You have a few months before this shocking cliffhanger resumes in the fall - watch previous seasons and catch up.
"Oh boy." I took that quote from Quantum Leap because I felt that it's the most suitable phrase for the best show on television today. That show is Lost and if you think you knew what was going to happen on the final episode of this season, then, boy, were you proven wrong!…
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26 - gisele
I am reading all of these LOST comments and I am amazed at how observant and intelligent LOST viewers are. But I am also amazed at something that NO ONE has mentioned. At the end of the show when the 2 men are speaking portugese, the one who calls Desmond's girlfriend is JACK!!! How can this be??? And why isn't anyone talking about it???
27 - Bored
Okay firstly, I am not normally the kind of person to get onto a blog and criticise something everyone else seems to love, so I'm going to try and leave the snark at the door, and I apologise in advance for any offence I might cause. Consider yourself warned " if you love “Lost” and don’t want to hear my less than favourable comments, skip this post (honestly, feel free). So the inevitable question - if I hate the show (‘hate’ is too strong a word, ‘disappointed by’ is more fitting), why am I even here? Why bother posting at all? Well I was enticed in by the claim that "Lost" is the best show ever. I wanted to see if anyone (else) disagreed. Turns out, not so much, but there’s a first time for everything, right?
Okay, disclaimers over. I don’t believe this is the best show ever. Maybe I'm missing something, but I find it boring. I stopped watching halfway through season 2 because I got sick of endlessly repetitive flashbacks that didn’t drive the story forward. My feeling is that when the show was pitched, the creators knew the answers to the big questions (e.g. why did the plane crash? - because of the EMP released from the island), and what the ending and ultimate resolution is going to be. So they made the show, and it was a huge hit. Millions of people worldwide tuned in. Now when you have a huge hit, you want to make as much money as possible from its success, especially if you’re a big network/studio. So the creators decided to flesh it out with flashbacks to provide character backstory, and throw in some seemingly inexplicable mysteries on the island in real-time. So they did. Then that got tired, so they introduced the Tailaways. Only they forgot to make them (with the exception of Eko) likeable or interesting. So they killed most of them off and quickly moved on to the Hanso Foundation, yada yada. I don't know much more, I got bored and stopped watching.
One of my complaints about Lost is that the show is filled with red herrings, and the mysteries that do evolve start suddenly and in single episodes. Like the introduction of Desmond in season 2. His appearance in flashback and their discovery of him in the hatch happened in the same episode. Wouldn’t it have been cooler to randomly introduce him in one of Jack’s season 1 flashbacks, allowing that scene in the stadium to simply speak to Jack’s current frame of mind about his fiancé, so that when they found him in the hatch on the island, viewers could say “oh my god, that’s the seemingly random guy from season 1!” As it was, we saw him in the hatch and went “oh look it’s the guy from Jack’s flashback we just met ten minutes ago, what a shock.” I don’t know, maybe I expect too much.
I won’t go on much longer. I did want to comment on a few of posts from above:
“The electromagnetism seems to have curative effects (Locke's paralysis, Rose's cancer).”
Cancer & paralysis can be cured by magnets? Surely someone should tell the doctors of the world! Um, I’m not sure that I buy this " but then it seems others here didn’t either so I’ll let it go. I just hope that’s not going ot be the show’s explanation because that makes no sense whatsoever.
“I'm getting a sinking feeling that the writers are simply piling on mysteries to the show for the sake of piling on mysteries without any plan on how to resolve them.”
Thank you Mark M. I hear ya.
“Lost is still hands down the most fascinating thing on TV these days...this from a guy who really misses oddball shows like Twin Peaks, Millennium, and HBO's Carnavale.”
Aww. Carnivale. I miss that too. It seemed to be picking up where “American Gothic” left off (I miss that show too). But you need to start watching “Veronica Mars”. And before you all groan “oh no another rabid Veronica Martian hijacking our thread” … seriously. Even if you only watch it so that you can say “Lost is so much better than that show” or “Lost presents its mysteries in a much more intriguing way than Veronica Mars”. If you can honestly say that, I will salute you. But I probably won’t believe you.
But seriously. “Lost” is on hiatus, what else are you going to do? Check out the first season of "Veronica Mars" - currently in reruns on Tuesdays at 9/8c on UPN. It’s only just starting to re-run so get in quick.
Veronica Mars is hands-down a better show than Lost. Don't believe me? Watch it. And prove me wrong, I dare you.
28 - Maulros
To you Bored: Your ending line is just hilarious! :) It proves that your comment about Lost cannot be taken seriously... What a waste of time and energy, why you dont spent it more wisely; with your favorite no-brainer show Veronica Mars :D
29 - Vichus Smith
Since you like Veronica Mars, you can't be all that bad :)
I do not think that the flashbacks are useless. In some flashbacks, we learn important details. The case in point is Desmond's flashback. However, doing a flashback does take the focus off of what really matters- the present- so I see your point somewhat.
Someone also mentioned a "virgin birth" Who on the island doesn't know who the father of their child is? Sun is the only other person who will become a mother on the island so far, and she knows who the father is, and who it isn't.
As for mysteries, at least they finally answered questions that have been burning for a while now. the writers have already explained that the numbers have no big meaning. The only thing that they have a relation to is bad luck.
Hurley used those numbers and his life went to hell. In a flashback, there is a team (soccer?) who are wearing the numbers and they are lined up in the same sequence as the hatch code.
Lost is not "the best show ever." That's just what people say when they are actually entertained by something and are given a boatload of good characters and an engaging plot. To be more realistic, I would say that it is one of a few fantastic shows that have helped to raise the bar on shows on network television.
I hope you can remember the time when empty "reality" show after reality show was on the air. I don't want to go back to that. I'd rather have Lost.
30 - Phillip Winn
It has become clear to me that the Lost writers are making up a lot of things as they go along and that there is no "Grand Unified Theory" that will resolve absolutely everything. Especially since some people seem to want to make mysteries out of things that aren't really mysteries at all! Still, I love the show.
By the way, Mark M, the whispering forest voices came back in the S2 finale, just before the darts hit our Losties. People have spent time (too much time) recording previous iterations of those voices and playing them backwards, and they generally seem to be the Others (or an as-yet-unknown group of people) communicating between each other.
The polar bears have been "explained" by the appearance of commercials and videos showing that the Hanso Foundation was working on zoology projects involving polar bears. Admittedly, how they are connected to Walt hasn't been explained, but next season we will learn more about "the Others" which should reveal much there.
Seriously, man, they've explained a lot of thing, made progress on some others, and introduced new mysteries. So? There's still plenty of time to explain things, especially as we focus on "the Others" next season.
I used to watch Alias, and this is the Abrams pattern: build toward a resolution all season, then resolve it in such a way that it becomes clear that wasn't even the real issue. The spy agency Sydney was sworn to bring down turned out to be nothing, and then the next one did, and then her arch-enemy turned out to be a good guy, and then he wasn't, and somewhere in there she completely lost two years, and so on. So the same thing is going to be true here.
Season one we set up a bizarre mystery of the mysterious island. Season two we focused a bit more on other people and their experiences, setting up Jack (in my opinion) as the man who makes all the difference between the relatively charmed life the Losties had and the Tailies had, and also -- of course -- the button. In Season three, the button is gone, and now we learn how "the Others" proclaim themselves to be the good guys, plus a mysterious off-island person now seems to know where it is. Nice!
Think about it: our heroes have killed how many of "the Others" now? Five? Six? Plus some of each other, too. And then there's the torture, a couple of times. What have the Others done? By comparison, they've killed one person and tried to kill another, both in ways that could almost be considered self-defense. Plus some kidnapping, though the kidnapped appear to be free to leave at any time and aren't doing so. So hmmm...
31 - Mark M.
Phillip Winn, do you know/remember exactly who "the others" have killed and why? I can only remember the tailee they had in the pit, but I can't recall any legitimate, non-malicious explanation "the other" agent in the tailee camp would have for killing him. Last season, I think another "other" agent killed some people as well, but can't remember the context.
32 - Justene
I assumed they killed the real Henry Gale.
33 - Ty
"I am reading all of these LOST comments and I am amazed at how observant and intelligent LOST viewers are. But I am also amazed at something that NO ONE has mentioned. At the end of the show when the 2 men are speaking portugese, the one who calls Desmond's girlfriend is JACK!!! How can this be??? And why isn't anyone talking about it???"
Because it's NOT Jack. This has been thoroughly analyzed on LOST message boards. Go watch the credits to the finale again. You'll see that both Portguese speaking guys are credited, and neither of them is the actor who plays Jack.
34 - gisele
Dearest Ty - Thanks for being the first person to answer me. I was beginning to think it was another LOST conspiracy... In any case, please remember the program we are watching. Just because the guys are credited doesn't mean they're not playing tricks with our heads, it certainly wouldn't be the first time. And if you wouldn't mind please directing me to the boards where this has been "thoroughly analyzed" I would appreciate it. I haven't been able to find any. In any case, it ain't over until the fat lady sings and I know what I saw. We will see next season who that portuguese man is. At least I'm hoping!!! Get me those message boards, if you don't mind. Thanks again!
35 - Lostfan
the guy at the end of the show was the crazy-guy who kept repeating the umbers at hurley's mental institute....look at the hansocareers.com website and go to the 1 in iceland u will see that it is all about helping menatal patients....
36 - Vichus Smith
I didn't think that the Hanso website was worth reading, but it's hilarious. Why does an organ courier have to be versed in the martial arts?
37 - Weirdo Non Conformist
I may be the only one in the world not to like this series.
What's with the tacit approval of torture ?
Why has the island been split into good and evil ?
Why do the characters become almost entirely unreasonable at the drop of a hat (when the plot thins) ?
Why do TV producers insist on having guns pointed at people as the unltimate ultimatum ?
Why are there so many questions created for us ?
Lost is just a mindless soap opera with no real direction or purpose other than whipping up a frenzy of cash for the makers....
It's going to go on forever until all the good little consumers stop buying the merchandise.
38 - V. Smith
I'd pay attention to your attempt at poetic criticism if it seemed that you actually watched the show.
Yes, like any show, TV is milked until its dead. For a lucky few they end the series before it gets too dull.
I know what you could watch! Go watch reality TV, like most people did before Lost shot a hole in the bow of that awful ship. Even if Lost turned out to be a muddled mess that contradicted itself episode to episode, I would continue to watch it because it's not a stupid reality show.
Go Screw.
Beat it.