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does any one else on SD watch this show. i have watched each episode and i'm hooked its a mystery going on in each episode and makes it worth wild to watch .


EDIT April 12 2007- you can watch LOST on abc.com (streaming) also but its just one day after.

http://dynamic.abc.go.com/streaming/landing

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ploppsdman
05-24-2010 at 12:51 PM.
05-24-2010 at 12:51 PM.
I won't write about how I would have preferred the show, specifically the sideways world, to have played out ... it's a tooth I wont let be pulled ... however, I will add something that would have made "The End" easier to swallow for myself:

The meeting place is not a church, but an airport.

They are getting on a plane to be carried over to their next journey. They sit in the same places as they did on Oceanic 815, and that last portion you see during the credits, the crashed plane, is letting you know they have arrived. There are many reasons why I hate the way this show finishes, but ending up in a church has no significance and holds no beauty because of it. They could of had full circle here by meeting in an airport.

But again, the sideways world was significant only because people needed to realize how important they were to each other and once they did that, they could let go and move on? These people knew this already, which makes half of season six a waste.

It makes me think that The Island was the real purgatory, but since the viewers figured that out in Season Two, the writers needed to create a different purgatory, ie the sideways world. The sideways world didn't do anything that The Island hadn't already fixed, which makes it pointless.
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prismx
05-24-2010 at 01:44 PM.
05-24-2010 at 01:44 PM.
I'm just glad they spent all this time explaining The Island. For six years we watched them run around on it and finally having it explained...its meaning...its existence...its power....and the light within really put closure to the whole series.
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05-24-2010 at 02:01 PM.
05-24-2010 at 02:01 PM.
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The show's writers and producers are racist! They skipped out on Eko, Michael, and Walt! EEK!

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Majide
05-24-2010 at 02:04 PM.
05-24-2010 at 02:04 PM.
Quote from ploppsdman :
I won't write about how I would have preferred the show, specifically the sideways world, to have played out ... it's a tooth I wont let be pulled ... however, I will add something that would have made "The End" easier to swallow for myself:

The meeting place is not a church, but an airport.

They are getting on a plane to be carried over to their next journey. They sit in the same places as they did on Oceanic 815, and that last portion you see during the credits, the crashed plane, is letting you know they have arrived. There are many reasons why I hate the way this show finishes, but ending up in a church has no significance and holds no beauty because of it. They could of had full circle here by meeting in an airport.

Actually, I was expecting that Jack would walk through those doors and on the other side would be the inside of the airplane.

Or that everyone would be seated as they were on the plane.
At least... something to do with the plane. Frown

Personally, it looks like they made the ending more about "Yay! We finally killed Smokey!!" more than anything else. I do appreciate that it was all about the character's relationships, though. So many shows seem so willing to kill people off and leave us hanging, sad. Actually - Lost killed off so many people, too. But bringing them back together in the end for us was great!

We got to relive Aaron's birth, all the people meeting up again. It was great!

I figured we wouldn't get all of our answers, but I was hoping we would get some of them. This episode really didn't give us any answers at all.

At least one big one for me I would have liked answered was: Why were women unable to have babies on the island? Confused It's a topic they had going since the beginning. It's the whole reason Juliet was brought to the island. It wasn't a topic that was just dropped, and forgotten. They continued it, and the statue was related to it (I assume) - but no explanation.
I guess it's because of "The Incident" with the bomb?


Some books / movies / TV shows can conclude everything in the last few minutes, and it all make sense, too. Why couldn't Lost do that for us?
Harry Potter has gone on and on - and yet at the very very end it is all explained, and all makes sense. All at once! Why couldn't they even attempt to do this in a 2.5 hour long episode?
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05-24-2010 at 02:06 PM.
05-24-2010 at 02:06 PM.
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The show's writers and producers are racist! They skipped out on Eko, Michael, and Walt! EEK!

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I know you are kidding. But everyone...their stories ended already. Eko died and is done for waaaay earlier. He wasn't part of Jacks "gang" and Michael is still on the island. A whisper...this was explained on the Jimmy Kimmel Lost segment. Walt probably just lived his life. He wasn't of much significance to the group either....yes he was....ok screw it...I don't know what happened to him. Mad

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At least one big one for me I would have liked answered was: Why were women unable to have babies on the island? Confused It's a topic they had going since the beginning. It's the whole reason Juliet was brought to the island. It wasn't a topic that was just dropped, and forgotten. They continued it, and the statue was related to it (I assume) - but no explanation.
Jacobs Rules of the Game...explained by Ben.
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ploppsdman
05-24-2010 at 02:28 PM.
05-24-2010 at 02:28 PM.
Purgatory all along was the Island. That's where Jack, Locke, etc let go of their past. That's where they realized how important they were to each other; where they loved and KNEW they loved each other. Season Six's purgatory was cheap. There were no great realizations, no new connections made. In short, it had no real function. The argument being made is that it functioned as a place where Jack could finally let go. I would counter that he already let go. He died with a smile, knowing he fulfilled his purpose; that he saved his friends and the island, if not the world. What did he do in The End? He came to terms with his death when he opened up an empty casket? He already came to terms with his death when he gave control of the Island to Hurley. Jack knew he was dead then. THIS is why The End is so unbearable, because we already saw redemption and the realization of how important they all were to each other, so to see it again and in such a cheap, superficial way is heart breaking.
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05-24-2010 at 02:28 PM.
05-24-2010 at 02:28 PM.
Am I the only one thinking that they were going to throw Desmond in the light cave and he was coming out as a white smoke monster? Would have had a smoke monster battle Godzilla style.
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ploppsdman
05-24-2010 at 02:49 PM.
05-24-2010 at 02:49 PM.
Jacob's fake mother was right. We all went down to the light last night and experienced something worse than dying: This ending of Lost.
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05-24-2010 at 03:17 PM.
05-24-2010 at 03:17 PM.
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Six.Feet.Under.
OMG, that was one of my favorite shows and the finale was truly one of the best.

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haloguy
05-24-2010 at 03:39 PM.
05-24-2010 at 03:39 PM.
Here is another thing to wonder about- Why is Aaron still a baby in the last sequence? Were the first 3 years of his life the most significant to him? I find that hard to believe.
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RHCCapri
05-24-2010 at 04:20 PM.
05-24-2010 at 04:20 PM.
Jacob kept women from having babies to limit the number of innocents on The Island when The End came.

Speaking of innocents, we never saw stewardess Cindy and those two kids she was taking care of so they are either still on The Island or were killed by Widmore's shelling.

In a sense The Island is a Purgatory to lost souls like Micheal and the rest of the whisperers .
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05-24-2010 at 04:32 PM.
05-24-2010 at 04:32 PM.
http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/05/24...?icid=main
Thought this was an interesting article.
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haloguy
05-24-2010 at 04:44 PM.
05-24-2010 at 04:44 PM.
Does anyone have any recommendations for shows that are like lost?
Say what you want about the ending plot, but the pacing of the story was nice, and the characters were well developed, and ABC threw a lot of money at it.
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05-24-2010 at 05:08 PM.
05-24-2010 at 05:08 PM.
Quote from haloguy :
Does anyone have any recommendations for shows that are like lost?
Say what you want about the ending plot, but the pacing of the story was nice, and the characters were well developed, and ABC threw a lot of money at it.
One of my buddies is trying to turn me onto "Breaking Bad" ... I've heard positive things about it and might rent the first couple seasons over the summer to see what I think.
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05-24-2010 at 05:10 PM.
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Quote from hidnprncss :
One of my buddies is trying to turn me onto "Breaking Bad" ... I've heard positive things about it and might rent the first couple seasons over the summer to see what I think.
BB is okay, but its definitely no Lost. I think Dexter is better than BB.
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