The Official Lost: The Final Season Thread (Warning: Possible Spoilers)

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by over the mountain

so "lost" was a type waiting room between physical death and the journey to the afterlife which can only be achieved when one "lets go"?

lame.

I was hoping they wouldnt do a cop out of all "their out of left field, crazy, makes no sense" happeninngs by ending it with the justification that it was "all fake", "it was all imagination".

they might as well just had all the people wake up on the plane, safe and happy and ended it by saying they all had a "shared interacting dream" or something lame.

im glad i didnt follow it after season 1, seems like when i missed an epidose of season 2, nothing made sense as they would constantly change the rules or premise. it was just to hard to follow if you arent a hardcore, "set my evening schedule around whats on tv" type. sad, i was hoping lost would be that show for me but it was just too much.

Yeah no. Not really even close. If you didn't watch past season one you cannot possibly have a valid opinion. I don't get all the hate coming from people who weren't actual fans. They have no idea what they're talking about.

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by FRPLG

Yeah no. Not really even close. If you didn't watch past season one you cannot possibly have a valid opinion. I don't get all the hate coming from people who weren't actual fans. They have no idea what they're talking about.

Usually and I maybe wrong here but fans general don't hate the things they are fans of.

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by mredskins

Usually and I maybe wrong here but fans general don't hate the things they are fans of.

You aren't wrong at all. But then again why did people watch it and then get mad about it, or are on message boards discussing it, if they weren't fans in the first place? I don't care whether people liked it or not. It doesn't change my opinion but it sorta irks me that people who didn't watch the show much and didn't much care about it watched the finale and then pan it. Or didn't watch it and pan the mere ideas in it. It gives the false impression that it was generally disliked when in fact every single person who actually followed the show, that I have talked to our read postings from, loved it.

[KLHJ2]

Originally Posted by FRPLG

You aren't wrong at all. But then again why did people watch it and then get mad about it, or are on message boards discussing it, if they weren't fans in the first place? I don't care whether people liked it or not. It doesn't change my opinion but it sorta irks me that people who didn't watch the show much and didn't much care about it watched the finale and then pan it. Or didn't watch it and pan the mere ideas in it. It gives the false impression that it was generally disliked when in fact every single person who actually followed the show, that I have talked to our read postings from, loved it.

My project manager who followed the series for 6 season is sitting next to me. All I heard all morning is him bitching about how screwed up the last episode was.

[over the mountain]

Originally Posted by FRPLG

Yeah no. Not really even close. If you didn't watch past season one you cannot possibly have a valid opinion. I don't get all the hate coming from people who weren't actual fans. They have no idea what they're talking about.

I think the "hate" that I have for the show is that, when it first came out, it was a really appealing interesting show. something that, like an epic, would have a beginning, plot, then end. kinda like a movie broken into parts and shown on tv.

not like almost every new show like friends where each episode starts from scratch and it could go on forever.

but after making it a point and priority to watch every episode of season one, then trying to commit myself for season 2, i lost interest when i came to the opinion the lost producers were just going to string this thing out as long as they profitably could, making long winded side roads dealing with peripheal characters that had nothing to do with season 1, the main characters or the fundamental plot line.

every good story needs a conflict then resolution. here, the conflict was always changing. the parameters the viewer was introduced to was constantly changed by the writers/producers.

at a point during season 2, i felt my viewership was being abused. that the quality of the show was going to take a back seat to how many seasons and episodes the network could cram outta this thing.

the show initially presented itself as a mystery, home viewer play along and see if you can pick up the clues and figure this out. now, the people who stuck thru the whole 6 seasons say you cant look at every clue, dont take everything so serious and staightforward, be willing to overlook inconsistencies, its about the journey not the destination.

thats not how the show was advertised to me. i mean, didnt they show 1 hour recap shows before a new episode so we could all get caught up on their clues?

wasnt the buzz and focus after season 1 almost entirely about figuring out lost? are they in purgatory? are they sleeping? coma? that historical footnote about an island that is a magnetic enigma which was discovered by a guy with a name which is referenced to in lost?

now, its not figuring out what the island is but the journey to the question?

lame.

hollywood watered down and tugged at all directions something which was once novel and unique.

our opinion that they dragged it out the a$$ is valid. it may be limited but its valid.

[ArtMonkDrillz]

Originally Posted by over the mountain

I think the "hate" that I have for the show is that, when it first came out, it was a really appealing interesting show. something that, like an epic, would have a beginning, plot, then end. kinda like a movie broken into parts and shown on tv.

not like almost every new show like friends where each episode starts from scratch and it could go on forever.

but after making it a point and priority to watch every episode of season one, then trying to commit myself for season 2, i lost interest when i came to the opinion the lost producers were just going to string this thing out as long as they profitably could, making long winded side roads dealing with peripheal characters that had nothing to do with season 1, the main characters or the fundamental plot line.

every good story needs a conflict then resolution. here, the conflict was always changing. the parameters the viewer was introduced to was constantly changed by the writers/producers.

at a point during season 2, i felt my viewership was being abused. that the quality of the show was going to take a back seat to how many seasons and episodes the network could cram outta this thing.

the show initially presented itself as a mystery, home viewer play along and see if you can pick up the clues and figure this out. now, the people who stuck thru the whole 6 seasons say you cant look at every clue, dont take everything so serious and staightforward, be willing to overlook inconsistencies, its about the journey not the destination.

thats not how the show was advertised to me. i mean, didnt they show 1 hour recap shows before a new episode so we could all get caught up on their clues?

wasnt the buzz and focus after season 1 almost entirely about figuring out lost? are they in purgatory? are they sleeping? coma? that historical footnote about an island that is a magnetic enigma which was discovered by a guy with a name which is referenced to in lost?

now, its not figuring out what the island is but the journey to the question?

lame.

hollywood watered down and tugged at all directions something which was once novel and unique.

our opinion that they dragged it out the a$$ is valid. it may be limited but its valid.

This is well stated, and you summed up some of my biggest complaints about the show, and especially this final season prior to last night. While I did like the finale and I am willing to accept the idea that the journey is key I completely understand why so many people feel cheated by this season and the ending.

I don't know, I'm still trying to figure out how I really feel about the ending, but I guess in a way that's better than completely forgetting about the show now that it's over.