They’ve more or less admitted that they didn’t know at the beginning, but when they were able to strike a deal at the end of season 3 to close up shop at the end of season 6, the show really got a sense of purpose: they needed to tie up loose ends. There’s going to be unanswered questions at the end of the day, but I think they’re doing the job more or less admirably so far. Let’s face it: stuff like “the Numbers” was never going to have a satisfying answer.
HRose
6202
I guess not many who follow Lost also read Steven Erikson’s series. But I wrote this today on my blog. Kinda amusing.
Maybe I have hallucinations but I’m seeing recurring themes everywhere.
There are some obvious analogies directly between the book and Lost. Especially this last season of Lost. Consider also that the book came out in 2002, so well before the TV series could influence it.
Some strict analogies in House of Chains with Lost:
- there’s a mysterious island (Drift Avalii) said to inhabited by spirits.
- this island moves. It “drifts”, moving in a kind of elliptical path.
- Some boats end up crashing against it (and no one returns).
- The island holds some kind of power, and there are guardians stationed there protecting this power.
- Interesting: contrarily to Lost, the guardians have failed their mission. Only one guardian is left.
- These guardians are very sad and miserable, since they had to sacrifice themselves.
- The guardians are obviously immortal (if they aren’t directly killed, I guess).
Then there is this other main plot thread:
- A god is trapped unjustly and only wants to be free.
- The god, who originally wouldn’t want to mingle with human affairs, tries to seek allies.
- He finds his allies through analogies between theirs and his own story. So people who also were trapped or suffered in their lives.
- If the god is freed, the world ends.
‘What we came here to do … leave!’
Curtains close …
Wader
6204
What did Sayid say to Jack before the SPOILER
Explosion? My ac turned on and I missed it…
He mentioned that Locke wants Desmond dead, and where he is - and that Jack is the one who will do it.
Lapidus was true to form right to the end. Always a grumbling quip at the ready.
Wasn’t just your ac, the backround effects were so loud, I missed it too.
Anybody else notice the first aid kit behind the sub commander?? I think I’ve played more Bioshock than Hurley.
This is getting depressing, 5+ years invested in characters, and it’s going to end in a bloodbath.
SPOILER BELOW
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What…the fuck…just happened?! Really? We lost 3 major characters and a loveable minor one in the space of 5 minutes? I guess they needed to trim the cast down for the big final showdown, but holy shit.
Also, do they really expect us to believe that Hurley swam out of a sinking submarine up 100 feet to the surface and then into shore whil dragging a nearly helpless Kate along for the ride?
Sayid told Jack that Desmond was stuck at the bottom of a well and that Locke wants him dead. Jack asked Sayid why he was telling him this and Sayid said “because Jack, it’s going to be you”.
drewl
6210
Yeah, I heard that pretty clearly.
Where’s Miles? and Widmore?
And they keep going round in circles, trying to get away from Widmore, or get away from the island, only to have things blow up, then regroup, then run away from Widmore again…how many times has this happened?
With the Oxygen tank, wouldn’t he just need to let buoyancy take control and float to safety?
… We should head back to the beach.
SPOILERS:
This week’s episode - The Poseidon Adventure, with Sayid as Gene Hackman, Hurley as Shelley Winters, that pilot guy as Roddy McDowell, and Jin and Sun as the spunky ethnics who obligingly die early on so we can concentrate on the real stars!
DT1
6214
“MACGRUBER…3 SECONDS!”
Love the show but I’m not digging the direction right now. Hopefully, there will be a hail mary at the end.
Yes because Erikson is high literature and people who watch things like Lost are frankly idiots who’d never understand that kind of intricate plotting and writing.
— Alan
The way that sub scene went I was kind of surprised they didn’t have Hurley get stuck in a porthole, trapping the others behind him. That or have everyone die of the bends once they surfaced. There was just a whole hell of a lot of indiscriminate killing going on there.
Yet here you are, the second busiest poster in this thread. Perhaps you could direct your energy to pursuits you find more personally fulfilling.
I think you missed Alan’s sarcasm. Unless I missed yours…:)
I guess I did - that flew right over my head. Apparently I wasn’t familiar enough with Alan’s posting history in this thread.
Apologies, Alan. I’m leaving my post intact because it’s the right thing to do, and because you can do cool stuff with that URL. :)
XPav
6220
Ever week this season I seem to complain about the gratuitous killing of background characters. At least when they kill main characters they put some emotional oomph along with it.
