I have to respectfully disagree with just about everything.
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Its almost like the writers and producers had no idea to sum up the whole series, and give us the answers that we so richly deserved.
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They weren't trying to sum up the whole series or give us "the answers", they were just trying to end the story, which doesn't have to (and shouldn't try to) do both to any great extent.
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
The majority of this episode was of the players in the alternate reality to gain back their memories and reunite with the loves that they had gained on the Island. that would be fine, except that I felt that the makers of lost were after cheap heat, as people remembered and cried and made out and in one case delivered babies. but it was played to get a emotional reaction while getting people distracted from the fact that the way that they ended this series was incredibly weak. But hey we all cried.
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Half the episode was the producers revealing what the flash sideways universe was, which was a pleasant purgatory the Losties had created so they could find each other in the afterlife. It answered a question (what was that universe) and allowed for universal happy, tearjerking endings without violating one of the Lost universes prime laws - Life can be ugly, and not everyone gets a happy ending - by giving us a glimpse of their afterlife where that rule need not apply. As I said above, call me an old softie, but I loved it.
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
The ending of the Locke Monster was incredibly disappointing, it seemed that as soon as Jack took over guardianship he changed the rules and made the Man in Black mortal, and then using the distraction of the plug being pulled by Desmond there was basically a 5 minute fist fight ala the fight between Kirk and Kluge in the Search for Spock on the Genesis planet where the ultimate evil who could snuff out all life by merely leaving the Island was shot by Kate and then kicked off of a Cliff to his death. The only thing missing was Jack kicking him off of the Cliff while screaming "I. . . have . . . had enough of . . . you". Now say that in your head like William Shatner and you'll get my drift.
Meanwhile the plan by the Man in Black was to get Desmond to pull the bathtub drain in the Islands inner plumbing to sink the Island while he floated away on his boat while twirling his mustache and laughing like a villain.
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The island was responsible for all of the supernatural elements of the show, including MIB & Richard's immortality and the inability of MIB to leave the island. By having Desmond shut down the island, all of that was suspended. MIB could leave, but he needed to give up his immortality to do it. It wasn't about creating a distraction, it was about removing barriers the only way they could be
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
While we finally saw the inside of the cave you get the feeling that originally the writers had a concept to explain the origins of the Island with the skeletons the hieroglyphics and the elaborately carved plug.
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You really think they re-thought the explanation for the island after building that set, which would have been in the last weeks?
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
But the biggest disappointment to me was the ending explanation that they were all dead on the Island, the alternate reality was a waiting room for them to gain their memories, reunite and walk into the light. The only thing missing was Aaron sitting in front of a static filled T.V. while muttering "Their here".
The assumption being that Jack was the last to die, and when he expired, they could all move on. The final scene showed the jet with the rest of the survivors flying over head. I guess we're to assume that minutes later Lapedius went flaps down sending all the passengers to their death.
Yes this is the end, they were all dead, the smoke monster was Barry Horowitz and thank god they walked into the light.
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I'm certain the "they were all dead all along" fear is wrong, which you seem to have now accepted.