I’ve been a fan of this show since the beginning. But I’m starting to get a sinking feeling. After two seasons of mysterious beasts, hallucinations, coincidences, impossible physics, characters with dual identities, briefly glimpsed background details, interlocking story archs and unexplained character motivations, I’m beginning to feel that the producers and writers are as lost as the rest of us.
It seems increasingly unlikely that all this can ever be tied up in a satisfying conclusion. And even if it could, how am I supposed to remember that the women in the cafe in episode 12 of season 4 was sitting in a coffee shop owned by Sayid’s brother’s nephew, reading a book about a guy also named Sayid whose phone number is the same as the zip code of the girl who Walt took to the prom whose father once went on safari with a guy who looked exactly like Sayid’s brother’s nephew but with different hair? Times fifty?
My prediction is that after a couple more seasons of the same, audience numbers will go down, the show will be cancelled in mid-season with no finale. A few months later one of the writers will publish a cheap paperback novel which ties up all the loose ends. It will be overstocked at the “Everything’s A Dollar” store. I’ll buy it but never get around to reading it.
The end.
Funny. I never have any trouble remembering any of the details. That’s most of the fun.
People are expecting too much.
Will every coincidence or reference be explained? No. They’ve flat out said that some of the stuff on the map in the hatch will never enter in the show or be explained. They know they’ve got an obsessive fanbase, and they’re playing with us, but some of the stuff that stuff is just background detail that’s not meant to be filled out, some of it is fans seeing importance that’s not there, or red herrings.
Do they know the important stuff? I think they do. They can explain what the Others and the Dharma project is, what the smoke monster is, why Locke was healed, etc. And they can wrap it all up satisfactory (to most, at least, some people will displeased no matter what) in six episodes or less. All the rest of this business and drama is what happens in between.
Wow, talk about a crappy thread title.
I came in here ready to bust some heads if this thread was announcing the seried Finale. But no, it’s a thread discussing the possibilities inherent to what a series finale would entail…
My theory from the beginning has been that they started out with an island show based on the “Forbidden Planet” concept - the first four or five episodes made it abundantly clear that that’s exactly what was going on - and then when the show’s popularity took off, they realized that they needed to come up with something else, so they’ve just sort of been writing their way out of that in a panic ever since.