Lost Series Finale: "The End"

[Agent Richard07]

It was also nice to see John Terry in the credits. I missed him all season.

 

[The Habs Fan]

Excellent

But I also loved the BSG finale, so what do I know?

"- What is the light? We still don't know. - What was all that infertility stuff about? Wasn't answered." To my mind these were both explained in "Across the Sea". Mother said the Light was the source of all life/souls for mankind. If it's destroyed then all life will be destroyed. They'd already said several times this season that the Monster was going to destroy all life on the planet. Ergo, vis a vis, concurrently, whenever a little baby is conceived and born in the world, a little soul swims out from the Island and into the baby. But if the baby is conceived and born on the Island, it doesn't register with the soul computer (it'd be like one of Santa's Elves wishing for a present) and so the baby is soul-less and dies before being born. Claire's baby was alright because it was conceived off-Island and already got the soul. Sun's baby was alright because it was taken off-Island before it was born and thus got a soul in time.

I love this theory!

 

[Agent Richard07]

^ It does work. There's a lot to digest here.

I guess the actor who played Eko still has a grudge against the Lost producers... 'cause it sort of doesn't make sense that he never shows up at all.

It makes sense. A lot of people didn't show up. Also, the actor did want to return.

 

[What's his face]

I'm watching the Jimmy Kimmel LOST special. I never watch Kimmel but I'll watch this.

 

[Mr Light]

I thought "Daybreak" was an excellent finale to BSG, and I was never the hugest fan of the show. Whereas I dearly love LOST but found the finale disappointing. The show just felt so very different in this final year versus S3-5 and I mean that in a bad way...

 

[Brolan]

For those seeking answers: It was obvious to me at the end of season 2 that the writers couldn't resolve all the "mysteries" they were inventing. It was all questions and no answers. I don't think they ever had a real plan from the beginning. If they did in never showed up in a narrative of the show.

So, I was never expecting them to answer everything, and I expected plenty of contradictions when they tried to. But they seemed to go a different way by not bothering to explain most of it. So in a real way they kind of insulted and wasted the time of the audience who thought all the strangeness would be explained in the end.

 

[Mr Light]

While somethings weren't explained, they did explain a great deal of the major questions. We know what the Island's purpose is (we don't know its origin though), we know why they crashed and their purpose, we know all about Jacob and the Monster...

 

[Arrqh]

Jacob and Mother died nearly instantly from grievous wounds and didn't have time to heal themselves, while Jack stumbled around like a drunken sailor for a couple hours. Jacob healed Juliet's sister's cancer. Jacob appeared on and off the Island willy nilly. Jacob willed it so that the Island cannot be found or left (Ben said this in the finale). Jacob used prescient sight to observe the lives of all the candidates over the decades of their lives. Jacob continued to appear as a apparition even after his death, and magically temporarily resurrected himself by burning his own ashes in a fire.

None of which indicates that Jack should instantly have the ability to heal himself because there's nothing to demonstrate that Jacob himself had any magical powers simply because he was the "protector". Jacob had like 2000 years to figure out the island and how to use it Jack had like 5 minutes.

 

[Mr Light]

Jack knew enough to magically bless the water and make Hurley into the new protector. How'd he do that unless he has an instinctual and instant use of his new magic powers? He didn't even have to say the mumbo jumbo Latin spell!

 

[eastman23]

- What will happen to Ji Yeon? I expect something interesting here.
Answered.

Was it? I must have missed that part...

It was a decent ep, once I figured out what the hell was going on.

 

[Mr Light]

What's the answer, that s/he is being raised by Sun's mother?

 

[Arrqh]

Jack knew enough to magically bless the water and make Hurley into the new protector. How'd he do that unless he has an instinctual and instant use of his new magic powers? He didn't even have to say the mumbo jumbo Latin spell!

He was just copying what he saw Jacob do. Nothing too confusing about that

 

[Agent Richard07]

- What will happen to Ji Yeon? I expect something interesting here.
Answered.

Was it? I must have missed that part...

Ji Yeon lives on with her grandmother now that her parents are dead.

 

[Agent Richard07]

Eloise said to Desmond... ""Are you taking my son?" or something to that effect. What specifically was her concern? What did she know?

 

[Brent]

Eloise said to Desmond... ""Are you taking my son?" or something to that effect. What specifically was her concern? What did she know?

maybe she wasn't really there, or real

 

[Trippy]

Eloise said to Desmond... ""Are you taking my son?" or something to that effect. What specifically was her concern? What did she know?

She wanted to be in the afterlife with her son. Desmond was going with all the others.

 

[RoJoHen]

Eloise said to Desmond... ""Are you taking my son?" or something to that effect. What specifically was her concern? What did she know?

She probably knew that they were all dead, and she felt guilty for sending Daniel to his death, and she didn't want Desmond to take him away from her again.

 

[Mr Light]

Yeah, that was weird. As I dimly recall in the previous episode, Alt-Hawking didn't know anything was just Widmore's wife, right?

 

[RoJoHen]

Eloise said to Desmond... ""Are you taking my son?" or something to that effect. What specifically was her concern? What did she know?

She wanted to be in the afterlife with her son. Desmond was going with all the others.

Trippy, we need to hang out more.

 

[RoJoHen]

Yeah, that was weird. As I dimly recall in the previous episode, Alt-Hawking didn't know anything was just Widmore's wife, right?

Um, it was pretty clear that she knew EVERYTHING, and that's why she didn't want Desmond to pursue any of the other 815 passengers.