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kaveman said:
LOL to all of you who though the finale would be a fuckin History channel show explaining every quirk we've seen in 6 years.

Great finale
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Yeah, I'd LOL at them too - but I did at least expect some of the major points to start to make sense.. Perhaps they were but they must be escaping my wife and I... for instance..

So the "flash sideways" was actually purgatory correct? And they didn't die in the plane crash? If not, how did they die to end up in the sideways purgatory? If they did actually die in the plane crash, wouldn't the island be the purgatory? If so, then why did they have essentially 2 purgatories (the island / sideways)?

If someone could answer those ?'s for me, I'd be more content in the finale.
 


Island was real, sideways was purgatory. Everyone we see die on the island... that actually happened and then they were sent to purgatory to wait. Once they are all dead(which we dont see, the people on the plain get off the island fine and Hurley/Ben stay to protect it) they find each other in purgatory and remember they're lives together which is what allows them to let go.

They were looking for a reason to why the were on the island ect ect for 6 years and i think the end just goes to show that it doesnt matter what you do with your life, it's about the people you connect with, make memories with, and love


edit: another small part that i like is that Ben, the only character who is inherently evil and mal intention says he needed to stay and work some things out
 
kaveman said:
Island was real, sideways was purgatory. Everyone we see die on the island... that actually happened and then they were sent to purgatory to wait. Once they are all dead(which we dont see, the people on the plain get off the island fine and Hurley/Ben stay to protect it) they find each other in purgatory and remember they're lives together which is what allows them to let go.
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Makes decent sense.

kaveman said:
it's about the people you connect with, make memories with, and love
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I LOL'd when I honestly thought you said: "make monies with"
 
kaveman said:
Island was real, sideways was purgatory. Everyone we see die on the island... that actually happened and then they were sent to purgatory to wait. Once they are all dead(which we dont see, the people on the plain get off the island fine and Hurley/Ben stay to protect it) they find each other in purgatory and remember they're lives together which is what allows them to let go.

They were looking for a reason to why the were on the island ect ect for 6 years and i think the end just goes to show that it doesnt matter what you do with your life, it's about the people you connect with, make memories with, and love
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^This.

And to everyone refreshing this thread to argue about it a little more with some random other person you're likely to never meet, instead of wasting your time doing that why not go out and develop a site, project, whatever that engages its fan base the same way that LOST did? Those guys are shitting money and wiping their asses with the leather from their Bentleys right now and you so-called "money-makers" have nothing better to do on a Monday morning than to argue about their soap opera like a bunch of fat housewives.
 
kaveman said:
Island was real, sideways was purgatory. Everyone we see die on the island... that actually happened and then they were sent to purgatory to wait. Once they are all dead(which we dont see, the people on the plain get off the island fine and Hurley/Ben stay to protect it) they find each other in purgatory and remember they're lives together which is what allows them to let go.
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I smell a spin-off. "The Adventures of Hugo and Ben".
 
kaveman said:
LOL to all of you who though the finale would be a fuckin History channel show explaining every quirk we've seen in 6 years.

Great finale
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Every quirk? No, that would be unreasonable. They don't explain any quirks...that's the problem.

The writers of LOST made it as they went, which means they don't even know how to explain everything they've come up with. How can you feel satisfied when you know that the writers made a sappy sad ending just to cover up the fact that they can't explain the show they created.

"Alright, we don't know how to wrap this up but America is stupid so we just need to get them emotionally involved and make it appear like the entire show was only about them all coming together in death at the end."

You can't create such a grandiose fairy tale and then expect it to just all be about the characters. That is so lame.

The show was NOT about the characters. It was about the island, it was about Dharma, it was about the smoke monster, it was about seeing dead people, it was about immortal people, it was about temples and rivers of life. All of that just goes unexplained and it's all good?

I feel bad for all ya'll simpletons.
 
Where the writers failed us is that the island itself is a MAJOR character. The main character many of us cared about and that character didn't get any sort of resolution not even as much as any of the other supporting characters other than jack got.
 
SUP3RNOVA said:
I feel bad for all ya'll simpletons.
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George Lucas made up star wars as he went along, is he a simpleton? What makes you different from the rest of us simpletons? You need to draw some conclusions bro. Jesus, the fucking Dharma, is that the first time a group of scientists got together to study scientific anomalies? Is that what your anti-simpleton mind set wants to know? Where the goddam dharma came from?

Perhaps they did in fact many questions, but in a way that normal viewers cannot interpret. Maybe you should dig deeper, ya know do some reading before you just bash shit for no reason.

Portal:Mysterious - Lostpedia - The Lost Encyclopedia
 
totesmagotes said:
George Lucas made up star wars as he went along, is he a simpleton? What makes you different from the rest of us simpletons? You need to draw some conclusions bro. Jesus, the fucking Dharma, is that the first time a group of scientists got together to study scientific anomalies? Is that what your anti-simpleton mind set wants to know? Where the goddam dharma came from?

Perhaps they did in fact many questions, but in a way that normal viewers cannot interpret. Maybe you should dig deeper, ya know do some reading before you just bash shit for no reason.

Portal:Mysterious - Lostpedia - The Lost Encyclopedia
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Dharma was one of the MANY things that went unexplained.

It's really very simple. When most of America watched LOST, it was to find out all these mysteries they gave us. The island, immortal people, scientific properties, etc. In the end they explained none of that and just covered it up with some sappy story about how they're all dead in the end.

The one thing they gave us was just what happened to all the characters, and even that they left up for interpretation.

Season 6 was horrible, all the flashing sideways they did was just to explain the point that they're all dead. They keep throwing more sci-fi shit at us with that golden light cave, Richard and Jacobs past, and then they just leave it unanswered.

LOST did a great job at keeping people interested, but in the end it's pointless because it goes unexplained. I don't know how you're not left feeling empty because they avoided everything that was actually interesting.
 
SUP3RNOVA said:
The show was NOT about the characters. It was about the island,
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Since season 1, Darlton has come out in just about every interview and said verbatim "this show is about the characters, not the island". They even said this in the 2 hour recap episode leading up to the finale last night. You should ease up on hurling the "simpleton" remark around, because you are just embarrassing yourself.

The shit we don't know, shit like Dharma, the black smoke, the mythology of the island, was shit the characters will never know either. It was just in PASSING. We observed what they did, sometimes if we were lucky, we saw and learned a little more.

*I see you edited your post to remove what I quoted. I trust you are finding your "simpleton" interpretation to be wrong as you research it further.

** Your blog post is hilarious. You call the people who actually understood the finale "simpletons", yet you went on listing every little simple, obvious surface-level Lost question without understanding the primary arc of the show.
 
SUP3RNOVA said:
Dharma was one of the MANY things that went unexplained.

It's really very simple. When most of America watched LOST, it was to find out all these mysteries they gave us. The island, immortal people, scientific properties, etc. In the end they explained none of that and just covered it up with some sappy story about how they're all dead in the end.

The one thing they gave us was just what happened to all the characters, and even that they left up for interpretation.

Season 6 was horrible, all the flashing sideways they did was just to explain the point that they're all dead. They keep throwing more sci-fi shit at us with that golden light cave, Richard and Jacobs past, and then they just leave it unanswered.
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Its very clear that you are making all of these grandiose assumptions, and what not but your not educating yourself. The show (as it turns out) is not for the casual TV watcher, its not like entourage where vince sits on his hand so he cant do the movie, then ari takes vinces hand out from under his ass and he can then do the movie (im a huge fan btw)

Real fans will watch it all again, I will not, rather I will do some reading and give myself enough closure to move on from Lost.

If you want to find some answers, do some digging, argue with yourself about the theories, but many of them make real sense, and I think you will be surprised with what you ultimately find.
 
invisible777 said:
Since season 1, Darlton has come out in just about every interview and said verbatim "this show is about the characters, not the island". They even said this in the 2 hour recap episode leading up to the finale last night.

The shit we don't know, shit like Dharma, was shit the characters will never know either. It was just in passing. We observed what they did, sometimes if we were lucky, a little more.
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That's pretty much my point...it's stupid that it was just about the characters. I feel like a lot of people (at least me and all the friends I watch it with) were clinging onto watching the show to find out all of these mysteries they introduced.

They also said nonstop that "everything will be revealed. all your questions will be answered." A bit misleading, eh?

I wanna know how the hell he turned into a black flying cloud of smoke, is that too much to ask?
 
SUP3RNOVA said:
Every quirk? No, that would be unreasonable. They don't explain any quirks...that's the problem.

The writers of LOST made it as they went, which means they don't even know how to explain everything they've come up with. How can you feel satisfied when you know that the writers made a sappy sad ending just to cover up the fact that they can't explain the show they created.

"Alright, we don't know how to wrap this up but America is stupid so we just need to get them emotionally involved and make it appear like the entire show was only about them all coming together in death at the end."

You can't create such a grandiose fairy tale and then expect it to just all be about the characters. That is so lame.

The show was NOT about the characters. It was about the island, it was about Dharma, it was about the smoke monster, it was about seeing dead people, it was about immortal people, it was about temples and rivers of life. All of that just goes unexplained and it's all good?

I feel bad for all ya'll simpletons.
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Well said. There's a few tunnel-visioned fanboys in this thread who clearly won't have a bad word said about wasting 6 years on that hole-riddled dross.

Whatever. If they wanna tell themselves it was epic and what not carry on. They're all the dumber for it. Characters indeed! lol. If they had no questions, they're clearly a touch slow.

P.S. Starwars sucked arse.
 
I really don't understand how any of you, who watched from Season 1, could believe for a second that any answers would come in the finale. I mean, I really don't understand it.

The name of the show was LOST for crying out loud...
 
I really think, that when its all said and done this show was about your ability to interpret, or draw conclusions based on seemingly minimal evidence. They explained the characters and their lives, which was the whole idea. Everything else was for you to interpret. If you show someone an abstract painting, everyone is going to have a different opinion on what it means, why the person drew it, etc. and even the person who made it, probably has no clue what it all means.

But thats the point, the name of the show is lost and not gilligans island part deux for a reason!
 
totesmagotes said:
I really think, that when its all said and done this show was about your ability to interpret, or draw conclusions based on seemingly minimal evidence. They explained the characters and their lives, which was the whole idea. Everything else was for you to interpret. If you show someone an abstract painting, everyone is going to have a different opinion on what it means, why the person drew it, etc. and even the person who made it, probably has no clue what it all means.

But thats the point, the name of the show is lost and not gilligans island part deux for a reason!
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Stop trying to justify it. It was rubbish. Think of it like a good sales letter and your typical CB adwords product. They've got your attention, they've told you a story, they've filled you with intrigue, you're quite excited to see more, then when you click the buy button you go to a page that says, "Haha, only joking."

That's what Lost is like. Loads of hype and overselling, then a product which fails on all fronts, answers none of your questions and gives you something else entirely. I want a refund.

Who cares about the characters? Those, like myself and supa, are beyond fanboyism and we're interested in the mysteries, remember, that's what kept most of us watching, not to see whether Kate and Sawyer got married and whether he had sex with her face.
 
You people who keep bitching about it really don't have much else to do today, do you? If you hated it that much, let it go. You're not going to change anything by bitching on the Internet.

I promise that we'll all survive without your two cents. I know it's hard to believe, but we will. Or will we...

L O S T
 
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