Wow that LOST finale rocked...ROCKED!
The more I think about it, the happier I get for the characters. Their ending was fantastic. However, the more I think about it, the plotholes and open questions piss me off even more. Why did the island need to be protected prior to the MiB? We don't know. Because we don't know what the light is or the water or the plug or who made the plug, etc. Obviously, someone made that plug. What was the island like before that plug was there? If the island is going to crumble/sink once it's pulled, how did it exist before someone made the plug? Even then, because of the magnetic forces there, there seem to be little reason to protect it. The odds of someone stumbling on to the island who has Desmond's resistance to the magnetic forces who also happens to stumble to the cave just seem very, very slim.
All the bad stuff that happened with MiB were a result of trying to "protect the island". If they would have just let him leave when he wanted to, none of that would have happened. I just kept hoping the show would provide a reason for everything or even most things. What was stopping MIB/Smokey from leaving the island? What would have happened to him if he had boarded Widmore's sub at one point and just left? The build up lead us to believe there was some big, supernatural kind of reasoning behind it but it never was explained. Because none of this was ever explained, the ending ultimately felt hollow.
It amuses me when it takes people 6 seasons to realize this. This show was made by a goddamn plot generator. I can make a program that will write dialogue and events for this show, and apparently there will be millions of people following its output.
It amuses me when it takes people 6 seasons to realize this. This show was made by a goddamn plot generator. I can make a program that will write dialogue and events for this show, and apparently there will be millions of people following its output.
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It amuses me when it takes people 6 seasons to realize this. This show was made by a goddamn plot generator. I can make a program that will write dialogue and events for this show, and apparently there will be millions of people following its output.
My viewing the show was perpetuated by my certainty that in order to end the show they would have to tie it all together somehow. The show was incredible when watched with that expectation in mind. However, once the ending took place and didn't tie everything together, it rendered everything before it suspect.
That is why I feel so cheated by the conclusion of the series. One of my main motivations for watching was my curiosity over how they could actually pull it all off. I think you are asking a bit much for people to be skeptical of the show right from the get-go.
And yes, we all know the Island was vital for imprisoning the Man In Black, but it was clearly important before him and after him. Why did Jacob and his predecessors have to protect the light? Yes, it kept the island from sinking, but why was the island important back then, before the Man In Black was turned evil? I thought that the conclusion should have focused more on revealing the true nature and importance of the island, not on Jack's personal journey. Jack was one of the dullest characters on the show.
And they still didn't explain what the numbers mean. The numbers were one of the most intriguing and elusive mysteries of the island.
There were too many things left unexplained. With an ending like that, for all we know the writers never had a cohesive idea about the island, and just threw in new random mysterious features whenever they were convenient for the plot.
I think the writters used Mother to answer this when she said: "Every question i answer is only going to lead to more questions".
And to answer your question reagarding the numbers: they represent coincidences. There is a design flaw in our human brains, they are built to detect relationships between things to the point that sometimes we see relationships were there are none. How did people decide that breaking a mirror is bad luck? they probably broke a mirror a couple of times, saw bad things happen a little after and assumed a relationship. The writters wanted to include this human behavior in the show.
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Ok, so:
-Island contains the well of souls/life, or something similar (the "light" or so-called "source"), plugged in. Unplug it, and everything will soon end ("death"). However, monster is now mortal when this happens, so it's a do or die switch, so to speak; only one person can really unplug it, but the watcher can put it back in
-Monster is left ambiguous; doesn't seem to be Samuel at all, rather, Jacob released it when he put something that shouldn't go into the light of the island into it (someone other than the watcher or mister negative EM radiation). Monster seems to be the opposite of "light", even though both came from the same place (this would jive with, "life, death and rebirth" of the "source"); so, he'd be the "death" part of the island's source. He's stuck to the island just as the "source" is. Its desire to leave, and if it does, will create worldwide death; not because of what it is, but what happens when he unplugs the source (he's then a mortal. He can't do much then, other than leave, but he'll die just the same as everyone else; "a fate worst than death", because all he can do is be trapped or dead, never free)
-"Rebirth", I don't know about. I guess...when people "let go" of what they're obsessively holding onto that is harming them in some way, are they then reborn (the other time line points to this)
I think that's all of it, in all its...ambiguous nature.
By episode 14 of Season 1 it was obvious that they're just making it up as they go along. This was done before with X-Files, and most importantly, the show's creator, J.J. Abrams, has done this very thing before with ALIAS.
So I was just seeing the same pattern unfold before my very eyes. Amplified.
Person 1: Why are we on this island?
Person 2: (shoots Person 1 in the shoulder) Worry about bandaging your shoulder instead.
Person 1: Okay. What's this bus/cave/spaceship/random object doing there?
Person 2: I actually know that one! It's because-
(a tree falls on Person 2, killing them)
Person 1: OH NO!! (cries)
Next 3 episodes are dedicated to flashbacks of Person 1 and Person 2 having good times and how sad Person 1 is now. Then they kiss Person 3 and go out into the forest, only to discover a deer that speaks Spanish backwards.
Person 3: Sweet Moses, this deer speaks Spanish backwards!
Person 1: I am hungry (shoots deer)
Person 3: OH NO!!
Person 1: Look, the deer had a tattoo! It said "J.J. Abrams is on drugs right now".
Person 3: So where are we gonna roast this deer?
... ad infinitum
IT'S A FORMULA. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Overall, the series rocked . For some reason it seemed to inspire hatred, jealousy and vitriol from people who apparently couldn't follow along, couldn't figure out what all the fuss was about or just seemed to resent the popularity of something they couldn't or wouldn't involve themselves in. Pretty pathetic if you ask me.
I loved the series, I loved the last season and I loved the finale. The lack of answers to some of the bigger mysteries is annoying, but toward the end I finally accepted they weren't coming, accepted it, decided to go along for the ride and was happy in the end. I guess to there's a fine line between The Force and Midichlorians, between the wonder of the mystery and even a good answer ruining the fun of the mystery.
I'd also say that while the last season, and the last episode, were both great, perhaps they would be considered better by people disliking them if they weren't the end of the series. I think a lot of the hatred directed toward the last season and the last episode are purely the result of them not providing many answers when they were the last opportunity to do so. But if you ignore them not providing answers, which is expected purely because they came at the end of the series, they were not bad episodes.
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