I think it was because I wasn’t wrapped up in solving the “mystery”. I just liked the characters - the fact that their story made no sense didn’t bother me.
It was the greatest con ever pulled in TV history. In fact, it was the ultimate long-con.
They were great characters, and the writing was well-crafted, yet fun as well (remember the five different nicknames Sawyer’d have for each Islander? I think he called Hurley “Stay-Puft” at one point).
I know! I’ll just pretend there WAS no final episode. The writers died suddenl–were lost in a plane crash over the Pacific-- and the series had to end with unresolved loose ends. (4,815,162,342 of them)
But that unfilmed last episode would have tied everything together “without magic” as was promised, and explained the relationship between Kate’s horse and the polar bear.
I went to a lot of effort to not watch this show because someone at work told me about the polar bear on a tropical island.
But I cannot help but be intrigued about the horse and polar bear relationship.
Was this a platonic thing?
The horse only wanted to be friends, much to the polar bears remorse. There was a bizarre, almost pornographic, dream sequence that showed where the polar bear wanted to take the relationship, but the less said of that, the better.
Of horse.
I mean, of course.
The real meaning of the ending was… well, it all starts off as… you know, if you look at it from a certain perspective… Oh hell. It’s complicated!
What happened, happened. Deal with it, people.
Do you hate many other shows because you completely misunderstand them?
For instance, maybe you hate the Sopranos because in your imagination you found out that in the end he never had that initial panic attack that drove him to Dr Melfi. He died and the entire series was a dream.
I wouldn’t blame you. Personally I’m going to be furious when I decide in my heart that Walter White died before the first season of Breaking Bad and the entire series never happened.
Who says I completely misunderstand anything?
And further, who says I hate this show? I apologize for somehow offending you. :rolleyes:
I absolutely detested the ending, and considering the major plot-device of the entire series was the mysterious island, which was pretty much glossed over by the explanation department, I can’t see any reason why there mightn’t be a whole host of mysterious theories I could surmise to explain that all the Losties were indeed dead the entire series long, and Christian’s explanation was just a part of some further nefarious, mysterious scheme cooked up by a third faction apart from MiB and Jacob.
I could likely go through all the episodes and make citation after citation to support my theory, as well.
But I will never watch an episode of the series again, because none of the action ever mattered. “You’re all just waiting to move on together. Except for her. And him. Oh, yeah, and a bunch of your highschool friends. And those of you who had a great relationship with your parents? Well, your parents are NOT invited. And the at-one-time seemingly integral-to-the-plot Walt? Not invited. But the rest of you can shuffle off to the Next Stage of Existence now. The End.”
According to something I read (I don’t remember if it was a fan theory or writer comment) the whole point of the Jack/Locke thing was that they were BOTH wrong. It’s not ALL science and it’s not ALL faith. Jack (allegedly) learned to trust science and faith, Locke stayed a credulous idiot until he died.
You didn’t offend me. I’ve just never heard of somebody deciding they’re going to make up their own ending to a television series and then hating it. It seems completely ridiculous. If you’re going to ignore the actual ending at least pretend the ending was something you liked.
Bottom line: if you think they were dead the entire show you are 100% incorrect and misunderstood the show.
No–there’s a perfectly good fan theory that the last minutes of the show were seconds after the plane crashed and the show was Jack’s hallucination…mainly 'cause the last shot we got (or one of them) was the plane, which Jack shouldn’t have been anywhere near. .
I don’t personally buy this theory, but a lot of fans do
And it’s a horrible theory, because ABC threw that in there as a “decompression” point. The LOST team had nothing to do with it.
I’ve been trying to stay out of this thread because thinking of the ending of that show whose name I will not mention still drives me nuts.
My username was chosen because of the show, to post about episodes during the final season. My wife and I never missed a single first showing of an episode through the entire series (though admittedly that says more about the pathetic state of our social lives with two young children than
how much we were fans of the show).
My wife lost faith and kept saying during the last season that they were never going to get around to explaining anything, that the writers were just pulling it out of their asses, but I had faith that all would be revealed in a satisfying, loose-ends tying, completed Rubix cube of a conclusion. So I can sympathize with Locke’s character.
Instead they try to explain the mysteries of the island with some quasi-mystical folderol about the golden creamy center of the island and Cain and Abel-like brothers who fight over it for several
centuries, or something. Then they try to inject heartfelt emotion into the whole mess by having everybody live happily ever after in heaven (not to knock those who enjoyed that ending, just calling it like i saw it).
It’s not like they couldn’t have come up with a better story- that “Lost Experience” stuff they did online to keep viewers’ interest between the 1st and 2nd seasons was pretty intriguing. Like the idea that the numbers were an equation (Valenzetti?) that predicted the end of the world, and different factions like Dharma, Hanso and/or the others were frantically trying to change some variable in the equation and save the world. Wasn’t that all supposed to be canon from the writers? But they dropped all those interesting plotline threads. And as this poster points out, it wasn’t as if the science-fiction mystery stuff was dropped in favor of character development because the characters all had crappy resolutions. Oh yeah, except for the happy ever after in Heaven part.
Ok, rant over now.
I guess I’m the only one who appreciated it LOL. Not only did the characters have several arcs, they got resolutions both in this life, and after death.
Not the only one! Like JohnT, I watched for the character development, not for the mystery and thought this had some of the best character arcs I’ve ever seen. The mysteries were just a backdrop for the characters to evolve and I didn’t need resolution to be satisfied. Because of that, I loved the series and the ending. LOVED the ending. I’m not ashamed to admit it either. 
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