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Originally Posted by Mike F
I have to respectfully disagree with just about everything.
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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To me that was the cop out in this series. They started it as a series that was deep into alleged mythologies, a super natural element, and admittedly some nice character development. Then in the very end, they basically said, the mythology, the concept of the Island, the concept of the MIB being a powerful evil who's very plan in leaving the Island would snuff out life everywhere. To me it was somewhat lame. Don't get me wrong, it was nice to see all parties get a happy ending. But that wasn't really what I was after.
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Originally Posted by Mike F
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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The flash sideways alternate reality had very little to do with the Island, with the exception that we can assume that it was the creation of the final protector. I respect that you love it, but as anyone who reads any of my posts know, I'm hardly an old softy, I didn't tune into Lost for 6 years to see what I consider to be a soft shoe ending that had in my mind a lot of holes. We saw Anna Lucia in the purgatory but not in the church unless I missed it. We had Walt a few episodes say that he was basically stuck on the Island because of his actions on the Island, yet we see Ben in the AR which means that he was dead but choose not to let go, he did horrid things on the Island, shouldn't he still be stuck there in dead form.
We can make the assumption that Kate, Lupedius, Sawyer and the others on the Plane escaped the Island which was the reality plane, made their way home and lived a long lonely life before dying and being allowed into Hurley's construct. BTW I don't remember seeing the Pilot of the ghost whisperer in the church, do we assume that they're still alive, why would Hurley not allow them into the paradise. I guess we should assume that Hurley eventually died because there he was letting go, who's watching the Island?
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Originally Posted by Mike F
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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The Island and the mythology on the Island was real. But I disagree with your point about MIB. He didn't lose his mortality when the plug was pulled, I believe that Jack changed the rules. Pulling the plug and the surprise that he could be hurt were the distraction for MIB. I'm still pissed at the lame death of the MIB, I think that the ending that I had written before would have been a far far better ending and made more sense in the context of the series.
I just think that this kind of an ending was a bit of a cop out, I thought it was weak, I thought that they left holes because in the end they were scrambling to pull together the elements of what was a very cool concept and instead gave us what amounts to a Gilligan's Island reunion special in combination with the Search for Spock and Heaven can wait.
I'm not saying it was Seinfieldesque terrible in terms of series endings. As always the acting was excellent, as always some of the dialogue was excellent. I just think it fell far short of the rest of the series.
And I do remember that the writers at one time swore up and down that they weren't going to do a purgatory story, and in the end they did.
It could have been better, instead my skirt instead of blowing up limped over the finish line.
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Originally Posted by Mike F
You really think they re-thought the explanation for the island after building that set, which would have been in the last weeks?
I'm certain the "they were all dead all along" fear is wrong, which you seem to have now accepted.
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I think it was just that, I looked at that set and it was elaborate, and obviously man made, but it wasn't important anymore. They made so many hints throughout this season to the origin of everything on that Island from the temple, to the four toed statue to the donkey wheels, but in the end we got the Indiana Jones treatment. It doesn't matter, if we pull the plug the Island will sink, if we plug it back in the Island was saved.
I agree they weren't dead all along. But even the Island being the cork holding in evil was a terrible explanation. It was the protector being the plug over evil. The plug in the Island was literally a drain port.