Daddysgonnapay
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it will be interesting to see the alternate endings
Yeah, that's what I was talking about.Christian's comments about some dying before Jack and some long after and Hurley's comments about Ben being a good number 2, seem to indicate that the flash sideways were some sort of purgatory/holding period.
Did everyone die in the original plane crash? And those left on the island stuck in some kind of purgatory? Was Jack the last one to finish his time? My brain hurts.
Did everyone die in the original plane crash? And those left on the island stuck in some kind of purgatory? Was Jack the last one to finish his time? My brain hurts.
Do not try to make this timeline linear, that would be impossible. Instead only try to remember the truth - there is no timeline.
time is relative
i absolutely loved it, but i also "got it" immediately, so there wasn't that whole -period where i had no idea what happened.
anyone else watching kimmel?
Interesting that Ben stayed outside. I guess he had more time to serve.
anyone else watching kimmel?
The sense I got is that the place they ended up, the purgatory/whatever it was, is not constrained by linear time as we know it, and as Christian told him, some died before him, some after. But when it was his time, they were all there to meet him.
Interesting that Ben stayed outside. I guess he had more time to serve.
The landmark ABC drama "Lost" ended Sunday night with a 21/2-hour bang of a series finale with the revelation that the survivors of the crash of Oceanic Airways Flight 815 all end up dead.
But don't worry - they're okay with that.
It turns out that the alternate-reality "sideways" world where the plane crash never happened was just a limbo where their dead souls from the world where it did happen could meet up and travel first class to the afterlife together.
I don't think it was purgatory, but they sure as hell didn't explain what the island was at all. I don't think it was purgatory because Jack clearly died on the island. Christian's comments about some dying before Jack and some long after and Hurley's comments about Ben being a good number 2, seem to indicate that the flash sideways were some sort of purgatory/holding period.
So, what the fuck was the island? And did the Dharma initiative matter at all?
the island and dharma were nothing, they never existed, for that matter Jacob, MIB, Richard never existed.
as far as in the physical world that we were let to believe they represented.
it appears that all the passengers on flight 815 died on impact,
Jack had no son, (in the hospital Locke told Jack he had no son) Jun and Jin had no baby and neither did Claire,
they were all in the church without any offspring
Ben never did a solid for his fake daughter, on helping her get a scholarship.
This might as well have had a St Elsewhere ending.
Remembering this just made me smile: Juliet's "it worked" was referring to the sideways vending machine, and not the bomb. I liked that.
I think I'm warming to it already.
Of love 'Lost'
A riveting series' finale fails to top the six seasons that preceded it. But then, it was always about the journey.
By Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Television Critic
May 24, 2010
Well, it could have been worse. It could have all been a dream.
Actually, that might have been better, if the finale of "Lost" had ended with some alien life form or surprising human — Ray Bradbury, say, or Terry O'Quinn in a pre-audition nap — opening his eyes from the craziest dream ever.
Instead, it turns out the passengers of Oceanic 815 are all dead, victims, if the end-credit imagery is to believed, of the same tragic plane accident that started the whole thing. Six seasons of polar bears, bachelor pad hatches, landlocked ships, personal submarines and a fleet of fallen airplanes, and it was all apparently some sort of shared afterlife experience. Excuse me, but what are we supposed to do with those religious statues full of heroin, with Fionnula Flanagan's pendulums, with the crazy Frenchwoman and the time shifts and the whole glorious Richard Alpert back story? And what on Earth are we supposed to do with the Dharma Initiative?
Release them into the universe, apparently, along with the image of Allison Janney in bad biblical hair. Because as Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick) kept telling Jack and anyone who would listen, really, none of it matters, except that it's over, and even if Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse decided, and possibly at the last minute, that their uber-narrative would be an over-the-top marriage of "Incident at Owl Creek Bridge" and "It's a Wonderful Life," at least it's over, and that's something.
Deep, I'll miss your weekly stumping for people to be as negative towards the show as you are. One can only admire your tenacity, persistence and repetitiveness. Perhaps you and Shouter can be #'s 1 and 2 on some sort of misanthropic island where you get to claim to like things then go on to laugh at it/rip it to shreds.
WIN.
And it looks like we're in agreement as to what happened; you posted right before me.
Also, someone writing for the L.A. Times can be just as obtuse as you are. I love how the wreckage is supposed to imply they all died in the crash--nope, it's the wreckage that HAS ALWAYS BEEN THERE THE LAST SIX SEASONS.
If they had died on impact, they wouldn't have known each other, and would have no reason to meet in any alternate reality/purgatory/whatever.
If they had died on impact, they wouldn't have known each other, and would have no reason to meet in any alternate reality/purgatory/whatever.
If they had died on impact, they wouldn't have known each other, and would have no reason to meet in any alternate reality/purgatory/whatever.