Posted on 05/20/2010 6:07:41 PM PDT by Neoavatara
After 6 seasons of clues, hints, games, deaths, births, monsters, polar bears, submarines and time travel, along with all around weirdness, television's most innovative show, Lost, comes to an end on Sunday night, concluding the Final Chapter.
And I couldn't be happier.
Don't get me wrong. I am totally addicted to Lost. Actually, this has been the only show I have religiously watched over the last couple years, as my life has become busier. I always loved T.V., but simply don't have the time anymore.
But I always make time for Lost.
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In the big finish, Ben is going to pull some fast one on Smokey and die saving the island.
And John Locke must immediately leave the island of Hawaii, as he's getting as fat as Hurley!
Same here—I don’t like football and think it’s boring, but I have better things to do than go on football threads and post why I dislike it. I’m sure that will get me flamed around FR, but football just ain’t my thing.
Since we’re too cheap to pay for TIVO (paying for 3 kids’ tuition takes priority, LOL), it’s going to be my husband and myself camped in front of the TV on Sunday night. I’m sure the kids will do their best to interrupt, of course :)
“Only two people kind of came back from the dead, “
I know, but some more were just seen and talked to by Hurley, and the viewer didn’t know for a long time that Hurley can apparently in some way talk to and see cogent dead people. And so for some time it was quite zombie land for me. I just think it is weak writing, in general, to kill people off dramatically with great repercussions to the remaining characters and then, when not certain how to develop the plot, have some come back from the dead. It is just too soap opera for me.
It was all pretty easy for me. Hurley didn’t start talking to the dead until he got off the island, and he was in the nut house by then, it wasn’t along time at all.
Exactly! I am totally not a sports fan. My husband loves sports (especially motor sports, but he also likes the BB playoffs, golf and football). Hey, he deserves to be entertained, and he doesn’t complain that I watch things he doesn’t like (thank goodness for TiVo! LOL). When the kids were growing up there was no TiVo but I was too busy to watch much anyway and had other things to do. Now that they are all gone, we have things we watch together, and things we watch separately. I don’t understand how he watches golf (really...booooooring!) but I don’t make a big deal about it, and if he wants to sometimes talk about it, why would I give him a hard time? He listens when I tell him what a good Lost episode was on. It is funny that one of my grown sons is a Lost junkie too. He was also upset (as I was) when Jericho got canceled! LOL
I have to admit, I was sorry they killed Locke, I really liked his character and would rather have had him be the keeper of the Island. I guess they didn’t let me pick. Oh well.
Amen to that. That said, I’m still not sure they addressed the polar bear!
The Dharma Initiative brought the polar bears for their little zoo. They were used for animal testing of their magic energy pockets - that’s why Charlotte found the skeleton of one in the deserts of Tunisia - the same spot where Ben landed when he turned the wheel.
Not to mention that it was a very constricted set of people, just Charlie and Libby, if memory serves. Nobody believes in ghosts anymore, eh?
Why did you excerpt your own blog?
Did you file a lawsuit to prevent your material from being posted on FR? Are you ashamed of your own opinion to the point you were afraid to post it in full?
Or was it for blog hits?
After 6 seasons of clues, hints, games, deaths, births, monsters, polar bears, submarines and time travel, along with all around weirdness, television’s most innovative show, Lost, comes to an end on Sunday night, concluding the Final Chapter.
And I couldn’t be happier.
Don’t get me wrong. I am totally addicted to Lost. Actually, this has been the only show I have religiously watched over the last couple years, as my life has become busier. I always loved T.V., but simply don’t have the time anymore.
But I always make time for Lost.
I have watched most of the seasons multiple times on DVD. I have for the first time gone to websites and blogs regarding the T.V. show, something I still think is ridiculous. I go on chat rooms, and argue everything from somebody’s look on the show to the philosophical meaning of life.
Lost has me and millions of others hooked.
But Lost is a unique cultural phenomenon, and a worldwide one at that. It started out as a ABC imagined reality show version of Gilligan’s Island…I am not kidding. It turned into Robinson Crusoe-meets-a-plane…quickly evolved into a science fiction story with monsters, time travel, and the supernatural…and now ends as a philisophical discussion of right and wrong, good vs. evil, and personal redemption.
Yeah, heavy stuff.
How many shows have ever gotten the general public interested in the connection between Alice In Wonderland, Soren Kierkegaard and philosophers as wide ranging as David Hume and John Locke. Active discussions have occurred regarding the identity and reality of this world versus alternate universes. Wormhole theories. Electromagnetic powers effects on the mind. I could go on and on.
Additionally, Lost is unique in that you can’t really come in midway. The story is a lost cause for anyone unwilling to go back to season 1 and start over from scratch. There are so many significant allusions and references to old episodes, even the pilot, that I can’t possibly imagine jumping midstream into this storyline and hope to understand much of anything.
Lost is an interesting cacophany of science fiction, soap opera, and most of all, unanswered mysteries. Those mysteries are ultimately what has hooked viewers such as myself…and maybe our worst nightmare is that many of those mysteries won’t be answered Sunday night. Why were the children from Oceanic 815 taken? And if Walt was so important, why did he comfortably disappear? (Other than the practical matter that the actor that plays him grew up too fast…). And do we get conclusions for other children, like Aaron? And for God (or dog’s) sake, what happened to Vincent?
Thank God for JJ Abrams, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, who have said that they will try to answer these questions in the ultimate DVD release.
Lindelof, Cuse, and to a lesser extent Abrams have been the three main driving forces behind the show, have never really let up on their concept however. Regardless of how critical some people have been, they have moved steadily forward with their vision. They have had their ups and downs, to be sure. But unlike so many other shows that stayed passed their prime and ‘jumped the shark’, Lost goes out on a high note. (I know…some thing last years time travelling jumped the shark…but the geek is me says ‘No way!’). This season has been excellent, and the writing has been excellent for all 6 seasons.
So, for that closed community that makes up the Lost world, I say adieu. Unlike other T.V. shows, whose finale is often just a goodbye, this finale should (hopefully, as promised) bring closure for years of rambling on about mysteries of the Island. And I for one am looking forward to it.
Too bad the last episode of "Lost" won't have Jack Bauer escaping from a russian transport plane, parachuting onto the island with an automatic in each hand, blowing away all the survivors and claiming the island for himself.
oh YEAH, that’s right!
Do you know something I don't?
I could get on board for something like this.
I don’t think they explain Hurley’s lottery numbers either. Did Jacob arranged the entire coincidence?
I forget so much stuff, I would kind of like them to do a 4 hour movie that sort of goes over all the stuff. But I want them to wait a year to do it.
I think something will happen when Jack operates on alternate Locke.
I never thought of that.
I am truly glad you are enjoying it. There are few innocent pastimes in this world. Many in my family follow it, too. So, enjoy. Sunday is the big day!
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