This show stunk... - Lost (2004) Discussion

[–] [email protected] (5530) 6 years ago

Well I wouldn't go that far...but I was seriously disappointed in the end after investing so many years in the show!

I kinda felt cheated. Every week my sister and I would discuss the latest episode and all the new revelations, how the characters had crossed paths before they were stranded on the island, the meaning of those numbers, so many details which seemed "clever" and mysterious at the time.

It was hinted that the creators of the show had a plan. Everything would finally resolve itself at the end, the mystery would be revealed. The payoff turned out to be a major letdown. Oh wow, how original, everybody is dead!

The journey was fun but the destination was an unimaginative copout.

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[–] SCN26 (2) 6 years ago

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[–] [email protected] (5530) 6 years ago

Boy, you are easy to please. No wonder TV gets away with so much junk. LOL

And no, i didn't cry. i just wanted the time back i invested in the show, dumbass!

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[–] LaughingAtM0r0ns (0) 5 years ago

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[–] snepts (11123) 5 years ago

Sometimes I wonder why when people enjoy a series then are let down by the end, they figure the whole thing was awful. I know when I am disappointed by a relationship I tend to be sour about the whole thing, but objectively I probably had a lot of fun before it all imploded. So what's so bad about enjoying all the mystery of Lost even if the ending was a let down?

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[–] [email protected] (5530) 5 years ago

I did enjoy the show. It wasn't awful by any means. It had me on the edge of my seat every week. The individual episodes were entertaining. But the writers implied that there would be MORE, a payoff, an ending that tied it all together.
I guess it's just my fault for expecting a big payoff at the end. Or else it's the feeling that a lot of the mystery was just a big cheat on the part of the writers. They threw in so many "clues", so many moments that seemed to be leading somewhere that ultimately led nowhere. I just felt like it was all a big tease.

You know that unflattering term for females who tease a guy when they have no intentions of following through after they get him turned on? I felt like I was "brain teased". haha

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[–] bohemianroxie (2471) 6 years ago

OK..you guys do know that it wasn't all purgatory...right?
It was only the flashsideways in the final season that was purgatory and those that were shown to have died along the way on the island died along the way.
Jack, for instance, died at the end after returning to the island. He basically sacrificed himself after returning to the island...
Those that escaped the island died at some undetermined time in the future that we don't see. We don't see when or how Kate, Sawyer or Claire die. They all may have lived to a ripe old age.

The ending was after everyone had died... whenever that may be . They all came together from various deaths from various points in time because their relationship with one another on the island bonded them and for that reason they moved on together to whatever comes next together
You may not care for the spiritual aspects of the end and all the characters coming together to accept their own deaths...but everything that happened after the plane crash happened. Everything that happened on the island was suppose to be real. It was not death or purgatory or any nonsense like that.
It just made time itself irrelevant since all their actual deaths happened years apart..

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[–] Galactus03 (4302) 6 years ago

Yes we know. It was a stupid ending and the show has been quickly forgotten.

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[–] bohemianroxie (2471) 6 years ago

I still love the show overall..and it still has its fans.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion...but the first 2 seasons were gold. I do think it went downhill after that ..Particularly s5 and 6. But that's due more to the rambling nature of the plot and the characters being untrue to themselves.. for me.
The actual ending was fine to me.

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[–] WhereIsRent (1031) 5 years ago

I love the show as well despite the flaws. The show really knew how to make you care about the characters and hook you on the mysteries and the drama.

The final season is the weakest though because of the flash-sideways. The show had established itself as sci-fi long before this point and yet they opt for a cheesy religious afterlife ending.

The ending of them stopping the monster from getting off the island is fine and it’s a decent good vs evil story with a hero’s journey ending (for Jack.)

So yeah if they’d got rid of the flash-sideways and focused more on the on-island character interactions and drama it would have been a much stronger final season. I am grateful it at least got an ending though.

For network TV the show is still groundbreaking and the theories and speculations were all so much fun and the show itself is always entertaining because of the characters and the twists (the season 3 finale, wow!)

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[–] OldG (628) 5 years ago

I agree that it would have been much better without the flash sideway storyline... I feel the writers put it in there to kind of highlight that the Island wasn't purgatory... But I always kind of felt that the island was supposed to be purgatory but after the viewers guessed that after a couple of episodes... they went away from that... and then kind of put it back in with the horrible flash sideways in the final season...

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[–] SCN26 (2) 6 years ago

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

What was stupid about it? It made perfect sense. How would you have ended it better? What kind of ending were you expecting from it? Something more downbeat and pretentious?

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[–] Galactus03 (4302) 5 years ago

No something a little more hopeful and not everyone eventually goes to heaven bullshit...🙄🙄

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

What could be more hopeful than that type of ending? They get to spend eternity with each other.….I'd say that's as hopeful as it gets. It wasn't a Logan type ending where everything and everyone you knew from the past is fucked. It was fitting IMO.

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[–] Galactus03 (4302) 5 years ago

I don't like shows that have to rely on heaven and hell for resolutions.....it's a cop out as far as I'm concerned....

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[–] LaughingAtM0r0ns (0) 5 years ago

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[–] McQualude (4231) 6 years ago

Right, because in real life islands jump through time and space, smoke monsters live in jungles, dead people come back to life, and people teleport around the planet.

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[–] bohemianroxie (2471) 6 years ago

That bothered you? It's called science fiction and fantasy...and you either accept the fiction part or you don't..
I don't really remember anyone coming back to life though..Dead was dead unless they were like Michael and that wasn't very much alive.

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[–] McQualude (4231) 6 years ago

I'm not complaining about the show, I'm responding to this statement: "Everything that happened on the island was suppose to be real.". Real means our world. The island wasn't the real world.

How can you forget Christian, Sayid, Locke, and the Russian? All died, all came back to life on the island. Did you watch the show?

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[–] bohemianroxie (2471) 5 years ago

Christian wasn't really Christian and Locke wasn't really Locke...Remember that? Their bodies were used by ..the smoke monster ...or whatever name you want to give him.
Sayid's a different story and that wasn't clear. But he was clearly not entirely himself...until the end when he made the sacrifice.
But that season was not the best and they did seem to throw everything in but the kitchen sink.

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[–] McQualude (4231) 5 years ago

My point stands in any case.

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Uh, everything happened and was real within the context of the show....not in the same context of our reality. There's a big difference.....get a grip, it's just fiction. I think you took that comment a little too literally.

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[–] McQualude (4231) 5 years ago

"get a grip, it's just fiction."

If you have so little respect for art, fiction, why waste both our time making inane and unsupported responses to my post? Why come here at all.

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Geez, you don't take criticism very well do you? Where in that comment does it indicate I have very little respect? Look, it IS just fiction and doesn't apply to how our reality works nor does it have to....where is this written rule that fiction has to emulate reality? Fiction is not history written in stone that you have to abide by because of facts, fiction can be molded into anything you want it to be....sorry but it's true. Isn't that the whole point of storytelling? To tell stories? Lost told a story and did it very well. "Why come here at all" well....why not? Because this is a place to discuss this stuff and not everyone is going to agree with you on everything.....that's why. My responses are not unsupported by the mere fact that it's just the plain TRUTH.

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[–] McQualude (4231) 5 years ago

Then discuss it.

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[–] JayReed (0) 5 years ago

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[–] McQualude (4231) 5 years ago

You only think what you are told to think, like a child that still believes in the Easter Bunny. I've given good reasons for my opinion but you'd rather hide behind a sock and make juvenile insults than debate me. Plonk.

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[–] kenburke (2296) 6 years ago

I saw a few episodes of the show but got tired of it. Lost was lost!!!

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[–] SCN26 (2) 6 years ago

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[–] Galactus03 (4302) 6 years ago

Games of Thrones is much better than an island with a flipping CORK....ahhh hahahahahaha......it had an actual CORK....😂😂😂😂

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[–] Alex (1490) 5 years ago

How about now? Do you still think Game of Thrones is better? Lolololololololololololololololololololo

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[–] Galactus03 (4302) 5 years ago

I haven't watched the last season yet. But I do admit the pacing from last season was speed up and apparently it's the same this last season. I will watch later this year. I'm sure it's still better than the last season of Lost though ...

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[–] Alex (1490) 5 years ago

Lost 2.0

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[–] McQualude (4231) 5 years ago

Sadly it wasn't better than the last season of anything.

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[–] Alex (1490) 5 years ago

D&D had the nerve to compare the final season of GOT to the final season of Breaking Bad before it aired. Hindsight 20/20. Roflmao.

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[–] JayReed (0) 5 years ago

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

and fans knew from day one about purgatory.lol

no they didnt , the writers didnt even pull that out of their asses till S6

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[–] Towelie_Towel (1727) 5 years ago

That's the irony on all of this, that the fan theory that was debunked several times, was actually the real one.

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[–] BillySlater (4125) 5 years ago

They weren´t in purgatory, everything that happened on the island was real.

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[–] Towelie_Towel (1727) 5 years ago

Sure.

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[–] JayReed (0) 5 years ago

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[–] McQualude (4231) 5 years ago

Yep, their plane crashed in the middle of the ocean and they woke up on a time jumping island inhabited by angels, a smoke monster, polar bear, and dead people from their past; only a moron would think that was some kind of purgatory.

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[–] Alex (1490) 5 years ago

Did you expect anything else from Jar Jar Abraams? The dude coined the phrase "mystery boxes"

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[–] LaughingAtM0r0ns (0) 5 years ago

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[–] Alex (1490) 5 years ago

It had some amazing episodes like Desmond's "The constant" or Charlie's "Not Penny's boat" stuff tho

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[–] FoffLsrTrl (0) 5 years ago

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[–] Galactus03 (4302) 5 years ago

The pathetic thing is you don't know how to make a proper link....😂😂😂

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[–] JayReed (0) 5 years ago

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