LOST discussion - thar be spoilers ahead!

[lcummins]

I'd love to own a few items from that auction, but I already know that anything I'm interested in will go for a lot more than I'm willing to pay.

 

[tomandshell]

The actor who played Mr. Eko was asked back for the finale. He countered with a request for five times the amount they were offering him for a single scene. That makes me want to hit him over the head with his own Jesus stick.

 

[Batty]

It's funny that the actors have talked about having to bid on their own props--and I think several of them actually will.

I can image Dominic Monaghan bidding on the Drive Shaft ring.

 

[Darth Waller]

The actor who played Mr. Eko was asked back for the finale. He countered with a request for five times the amount they were offering him for a single scene. That makes me want to hit him over the head with his own Jesus stick.

 

[The Josh]

It doesn't seem contrived to anyone that they all had to move on together? That part was a bit hokey, I thought.

Not at all. It makes sense for the show. They came together as a group and learned to help each other and change as a group. Moving on as a group makes perfect sense and really is the way they should have ended it.

 

[p!tu]

The actor who played Mr. Eko was asked back for the finale. He countered with a request for five times the amount they were offering him for a single scene. That makes me want to hit him over the head with his own Jesus stick.

Ditto!! He thinks he is a Big ____ing actor or something cause he was in Congo and GI Joe!! what a ******!

 

[Entropy]

Except they were NOT in Purgatory from the first season.

I know. I keep reading this "I knew the island was purgatory from the first season" bs all over the place.

Either people are stupid or they can't pay attention. Prolly a bit from column 'A' and a bit from column 'B'.

 

[Memnoch]

The more I think about it - the finale was very Buddhist. One life after another until you finally awaken and reach your enlightenment. Then you get your spiritual release. Any way you cut it - it was fantastic and actually didn't violate ANY of the rules the writers established for the show.

 

[bagelsncheesey]

Ditto!! He thinks he is a Big ____ing actor or something cause he was in Congo and GI Joe!! what a ******!

you forgot Oz

 

[Darthrazz]

He did die alone, but I think that's why they wanted to show that his soul would go on to "live together" with his loved ones. But the last shot of the show was his eye closing. Maybe the group hug was all just in his mind in the final moments of life. It might be noteworthy that the show didn't end with the glowing light filling the church, but with a man collapsing and passing away in isolation. (Apart from man's best friend.) That was the final word.

So you are saying it was sort of like Jacobs ladder?

 

[lcummins]

...and actually didn't violate ANY of the rules the writers established for the show.

Didn't they state that everything would have a rational explanation? Give me a rational explanation for smokey and the light, and I'll let everything else slide...

 

[Darthrazz]

Didn't they state that everything would have a rational explanation? Give me a rational explanation for smokey and the light, and I'll let everything else slide...

Smokey was CGI

The light was a flood light with a yellow filter.

 

[tomandshell]

So you are saying it was sort of like Jacobs ladder?

That's one possible interpretation.

 

[automaton]

I don't understand this "Athiests don't like the ending" thing.
I'm an athiest and I had no problem what so ever with the going off to heaven ending, if that is what it was.

I don't believe in God/Heaven or Devil/Hell at all, but I can totally accept these concepts in a well writen story. I'd have to stop watching other things like the first three Indiana Jones films and Constantine etc if I let things like that bother me.

Anyway. Loved the ending even if I still want answers to many questions.

I presume that Hurley could have lived for a couple of thousand years if he really was transfomed by drinking the water Jack gave him?

agreed... if anything, the finale has nothing to do with organized religion (as i mentioned before, the symbols are there in the coffin room but it is the love and connection of the characters that allow them to move on... not to a heaven or hell, but to the mysterious light that Jack saved).

 

[ProgMatinee]

So you are saying it was sort of like Jacobs ladder?

thats what i'm thinking. from reading the comments, the focus on jack's eye being the tie between the start of the series and the end makes it seem like everything in between happened in a blink, therefore its just like tim robbins character in jacobs ladder. maybe all of this occured in jack's mind the second he died.

 

[LOTRFan]

So do we all agree it was a more satisfying end than say Seinfeld or The Sopranos?

 

[lcummins]

Smokey was CGI

The light was a flood light with a yellow filter.

... but no cigar!!!

 

[tomandshell]

I think it's pretty clear that the glowing church scenes all took place inside the suitcase from Pulp Fiction.

 

[Darthrazz]

So do we all agree it was a more satisfying end than say Seinfeld or The Sopranos?

Oh hell yeah. Not as good as Newhart though.

 

[Darth Waller]

I think it's pretty clear that the glowing church scenes all took place inside the suitcase from Pulp Fiction.

Look at the big brain on Brad . . . uh, I mean Tom.