In the pilot episode, they let Six think he’s leaving, but, ha, we wuz just foolin’! 'Twas all a lie! Demoralized yet? That’s the whole plan. That’s it. That’s all.
FREE FOR ALL: they hold a ceremony proclaiming that Six has won; he immediately calls on every villager who’ll listen to fight alongside him as he makes for the control room. Except, of course – ‘Twas all a lie! We wuz just foolin’! This was just about building up to a reveal we hoped you’d find demoralizing!
Again, that was it. They honestly thought that would break him.
SCHIZOID MAN: they put him face-to-face with a lookalike. “You know, you really do bear a remarkable resemblance; remarkable; your job, Number 12, will be to impersonate him. Take his sense of reality away. Once he begins to doubt his own identity, he’ll crack.”
That’s it. That was pretty much their whole plan. Pathetic, really.
Given those episodes, what’s the least imaginative story you could possibly write for the final episode? Well, they’d say he’s free to go, and they’d hold a ceremony proclaiming that he’s won, and they’d put him face-to-face with a lookalike, and he’d make for the control room to get the win if other villagers fight alongside him.
So add CHECKMATE – where he gets other villagers to fight alongside him – and you’ve got the ending in general. And add ONCE UPON A TIME – the last pre-finale episode, where he wins over the Leo McKern Number 2 – for the ending in particular.
Slower?? Baseball is the only sport you can take a nap in… Baseball pales in comparison to American football. Talk about dull, the most complex thing about the game is all of the anagrams used to keep track of the stats!
The entire sport revolves around the ball. If your not hitting, throwing, or catching the ball your hardly even playing. At least in football every player serves a purpose on every play without ever needing to touch the ball. In fact, they don’t ever need to be near the ball to play a significant role.
Lewis didn’t actually say that the Chronicles should be read in terms of internal chronology. (Which would make an awfully strange read, as HORSE AND HIS BOY) takes place in the middle fo hte last chapter of LION.) Rather, he gently told a young fan who suggested it that there was nothing wrong with the idea, because he was a nice guy.
I’m sure Harper-Collins claims that Lewis wanted the books read in chrono order, but they’re a bunch of Etruscan bastards who in a just world would all have bene eaten by Kaiju by now.
Really. The X files had some pretty blatant contradictions they had to either gloss over or work around. I’ve tried to forget LOST as much as possible but I don’t think their problems quite rose to that level of fucked-upped-ness. I think with some imagination, a little handwaving and at least some desire to have something approaching a real denouement, they could have done an infinitely better job.
OTOH, the ending of Seinfeld was absolutely perfect! The characters were are all awful people: shallow, selfish, and mean-spirited. They totally deserved to wind up in jail.
The only acceptable use for whiskey is to add orange juice and make a whiskey sour. Or add Coke and make a Jack & Coke. Straight whskey is hideous. You might as well be drinking paint thinner. As someone else on this board once said, straight whiskey is for people who want to wake up on the floor.
