Improving Lost Season 6

[Hober Mallow]

That was one beautiful reply, Hober Mallow.

Thank you. And I did it 1) without alcohol, 2) without posting a goofy picture, and 3) without making a bad pun.

Takes bow.

 

[Nardpuncher]

To me, we got that explanation of what the island was in season two. It was, well... an island sitting on top of a pocket of electromagnetic energy that gave it unusual properties. But to the various people who encountered the island, the island meant something different to each one based on his or her character, prejudices, and needs.

To the people who built the ruins, the island was a holy place. To MIB it was a prison. To the U. S. army in 1950s, it was nothing but a place to test weapons. To the Dharma Initiative, it was a place of great scientific discovery. To Locke, it was an affirmation of the existence of fate. To Jack, it was an attack on his free will. So the driving focus of the show for me was never "what is the island?" We learned that in season two. It was "what is the island to character A, and how does that conflict with what the island is from character B's point of view."

I'm not saying everything got a satisfying answer. Immortality and giant plumes of sentient black smoke were just glossed over. But as far as "what is the island?" that's a question I'm completely satisfied with.

That does sound good, but what was necessary was for that to be stated in the show, whether overtly or not.

Like I said...I'm not looking for explanations that are accurate to three decimal places...just any reason would've been better.

 

[LitmusDragon]

Am I the only one who thinks we got too many answers? I'm not sure that I needed to see the penultimate fate of these characters, the very end of their existence and crossing over into the next ... what is left to say about these characters once you've seen that?

I was looking forward to speculating about what the ending meant but there wasn't any mystery at all, really.

 

[Hober Mallow]

I'm not sure that I needed to see the penultimate fate of these characters, the very end of their existence and crossing over into the next ... what is left to say about these characters once you've seen that?

The entire rest of their lives. At least for the characters who survived.

For Jack it's actualy kind of a neat narrative, because the very last scene of the series, for Jack, picks up right back at the beginning of the series with the flash sideways. In fact, you could watch seaon 6 all the way through once with the main present island narrative and the flash-sideways, then go back and rewatch the season from the beginning and, in your mind, make the flash-sideways Jack's "present" and the island narrative a flashback. Then, when your head hurts, you can take an asprin and go to bed.