Comments on: Lost Season 5 Finale Review & Discussion

By: sensible

sensible — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 01:18:07 +0000

the ending of lost was written before the show. It was already stated by the writers and JJ a LONG time ago. Good job dumb ass.

By: sensible

sensible — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 01:14:28 +0000

stfu LOST has a story and you don’t write it. Just because you don’t understand it

By: rob

rob — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 04:45:32 +0000

It’s really amazing how many people don’t even realize what happened in the end. Look how many people think they were dead the whole series. Look how many don’t realize that the events on the island really took place and were seperate from the side-story about the passage to death. Unless people were just not paying attention or they’re really dumb, it was absolutely clear that they were not dead the whole series. Please rewatch the last episode and pay more attention, especially to what Jack’s father tells him at the end about all of them dying at different times…some before Jack, some long after. Of coarse it’s up to each viewer if you think the whole side-story of them in this pre-afterlife was a good idea or not…but please at least understand that it was seperate from the main series of events on the island.

By: ankit kabra

ankit kabra — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:38:21 +0000

i feel you are a stupid asshole working for the lost creators…they created this show with no ending, they thought they can show everything in the world without ever explaining it. Just think about the mysteries and what they did with it.

I would never ever suggest anyone to ever watch this show coz it is just crap folded in a nice wrapper.

By: Denise J

Denise J — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:42:29 +0000

Do you feel that they all died from a plane crash? Perhaps in the ocean as no one ever came to look for them and the island was the place that struggling souls all went to to struggle with good and evil and redemption; after all the dharma people, the others, etc assuming they were all dead too? Do you take it Richard was finally allowed to die too? Was Jacob and MIB the island guardians and now the island exists for the next group of souls who will work out thier struggles before they can move on? The more I think about this the more I wonder. When the oceanic six went home, was home another made up reality where they learned they were still miserable and needed to go back to the island to work out thier purpose? I really can’t wrap my hands about this yet. I loved the ending for the most part, loved Jack and his dad’s reconciliation. Cried like a baby.

By: Stephen S.

Stephen S. — Sun, 30 May 2010 15:04:44 +0000

Everything dies sooner or later. I thought the ending was very honoring of that.

By: Stephen S.

Stephen S. — Sun, 30 May 2010 15:03:07 +0000

I’m guessing they went home.

By: Stephen S.

Stephen S. — Sun, 30 May 2010 15:02:24 +0000

Juliet’s declaration that “it worked” is understandable considering she would’ve at that point found herself in the purgaverse, which was specifically designed to be that What-if possible alternate reality in which it did work.

And while purgatory could’ve been “slapped” on any show, it truly did fit the themes of this particular series, having always been about religous themes and the idea that there was something bigger guiding them and uniting them.

I think the explanation of the island and what it was, the symbolism of Jacob and the Smoke Monster was intentionally written to be the most basic of metaphors about the eternal conflict of good and evil and, as it always had since the first season, as fantastic as that island was, the focus was always on the lives of those characters.

The purgatory setup was a perfect way to acknowledge those characters and recognize that the events that took place on the island was simply a representation of their individual and group test in life.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 29 May 2010 10:26:40 +0000

6 years LOST watching this show, that promised to reveal all, but just left me totally confused.

By: Spiros Athens

Spiros Athens — Thu, 27 May 2010 23:11:44 +0000

Guys…it turns out that the people who created Lost, got lost in the end themselves! During the 4th season, they told us that everything would be explained before the show completed. Guess what … they lied for the extra money, as if they hadn’t made enough already…Shame on them to disappoint so many fans!

Peace!

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 27 May 2010 18:32:03 +0000

This may be redundant as I’ve only scanned the prior comments, but it does seem that the prugatory sideways plot of the last year which I agree that is what it was, has nothing to do with the island, which my wife pointed out. She was confused by the ending, I explained my thoughts they were all dead as explained and creating their realities before moving on – which is a common belief of afterlife researchers (a subject I follow) and then verified on this site that is the consensus. But then my wife astutely pointed out, “what does that have to do with the weirdness of the island?” I paused, thought about it and realized absolutely nothing. That ending – purgatory could have been slapped onto any show – since purgatory is an independent element of the events of the island. We all die – we all have unresolved issued we address in the afterlife before moving on to the next level of existence, etc… That is a completely independent theme from what occurred on the island – it could be a conclusion to Fringe or Flash Forward to use some current shows as examples. In other words they never explained why the island is a source of electromagnetic anomaly – nor why it had protectors in the first place and where the protectors powers came from. Having these people meet in again in the afterlife due to their shared experiences on the island doesn’t explain in any way or even connect to the weirdness of the island except for Desmond bridging both worlds. It seems like just a lot of noise and smoke to obcure the fact maybe they never had a good explanation to begin with and tacked on this ending hoping no one would realize it or rather to appease all the critics who believed that to be the case. One other item that bugs me – Juliet right before she died in Sawyer’s arms whispered to him “it worked” referring to the bomb changing the past/future. This contributed to the red herring of the sideways being a parallel world/timeline and not prugatory, however the finale refuted that. So what did she mean – or did the writers just use that at the time to mislead us and then forget about it later conveniently? Thoughts?

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 25 May 2010 18:12:50 +0000

Can someone please tell me what happened to Frank Lapidus the pilot, he wasn’t in the end scene, and we clearly see him flying off the island with Richard, Miles, Kate, and Sawyer. What happened to the people who got on the plane and flew off?

By: begbie

begbie — Mon, 24 May 2010 23:52:45 +0000

The defining feature that makes a program a soap opera, according to Albert Moran, is “that form of television that works with a continuous open narrative. Each episode ends with a promise that the storyline is to be continued in another episode”. Wikipedia.
If LOST is revolutionary in any way, it is simply that it has transformed the soap opera format into something that is completely new. We’re all talking about the finale and what it means, and completely ignoring all the high drama of previous episodes and series. No one’s talking about the numbers, for example, or Locke and the button (2 or 3 hours of viewing at least), the war between Linus and Widmore (hours of viewing) to name but a few of these intense moments of drama. But why aren’t these important to us now? In the same way that what happened in Coronation Street 10 years ago isn’t important.
This series cannot be compared a program like The Wire in any way – plot development, characterisation, script – but it can be compared the melodrama played out in Neighbours where we’re absolutely absorbed by what happens one day, and are capable of forgetting about it completely just a few weeks later.
In LOST, almost every episode introduced some new kind of mystery. In fact they threw so many at us that the only way to keep watching was to forget what had come before. The only kind of program that requires its audience to accept these kind of radical changes is a Venezuelan ‘culebron’ where the characters spend their days trying to kill each other or locked in a dungeon in high heels and a mini-skirt. And then get married a couple of weeks later.
Please, correct me you can think of a format that is more similar.
The characters go from being psychotic killers to normal people and back, from episode to episode. Surely no one took Claire seriously when she started walking around with a gun and her hair all messed up.
And why isn’t anyone talking about how poor the script was. Almost every conversation, every scene was the same cliff-hanger nonsense. “Do what I want because a. if you don’t something terrible will happen b. all your dreams will come true.” Please. This is 100% venezuelan. In comparison, I think of the scene in the Wire where McNulty is confronted by D’Angelo’s mum about her son’s murder, and it still breaks my heart. And this is being compared to a scene where people who spent a good part of their lives trying to kill each other all kiss and make up in a church for no good reason? …
At best LOST is a soap opera with an identity crisis (identity crisis because soaps don’t ever finish) , at worst it was just a bad program and the writers have been stringing us along to see how much of their nonsense we would swallow.

By: Ana Garcia

Ana Garcia — Mon, 24 May 2010 20:32:11 +0000

I am totally disappointed with the ending of LOST!!! The show started off so exciting and progressively got crazier and crazier only to end in all of them being DEAD????? Why put us through six seasons only to have them all die?? All the flash backs, forwards and every which way have together with the ending left a really bad taste…. EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTING GUYS!!!!!!

By: majorsgt

majorsgt — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:14:04 +0000

Funny about the names of the “Good vs Evil” characters.

According to the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible, Esau was the fraternal twin brother of Jacob (whom God renamed Israel)—the patriarch and founder of the Israelites. Esau and Jacob were the sons of Isaac and Rebekah, and the grandsons of Abraham and Sarah. Esau was born first and when Jacob was born, he held onto Esau's heel (Genesis 25:26) Reading further about this you will find that Jacob tricked Esau into getting the birthright from thier father. Esau wanted to kill Jacob later but was thwarted by Jacob and his sons against overwhelming odds. Later, God despised what Esau did to Jacob and others and destroyed his family and descendants with a few exceptions. Interesting?

By: majorsgt

majorsgt — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:14:04 +0000

Funny about the names of the “Good vs Evil” characters.

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By: Dino

Dino — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:30:36 +0000

No doubt we will all find meaning in even the most casually placed propin the new pictures mimicing DaVinci's "Last Supper". For example: There are two skulls on the ground - one each at the feet of Hurley (Jorge Garcia) and Sayid (Naveen Andrews), whose position corresponds with that of Judas. Does this represent a nuclear holocaust?

In the images, Jack (Matthew Fox) is placed in the Apostle Thomas’ spot.

The cast is seated at a table fashioned from an airplane wing and sitting in airline seats. Behind them is a destroyed Dharma Initiative outpost bearing the Swan logo. At the end of the table there is an empty seat.

The empty seat on the right remains empty in both pictures. Hmmm.

Or is this just another stunt placed as a red herring designed to throw everyone off? Is J.J. Abrams messing with us?

This is the link to the pictures

http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2010/01/05/new-prom...

By: kev

kev — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:01:13 +0000

i know,im slow, i always waitfor the LOST seasons to come out on DVD then watch them all in a marathon! so i just finished the end of season 5….
wow.
i didnt actually realise how much i loved the season as a whole until they stared to piece ethings together at the end of the season.
im a massive fan of jack, and reading over all you notes from the page (which are unbelievably thought out! …in a cool way)
i really hope jack makes some kind of sacrifice at the end of the final series that kind of saves everyone…although its a massive shame that locke turns into a ?bad guy?.
and YES, i want to see some more of jacob, i think the whole religious theme is awesome.
when you think about it, the whole series of lost, from season 1 to 5…(nearing 6) has been all about science VS ?god?

maybe…?

kev