters had run into the Others before they ever even landed on the island was very interesting to me at least. Brilliant.
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Where was Walt and his dad? Im happy Vincent made an appearance though.
Why was Aaron a baby? If he went on to live a full life as I believe it to be, why did he show up as a baby.
I noticed Kate said she had missed Jack a lot, it means she went on to live without him I think and is now fully aware of that life after the island too.
It was pretty amazing that even though I know through the sideways flash (or I guess really, they are flash(really)forwards) that everything works out and they are all reunited, I was sad to see Jack die.
We experienced the whole show through Jack, he was definitely the main character, and we experience this ending through him as well and it is revealed to us as it is revealed to him. Jack was always the driving force. I would have liked to have seen him make it off the Island.
Where was Walt and his dad? Im happy Vincent made an appearance though.
Why was Aaron a baby? If he went on to live a full life as I believe it to be, why did he show up as a baby.
I noticed Kate said she had missed Jack a lot, it means she went on to live without him I think and is now fully aware of that life after the island too.
It was pretty amazing that even though I know through the sideways flash (or I guess really, they are flash(really)forwards) that everything works out and they are all reunited, I was sad to see Jack die.
We experienced the whole show through Jack, he was definitely the main character, and we experience this ending through him as well and it is revealed to us as it is revealed to him. Jack was always the driving force. I would have liked to have seen him make it off the Island.
I liked the final episode, a tear jerker at many points, but I hated how it ended with them dead going to Heaven or to be with God or something. (Maybe they went to the Island and live there as ghosts helping the next cast of Lost II.) I knew Jack was the focus of it all from the first episode because that's who we first see. But just what did he give his life for? The Island? The light on there that keeps the world turning? I'm really disappointed that the show's producers didn't leave things open for a possible return (when they're not making anywhere near the money they made from this and they would like to again, just like Led Zeppelin and The Police reunion concerts). And where was Richard at the end? He was one of my favs.
Pretty much every bad thing that happened on the show could have been avoided if people just explained what they knew to each other.
Pretty much every bad thing that happened on the show could have been avoided if people just explained what they knew to each other.
Finally saw the ending and I'm disappointed. Everything was alright until the last 5 minutes. The entire show felt like it was moving towards one big answer that simply didn't come. Seasons 1 and 2 are still fantastic to me (save for the stretching) but it started going downhill in season 3. Looking back on the show now they just kept piling on questions and questions and shrouded everything in mystery but once you found out what it was it was just ... okay, now that's explained, yay. For example I liked that you got to see the Others in their day-to-day affairs but after being shrouded in mystery for so long it was an anti-climax to see how human they were right off the bat. At first when the Others would meet the survivors of flight 815 it was this big event, but once you got a look into their world (especially with characters like Pickett) it was really just 1 group of people with guns vs. another group of people with guns. Richard's character was very well done, even after you got to know him better and pretty much experiencing him as a very likeable person he still had this odd vibe.
It's still a good show but it really didn't live up to what it tried to be, in my opinion.
Definitely. Esepcially towards the ending when you saw him breaking down after he lost his faith in Jacob and his back-story added a very human touch.
Casting for Jacob and the Man in Black was excellent. Terry O'Quinn (who plays Locke) did an excellent job as the Man in Black.
Battlestar Galactica final season incoming! It'll be good. It'll be so good.
It's still a good show but it really didn't live up to what it tried to be, in my opinion.
Definitely. Esepcially towards the ending when you saw him breaking down after he lost his faith in Jacob and his back-story added a very human touch.
Casting for Jacob and the Man in Black was excellent. Terry O'Quinn (who plays Locke) did an excellent job as the Man in Black.
Battlestar Galactica final season incoming! It'll be good. It'll be so good.
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