6321

I would go see a Lost movie for one reason - an R rating would allow them to use the kind of language you KNOW real people in their situation would use, like

“HOLY FUCKING SHIT WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT IT LOOKS LIKE SMOKE OH FUCK IT JUST KILLED JOE AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!”

6322

In last week’s episode, why didn’t Sun tell Jin to leave her so he could raise their daughter?

Lindelof: That’s a great question. And our only answer for it is that Sun only had about 30 seconds to process the fact that she was going to die. Sun and Jin never had a relationship together with that daughter. Sun had a relationship with her, but Jin did not — she was just a picture on a phone to him. In that moment, she did not tell Jin to leave her side. Partially, in that moment, maybe there was a part of her that wanted him to stay with her. Who knows? We’re not really willing to say why characters don’t say certain things in certain moments. All we can say is: She did not say that. We did not want that scene to be about their daughter, we wanted it to be about them reuniting.

6323

Weak. I can’t honestly believe that any parent in their last moments doesn’t have thoughts about their children.

6324

“They’re coming out of the walls!”

6325

I, think I want to believe?

6326

The final episode will be feature length.

6327

We’re not really willing to say why characters don’t say certain things in certain moments. All we can say is: She did not say that.

Really? Because I feel that’s exactly what a writer should do with his characters.

6328

This assumes that the writer is inside the head of all of the characters, driving them around like the private god of his own personal universe. This isn’t entirely correct for a television show like Lost, which is largely written by community and more focused on presentation of events than, for example, a book where you’re actually inside a character’s head. I don’t blame them for attempting to avoid explicitly laying out exactly what every character is thinking all the time and instead simply focusing on presenting the events that they want to present. The idea, I think, is that you are supposed to judge the characters by their actions. If you think that Sun and Jin are both sons of bitches for holding hands to death, this way you’re free to do that.

6329

Characters need to be believable and neither, mostly Sun, are in this case. I give Jin a bit of a pass because he wasn’t even aware of his daughter until just a short time before they died and never even met the child. Sun on the other hand spent years raising the child. Her not insisting that Jin leave to raise their child is just jaw droppingly bizarre. The writers want to kill the characters off and have a heart wrenching moment while it happened. They could have done this in a way that doesn’t strike the audience as strange. Both could have been trapped or Sun could have insisted Jin leave but when he finally did it was too late and he didn’t make it out. To explicitly avoid discussion of their child in that moment was just bad writing.

6330

I personally didn’t think it was all that weird. Like the writers said, they only had about thirty seconds to process that they were going to die, but it’s not like Sun is like an unemployed single mother or whatever - she’s insanely rich, and knows that if anything happened her daughter would be well taken care of.

I would imagine, too, when she made her decision to go back to the Deadly Death Island Of Mysterious Mystery that she might have come to terms with the fact she might not return.

6331

I agree that it really isn’t that weird.

Sun also doesn’t have any good reason to be hopeful Jin is going to make it off the island even if he makes it off the sub.

6332

I didn’t take it to mean that they didn’t know what was going through their mind, just that they weren’t willing to outright state it for others. I see a lot of authors/creators decline to describe motivations and though processes beyond what is in the text or on screen. They feel the work should stand for itself and people are free to interpret from there.

6333

This is the state of mind I assumed most, if not all, of the characters that went back to the island had.

6334

Alright. Now we’re fucking talking.

Too bad they didn’t have this shit nailed down and spooling out for the past 58+ seasons.

6335

Or - hell - even, say, the last …

6336

That was…interesting.

So the nameless being really is… a nameless being. That inhabits the forms of the dead it has come into contact with… and takes on some of their characteristics?

6337

So what language were Mom and, um, Step-mom speaking? Greek?

6338

So the first form it took was its own former body then?

6339

I was sure they’d end up that way - but it sounded pretty Romance to me.

6340

It was Latin. I heard the mother (not Mother) say “Mihi nomen est Claudia.”