COp out just like BSG.
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But unlike BSG they actually showed a waiting staion for heaven.I will not say "I told you so" but, let's just say "Lost" is for this generation(what a friend of mine calls "Generation Stupid")what Twin Peaks was twenty years ago.
It's just today's kids weren't around to experience the incredible demise of such an interesting show, so today they have "Lost".
I KNEW the ending would suck - there was NO WAY they could get themselves out of it without pissing millions of people off. The producers' "Remember, not all your questions will be answered and this was ALWAYS a show about the characters!!!" was a lame attempt at bait and switch before they basically took the money and ran.
INCREDIBLE EPIC FAIL.
It's just today's kids weren't around to experience the incredible demise of such an interesting show, so today they have "Lost".
I KNEW the ending would suck - there was NO WAY they could get themselves out of it without pissing millions of people off. The producers' "Remember, not all your questions will be answered and this was ALWAYS a show about the characters!!!" was a lame attempt at bait and switch before they basically took the money and ran.
INCREDIBLE EPIC FAIL.
Totally agree. It was the same explanation they had for BSG when Moore said they were having problems following their plan for the show and they decided it was easier to just write to the characters and not worry about the plan. Apparently writing to a plan is hard work only JMS can handle
Perhaps, but not to the exclusion of plot, or just brushing it aside with the wave of a fancy wand.
The show took place on a magical island. Anyone who was expecting answers to all of the silly little mysteries and riddles that have popped up over the years were fooling themselves.
This. Totally this. I never thought I'd see a more moving finale than BSG's, and now I'm up in the air. Well, let the naysayers vent if it makes them feel better... both BSG & Lost had finales that were true to themselves. Epic wins, both.
Indeed.
It's the spiritual equivalent of "deus ex machina".
"It was a quantum filament spiritual purgatory plane all along".
Give me a fucking break, stop insulting my intelligence and move aside so real writers can come up with a proper story.
There are plenty of people who would disagree with you.
How did BSG end? I never liked that show.
It was a brilliant ending. I cried and was totally satisfied.
Basically it was "God did it".
Translation: The mysteries never had to make any sense as long as they can wave a deus ex machina wand.
I don't think people were asking for answers to unrealistic questions like about Jack's tattoos or other weird trivial shit. But there were some big threads that were left loose, some of which were mentioned earlier.
Pretty much all the major questions were answered. I'm not sure what people are complaining about...
Such as?
If anything, all this finale served to answer was what they set up in the premiere this season: the flash sideways. It really had just about nothing to do with the rest of the show, which was never about people dying or their afterlife. For a good portion of the show, it was about why the island was so mysterious, and there are tons of questions that were presented as very major, dwelled upon, and then pushed aside in favor of a different story.
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Island questions weren't answered, a lot of unexplained things, which I expected, but not to this degree.
Mild BSG spoilers ahead...
That wasn't the ending. It was just one aspect of the ending that people who didn't like it are hung up on. Even then it wasn't "God did it", it was more like... "Something is going on here that we don't presently understand." A lot of people who didn't like BSG's ending seem to ignore the fact that the story, the characters and the mythology got a propper wrap-up even if the "string-pulling" wasn't explained.
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