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[buttfacemakani]

Lost

so I don't know how to feel

Like I was ecstatic up until the last 5 minutes and then, I don't know.

Comments

[phoenixblaize]

Wow. That was...

They're such liars. People were saying all along that they were already dead and they're all like, "oh noes!"

Tired cliche is tired. All the stuff about time travel, numbers, bombs, EMPs, Dharma Initiative, all of that stuff was irrelevant. Hell, the Jacob/Smokey epic grudge is irrelevant to Jack's journey of self discovery into the afterlife. Pffft.

So, yeah, that was dumb. I wanted it all to be a a story written on a computer screen by a monkey smoking a cigar and it ends with him typing "the numbers." Or it was all Vincent's dream and you see the dog twitching in his sleep.

[karyyu]

but... they weren't already dead.

The flash-sideways was apparently like an afterlife/purgatory meeting place for the losties. They all died at their separate times: the Kwons and Sayid in the sub, Jack in the jungle, Charlie when he drowned etc. Hurley and Ben probs guarded the Island for who knows how long, and Alpert, LaPidus, Miles, Sawyer, Kate, and Claire probably lived the rest of their lives out off the Island.

Then they met up during the afterlife in order to pass through to "someplace" together.

So yeah they were all dead in the end, but not throughout the whole length of the show like some people thought.

[curry23]

and yet either way it was still a cop-out on the writer's part. X D

[novangla]

It's not really a cop-out, because the sideways world wasn't meant to EXPLAIN anything. As someone I watched it with said, "It's an epilogue." They knew what they were doing from the time they invented sideways-land, and sure, maybe they fooled some of us into thinking it was an alternate reality instead of the next life

[curry23]

okay, not a cop-out. But still leaves an incomplete feeling to me. X D

Perfect Icon btw!

[redreh_esila]

MTE :)

[phoenixblaize]

The plane wreckage during the credits led me to believe that Alpert, Lapidus, Miles, Sawyer, Kate and Claire died. Seeing that made it more like they were all dead from the get go. Then seeing Michael's actor on Jimmy Kimmel after made it sound like he was still on the island because he hadn't moved on.

It just seemed to make all of the mysteries of the island completely unimportant while they made many seasons revolve around these ideas. There's no explanation for any of that because life doesn't explain things? That still feels more like a writing cop-out for me than some deep philosophical meaning to it.

[curry23]

agreed. the first four seasons were all about the awesome mysteries. Then in the last two switched to the "afterlife" idea. But if you go back to the first four it's totally all about the mysteries and the characters together.