Monday, May 24, 2010

How are you all not talking about Lost right now.

P.s. it sucked.
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6 comments:

  1. TronMay 24, 2010 at 12:32 PM

    because i figured you would grumble about it.
    i thought it was a beautiful + appropriate ending to the show. i'm quite pleased.

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  2. grumblecakesMay 24, 2010 at 3:34 PM

    I was not. At all.

    So they spent 6 years dealing with "The Island." They spend 1 year building up "Alternate Timeline." Then they only resolve alternate timeline with them going to heaven. bllllllah.

    The past 3 seasons have been all about time travel and donkey wheels and Jacob. The finale is all the love stories? Kate's "i love you" to Jack was kind of an afterthought.

    It was a color-corrected clip show about all the lamer parts of Lost: forced love interests. The only cool part was Jack's flying punch. And Hurely didn't say "dude" ONCE.

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  3. grumblecakesMay 24, 2010 at 5:26 PM

    Also: Bizarro Locke is this big scary smoke monster, that has killed everyone in the worst way possible...

    ...And he gets shot in the back.

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  4. SamwiseMay 24, 2010 at 7:37 PM

    Thomas I came here specifically to see what you would grumble about. I didn't think it was perfect, but it was good. If they were going to answer all of those questions it would've made more sense to do so earlier in the season, it wouldn't have fit in with the finale, so I don't have a problem with the final episode in that sense. I also don't think it was definitely about heaven...my interpretation was that the island was real, they all died there at some point, and were reincarnated in another life but they had to wait until everyone had died to be able to find each other. I don't know. It's definitely open to interpretation, which I think is a good thing. If they had gone through and answered everything in black and white it just wouldn't have fit with the show at all. At any rate, I've been thinking about it all day, and I like that.

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  5. grumblecakesMay 24, 2010 at 7:59 PM

    I suppose I should elaborate, as I've been busy typing bullet points all day:

    The island was definitely real (Hugo and Ben's #1 #2 conversation proved that). While I don't think they went to our conception of heaven, I think in some purgatory-like state and once they all found each other, they went onto some heaven-like state.

    However, this was by far the least interesting part of the entire show. Yes, even less interesting than Paulo and Nikki. I normally hate on Rose and Bernard, but I they were the second best part of the finale (after Jack's flying punch, of course).

    But even this wasn't satisfying: I don't really care where they go when they die. Like Ben, I only care about the island. If anything, I'm angry because they introduced something entirely new that had nothing to do with time-travel or candidates.

    I wasn't really expecting answers either. We can all sit down and get drunk and probably piece together all the things they didn't explain, because the writers gave us just enough to figure out why DHARMA showed up.

    If anything, I was angry at the lack of actual drama. With all the talk of "There is war coming," to have Bizarro Locke get shot in the back is incredibly underwhelming. This was a conflict centuries in the making. And it ended...predictably. Remember when everyone spent an entire summer wondering what the hatch was? That was the Lost feeling. That's what the finales are supposed to be like. And this was far from it.

    Yes, the rounded it out nice and cleanly and everyone seemed to go home happy. But why was 6 seasons of time-travel and whispers and smoke monsters reduced to 120 minutes of people falling in love?

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  6. TronMay 24, 2010 at 10:20 PM

    because LOST has always been about the characters. darlton have made that abundantly clear. for some people, like grumblecakes, the show was about the island/mysteries. but thats not what it was about for the writers, and they were the ones calling the shots. so while i understand your frustration, i think you need to consider the fact that many of the mythological devices on the island were just that- myths of the human condition. i could get into the whole bartesian myth and demystification nonsense but that would take days. the way i see it, all of LOST's myths (the smoke monster, the whispers, time travel) were literary devices used by the writers to tell the story of a group of people and their road to love/redemption/what have you. darlton mentioned in an interview once that time travel was just a story telling device. yes, this is frustrating but it was a pretty awesome and groundbreaking way to tell the story and it made sense to them as writers.
    as for the finale...i thought it was perfect for the series. that being said, it didn't make any sense for season 6, considering its focus on jacob/MIB. but either way, i would have been more pissed if the series finale of LOST focused on two characters that were tossed in at the end rather than the characters we grew to know and (sometimes) love. and i think thats what it came down to for the writers.

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