Failsafe
Sunday is the end of Lost. We've been following it religiously since the end of season 1 when we started watching it in summer reruns. Lost nights have always been do not disturb at our house. We've even scheduled things so as not to interfere with our Lost watching. We've had season premiere and season ending gatherings with island food and Dharma labels on everything. It's pretty much been our top TV fandom for the past 6 years.
I haven't been majorly disappointed with the show except a few times. Kate's a boring character and all her episodes sucked. Nikki and Paulo were a terrible idea. Ana Lucia was also a terrible idea. Ji-Yeon was the worst episode in the history of TV. More recently Across The Sea gave us an entire episode without any of the main cast, magic waterfalls, wheels that hook up to "systems" in cave walls, bronze age quantum physics, and the long awaited, horrible reveal of who the Adam and Eve skeletons were (two characters met not only in the final season, but one only in the episode it was revealed in). After everything they always seem to bring it back to something completely awesome though.
The big thing on everyone's minds is what questions are going to be answered on Sunday and what are going to be forgotten. I, like many, was extremely worried that they were going to phone in the ending without answering a lot. That still may be the case, but after watching the Times Talk Live event last night at the theatre, I personally have a better understanding of some of it.
As much as I've liked the show, after last night's interviews I don't think the writers are very effective at getting their points across. There are so many questions that people have that the writers seem to think have been sufficiently answered. Until you hear their reasoning though, it's not obvious. When they sit down and explain how they believe the question was already answered you go "Oh yeah. That makes sense." but the unfortunate part is that you need them to spell it out for you before it makes any sense. That's just bad storytelling.
One of my big questions was what was the deal with Walt's powers and the Others kidnapping him, putting him in the room and giving him tests. I just didn't see how that was explained. Turns out, in the writers minds that was completely explained. The Others saw that this kid had powers and just wanted to study him and find out how they worked. Once they got him and saw the extent of the stuff he was doing they completely freaked out and sent him packing. That's really all there was to it, but it took them explaining it for me to really get it. And that's just one example of things they talked about last night.
So I think that's how the ending is going to go. There's going to be a lot of stuff that the fan community is going to be mad that it didn't get explained, but the writers believe it was. I would have been mad too, and I still may be on some things, but at least now I get that it's not so much out of lazyness and lack of care, but that the writers believe it was already explained well enough.
See you on the other side...
P.S. - It looks like a dog has been here...
I haven't been majorly disappointed with the show except a few times. Kate's a boring character and all her episodes sucked. Nikki and Paulo were a terrible idea. Ana Lucia was also a terrible idea. Ji-Yeon was the worst episode in the history of TV. More recently Across The Sea gave us an entire episode without any of the main cast, magic waterfalls, wheels that hook up to "systems" in cave walls, bronze age quantum physics, and the long awaited, horrible reveal of who the Adam and Eve skeletons were (two characters met not only in the final season, but one only in the episode it was revealed in). After everything they always seem to bring it back to something completely awesome though.
The big thing on everyone's minds is what questions are going to be answered on Sunday and what are going to be forgotten. I, like many, was extremely worried that they were going to phone in the ending without answering a lot. That still may be the case, but after watching the Times Talk Live event last night at the theatre, I personally have a better understanding of some of it.
As much as I've liked the show, after last night's interviews I don't think the writers are very effective at getting their points across. There are so many questions that people have that the writers seem to think have been sufficiently answered. Until you hear their reasoning though, it's not obvious. When they sit down and explain how they believe the question was already answered you go "Oh yeah. That makes sense." but the unfortunate part is that you need them to spell it out for you before it makes any sense. That's just bad storytelling.
One of my big questions was what was the deal with Walt's powers and the Others kidnapping him, putting him in the room and giving him tests. I just didn't see how that was explained. Turns out, in the writers minds that was completely explained. The Others saw that this kid had powers and just wanted to study him and find out how they worked. Once they got him and saw the extent of the stuff he was doing they completely freaked out and sent him packing. That's really all there was to it, but it took them explaining it for me to really get it. And that's just one example of things they talked about last night.
So I think that's how the ending is going to go. There's going to be a lot of stuff that the fan community is going to be mad that it didn't get explained, but the writers believe it was. I would have been mad too, and I still may be on some things, but at least now I get that it's not so much out of lazyness and lack of care, but that the writers believe it was already explained well enough.
See you on the other side...
P.S. - It looks like a dog has been here...