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Lost finale- im sorry I really need to rant!
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Now i had low expectations for the finale. I knew not everything was going to be answered, but a few big table changing answers would have been nice.
Now with most other programmes, like Heroes or Desperate Housewives a character driven end, where we find out what happens to all the characters would have been fine.
But that was not what LOST was ever about, the magic of Lost were all the questions about the island, the numbers and the timetravelling stuff.
When the writers said they would be answering most of the questions... can anyone truely say their top questions were "who would Kate choose... jack or saywer?" or "Will Claire and Charlie ever re-unite?"
No! The questions everyone was wanting answers to were island related... none of which were ever answered. it was just one question after another! NOTHING about the island! NOTHING about the black smoke. NOTHING about the numbers. NOTHING about walt... who seemed integral to everything at the beginning. NOTHING about why children couldnt be born on the island. NOTHING about the time travelling aspect.
I am seriously pissed off... nothing was ever answered. I dont care whether Jack and Kate hooked up in the afterlife!
RANT OVER!
Now with most other programmes, like Heroes or Desperate Housewives a character driven end, where we find out what happens to all the characters would have been fine.
But that was not what LOST was ever about, the magic of Lost were all the questions about the island, the numbers and the timetravelling stuff.
When the writers said they would be answering most of the questions... can anyone truely say their top questions were "who would Kate choose... jack or saywer?" or "Will Claire and Charlie ever re-unite?"
No! The questions everyone was wanting answers to were island related... none of which were ever answered. it was just one question after another! NOTHING about the island! NOTHING about the black smoke. NOTHING about the numbers. NOTHING about walt... who seemed integral to everything at the beginning. NOTHING about why children couldnt be born on the island. NOTHING about the time travelling aspect.
I am seriously pissed off... nothing was ever answered. I dont care whether Jack and Kate hooked up in the afterlife!
RANT OVER!
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Why did the 'others' dress up to venture towards the beach? what was the point...
OK so the numbers were candidates... but that doesn't explain why they're on the hatch in series 1? or why they have to put them into a computer for the entire series 2
And why Hurleys friend kept repeating them.... I know they're connected to the candidates, but how did Dharma know to use those numbers, and the numbers being broadcast from the tower before Danielles message?
The statue... when, how, why is that there?
argh there's probably so much more... I dunno what I expected... but overall series 6 has been a major disappointment... Was really rooting for the finale to be amazing ad save it... but it just wasn't.
Yeah what the **** was the big statue about??
Any other show, and the ending would have been fine. But the magic of the show was never about the characters and a "will they wont they" ross and rachel ending doesnt quite cut it! The show was about the mythology and the sci-fi element. They asked loads of questions to keep us watching... and answered none of them!
Also the purgatory thing... we were lead to believe that Farraday's bomb had caused it... now we find out it didnt. so what was Farraday's bomb all about... how did they get transported to the right time?? It technically re-wrote most of series 5. And how on earth was Aaron born in purgatory???
Journey? It's like going on a tour with the guide saying 'I'll tell you what that is when we get to the end' and then jumping off the bus and legging it.
Well i'm sorry but i think you missed the entire point of the show if you thought it was just about an Island and it's mystical properties.
From day 1 Lost has been about people and life. What they came across on the Island was only as relevant as to how it effected their life in the long run.
As for some of your questions, they're easily answered.
1. Children conceived on the Island died because the Statue of Taweret was destroyed in the storm that brought RIchard to the Island. Taweret was the Goddess of childbirth and fertility, her symbol on the Island was destroyed, and so was her power.
2. The numbers were the Valenzetti Equation, used by Jacob to determine who the candidates to take over his job of Island protector would be. The Valenzetti Equation itself dictates when the world would end and were just numbers that featured in every day life.
3. The time travelling was a manipulation of the Island's heart. When Ben turned the wheel, he didn't drop it in place correctly so the Island continued to spin through time until Locke moved the wheel again and locked it into place. The wheel itself was created by The Man In Black in a bid to manipulate the Island's heart with both movement and water, it would not only move the Island but aid him in his struggle to leave.
You should have known though that not everything would have been answered on the show in term of the mythology, but the story's of the people who lived the experience would be the thing that came to an end.
Will someone tell me why Sawyer was a cop in the 'afterlife' flash sideways?
Sawyer/Miles buddy cop spinoff. Nailed.
They're not just interpretations, they're answers.
Things like the infertility of the Island could only be explained by us, the audience, via research and such. That's how you explain the statue, because that's what the statue was, if you look at the evidence it's there but wasn't explained to us until we saw the actual statue in full.
It's like baking a cake, they gave us the ingredients and we used them to make a 4 tier wedding cake.
The equation was explained in the Lost Experience game, which is as much canon to the show as any episode is.
It's all there if you look deep enough. I think people will initially be upset by the finale, but you can look back and watch everything, read and watch all the other stuff outside of the episodes like the Lost Experience, and you'll get everything.
In honesty, i'm only 99% pleased with the shows ending.
The only thing i didn't like was Walt's absence, his story absence. Because that's the one thing you cannot answer with evidence or reasonable thinking and such.
But still, i hear a book will come out to explain things like that, so don't despair too much.
:nuts: Isn't it funny how 2 people can watch the same thing yet see something totally different? :nuts:
Because it was the life he made for himself in the purgatory.
Think about it, from a young age Sawyer wanted revenge on the man who was responsible for taking his parents from him, he ended up as a con-artist himself and it ruined his life.
In another life, Detective James Ford can get his revenge the right way by protecting others at risk and ultimately be a good person.
as the island was real life and not everything works out as you would like and untimely deaths affect who you chose.
so in the end we find out who wanted who in the love rectangle/square.
and how the people really felt, it was never gonna be a friends type ending.
Not quite. The childbirth problems were caused by the incident. We know this because Nathan was born before the incident.
lol:D