forknknife
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thekad said:
hahaha yeah, i was imagining all the people on life support of the hospital dying after that and I literally loled
LOST 06.17/18/18.5: "The End" (Everything Else Was Just Progress)
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hahaha yeah, i was imagining all the people on life support of the hospital dying after that and I literally loled
Napoleonthechimp
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I belief in a lot of the Buddhist ideas on reality so I can definitely go with that. It's also mentioned that the Buddha received memories of his past lives shortly before attaining enlightenment.
VistraNorrez
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Blader5489 said:
Very good point. That's the gist of what we are supposed to get. The why of it is completely up to each of us and I'm quite thankful for that. It's just the perfect balance of explanation and interpretation.
TheGreatDave
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The Buddhism is a good read.
Jill Sandwich
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Man, getting over this show and moving on will be like getting over a break-up.
If I could make a change about this season, it would have been telling Across the Sea's story from the point of view of one of our characters.
Treating it sort of as a legend, a campfire story. Give Jacob's brother a name, but not the MIB, because they are two different things and having an evil without a name is very cool. A normal brother for 40 years is not.
I'm super excited to watch through the whole season, though. This season in particular felt so fragmented from the weekly watching. Not much time passed on this and I want to see it all one after the other.
It will be interesting for sure.
Treating it sort of as a legend, a campfire story. Give Jacob's brother a name, but not the MIB, because they are two different things and having an evil without a name is very cool. A normal brother for 40 years is not.
I'm super excited to watch through the whole season, though. This season in particular felt so fragmented from the weekly watching. Not much time passed on this and I want to see it all one after the other.
It will be interesting for sure.
TheGreatDave
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I was really hoping Locke would correct him.Solo said:
Fisticuffs
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How is Fringe compared to LOST. I need something new here and am looking for a show with the same feel to it. Someone said Breaking bad so maybe I'll give that a try.
brandonh83
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I thought the worst realization scene was Sayid and Shannon. Maggie Grace was given one line and the acting wasn't anything worth writing home about. Thought they could have been into it just a bit more. Still good stuff and I was happy to see some resolution to that but I just felt that many of the realization scenes were so much better. When the scene first started I was like o fuck here's the tears but I remained perfectly calm during it.
Best part of it was Boone taking a beating just for it :lol
Best part of it was Boone taking a beating just for it :lol
forknknife
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brandonh83 said:
Well, yeah, that's what I meant. Of course it's impossible to predict everything, but this ending was nothing like "OMG they're DEAD?????" sixth sense kind of ending, we were all prepared for something like this and it's what we got in The End.
Dead said:
Definitely, we all know you have to be sedated in order to go for a submarine ride. :lol
You may say there's nothing to address, but when the producers say they will, I half expect them to.
You don't remember Faradays comment or the fact that electromagnetism has fucked up their instruments in the past?
Polar bear remark was a joke.
Jill Sandwich
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Fisticuffs said:
It's pretty good. Not God-tier like Lost, but I highly recommend it.
leroy hacker
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TheGreatDave said:
My current opinion is that the best justification for Dogen's existence as a character was for his name to clue the audience in that Buddhist ideas might play a role in the show.
brandonh83
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Solo said:
eh I like her, she did really good in most of her season 1 stuff, particularly around Boone's death. thought she managed well, emotionally speaking. but here, she and Naveen just didn't seem to give a shit at all. :lol
Willy105 said:
I disagree, but I thought Sawyer and Juliet's could have been done better as well. Those are the only two that didn't sit well with me. Jack's realization was the best for me because it sort of carried out through to the final shot. It's at least tied with Claire and Charlie's and Sun and Jin's.
forknknife
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brandonh83 said:
Sayid and Shannon story is so stupid they should've just ignored it completely in the last episode, I think nobody would've complained anyway. Also, I though Sayid true love was the hot arabic girl? WTF?
I thought this was a fantastic episode, and its one of my favorite finale's ever.
I think I understand why some people didn't enjoy it, but for me an emotional resolution is always 100% more important than explicit resolutions of plot elements. If a show manages to satisfy my need for emotional resolution, and deliver something epic and exhilarating, then I'm not going to complain because I don't have all the answers.
I'm also fine with the show turning out to be more fantasy than sci-fi. I stopped seeing it as a true sci-fi show several seasons ago, and I had actually been leaning towards a fantasy explanation for a long time. I was actually kind of hoping it would be more magic than science.
I think I understand why some people didn't enjoy it, but for me an emotional resolution is always 100% more important than explicit resolutions of plot elements. If a show manages to satisfy my need for emotional resolution, and deliver something epic and exhilarating, then I'm not going to complain because I don't have all the answers.
I'm also fine with the show turning out to be more fantasy than sci-fi. I stopped seeing it as a true sci-fi show several seasons ago, and I had actually been leaning towards a fantasy explanation for a long time. I was actually kind of hoping it would be more magic than science.
Napoleonthechimp
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You don't think the many references to dharma might have clued them in on that? It is a central concept in Buddhism.leroy hacker said:
bytesized said:
Again, I think there was so much setup by the flash-sideways (now obviously a misnomer) throughout season six, since LAX parts 1 and 2. In retrospect (I'm guessing, and I'll have to confirm it with a full rewatch) I do think they doled out a great deal of information to prime us for this finale, particularly for the purgatory reveal.
Even in terms of the on-island stuff, I felt like they (our heroes) were right on the brink at the end of What They Died For. When we left them, Jack and co. were going to get Desmond and take him to the source/heart of the island, likely have to deal with the MiB. Post-temple massacre, the MiB had been fairly directly making a push to (1) kill off the candidates and then (2) kill the island. IMO, the finale had very little to set up before we got to the final confrontations, i.e. Jack v MiB re: Desmond and Jack v MiB battle to the death and Jack v the Island. My feeling is that the finale was swift and to the point, especially regarding the on-island stuff.
And regarding the flash-sideways stuff, it felt like a cascade of dominoes falling.. as soon as the first couple started to topple, the flashes spread like a large ripple. Jack was the hardest nut to crack, stubborn to the very end. And fittingly so.. it really was his story.
I dunno, to me it just worked.
brandonh83
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bytesized said:
That's something else that didn't sit well with me. I understand that in the Buddhist flashes Nadia was with Sayid's brother and all and if you look at it from the perspective that Sayid's inability to be with Nadia is due to his various sins throughout his life, but that still doesn't overrule all the work done with Sayid and Nadia's relationship throughout the show which was stronger than what they did with him and Shannon.
GremlinFool
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Rewatched the final 10 minutes of the finale, and I must admit I choked up this time.
My opinion on the finale has certainly softened after the rewatch, as the scene was beautifully done. I'm still disappointed with the final season as a whole, but the final moments of Lost were beautiful.
My opinion on the finale has certainly softened after the rewatch, as the scene was beautifully done. I'm still disappointed with the final season as a whole, but the final moments of Lost were beautiful.
TheGreatDave
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It's not that I'm saying Locke isn't special (being the true Boss' enabler is an important job), but a little modesty, man.Solo said:
Besides, Ben helped Hugo, presumably for years. Let's not play it down!
leroy hacker
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Napoleonthechimp said:
Of course they might have. I said that was Dogen's only significant purpose, not that Dogen was the only way to accomplish that purpose.
brandonh83
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I want to see scenes with Hurley and Ben after Jack died and the rest of them got off the island. I seriously cannot even imagine.
forknknife
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brandonh83 said:
They should make a spin off series called "Hugo's Cool Island of Magnetism and stuff, dude, how does it work?" or something like that. It should be a comedy with laughtracks and constant catchfrases. :lol
Napoleonthechimp
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"There is no now here" - Time is a bit meaningless where they were and it doesn't really apply to the "real world".
I couldn't imagine Hugo being trapped there for millennia, I hope he decided to leave the Island when he wanted to see friends and family.
I couldn't imagine Hugo being trapped there for millennia, I hope he decided to leave the Island when he wanted to see friends and family.
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