LOST- 6th and Final Season (NO SPOILERS)

Kilgore_Trout · May 2010

thanks whoprincess... might have to check out that book... sounds interesting

Pepe Silvia · May 2010

South of Seattle wrote:

I guy at my work was thinking the sideways world was Jack's own imagination and the characters were just playing out how he wanted them to play out.

having just watched the last episode i'm kind of thinking the same thing.

rrivers · May 2010

Kilgore_Trout wrote:

whoprincess wrote:

I haven't read any Stephen King but friends have told me that his plots always come down to good vs. evil. Is he unoriginal?

good example... similarly terrible plot... the key difference with king is that he is excellent at developing characters... thats why my favorite work of his isnt the sci-fi/horror stuff

if its true that there are only 6 ways a story can go, good writers have certainly taken those 6 paths in a whole lot of directions

Again Kilgore you are right on. I'm a big King fan and the good vs. evil is present in his work. Another similiar thing he does is blow up things at the end of novels.

Kilgore is right about King's development of characters. Note to Lost creators: if you are going to sell us that the show is about the characters and not the mystery you have been shoving down our throats for six years, you might want to make the characters interesting. King work in his Dark Tower series took a nosedive much like Lost did. I won't ruin it for those who haven't read it. The Dark Tower still had many more redeeming points that Lost just did not have.

rrivers · May 2010

Thanks, whoprincess, for that list. And thanks for the ticket drop info via pm a few weeks ago. I got a ticket!

What did you do grauate work in?

Who Princess · May 2010

rrivers wrote:

Thanks, whoprincess, for that list. And thanks for the ticket drop info via pm a few weeks ago. I got a ticket!

What did you do grauate work in?

Congrats! I wondered how it worked out. Always glad to hear when good things happen for people.

To answer your question, I have a Master's in English. :shh:
But that was long ago in a galaxy far away.

LikeAnOcean · May 2010

pdalowsky wrote:

LikeAnOcean wrote:

I'm interested to know how Kate, Sawyer, Claire, Alpert and so on lived the rest of their lives off the island now. Is Sawyer back to conning and so forth.. and also the adventures of Hurley and Ben protecting the island and helping Desmond get home..

we can only hope the extra 20 mins on the boxset deal with this stuff but I doubt it

Is there really going to be an extra 20 minutes? Where did you find this info out?

I already have seasons 1 through 5.. hopefully its not just on the boxset, but also just season 6.

tvismyfriend · May 2010

LikeAnOcean wrote:

pdalowsky wrote:

LikeAnOcean wrote:

I'm interested to know how Kate, Sawyer, Claire, Alpert and so on lived the rest of their lives off the island now. Is Sawyer back to conning and so forth.. and also the adventures of Hurley and Ben protecting the island and helping Desmond get home..

we can only hope the extra 20 mins on the boxset deal with this stuff but I doubt it

Is there really going to be an extra 20 minutes? Where did you find this info out?

I already have seasons 1 through 5.. hopefully its not just on the boxset, but also just season 6.

TV Guide is reporting that there will be as much as 20 minutes of additional footage on the upcoming Season 6 DVD release, due Aug. 24 on DVD and Blu-ray.

"It's in production now," a source told the site. "Damon [Lindelof] and Carlton [Cuse] wanted to offer fans answers to additional questions they couldn't get to in the body of the final show."

http://dvd.ign.com/articles/109/1092287p1.html

LikeAnOcean · May 2010

tvismyfriend wrote:

TV Guide is reporting that there will be as much as 20 minutes of additional footage on the upcoming Season 6 DVD release, due Aug. 24 on DVD and Blu-ray.

"It's in production now," a source told the site. "Damon [Lindelof] and Carlton [Cuse] wanted to offer fans answers to additional questions they couldn't get to in the body of the final show."

http://dvd.ign.com/articles/109/1092287p1.html

Awesome!.. Definitely picking this up on Blu-ray. The other seasons are the best looking Blu-rays I've seen.

jervin007 · May 2010

LikeAnOcean wrote:

tvismyfriend wrote:

TV Guide is reporting that there will be as much as 20 minutes of additional footage on the upcoming Season 6 DVD release, due Aug. 24 on DVD and Blu-ray.

"It's in production now," a source told the site. "Damon [Lindelof] and Carlton [Cuse] wanted to offer fans answers to additional questions they couldn't get to in the body of the final show."

http://dvd.ign.com/articles/109/1092287p1.html

Awesome!.. Definitely picking this up on Blu-ray. The other seasons are the best looking Blu-rays I've seen.

It is going to be hard to resist, but I think I am going to pass on the August release. Why? Because the first release is always good, but they always have something better to release later. With Christmas a few months later I could see them doing an even better set. I guess we'll have to see though.

rrivers · May 2010

tvismyfriend wrote:

LikeAnOcean wrote:

we can only hope the extra 20 mins on the boxset deal with this stuff but I doubt it

Is there really going to be an extra 20 minutes? Where did you find this info out?

I already have seasons 1 through 5.. hopefully its not just on the boxset, but also just season 6.

TV Guide is reporting that there will be as much as 20 minutes of additional footage on the upcoming Season 6 DVD release, due Aug. 24 on DVD and Blu-ray.

"It's in production now," a source told the site. "Damon [Lindelof] and Carlton [Cuse] wanted to offer fans answers to additional questions they couldn't get to in the body of the final show."

http://dvd.ign.com/articles/109/1092287p1.html[/quote]

"wanted to offer fans answers to additional questions they couldn't get to in the body of the final show and sell DVDs."

jervin007 · May 2010

LikeAnOcean wrote:

I'm interested to know how Kate, Sawyer, Claire, Alpert and so on lived the rest of their lives off the island now. Is Sawyer back to conning and so forth.. and also the adventures of Hurley and Ben protecting the island and helping Desmond get home..

Richard Alpert is dead before the plane reaches LAX. All those years of immortality caught up with him real fast.

Poncier · May 2010

For those who theorize that the end shot of the wreckage negated what Christian said and that they all died in the plane crash, ABC put that in there, not the producers:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtra ... mages.html

'Lost' exclusive: ABC sets the record straight about the series finale's plane crash images
May 25, 2010 | 3:09 pm

You know those Oceanic 815 plane crash images that ran after Jack's (Matthew Fox) eye closed and the "Lost" logo appeared on our TV screens? Some "Lost" fans and TV critics have wondered if they were a last Easter egg from the producers, a clue meant to lead us to conclude that no one survived Oceanic 815's crash landing — and therefore everything we've seen over the last six years never really happened.

Well, ABC wants to clear the air: Those photographs were not part of the "Lost" story at all. The network added them to soften the transition from the moving ending of the series to the 11 p.m. news and never considered that it would confuse viewers about the actual ending of the show.

"The images shown during the end credits of the 'Lost' finale, which included shots of Oceanic 815 on a deserted beach, were not part of the final story but were a visual aid to allow the viewer to decompress before heading into the news," an ABC spokesperson wrote in an e-mail Tuesday.

That means, Losties, that we were not supposed to think that Christian Shepherd (John Terry) is a liar. What Christian told his son, when they were reunited at the church, should serve as guidance for our interpretation of the series' ending.

So let's review: Christian told Jack that he was dead and everyone else in the church was too — some had died before Jack, as we already knew, and some died long after. The sideways flashes then were a step in everyone's after-lives, a way to reconnect before moving on permanently. While there still may be unanswered questions related to that religious and spiritual conclusion to the "Lost" story, the photographs were really just a nostalgic, transitional touch added by ABC executives — and not executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.

Love or hate it, that's the final answer.

— Maria Elena Fernandez

Newch91 · May 2010

That never crossed my mind.

Poncier wrote:

For those who theorize that the end shot of the wreckage negated what Christian said and that they all died in the plane crash, ABC put that in there, not the producers:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtra ... mages.html

'Lost' exclusive: ABC sets the record straight about the series finale's plane crash images
May 25, 2010 | 3:09 pm

You know those Oceanic 815 plane crash images that ran after Jack's (Matthew Fox) eye closed and the "Lost" logo appeared on our TV screens? Some "Lost" fans and TV critics have wondered if they were a last Easter egg from the producers, a clue meant to lead us to conclude that no one survived Oceanic 815's crash landing — and therefore everything we've seen over the last six years never really happened.

Well, ABC wants to clear the air: Those photographs were not part of the "Lost" story at all. The network added them to soften the transition from the moving ending of the series to the 11 p.m. news and never considered that it would confuse viewers about the actual ending of the show.

"The images shown during the end credits of the 'Lost' finale, which included shots of Oceanic 815 on a deserted beach, were not part of the final story but were a visual aid to allow the viewer to decompress before heading into the news," an ABC spokesperson wrote in an e-mail Tuesday.

That means, Losties, that we were not supposed to think that Christian Shepherd (John Terry) is a liar. What Christian told his son, when they were reunited at the church, should serve as guidance for our interpretation of the series' ending.

So let's review: Christian told Jack that he was dead and everyone else in the church was too — some had died before Jack, as we already knew, and some died long after. The sideways flashes then were a step in everyone's after-lives, a way to reconnect before moving on permanently. While there still may be unanswered questions related to that religious and spiritual conclusion to the "Lost" story, the photographs were really just a nostalgic, transitional touch added by ABC executives — and not executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.

Love or hate it, that's the final answer.

— Maria Elena Fernandez

NoOne'sRival · May 2010

Lost final episode sucked...the end.

dimitrispearljam · May 2010

NJPJ wrote:

Lost final episode sucked...the end.

tatararam.soutien!!!!

gregkitefan · May 2010

NJPJ wrote:

Lost final episode sucked...the end.

I enjoyed it and no matter what you say will not change that.
The end.

Hugh Freaking Dillon · May 2010

were you a fan all the way through? what didn't you like about it?

NJPJ wrote:

Lost final episode sucked...the end.

rrivers · May 2010

NJPJ wrote:

Lost final episode sucked...the end.

Finally someone making sense on this thread!

MayDay10 · May 2010

After a few days thought... Im not a fan of the ending, but it could be a lot worse... most of the time a finale doesnt come close to expectations and could even ruin a series (see Sopranos, The). I think the writers needed some sort of major event and/or major twist at the end. The whole "purgatory" thing was just fabricated from material introduced in the this season.

Also, if you look at the final conflict it is pretty unsatisfying. Like WTF was the point of Ben turning in the 2nd last episode? The final fight wasnt good at all, there were much better fights throughout the series. The final resolution to the whole thing was unplug a mysterious plug so light stops shining in a cave, throw the evil guy onto rocks, then plug the thing back in?

I saw much better conclusions written by fans on the internet over the course of the past few years. Pretty bad writing here iMO. The series (potentially one of the greatest serieses ever IMO) went out with a whimper. Also take into account that fans have been looking forward to a huge "mind f*ck" at the end for 6 years.

Divka · May 2010

NJPJ wrote:

Lost final episode sucked...the end.

I thought it was absolutely beautiful. The lives the characters lived on the island and because of the island were filled with hardship and tragedy, and the island story did not end happily. But those same people found a way to give their story a happy ending, and they did it together.

I thought the final episode was poetic - a really lovely way to wrap up a story unlike any other before it.

LOST- 6th and Final Season (NO SPOILERS)

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