Lost or Loster?

[CharleyH]

I can't believe that there is no LOST: Season finale thread here. The series was one of the most confusingly and beautifully fucked up things since, well, since nothing I can think of other than maybe American Gothic in the ...80's? It had characters you loved and loved to hate. It had story lines that kept plugging and story lines that got, well, lost, or dull. However, it was one of the best wrap ups to a series I can think of to date. It made sense, and got everyone talking about what actually happened. It's more than the wrap of 24 or Ghost Whisperer got. I LOVED IT and, I knew it!

Okay, well I knew *SPOILER*




that they were all dead, kind of. lol

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Good show...kinda knew it would end like it did, it just had to.

When that plane plummeted out of the sky...yep all dead.

Sad to see it go...yet pleased that it had a wrap up. So many shows haven't be able to wrap up lose ends so to speak before they leave us. Very rarely have shows been made to only last a finite length of time. The only ones that come to mind...and these are probably not all of them...are M*A*S*H and Babylon 5.

I'm sure there were others but I probably didn't watch them to begin with. I guess Battlestar Galactica may have been written that way but I didn't follow(the new one-not the 1980's version) it. And possibly the second Stargate series (Atlantis) - I know the first just ended with what they thought might be a wrap up episode but it wasn't as they were talking about a season eleven on the website while it aired. And now there it SGU we'll have to see how long it lasts before the final episode it aired.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Good show...kinda knew it would end like it did, it just had to.

When that plane plummeted out of the sky...yep all dead.

Sad to see it go...yet pleased that it had a wrap up. So many shows haven't be able to wrap up lose ends so to speak before they leave us. Very rarely have shows been made to only last a finite length of time. The only ones that come to mind...and these are probably not all of them...are M*A*S*H and Babylon 5.

I'm sure there were others but I probably didn't watch them to begin with. I guess Battlestar Galactica may have been written that way but I didn't follow(the new one-not the 1980's version) it. And possibly the second Stargate series (Atlantis) - I know the first just ended with what they thought might be a wrap up episode but it wasn't as they were talking about a season eleven on the website while it aired. And now there it SGU we'll have to see how long it lasts before the final episode it aired.

There are quite a few other shows that have come to a conclusion. That Girl, Cheers, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Farmer's Daughter, UFO, The Greatest American Hero, The Fugitive, and probably a lot more that I will think of after I submit this.

One problem with this kind of finale is that reruns are not as popular when it is known how the show eventually played out.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

The story line had an absurd basis. The writers didn't know what the fuck to do with it so they just kept turning out copy, each page stupider than the one before. Dumb show, good riddance!

 

[jomar]

The Last Newhart


As for Lost, I really enjoyed it up until the time they toyed with my emotions during the writer's strike...showing reruns and recaps and at that point they lost me.






Get it? Time? Lost?

Thanks, I'm here all week!

 

[TE999]

It really ticked me off the way 'Twin Peaks' ended. David Lynch had lost interest in it, ABC kept moving it and it just sputtered out. The 'prequel' movie was lame.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

There are quite a few other shows that have come to a conclusion. That Girl, Cheers, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Farmer's Daughter, UFO, The Greatest American Hero, The Fugitive, and probably a lot more that I will think of after I submit this.

One problem with this kind of finale is that reruns are not as popular when it is known how the show eventually played out.

Well like I said I never really watched any of those shows...

 

[Lisa Summers]

I didn't follow it really closely, but I liked the finale very much. I'm quite sentimental, and it pushed those buttons.

 

[Bobby_3111]

The finale was much too obvious. If they were all ghosts why spend all that time on the island like a dog chasing his own tail ?

And at the very end we get "Oops, i guess we were dead the whole time, oh well, lets hug each other and go to heaven!"

I am really disappointed the producers couldnt come up with something better than that :/

 

[TxRad]

I keep reading the title of this thread as Lost or Lobster.

Maybe I need lunch.

 

[soflabbwlvr]

Some of you are confused

Especially bobby and maybe charlyh. The Lost characters did not die in the plane crash. They survived until most of them met their demise as depicted in the show. That timeline existed and continued throughout the entire 100 or so days that they were on the island, the three years that the "Oceanic 6" were off the island, and the two weeks or so after they returned, culminating in Jack's death and the final escape in the plane. The "alternate timeline" that was revealed in season 6 was not an alternate timeline at all, but the first phase of an afterlife. Only in that dimension were all the passengers and everyone else dead. That dimension existed outside the timeline, in order to account for the fact that some of the characters lived a very long time after the final escape from the island.

 

[CharleyH]

Especially bobby and maybe charlyh. The Lost characters did not die in the plane crash. They survived until most of them met their demise as depicted in the show. That timeline existed and continued throughout the entire 100 or so days that they were on the island, the three years that the "Oceanic 6" were off the island, and the two weeks or so after they returned, culminating in Jack's death and the final escape in the plane. The "alternate timeline" that was revealed in season 6 was not an alternate timeline at all, but the first phase of an afterlife. Only in that dimension were all the passengers and everyone else dead. That dimension existed outside the timeline, in order to account for the fact that some of the characters lived a very long time after the final escape from the island.

No, no, I'm up on the end, soflabbwlvr. It was an intriguing spin to a six year story, and I've no doubt that what someone said earlier - the writers didn't know WTF they were doing - is true. Still, the end sated me as a fan with more questions, but then questions (left unanswered and up to the reader to decide) make for a more satisfying end to any story, tv, film or novel, don't you think?

I mentioned 24 earlier. I'm not a fan, but got the whole DVD set for a birthday, and so watched a couple of seasons before falling asleep and re-awakening this last season. What a bore the series was. What a hypocritical ending that wasn't satisfying in the least - Jack should have died for his sins and not gotten away for a movie version potentially called 24 hours from now. lol

All in fun, not trying to be serious.

 

[DeeZire]

I followed the show via DVD, at least after Season One. (When you buy the dvd, the writers make a couple of extra pennies.) I think it was Season Three that really sucked me in - instead of watching one episode a night, I watched the whole season in one weekend. Season four was okay, but they lost me with all the time travel in Season Five.

A couple of years ago, on the SNL fake news, they did a blurb about Lost.

"When the writers of Lost found out the show had been picked up for another season, their comment was: 'Oh crap. What do we do now?' "

 

[D_K_Moon]

It never looked interesting enough to watch.

 

[jomar]

It never looked interesting enough to watch.

It was pretty brilliant up until I lost interest.

 

[Dragonlipz]

"LOST" is pure TV shit......watched one 'episode' and 'Lost' interest immediately.....poor plot and character development.....fairly predictable stuff overall.....it's done, get over it and watch 'Dancing with the Starz'

 

[Dragonlipz]

The story line had an absurd basis. The writers didn't know what the fuck to do with it so they just kept turning out copy, each page stupider than the one before. Dumb show, good riddance!

Dumb show, dumber fans.....I watched one time and 'LOST' interest.....only those with a sound byte mentality could like that crap!!