LOST 06.17/18/18.5: "The End" (Everything Else Was Just Progress)

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gdt5016 said:
Fire + Water, and some of the stories surrounding that was fucking terrible. Lowpoint of the show.

Sucks it came after such an awesome episode, The Hunting Party, IIRC.

That seems to be how it goes with Lost. Flashes Before Your Eyes was followed by Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Constant was followed by The Other Woman.
 
DoctorWho said:
When will this thread eventually close down? We need a series discussion thread.

Someone (Ben, if he wanted to) could start that. Discussion of The End is pretty much dead, but obviously people still want to talk about all the seasons. Someone could do a general thread for all future LOST talk.
 
Kurtofan said:
I don't know I love Season 2 too :lol
To be honest,it's where I started watching Lost.
Season 2 was fantastic and had more solid episodes than any other seasin.

Even the crazy Charlie arc made sense at the time because you're trying to figure out if the Island or his drug dependencies were causing the dreams. Plus Locke smacking him around like A BOSS (Did I do it right?) was icing on the cake.

I also like the fact that Charlie was willing to do anything to be accepted again since he was effectively banned for trying to baptize Aaron (NNNOOOOOO!!!!):lol

However, that definitely did not hold up with time.
 
Solo said:
Someone (Ben, if he wanted to) could start that. Discussion of The End is pretty much dead, but obviously people still want to talk about all the seasons. Someone could do a general thread for all future LOST talk.

So Birdie was Christian Shephard all along? You know, that makes a lot of sense.
 
Solo said:
Someone (Ben, if he wanted to) could start that. Discussion of The End is pretty much dead, but obviously people still want to talk about all the seasons. Someone could do a general thread for all future LOST talk.

I figure the Greatest Hits thread can work as that as well.
 
JGS said:
I also like the fact that Charlie was willing to do anything to be accepted again since he was effectively banned for trying to baptize Aaron (NNNOOOOOO!!!!):lol

However, that definitely did not hold up with time.

It kind of way the manner in which he tried to baptize Aaron that was the problem :lol
 
I don't see much of a problem leaving all of the discussion here. Where does discussion of "the End" really end? If somebody wanted to talk about the ep a week from now, would they have to go to a new thread, or what? Let it be, until Lost-GAF dies down completely (as in, not on the first two pages 24/7 for once) and then a new thread would be appropriate.
 
SpeedingUptoStop said:
I don't see much of a problem leaving all of the discussion here. Where does discussion of "the End" really end? If somebody wanted to talk about the ep a week from now, would they have to go to a new thread, or what? Let it be, until Lost-GAF dies down completely (as in, not on the first two pages 24/7 for once) and then a new thread would be appropriate.

Yeah, some have watched it before us...and some will watch it after us.
 
SpeedingUptoStop said:
I don't see much of a problem leaving all of the discussion here. Where does discussion of "the End" really end? If somebody wanted to talk about the ep a week from now, would they have to go to a new thread, or what? Let it be, until Lost-GAF dies down completely (as in, not on the first two pages 24/7 for once) and then a new thread would be appropriate.

If someone wanted to discuss The End, they would just do it in the series thread, rather than eternally bumping an episode thread (this thread). Thats why an overall thread is nice - its a catchall for discussion.

Anybody who wanted to watch and discuss this episode has already done so, lets be real.
 
SpeedingUptoStop said:
http://i.imgur.com/2OXLq.gif[/IG][/QUOTE][quote=SalsaShark]I wish Snakes on a plane 2: Electric boogalo existed.

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:lol :lol :lol Pure gold.

Rankings:

4>6>3>1>2>5

Kate>Shannon>Juliet
going beyond the main cast is dumb.
 
Solo said:
If someone wanted to discuss The End, they would just do it in the series thread, rather than eternally bumping an episode thread (this thread). Thats why an overall thread is nice - its a catchall for discussion.

Anybody who wanted to watch and discuss this episode has already done so, lets be real.
Hasn't it still not aired in some countries? The legality of it all!!!
 
SpeedingUptoStop said:
Hasn't it still not aired in some countries? The legality of it all!!!

:lol

Exactly. You know as well as I do every last person on earth with the intent of watching The End has done so, by a variety of means.
 
Solo said:
It kind of way the manner in which he tried to baptize Aaron that was the problem :lol
It's just funny looking at that as a plot synopsis!

Charlie tries to baptize Aaron...

LOST
 
SpeedingUptoStop said:
Hasn't it still not aired in some countries? The legality of it all!!!

Well, it was simulcast in some countries and I think a few others are getting it tonight (which has already happened in Australia) so I think it's safe to let go.
 
JGS said:
It's just funny looking at that as a plot synopsis!

Charlie tries to baptize Aaron...

LOST

For continuity sake this was important or else Claire wouldn't have been able to move on with the rest of them since Aaron wouldn't have been baptized.

You see guys, they really did have it all planned out.

L O S T
 
Not sure if this was posted yet

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yacobod said:
cries to call the close official final episode thread 3 days after the finale, shame shame

I'm starting to feel like Desmond. I'm ready to run someone over with a car. It's time to let go!!!!

:lol

Yeah, I guess it's a bit too soon.
 
I can understand people not liking it and I enjoy reading both well made negative and positive impressions but ugh, a friend on twitter "totally agreed" with a shittastic review where the author just pulls a lot of things out of his ass (like a supposed end to the first season where Christian would talk to Jack and would reveal to him that they're all dead and the island is the purgatory), and says that "nothing of importance" happened between season 2 and 5.
 
Fuu said:
I can understand people not liking it and I enjoy reading both well made negative and positive impressions but ugh, a friend on twitter "totally agreed" with a shittastic review where the author just pulls a lot of things out of his ass (like a supposed end to the first season where Christian would talk to Jack and would reveal to him that they're all dead and the island is the purgatory), and says that "nothing of importance" happened between season 2 and 5.
Basically, yea. Liking it or not has no effect on me, but not understanding it at all is hilarious in a sort of terrible way. LindelCuse jump through hoops to make sure the audience understands that everything mattered in the show, all of the actions meant something, and then somebody can miss a few words at the end and misinterpret the whole thing.:lol
 
SpeedingUptoStop said:
Basically, yea. Liking it or not has no effect on me, but not understanding it at all is hilarious in a sort of terrible way. LindelCuse jump through hoops to make sure the audience understands that everything mattered in the show, all of the actions meant something, and then somebody can miss a few words at the end and misinterpret the whole thing.:lol

Even if you missed a few words it seemed fairly obvious what was happening. I'm really surprised at the amount of people who didn't "get it." It's the same for the rest of the series as well. A lot of people are asking questions about events that I thought had been made clear throughout the years.

Maybe audiences require an exposition heavy conversation to understand everything these days.
 
After needing nearly three full days to digest the final show, here are my thoughts.

My history with LOST came at a time where I was in the early process of losing my Dad. My wife and I had skipped the first season entirely, found nothing out about it, and bought the DVD set which we watched over about 4 days. We were immediately hooked, and during season 2, my Dad passed away. John Locke was a character in whom I saw so much of my Dad, that it almost became overwhelming to continue watching the show, he just was so eerily similar to my Dad. Somehow, then, watching the show weekly almost became like some type of pseudo get together with my now passed father, and I was desperate each week for the series to continue.

As the seasons passed on, seeing Jack evolve into a burgeoning man of faith like Locke, like my Dad, drew me so much closer to him as the show progressed on. This season, finding him completely given over to "faith" caused me great joy, because, since my Dad had passed, my faith had dwindled because, now 5 years later, I'd been so still incapable of overcoming his death.

In watching the final episode, seeing how it all played out, hearing Christian refer to Jack as "Kiddo" the name my Dad always called me, regardless of how old I've gotten. Seeing the redemption for John Locke AND Ben Linus, and the magnificient way in which it was all written to pull it together was so emotionally overpowering to me that I literally, at 46, bawled like a little baby for nearly 30 minutes during and following the church scenes with the Shepards. It was the most, uplifting, hope inspiring thing I've encountered since the passing of my Dad, and has allowed me, for the first time, to feel as though I can manage to find the courage to actually move forward in life, rather than treading with my head just at the water line, as I know I've been doing for the 5 years since my Dad's death.

It broke me down completely, almost as if Lindelof/Cuse had written the ending arc of the show only for me, and my benefit. Literally, for the first time in months and months, the smoke type monster I've felt hovering over my life these past 5 years has dissipated. I'm greatly humbled and deeply appreciative of the impetus to "move on" from my heartbreak and misery of the last 5 years lamenting my Dad's passing.

For me, it was highly refined, powerful storytelling, and it reached me at depths so deeply in me I did not know they were there. I found, incredibly, that something as simple as a television show and my attachment to it, could provide the light with which I can now reach the end of an enormously long and dark tunnel I've been stuck in for 5 years. There is no way I could ever show how much appreciation I have for that....
 
tekumseh said:
After needing nearly three full days to digest the final show, here are my thoughts.

My history with LOST came at a time where I was in the early process of losing my Dad. My wife and I had skipped the first season entirely, found nothing out about it, and bought the DVD set which we watched over about 4 days. We were immediately hooked, and during season 2, my Dad passed away. John Locke was a character in whom I saw so much of my Dad, that it almost became overwhelming to continue watching the show, he just was so eerily similar to my Dad. Somehow, then, watching the show weekly almost became like some type of pseudo get together with my now passed father, and I was desperate each week for the series to continue.

As the seasons passed on, seeing Jack evolve into a burgeoning man of faith like Locke, like my Dad, drew me so much closer to him as the show progressed on. This season, finding him completely given over to "faith" caused me great joy, because, since my Dad had passed, my faith had dwindled because, now 5 years later, I'd been so still incapable of overcoming his death.

In watching the final episode, seeing how it all played out, hearing Christian refer to Jack as "Kiddo" the name my Dad always called me, regardless of how old I've gotten. Seeing the redemption for John Locke AND Ben Linus, and the magnificient way in which it was all written to pull it together was so emotionally overpowering to me that I literally, at 46, bawled like a little baby for nearly 30 minutes during and following the church scenes with the Shepards. It was the most, uplifting, hope inspiring thing I've encountered since the passing of my Dad, and has allowed me, for the first time, to feel as though I can manage to find the courage to actually move forward in life, rather than treading with my head just at the water line, as I know I've been doing for the 5 years since my Dad's death.

It broke me down completely, almost as if Lindelof/Cuse had written the ending arc of the show only for me, and my benefit. Literally, for the first time in months and months, the smoke type monster I've felt hovering over my life these past 5 years has dissipated. I'm greatly humbled and deeply appreciative of the impetus to "move on" from my heartbreak and misery of the last 5 years lamenting my Dad's passing.

For me, it was highly refined, powerful storytelling, and it reached me at depths so deeply in me I did not know they were there. I found, incredibly, that something as simple as a television show and my attachment to it, could provide the light with which I can now reach the end of an enormously long and dark tunnel I've been stuck in for 5 years. There is no way I could ever show how much appreciation I have for that....

Thanks for sharing this, man.
 
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