Or maybe, just maybe … Ricardo Montalbán. Instead of a kid looking into a snow globe at the end we get CGI renditions of the late Mr. Roarke and Tattoo telling us this has just been one big extended episode of Fantasy Island.
DT1
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Jacob and Jack are sitting on a log staring out at sea.
Jacob hands Jack a cup of wine.
<Fade to black>
/cue “Open Arms”
Why do they even give interviews?
The Sopranos ending IS great. I’d be immensely pleased if the Lost finale ended as well.
Humor me.
I’ve only watched one episode of “Lost”, the first one. I thought they were in purgatory, like, 5 years ago. Is this guess plausible or false?
The difference being that Sopranos didn’t hitch multiple seasons to some grand, supernatural mystery.
At this point? Irrelevant.
My point is the ending, no matter what it was, was always going to be polarizing. Always.
So people hating on Lindlecuse for their views on the Sopranos finale is silly. And so is the condescending attitude of those who don’t watch Lost.
The Sopranos had a nonending. It was the definition of “make up whatever you want, I can’t be bothered to write it”.
That’s bad enough for a show that really only had three choices of where to go: he lives on as always, he dies, he’s arrested.
Now imagine the Lost creators take that route since they admire it so much. Lost could go in any of a thousand directions, they have to pick one and explain it to the audience. Talking like a nonending would be an option for Lost is perplexing to me. If there was ever a story that NEEDS an ending, Lost is it.
Television seems to be addicted to the metaphorical non-ending.
It’s like everybody working in TV has spent the last half century trying to outdo the prisoner.
That is not the Sopranos ending at all.
I keep thinking back when the smoke monster was referred to as the Island’s defence mechanism…
jemann
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I suspect the tone of the interview may sound arrogant or condescending to people not familiar with the podcasts. They’re not above mocking their own mistakes…
Having not ventured into this thread before for fear of spoilers, I’m kind of surprised at the level of hate. I thought the show had improved a lot after the confusion of seasons 2-3, and I’ve been (mostly) delighted by the answers they’ve been giving out this season, especially when the answers are ambiguous or provided by untrustworthy sources. YMM drastically V, I guess.
Brain dump: I was also wondering how the mother managed to raze that entire village in such a short space of time. Maybe unkilllable until she’s finished her task? If she’s (another) Smoky, how come she leaves a regular body, when the MiB Smoky either copies or leaves behind its original body? I also don’t buy the “don’t let it speak” vulnerability - seems too much like a ploy to get the would-be-killer killed and/or avoiding persuasion (by the great deceiver).
Despite my vicious mocking of the whole episode - I just had to coin the name “UnMom” and then overdose on the whole UnThing, though I admittedly did it while not drinking an UnCola (I drank The Real Thing and not 7-Up, for those of you that remember that particular ad campaign) - I wasn’t entirely UnSatisfied with the episode from the mythic standpoint. They weren’t out to paint the Man in Black as simply evil, or Jacob as simply good. Both were scarred by decisions UnMom made, and things were more satisfyingly complex for it (oddly played as counter to the whole black-and-white thing).
The downside was trumpeting that this season was to be about answers and not questions, and then this episode followed the usual pattern of dribbling out the most grudging of information that left you with the insane desire to smack the writers around and shout “Give me some frigging information, godammit! No, don’t give me any self-justifying excuses like answers will only lead to more questions - I know evasion when I see it!” So frustration so near the end was inevitable, even if it is sufficient for telling the story.
It’s only funny in the context of Lost.
It’s probably the best punchline the show could’ve had - maybe right after ‘it was all a dream’.
Wish i could go back in time and stop myself from watching Lost for the first time.
Really? You haven’t had any fun with it at all over the last 6 yrs?
walTer
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This thread is clear evidence why Lost is such a great show.
This show is like Buffy the Vampire Slayer- it has some very entertaining high points. When it peaks, it PEAKS.
What it’s missing is Buffy’s cohesion. With Buffy you could tell they knew more or less where they were taking the show. This show has the Xfiles problem(minus losing cast, changing locations,etc)- you can tell the creators got lost in their own maze. Now they are just hacking their way out.
Now that I think of it, Xfiles’s ending was worse for me than the Sopranos ending. It was more of a betrayal. So if Lost ended like the Sopranos and not Xfiles I’d not be as disappointed. A nonending beats a straight up flushing of the show down the toilet in my book.
Oh i love the show, it has some really great episodes (mainly the ones with desmond), but it also has some very boring episodes (kate, koreans) and the constant feeling that they are making shit up as they go is horrible.
