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Originally Posted by HPLovecraft
So, what you're saying is, since the writers of Lost didn't write your exact ending theory, you didn't like it?.
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No that is not what I am saying. I also didn't say I didn't like it. I said it was acceptable and didn't make me want to break my TV set. As I said above it was actually better then I expected.
That said i think the purgatory ending was self indulgent and I will elaborate what I mean. Essentially it allowed the writers to give each character a happy ending and redemption after years of torturing them on the island. Did Ben deserve a second chance to make things right with the French women and her/his daughter? Did Sayid deserve his second/third/forth chance at being a good person? Did the other losties deserve different lives that they just got to make themselves. One thing I liked about this show is that it was harsh. People we like died. It wasn't just a feel good show of the week.
When it was an AR of what the world would have been like if Jacob hadn't interfered to that provided an interesting foil for the characters on the island instead when it is just lives they created for them so that the writers of the show could write a happy ending to me is self indulgent.
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Originally Posted by HPLovecraft
The Science vs Faith theme didn't fade away in the ending seasons. In fact, it actually resolved itself. Faith won, science lost. That's it. There was a victor in the end. How many other shows can say that?
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To me at the end of season 4 the science v faith disappeared alot and the show became plot driven rather than charactor/theme driven. Then in the last 3 shows of this season that theme became prominant again. It just felt inconsistant.