LOST discussion - thar be spoilers ahead!

[Moonloop]

I keep wanting to say...."this week the season is gonna finally get going"....but even after tonight's episode I still have trouble saying this season has gone somewhere.

 

[Deeznutz6]

Cant wait till this show is over, no more "going back and forth"

 

[barryo]

hurley always has some of the best one liners.......

 

[LOTRFan]

That was a lame episode.

 

[plasmid303]

I feel like they really could've condensed a bunch of scenes in that episode to save time. It felt really slow until near the end, when people started gathering together and moving towards something, in both realities.

How many episodes will it take before I start freaking out that the writers won't be able to pull it off? 1? 2 more? I'm under control now, but I'm beginning to get anxious.

 

[El Skutto]

To me, last night's episode was the equivalent of the Two Towers - it brings all the disparate elements together for the finale. Notice that the episode wasn't centered on any particular character as every single previous episode has been. That, to me, really signifies that we're getting ready for the endgame.

 

[Johnny Utah]

I thought last night was awesome! I keep getting that feeling like 'Jesus, anyone can die!'

 

[Michael Crawford]

I thought last night was an improvement over the previous week, where nothing really happened. At least this week they started the 'war'.

At the end, is it going to become apparant that Jack/Sawyer is a parallel to Jacob/Smokey? And wouldn't it be hilarious if they end up replacing them?

And what's Des really up to? Originally I thought he was trying to get them all to remember - but this week none are, and there really isn't a direct reason they would, and he's not trying to create that sort of situation...just get them together. Hmmmm...

 

[Darth Waller]

I keep wanting to say...."this week the season is gonna finally get going"....but even after tonight's episode I still have trouble saying this season has gone somewhere.

I'm glad I'm not the only one feeling this way.

That was a lame season.

Fixed.

 

[lcummins]

...people out there who go into message boards just to hit fans with a drive-by posting intended to spoil the fact that Snape killed Dumbledore, etc...

...All it takes is one person who has the ending blown to spread it around ala Shai in the Survivor thread or the Snape v Dumbledore jerks.

WHAT???? SNAPE KILLED DUMBLEDORE???

Just kidding! I read the book the weekend it came out!

 

[316what]

I never really got that Jack and Locke's roles have totally switched.

They've switched roles as far as wanting to stay on the island and wanting to get off the island.

And what's Des really up to? Originally I thought he was trying to get them all to remember - but this week none are, and there really isn't a direct reason they would, and he's not trying to create that sort of situation...just get them together. Hmmmm...

I think he is gathering them all together in the sideway verse....and it will be at the hospital.

Jin, Sun, Jack, and Locke are already there. Just need to get Claire, Kate, Sayid, Sawyer, and Hurley there.

 

[Entropy]

To me, last night's episode was the equivalent of the Two Towers - it brings all the disparate elements together for the finale. Notice that the episode wasn't centered on any particular character as every single previous episode has been. That, to me, really signifies that we're getting ready for the endgame.

Or the first half of The Wastelands... this build up and gathering in both realities as well as Locke's carving are directly lifted thus far.

 

[Michael Crawford]

Yes, but Des only got Locke to the hospital so far - he didn't try to get Hurley there, he didn't try to get Claire there...that many are ending up there seems more ka than Des. His actions with everyone seems to try to get them to remember by bringing them together where he can.

 

[Entropy]

Des did guide Claire to Jack instead of the adoption agency. Will she end up in labor at the hospital in the end? We'll see what happens to Hurley and Juliet, Sawyer, Kate, Sayid and Miles and how/if they end up there as well.

 

[Something Sexy]

A new interview is up https://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/04/ff_lost/8/



I never really got that Jack and Locke's roles have totally switched.

That article just pisses me off the more and more I read it.

 

[Entropy]

That article just pisses me off the more and more I read it.

care to explain why?


seemed obvious from the beginning Jack would become the man of faith.

 

[Something Sexy]

care to explain why?


seemed obvious from the beginning Jack would become the man of faith.

No, it is more along the lines of the Creators shoveling BS our way. I am in the small corner who want most things explained to me. I still don't believe there whole "we had everything planned in some form from the beginning". I just don't and I won't argue that with anyone cause nothing will convince me otherwise.

Statements like:

We are going to take a stab at providing a conclusion, one that we hope will be satisfying.

Does not instill confidence in me that the finale will be good. I would respect more them saying, "This is how we want the show to end, deal with it". Not them trying to beat around the bush appeasing fans. The show is over the main money stream will come to end for the network who gives a ____ what the fans feel at this point. Be confident in what you are doing.

The bigger questions, we recognize, are not answerable

Personally I don't like this either, some mystery is good but I want to know about other things.

There are a few other things I could point out later.

This one is good too:

Lindelof: As much confidence as we have in the story we’re telling, we are also comfortable saying, “But what do we know?” This is our best version of the story of Lost, and it’s the definitive one. The worst thing we could ever do is not end it, or go with some bull____ty ending like a snowglobe or a cut to black. That was genius on The Sopranos, but The Sopranos isn’t a mystery show. For us, we owe our best version of a resolution here.

Well no ____ it your definitive version of LOST, you guys create/wrote it. I do agree with the Sopranos thing cause that is BS but come on. You guys can know everything, you are the writers. I feel like they are turning into that chick who wrote the Twilight series who said " the characters wrote themselves, I really wanted <throw in a character name> to do this but she really didn't want to so I couldn't write", no psycho you wrote the damn character and the story you can do what you want.

 

[Maglor]

Actually the answers that we are being given of late are totaly unsatisfying to me.

1) The Whispers are ghosts? Really?!

2) MiB was Christian Shepherd. I really wanted the fact that Christians body was missing to be significant.

Now it seems like all unexplained appearances were MiB. Feels like a cop out.

 

[Michael Crawford]

I want to know facts - they don't have to explain mysteries of faith. I want to know things like who Jacob and Smokey are and how they came to be on this island - that's a factual situation, central to the entire story, and it needs to be answered. I'm fine with what they said in the article...depending on their definition of 'bigger questions'.

 

[Something Sexy]

Actually the answers that we are being given of late are totaly unsatisfying to me.

1) The Whispers are ghosts? Really?!

2) MiB was Christian Shepherd. I really wanted the fact that Christians body was missing to be significant.

Now it seems like all unexplained appearances were MiB. Feels like a cop out.

And the fact that we pretty much guessed all that a while ago.

I want to know facts - they don't have to explain mysteries of faith. I want to know things like who Jacob and Smokey are and how they came to be on this island - that's a factual situation, central to the entire story, and it needs to be answered. I'm fine with what they said in the article...depending on their definition of 'bigger questions'.

That is what worries me, is this.