LOST..... How do you think it will end

d3moliti0n said:
I assumed that when Desmond pulled the plug on the island it activated the dormant volcano under/on the island and thats what was happening, the volcano was about to erupt. And the electromagnetic energy was somehow harnessing the volcano and stopping it from erupting.

The volcano has been talked about by Darlton before now and it has even been referenced in the show during season three.
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The volcano may have been the way in which the island was destroyed, but I think the point was that the island/cork was acting like a cork in a bottle, stopping evil (wine metaphor) from escaping into the rest of the world.
 
What evil though? Because when the cork was removed from the island both Jack/Jacob and Flocke/Man in Black/Smokie's powers were removed and they were mortals, which is how Flocke was able to be killed.
 
Basically from season 5 onwards, the show went to this other direction that ultimately led to the spiritual/emotional ending. I still think the last episode is perfect, but only because it's in context with what's happened in the last two dozen episodes. One of the reasons I enjoyed LOST was because it was sci-fi'ish but still had some real explanations; I do wish the writers continued this in season 5 onwards.
 
Da[]San;16619114 said:
Wasn't there an episode where we saw the island below the sea bed? How did that get explained?
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It was in the first episode of season six, LAX, in the alt/purgatory we see the island under water, and the most accepted theory is that in the alt/purgatory/perfect world the island was under water because thats how the Losties would have imagined it. Yet in one of the alt/purgatory scenes, Ben and his father talk about how they were on the island...

Plot hole much?
 
Da[]San;16619114 said:
Wasn't there an episode where we saw the island below the sea bed? How did that get explained?
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I thought that was the alternate-alternate timeline, the one with Kevin Costner and the Smokers. They explained all that in 1995.
 
Loved it, nice to know everything that happened, actually happened.

Bit confusing as to 'when' the purgatory actually took place, as it was after the flight i.e. 2004(?), yet they remembered event's after this, but as it was a 'place' they all went to, to 'let go' as opposed to real place, time doesn't really matter.

Would like to know what happened to the folk on the plane when they landed & if Desmond got off the island.
 
Frapple said:
Bit confusing as to 'when' the purgatory actually took place, as it was after the flight i.e. 2004(?), yet they remembered event's after this, but as it was a 'place' they all went to, to 'let go' as opposed to real place, time doesn't really matter.
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Probably centuries after events on the island depending on how long Hurley was protector of the island.
 
d3moliti0n said:
What evil though? Because when the cork was removed from the island both Jack/Jacob and Flocke/Man in Black/Smokie's powers were removed and they were mortals, which is how Flocke was able to be killed.
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I don't know :p I felt totally let down by the final couple of series.

If you go with the assumption that removing the cork just destroys the island, and also returns smokie/fake locke to being mortal. Then perhaps the implication is that the island is not just protecting the world from evil, but that the destruction of the island would also physically destroy the rest of the earth?

In which case MIB had nothing to achieve by destroying the island? Unless, you assume he wanted to be mortal and die, to move on? But then why didn't he just 'not speak' and let Sayid kill him?
 
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div0 said:
I don't know :p I felt totally let down by the final couple of series.

If you go with the assumption that removing the cork just destroys the island, and also returns smokie/fake locke to being mortal. Then perhaps the implication is that the island is not just protecting the world from evil, but that the destruction of the island would also physically destroy the rest of the earth?

In which case MIB had nothing to achieve by destroying the island? Unless, you assume he wanted to be mortal and die, to move on? But then why didn't he just 'not speak' and let Sayid kill him?
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He was surprised when he was mortal and jack caused him to bleed...
 
Even though I did find the last two seasons enjoyable, I felt they were a mess on the whole and just provided us with endless contradictions and some plot holes in terms of the mythology and all of the 'mysteries' and 'questions' that were asked.
 
2Thumbs said:
Some of these questions make me wonder if people missed whole episodes of the last season! :p
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Ditto! Some of the things people are saying are making me wonder if they watched ANY episode! :p

whitecrook said:
Didn't rate it at all. Poor showing. Essentially, the culmination of the programme was 'it was all just a dream'
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Another of what I fear will be many misunderstandings by viewers :(
 
Dark_Angel said:
He was surprised when he was mortal and jack caused him to bleed...
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I know, but after that he said he was leaving. To where? Where was he going?

I was attempting to answer d3moliti0n's question about what 'evil' the island was preventing from escaping. If removing the cork destroyed the island, but also destroyed the evil (smokie?), then I can only assume the 'protector' was needed because removing the cork also destroys the earth physically.

Just because the script writers didn't explain 'the rules' and where they came from, or even which rules MIB/Jacob were aware of, etc - doesn't make things any better.

So we go back to the button in the hatch scenario. Two folk are living on an island, according to 'rules' which they have been roughly told about from the predecessors. Trying to 'save the world', but not actually knowing from what, or for what reason.

The fact that 'Locke/MIB' was surprised by the result of his actions just makes the whole thing even more pointless imo.
 
sanaxe1 said:
He did choose them. He chose them because they were all broken and they needed the island as much as the island needed them.
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So what does that make Jacob? God?

He met Sawyer when he was a young boy which means he knew what Sawyer would do later in life. Which means Jacob can see the future.

That would suggest that they were chosen pretty much at birth.

Sounds like Jacob was the good and the God.


Sounds like it was all to do with Redemption.
 
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I thought they were going to make the religious allegory a lot stronger, more akin to Paradise Lost. If it had been stronger, it would have made the ending more satisfactory.

As it was, it was a cop-out.
 
Can anyone explain exactly how Jacobs brother turned into the smoke monster?

In that particular episode we see Jacob knock his brother out and he then flows downstream into the light. Wouldn't he just lye unconcious at the bottom of the area with the 'cork'? It makes no sense to me.
 
Exactly I've talk to loads of people who basically said
'' I knew they were in purgatory in season 1''
to I respond " you were wrong then"
and mass confusion ensues

seriously it hardly the most difficult to grasp

the. Other thing that annoys me is people say LOADS OF QUESTIONS ARE LEFT UNANSWERED

while this is partly true, so far people who say this to me when asked what they would like to of known always ask something that is known anyway

for example
we still don't know why they went to the island

well we do we saw it quite a long time ago now

let's look at 2001 space oddessy .great film. Zero answers
that's the beauty of it you have to figure it out yourself

in my opinion the final episode in terms of symbolism , connotions and story was a masterpeice and I believe the season will go on to be one of the best of all time

I think the problem is people haven't understood parts of the program thus at and refuse to admit they have no idea what's going on and so thy are like about 50% up to speed with the show before watching the finale
 
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