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Post by Carter on May 24, 2010 19:28:07 GMT -1
I'm hoping 24 is, as I have not watched this new season at all but plan on watching the series finale tonight. yeah, good luck with that one.... |
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Post by Steala on May 24, 2010 20:45:23 GMT -1
Holy crap! I still can't believe Joop the Ageless Orangutan made a cameo on the finale! Some more random thoughts on the finale: I'm certain they added the extra half hour to the show so they could play poignant music while the characters "remembered" their "alternate" lives on the island.
The final scene was something I think everyone expected, or at least considered.
The explanation for the flash sideways was something I think many people expected too. From what I gathered, it was some sort of purgatory for the Losties before they ascend to Heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the father almighty. I guess black guys weren't invited to their purgatory party mansion however, as Michael, Walt, and Mr. Eko were not there. Racist much?!
I thought it was okay. Nothing mindblowing, but not one of the worst finales I've ever seen. I liked that the flash sideways had a purpose, rather than just being a "what if?"
Charlie was the highlight of the show. ("A fat man shot me!")
Oh, and Kate's line after she shot MIB was laughable. "I saved a bullet for you." Who is she? Steven Seagal? Terrible. |
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Post by Kevin Borg on May 24, 2010 23:30:35 GMT -1
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Post by Carter on May 25, 2010 14:07:20 GMT -1
Kimmel thinks that the entire series is Jack's test. It starts when he awakes and the entire timeline is his test to see if he goes to heaven or not.
I don't really think that's true. I think when Christian said "these people are the most important people in your life" proves my theory that everything on the island was a test to see if they would go to heaven or not. Because they were all "brought" to the island to right their wrongs and find themselves.
Also, is Desmond Jesus? |
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Post by Woo on May 25, 2010 20:21:47 GMT -1
Somar's link didn't work for me. So here it is again. www.collegehumor.com/video:1936291Here is a song detailing some of the unexplained mysteries. Though almost all of them where answered. |
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Post by Hellion on May 26, 2010 12:27:07 GMT -1
Just saw the finale. It was fucking horrible. I hate this show now. I've been giving it chances to redeem itself since it started getting crap in season 3. I feel like there has been the occassional brilliant moment, but ultimately the show has just been unfaithful... fucking me over and hoping I wouldn't call it on it. When things started getting really bad... I stood by. I let it happen. I remembered the good times... hoping that one day, it would all come together. Make our relationship stronger.
Now... now it's like it just raped and killed my entire family. On the same day it proposed to me...
There'll be no falling in love again after this. Fuck that. Fuck Lost. Aimless and contradictory tripe posing as intellectual mulling. The producers said they had a direction from the start. This episode... hell... the last 3.5 seasons are evidence of just how little they had. When somebody said 'are they all dead?' they were like... 'um... definitely not.' I don't even care that they were... whether it was real or not. And frankly, I would normally be happy with that conclusion -- were it not at the end of 60 minutes of lameness laden with 1.5 hours of god damned commercials.
What I really care about is that the final episode was completely against the grain of the series... particularly the first seasons. The good ones... remember? It had such cliched imagery... So much slow motion sappy crap... Lame, predictible dialogue. But worst of all.... no twists, no REAL answers. Everyone expected the 'ending'. But it was the little questions that they refused to address which really drove the show. I guess the writers contorted the plot so much that they had to cop out. The subjects just got too complex for them to deal with and they decided to ignore the bulk of their setups. Nice one guys.
The whole thing looked fucking cheap too. Rant done. Fuck lost.
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Post by Steala on May 26, 2010 21:03:43 GMT -1
Carter, you mentioned Kimmel's theory. Did you watch the entire episode of Kimmel then? Did you see the guy crying at the beginning after the finale ended? It was hilarious. When somebody said 'are they all dead?' they were like... 'um... definitely not.' I don't even care that they were... whether it was real or not. It could go either way, but I do not think they were dead on the island. I'm not really sure if that's what you meant or not though. They were dead in the 'flash sideways', of course. To me, that's at least better than having a clone in random alternate universe 403 where Oceanic 815 didn't crash and telling his story.
I lowered my expectations for the mysteries of the island being solved dramatically a few seasons ago when I realized that Lindelof and Cuse just made shit up as they went along, not knowing how or if they were going to solve the mysteries they came up with, and sometimes, not even intending to. |
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Post by Carter on May 26, 2010 22:09:44 GMT -1
yeah, i saw kimmel.... the entire show was so funny. In fact i am now watching him on a regular basis because of that.
"Richard, i didn't know you were 1/4 raccoon" or something along the lines of that.
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Post by Steala on May 26, 2010 22:12:30 GMT -1
Yeah, he has his moments. He's only the third best late night host after Craig Ferguson and Conan O'Brien, though. |
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Post by MetalBlade on May 27, 2010 21:24:39 GMT -1
That was a great big load of fucking shit.
I agree with everything Steve said. He just could word it better than me.
I would've got banned.
Fuck lost. |
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Post by Woo on May 28, 2010 0:03:48 GMT -1
I thought it was a pretty darn good episode myself.
I wish they had tied a few of the mysteries up though. I mean when Miles and Richard were in the boat during the storm could they not have had a three second clip of Sawyer, Miles, Juliet and Farraday etc appear infront of them and begin shooting to tie up that random question.
I took Steala's view. The characters on the island were not dead at all. Christian said that some died before him- Shannon, Charlie, Sayid etc, whereas others died long after him- Kate, Sawyer etc. It was kind of like the afterlife. Or my theory is that it was mainly in Jack's head so that he would die feeling happy.
Clearly the side stories were only created for the happy ending moment, which worked very well imo, but they could have tied up one or two things more. There weren't many truly unanswered questions, but they could have solved some of the easier ones like the above mentioned boat moment from Season 5.
All in all I didn't like it at first, but the more I thought about it the more I liked it and I am sad to bid farwell to a great series.
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Post by Carter on May 28, 2010 14:08:03 GMT -1
lol Steala for making our late night dicussion a spoiler alert. anyway, regarding your post. A, I love Conan but since he is gone i needed a new late night show to watch so kimmel fit the spot perfectly. B, I can't understand what Craig Ferguson say's so thus i do not watch him. C, Kimmel is amazing after this..... www.youtube.com/watch?v=axwO6BkCtIo |
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Post by Steala on May 28, 2010 22:16:49 GMT -1
B, I can't understand what Craig Ferguson say's so thus i do not watch him. Really? I don't find him hard to understand at all. |
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Post by Electra on Aug 3, 2014 14:23:55 GMT -1
Just saw the finale. It was fucking horrible. I hate this show now. I've been giving it chances to redeem itself since it started getting crap in season 3. I feel like there has been the occassional brilliant moment, but ultimately the show has just been unfaithful... fucking me over and hoping I wouldn't call it on it. When things started getting really bad... I stood by. I let it happen. I remembered the good times... hoping that one day, it would all come together. Make our relationship stronger. Now... now it's like it just raped and killed my entire family. On the same day it proposed to me... There'll be no falling in love again after this. Fuck that. Fuck Lost. Aimless and contradictory tripe posing as intellectual mulling. The producers said they had a direction from the start. This episode... hell... the last 3.5 seasons are evidence of just how little they had. When somebody said 'are they all dead?' they were like... 'um... definitely not.' I don't even care that they were... whether it was real or not. And frankly, I would normally be happy with that conclusion -- were it not at the end of 60 minutes of lameness laden with 1.5 hours of god damned commercials. What I really care about is that the final episode was completely against the grain of the series... particularly the first seasons. The good ones... remember? It had such cliched imagery... So much slow motion sappy crap... Lame, predictible dialogue. But worst of all.... no twists, no REAL answers. Everyone expected the 'ending'. But it was the little questions that they refused to address which really drove the show. I guess the writers contorted the plot so much that they had to cop out. The subjects just got too complex for them to deal with and they decided to ignore the bulk of their setups. Nice one guys. The whole thing looked fucking cheap too. Rant done. Fuck lost. This. I missed this thread the first time around and recently binge watched Lost. Man, I wish I hadn't bothered. The first couple of seasons were great and I stuck with it when it faltered but the finale was just... Wow... My seven year old could have constructed a better story arc and for them to then say they had a plan all along? My arse. |
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