Comments on: A Spaceship Would Have Been Better

By: AngiveL

AngiveL — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:32:21 +0000

Let’s all get on it – the Aliens probably have better shows.

I’m not saying we’d be able to understand or make any sense of them – but hey – we can’t with Lost either, can we;)

By: m0nini873

m0nini873 — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:08:13 +0000

Ilie, I wish the aliens would take me away too so I could escape the lame ending lol

By: ilieintheshadowofthestatue

ilieintheshadowofthestatue — Thu, 27 May 2010 02:03:37 +0000

Monini, aliens WERE the final reveal. Where do you think that door in the end took them? Tada, it’s a spaceship!

By: m0nini873

m0nini873 — Thu, 27 May 2010 00:28:39 +0000

I wish stupid UnLocke had been able to leave the island so we could find out what the big deal was in the first place. It was rather anticlimactic when Jack killed him. And I don’t understand the afterlife being so life-like with families and births… what’s the point in being dead? If you never “move on” then you get a whole other life..

I miss the days when we used to joke about aliens being the final reveal. sigh.

By: highbrow

highbrow — Wed, 26 May 2010 12:04:32 +0000

Yeah, good point… they wasted time in the final season introducing characters and then killing those characters off before they even became relevant.

I still think that showing the DI’s origin would have wrapped up the series better for us… not as the last episode or anything but it should have come along at some point this season… it might have even fit better back in season five…

By: nachochris

nachochris — Wed, 26 May 2010 10:04:41 +0000

The most important character in the series was??????

Dogen.

That was a joke by the way. The problem with Lost, is a bit like supporting the English national soccer team. They play very good games, but then have a bad game and the wole of England is pissed off.

We came to expect so much, that our standards were extremely high.

So instead of the show maybe getting an A+, it ended up with perhaps a B+.

Very good, but not OUTSTANDING.

The earlier epsiodes with the others in the temple (Dogen etc) where not relevant enough, but probably needed to keep us doubting about the nature of the FSW.

Perhaps explanations of Dharma, MIB in the cave etc should have been developed more to attain an A+ from all people on this site.

Still enjoyed it though.

By: mojo

mojo — Wed, 26 May 2010 05:43:34 +0000

I liked the aspect of the finale that revealed that Jack had died and that the symbiotic timeline was actually an afterlife. I liked seeing all the characters being reunited because as you said, the character development was monumental in this series.
I totally agree that this last season has left me wanting all along. They even dropped the character plot lines for a few episodes. The sci-fi element was completely lost and I also was waiting to see how they would resolve it.
It feels like they needed another season or two to finish everything they needed to resolve. It was as if they didn’t have enough time to finish and wrap things up, or the show was being dropped so they just hurried and shoved a general ending on the end of the the greatest web of sci-fi/religious/mythological themes we’ve seen on TV. With no resolution.
AND – even the moments where some of the characters “remember” was cheesy, I have to say. I loved Jack and Kate, loved Charlie and Claire. The Shannon and Sayid scene was just ridiculous and made me roll my eyes in disgust, not to mention the banter between Hurley and Boone. CHEESY!
A general answer and premise to tie in seasons 2-5 would have been so nice. They could have easily taken out some of the crap from this season and tied things together a bit more neatly.
Maybe we should have a contest as to who can do the best REAL final season of Lost.

By: highbrow

highbrow — Tue, 25 May 2010 23:02:10 +0000

The character stories were epic, I’ll give them that. I loved that part of the show. And yeah, I’ve known for as long as anyone else that the character drama was going to be a big part of the show’s resolution. But all the other stuff was just put in there to get people to watch for six seasons instead of the one that they actually needed. None of that other stuff mattered at all… that’s fine for people who have Lost on their watch-list along with Desperate Housewives and Grey’s Anatomy, but I watched as a science fiction fan. That’s what I was watching for and if the writers thought for even a second that they could end the show like this without pissing off and disappointing fans like me then they must be completely retarded. Seems like about 75% of the show that was just dropped in the last season… just happened to be the 75% I liked best. I held out hope that they’d get to it in the finale but it turned out they just had 20 minutes of extra commercials to show.

Good job on the character stuff… Way to drop the ball on the truly imaginative part.

By: peteike

peteike — Tue, 25 May 2010 22:08:46 +0000

totally agree. I initially didnt like the ending, then read a bunch of threads and was satisfied. Now Im back to hating it. As another thread noted, they only gave us half an ending. They concluded the characters but none of the mysteries of the show. Weaksauce.

By: Samson

Samson — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:49:22 +0000

I’m not just dissapointed with the ending but I’m quite angry actualy not only did they not answer questions but they left us with more, like who created the chamber where the light was and made the cork that des pulled out and jack put in. How was this put in in the first place because when it was taken out and the light went out the island was in self destruct. Why didn’t jack turn into smoke when mib did. What about hurley and ben, what happend to Clare when she got home, how did Richard live out his days. Most importantly what was the point in the alt timeline, yes it was nice to see them all happy before the journey to heaven but come on they wasted half a season when they could of been answering questions. I just don’t see why the couldn’t of have a entire episode dedicated to Jacob and the losties around the fire answering questions about the mysteries of lost and what Jacob couldn’t answer mib could of to ben. My only hope now is a dharma spin off which would be quite cool where these could figure out all the mysteries while doing their experiments.
I swear I never thought I could get this angry over a tv show I’ve been watching interviews on YouTube with the producers and watching their little smug faces makes me boil even more you just no they havnt got a clue how they are going to answer any thing and they are just fobbing people off and copped out with this whole going to heaven story line which pissed me off, honestly if any 1 asks me what lost was like because they have never seen it and they are going to buy the boxsets to watch it I will tell them all the need to watch is episode 1 seasons 5 finale and season 6 the rest is all filler