RE: Lost...again.
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...Still processing.
Despite feeling more than a bit hoodwinked by all the "oooooh, spooky mystery! What does it all mean?" and having half of season 6 wasted on building towards a plot line that ultimately falls outside the scope of the show, I still think I liked what happened.
But, y'know, still processing.
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...Still processing.
Despite feeling more than a bit hoodwinked by all the "oooooh, spooky mystery! What does it all mean?" and having half of season 6 wasted on building towards a plot line that ultimately falls outside the scope of the show, I still think I liked what happened.
But, y'know, still processing.
However, I agree that the lack of definitive answers in terms of mythology was frustrating to say the least. It's curious to me that they decided to straddle the fence here-- They introduced so many zany sci-fi/fantasy concepts that tend to alienate the average prime time television viewer, however, they completely fail to fully flesh out or explain any of the mechanics and ideas that they present in this light, which then, in turn, alienates the more in-depth sci-fi/fantasy geek that wants to know what is going on. So you have to wonder who exactly they came up with this stuff for? Had you told me back in Season 1/Season 2 that half of this stuff wouldn't be explained, I probably would have stopped watching. However, I'm glad I didn't stop watching.
When I think back on the answers that they did provide, they were all kind of underwhelming, and they led to more questions, which ultimately lead back to the sense of "well, the true answer to all of this is something that cannot be explained or comprehended, so you need to take it on faith" (see, science vs. faith). I think the finale purposely didn't answer those questions in order to lead the audience down that path.
Now, anytime that you want to leave anything up to audience interpretation (which is a good thing, by the way), you're going to get someone who calls bullshit because it's definitely easier to say "it's whatever you think it is" than it is to say "it's this way, and that's canon." I guess I'd like to know, six months, a year from now, that the writers have their own interpretation of what all of this is and that they weren't just throwing building blocks into the sandbox (to mix metaphors) and let the audience write the show themselves.
That being said, I always have appreciated the quality of participation that Lost affords its viewers, and this very much falls within that paradigm. It's a show that assumes intelligence from its viewers and that not everything needs to be expressly spelled out.
In conclusion, there's certain aspects I'm very OK with. I'm OK with not knowing what in the hell that light is, where it came from, or what exactly it does. I like a little pre-midichlorian Force-like mystery. However, I do want to know other things. What were the numbers? What about the wheel made the island skip through time? Why was Walt "special"? Who was Allison Janney's character and where did she come from (my previous theory was that she was a time-looped Kate sent back to be a custodian of the timeline, hence "whatever happened, happened")? How the hell did that Dharma crate end up in the middle of the jungle in Season 2?
...I guess I should have just made this reply my post, haha.
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My friend on facebook who I'm having essentially the same discussion with just said she heard they left so many things open so they can make a movie.
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Somehow, that doesn't seem like their style.
I assumed, at my most cynical, that it was to bolster DVD sales. I read an interview about the final episode where Cuse and Lindelof said, and I'm paraphrasing here, that they would explain stuff like why Walt is special, just "not necessarily in the episode". I took that to mean DVD special features. Maybe they mean a movie.
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