Lost Finale

[Trip]

Anyone watch it? I thought it was dumb...

[derf]

I just can't believe that the final 5 minutes were so lame and crappy.

[Dave]

wait let me guess. they got rescued by a helicopter only to crash on a completely different uncharted island? lulz ensue?

[Trip]

no, worse

Jack became the new Jacob. Desmond pulled a stone cork out of the island. A light turned off. They killed the smoke monster with one bullet, but not before it stabbed Jack. The island started falling apart. Jack put the stone cork back in. Island stayed safe. Jack dies. Fat ass is the new Jacob. The sideways weird flash is them in purgatory and they all meet in a church after remembering each other and go into the light.

[Dave]

so they were all already dead? cop out

[goof2]

If you haven't watched it yet don't read this cause I'm going to spoil it.


The "flashes" between people when they became aware of "the past" or whatever it was were pretty cool and definitely grabbed me. Pretty much everything else annoyed me. They explained the main gimmick for this season, which turned out to be pretty weak, and called it good. Practically everything else that happened over the last 7 years was just left hanging. Everything that would have happened afterward for the group who got off the island on the plane was left hanging as well. It was better than "The Sopranos" finale, but not by much.

[goof2]

Originally Posted by Dave

so they were all already dead? cop out

No, and at the end of the island sequences some of them escaped on a plane and presumably survived. The sideways flashes of purgatory were actually sometime in the future, presumably after everyone who remained alive at the end of the island sequences had died later in life.

[pauldun170]

Originally Posted by Trip

no, worse

Jack became the new Jacob. Desmond pulled a stone cork out of the island. A light turned off. They killed the smoke monster with one bullet, but not before it stabbed Jack. The island started falling apart. Jack put the stone cork back in. Island stayed safe. Jack dies. Fat ass is the new Jacob. The sideways weird flash is them in purgatory and they all meet in a church after remembering each other and go into the light.

No
The sideways flash world was not pergoatory. Its a place they created for themselves (why all the Characters's LA-verse lives seemed so perfect) as they waited for everyone else to die in real life. Once all them died in real life they would all move on to the "afterlife" together.

Desmond was Dalai Lama
Hurley was Buddha


Great Series
Weak ass ending.

Its a tradition with all these successful writers. Get an ego trip and then they try and get "deep"

Soprano's
BSG
and now Lost.

So far the best ending to a recent series has been Six Feet under.

[pauldun170]

So the season opener with the Island underwater was just way to spend cash on special effects.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Dave

so they were all already dead? cop out

no, they had a sideways flash theme this season to an alternate reality that was a what if the island was at the bottom of the ocean and no one was impacted by it. It turned out they were already dead in this reality and it was a kinda of purgatory until they all died and met up and reminded each other of their time on the island and then most of them passed over to the other side.

I thought that concept was neat as well. What pissed me off is you never found out the purpose of the island or the egyptian shit there. If it was a cork to prevent the darkness from getting off the island, what about before smoke man came to be before jacob threw him into the hole. There was no darkness there before that... It never really explained shit about the island, it was clusterfuck of randomness with no explanation.