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Lost - "The End" 5/23 series finale (spoilers)

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#1 ·
What an awesome episode!!!!!!!

Ok, it actually doesn't start for 1 hour. :)

Here it comes!
 
#127 ·
A lot of the mystery island stuff meant way more to us then it did to the story. The island wasn't normal. Not liking the ending because it didn't answer little things is selling short the great characters and stories we had for 6 seasons. The characters mattered most. Who cares how many toes a statue had?
 
#131 ·
I think folks are using a little too much revisionist history if looking back they're saying it was all about the human characters and the island mythology was secondary.
Not revising anything. Don't need to, I loved the ride. You're looking for something that's not there. You won't be happy.
 
#133 ·
don't get all this love - i though it was a huge pile of suck, i actually came away laughing at how bad of an ending it was. i guess i'm alone. cheap way out across the board, horrible plotline/ending and just a big letdown in my view. i'll be interested to continue to read ya'll theories and love for how it all played out, for sure.
 
#134 ·
Anyone else thing the apollo bar in the machine was a parallel for the island endgame? That's what I thought jkeegan was talking about earlier, from the episode - "If you unplug it and plug it back in, the candy drops down. And, it's technicall legal."

Pull the power of the island and the rules change - MIB can die.

Love it!
 
#138 ·
Anyone else thing the apollo bar in the machine was a parallel for the island endgame? That's what I thought jkeegan was talking about earlier, from the episode - "If you unplug it and plug it back in, the candy drops down. And, it's technicall legal."

Pull the power of the island and the rules change - MIB can die.

Love it!
Of course it was the same!
 
#142 ·
Anyone else thing the apollo bar in the machine was a parallel for the island endgame? That's what I thought jkeegan was talking about earlier, from the episode - "If you unplug it and plug it back in, the candy drops down. And, it's technicall legal."

Pull the power of the island and the rules change - MIB can die.

Love it!
And this.

Some awesome writing in this episode! :up:
 
#145 ·
How did Jack get out the hole?
I thought it was the same as when the MIB got smoke-ified, except he was still alive. The scenes looked similar, except Jack wasn't dead yet and didn't have a smoke monster come out of him. I'm guessing he just got blasted out somehow. Or "island magic."
 
#146 ·
What a horrible, steaming pile of garbage. The series would have been far better ending at the episode prior to this one. Because even the most meager imaginations provide for a better ending than this. For all this episode did to bring any kind of relevance to six years of this, it may as well have ended like that infamous season of Dallas began... except that might have been more satisfying itself.
 
#148 ·
How did Jack get out the hole?
To which BeanMeScot replied:

How did Desmond wind up naked in the middle of the woods? How did Jack wind up in a stand of bamboo after 815 crashed?
Exactly.

It doesn't matter.

Some things are done for imagery on this show. Jack came full circle. His death essentially re-played the opening scene of the series in reverse. Like birth to death.

Excellent imagery there.
 
#149 ·
How is it possible for the nuke to have gone off if the Island was still there? Wouldn't a nuke have destroyed the island? Since they moved into the future and the island was still there, ergo, clearly, the nuke didn't go off.
The nuke went off. It interacted with the electromagnetism and caused the losties to jump back to their own time (with no energy leftover to irradiate the island).
 
#150 ·
As for the rest, the island was magical, had special properties, there is no possible logical explanation they could ever offer.
Exactly. From the instant we saw the smoke monster years ago (I think that was the first truly supernatural thing we saw), we had to know there were some things that could never be explained. It's like Superman. Where did he get his powers? From Krypton's sun (if I recall correctly). But why? What was special about the sun? How exactly did it give him his powers?

Once you hit into something supernatural, there is never going to be an explanation that explains everything. In most other shows/movies, we're generally content to say "ok, mysterious thing X made things the way they are...now lets move on with the story". I think in Lost, we all got so caught up in solving mystery's, I think some people just can't let go and stop wanting an endless series of explanations.

For myself, I think I had enough things explained that I was satisfied with the outcome. It was resolved so that there were a small enough number of unanswered questions for me to be comfortable with. Knowing some more of those answers, like the history of Jacobs mom and what exactly the magical light was and how it got there...to me that's about as important as knowing exactly why Krypton's sun gave superman his powers. I don't think knowing additional details there would add significantly to my appreciation, so I'm content to just say "that's just how things are, so lets move on"
 
#151 ·
I am am both happy and sad. I am really going to miss these people. I am sure a lot of people are going to be upset that the alterno timeline was a post death universe but I was happy to see everypne together there at the end. I loved seeing all of the couples finally being able to be together. After all of the hell they went through on the island they all deserved some happiness.
 
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