That's where things get fun (read: convoluted), because the island is purgatory, just not for the crash survivors (who are still alive at time of crash), but rather for souls not yet ready to move on (awaiting forgiveness from those they've wronged or something? Wasn't really explained)
Lost was a victim of the "mystery box" style of writing, in which the writers when conceptualizing a long-term mystery only considered it's introduction and left the resolution for later. This lead to some mysteries never gaining a resolution, some gaining a completely asinine resolution, and even some that previously were given a satisfactory resolution being retconned for an asinine resolution (ex. the whispers were at first the others being weird, later retconned into being the dead people in purgatory on the island).
Add to that, the characters became unrecognizable and stupid in the final season. All that made for an incredible downfall for a once awesome show.
I watched the whole thing when it aired too, and the last episode was the biggest table flip moment... it was like the writers had no clue where to go, and someone said "ok sorry but we need a script that ties off all loose ends. You have 10 minutes to come up with something."
34 Comments
Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 31d
Beans are scared of tesseract
pieguy@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 31d
Beans, being two-dimensional, can barely comprehend three dimensions! Imagine how spooky four must be!
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 12 pts · 31d
pieguy@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 31d
Who dat?
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 31d
prolific rapist. if there had been AI back then, he'd probably have been a user.
pieguy@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 31d
oh no
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 31d
pieguy@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 31d
oh no
imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 31d
their anuses are bleeding
pieguy@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 31d
oh no
pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 31d
pieguy@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 30d
That's a lot of beans!
mcz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 30d
Oh no
mcz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 30d
That's like 13
Freyi@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 30d
They just watched the last episode of Lost
pieguy@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 30d
As someone who watched Lost when it originally aired:
oh no
mcz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 30d
As someone who's never seen the last episode of Lost. What happened in the last episode of Lost?
pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 30d
they were all dead the whole time
pieguy@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 30d
...in the flash-sideways, which in retrospect was probably more stupid than if they were dead from the beginning on-island...
pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 30d
wait, really? i was pretty sure the island was meant to be purgatory.
pieguy@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 30d
That's where things get fun (read: convoluted), because the island is purgatory, just not for the crash survivors (who are still alive at time of crash), but rather for souls not yet ready to move on (awaiting forgiveness from those they've wronged or something? Wasn't really explained)
pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 29d
That show is pretty dumb today, but it was epic when it came out.
One of the last true tv shows before the advent of streaming services.
mcz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 30d
Thank you for your answer
pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 29d
You're welcome!
pieguy@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 30d
Lost was a victim of the "mystery box" style of writing, in which the writers when conceptualizing a long-term mystery only considered it's introduction and left the resolution for later. This lead to some mysteries never gaining a resolution, some gaining a completely asinine resolution, and even some that previously were given a satisfactory resolution being retconned for an asinine resolution (ex. the whispers were at first the others being weird, later retconned into being the dead people in purgatory on the island). Add to that, the characters became unrecognizable and stupid in the final season. All that made for an incredible downfall for a once awesome show.
mcz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 30d
Thank you for your answer
Freyi@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 21d
I watched the whole thing when it aired too, and the last episode was the biggest table flip moment... it was like the writers had no clue where to go, and someone said "ok sorry but we need a script that ties off all loose ends. You have 10 minutes to come up with something."
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf · 5 pts · 30d
They've seen some hardcore bean on bean porn! This shattered their innocence, and filled their minds with feels they do not understand!
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 31d
They just committed manslaughter.
pieguy@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 31d
oh no
qrstuv@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 31d
Thank you for creating incomplete content!
pieguy@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 30d
Thank you for engaging with my incomplete content! What do you think they saw? You can complete the content by drawing-in an answer!
c0co@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 24d
pieguy@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 23d
oh no