GORDO Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 found this in a forum: What happened is that the writers had this great idea for this island world. The island would be purgatory and the characters would have to work through their problems before "moving on" and no child could be born there. The writers thought the viewers (at least not most of them) would never figure out this great twist. They surely underestimated the viewers and the twist was the most popular theory by the end of season 1. Now what could they do? They could not continue a show for 5 more years were everyone had the show figured out. So the writers assured all their viewers that the island was not purgatory and to "stay tuned" for the real mystery to get answered. So 5 years later after that great first season the writers (maybe still in love with the original idea) chose to use the purgatory idea on the flash sideways. The main story could not be purgatory, as they promised us, so the next best thing is to build another story (flash sideways) in order to wrap up the main story (island). And that's that. It's probably what happened haha. it would be strange for them to deny the island was purgatory over and over just to include it again as the key point in the finale. either that or it was another masturbatory exercise where they self reference the first ever theory of the show as being the end. whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thief Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 how anyone could not understand that the flash sideways were a purgatory realm and that the island stuff DID happen is truly beyond me, Christian laid it out blatantly for all to hear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atop Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 how anyone could not understand that the flash sideways were a purgatory realm and that the island stuff DID happen is truly beyond me, Christian laid it out blatantly for all to hear this and I am damn pleased with the way it ended.... what the fuck were the rest of expecting, a documentary style explanation of all the questions you've ever had about the show? no, we all just got more show and an ending.... write your own show and then you can bitch about it not going the way you wanted.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lindrum Larry Cocopipe Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 how anyone could not understand that the flash sideways were a purgatory realm and that the island stuff DID happen is truly beyond me, Christian laid it out blatantly for all to hear yep bit lame but shouldnt be confusing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 write your own show and then you can bitch about it not going the way you wanted.... i'm going to - it's called showrunners, and it's about the struggles of two hollywood jerkoffs in making stuff up as they go along for six seasons of an unexpectedly successful show-within-a-show called magic purgatory island. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lindrum Larry Cocopipe Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 i'm not sure purgatory is an appropriate label for what we saw in lost. purgatory is usually associated with some kind of suffering, trials or judgement before passing to the afterlife. although you could say there were trials, it seemed to me more like a happy reunion than purgatory in its usual definition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gary C Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 Boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 how anyone could not understand that the flash sideways were a purgatory realm and that the island stuff DID happen is truly beyond me, Christian laid it out blatantly for all to hear I love this attitude. Over 100 episodes and six years and no one knows WTF is happening on the show. Now you're a total fucking moron for nit understanding that when you are in "purgatory" you may have a different name or family or be married to someone elses love. You may even have an imaginary son. Duh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Benedict Cumberbatch Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 found this in a forum: What happened is that the writers had this great idea for this island world. The island would be purgatory and the characters would have to work through their problems before "moving on" and no child could be born there. The writers thought the viewers (at least not most of them) would never figure out this great twist. They surely underestimated the viewers and the twist was the most popular theory by the end of season 1. Now what could they do? They could not continue a show for 5 more years were everyone had the show figured out. So the writers assured all their viewers that the island was not purgatory and to "stay tuned" for the real mystery to get answered. So 5 years later after that great first season the writers (maybe still in love with the original idea) chose to use the purgatory idea on the flash sideways. The main story could not be purgatory, as they promised us, so the next best thing is to build another story (flash sideways) in order to wrap up the main story (island). And that's that. It's probably what happened haha. it would be strange for them to deny the island was purgatory over and over just to include it again as the key point in the finale. either that or it was another masturbatory exercise where they self reference the first ever theory of the show as being the end. whatever. this rings very true. very. also the smoke monster nanobot theory too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Benedict Cumberbatch Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 how anyone could not understand that the flash sideways were a purgatory realm and that the island stuff DID happen is truly beyond me, Christian laid it out blatantly for all to hear this and I am damn pleased with the way it ended.... what the fuck were the rest of expecting, a documentary style explanation of all the questions you've ever had about the show? no, we all just got more show and an ending.... i had very low expectations for the finale. very very low. i knew there would be no more answer but figured that the timeline thing would obviously be concluded. they even managed to balls that up. completely. you don't feel that the entire alt timeline was pointless? the island stuff was fine, i would have walked away happy with that but the purgatory shit is just plain bad. i don't see how anyone could be satisfied with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcock Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 this finale made me go into macdonalds, calm as hell, and giggle softly while i slaughtered every man woman and child in the entire building. then i didnt even kill myself. why the hell was eloise pidgen trying to not get desmond to find out what alt timeline was about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Benedict Cumberbatch Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 how anyone could not understand that the flash sideways were a purgatory realm and that the island stuff DID happen is truly beyond me, Christian laid it out blatantly for all to hear I love this attitude. Over 100 episodes and six years and no one knows WTF is happening on the show. Now you're a total fucking moron for nit understanding that when you are in "purgatory" you may have a different name or family or be married to someone elses love. You may even have an imaginary son. Duh. it made no sense to me or anyone i watched it with and we were all 6 season viewers. i think maybe we were in denial "I'm dead too" oh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lindrum Larry Cocopipe Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 lost started off being idm then fans got all boc with it until it became autechre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAXIMUS MISCHIEF Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 ummm no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dirty Protest Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 this finale made me go into macdonalds, calm as hell, and giggle softly while i slaughtered every man woman and child in the entire building. then i didnt even kill myself. why the hell was eloise pidgen trying to not get desmond to find out what alt timeline was about? Edited due lack of sleep =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 this finale made me go into macdonalds, calm as hell, and giggle softly while i slaughtered every man woman and child in the entire building. then i didnt even kill myself. why the hell was eloise pidgen trying to not get desmond to find out what alt timeline was about? did that mean Eloise was dead? That entire alt timeline was "purgatory" so if dead Desmond was getting dead Claire to give birth to a baby in purgatory than Eloise was dead there too. Also you can have a baby after you're dead and not quite in heaven yet? Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dirty Protest Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 Heres the edit if my brain works this time. I reckon she wanted time to make it up with her dead son, or couldnt handle him knowing that she killed him. But frankly all of this is just gash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 Especially considering there is no time there. Christian explains that and then Kate says I couldn't wait for you to get here. Lolwut? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alky Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 proper explanation of the numbers dharma supply pallets dropping in the first couple episodes of season 1 (by this point in the timeline dharma was long gone?? absolutely no mention whatsoever of walt / walt's dad. walt was special or some shit, but no, lets just forget he was ever written into the show at all smoke monster being explained away by making it equal a character. remember back in the day everyone was trying to give a real sci-fi explanation to it? 'cos that's the kind of show we appeared to be watching. yeah we all wanted to hear it was some dharma experiment or something, nanobots or some shit. not just, oh hey we found the smoke monster! it's this guy over here who can look like dead people because he fell down a brightly lit hole once. whitmore's station in the plane fuselage in the snow which we saw for like 5 minutes once and never again i'm sure there are more things the writers hope we just overlooked, but so much has happened i can't quite remember off the top of my head.. ------------------------- all in all though i did enjoy the finale, taking it on face value for what it was. the final scene with jack + vincent was awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gump Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 lol.you all got screwed. just think of the time you all 'lost' watching it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GORDO Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 proper explanation of the numbers dharma supply pallets dropping in the first couple episodes of season 1 (by this point in the timeline dharma was long gone?? absolutely no mention whatsoever of walt / walt's dad. walt was special or some shit, but no, lets just forget he was ever written into the show at all smoke monster being explained away by making it equal a character. remember back in the day everyone was trying to give a real sci-fi explanation to it? 'cos that's the kind of show we appeared to be watching. yeah we all wanted to hear it was some dharma experiment or something, nanobots or some shit. not just, oh hey we found the smoke monster! it's this guy over here who can look like dead people because he fell down a brightly lit hole once. whitmore's station in the plane fuselage in the snow which we saw for like 5 minutes once and never again i'm sure there are more things the writers hope we just overlooked, but so much has happened i can't quite remember off the top of my head.. ------------------------- all in all though i did enjoy the finale, taking it on face value for what it was. the final scene with jack + vincent was awesome. the shack. wtf did the bomb do then?. i guess its detonation was the incident after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruising for burgers Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 i'm pretty confident i've got lost figured. however there is one thing that does have me slightly perplexed and that is the turtle. one minute it's there on the beach with young mib, then fake mum comes over and POOF turtle is nowhere to be seen. did turtle ever exist? is turtle dead or just magnetic? LOL that was gold! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 major lol concerning the fact that they didn't even fix the lost intro-logo for the last fucking episode. Ever since I first noticed it during the first season it's just as hilarious every time - how they fucked up the rendering or just the 3d structure of the text in that sequence. example JJ Abrams said he basically had 10 minutes to create a logo, he just threw the words into Adobe After Effects. He said he didn't care for the obvious flickering, it was even charming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruising for burgers Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 just clear this off me, the island was real right?? jack was one of the 1st to die right?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 Yeah. Well others did die before him (Locke, Charlie, Boone) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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