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

Hikari Kisugi said:
Okay,
so what was the importance of the numbers?
and
why was Walt so significant and noteworthy to 'the others' that they allowed him and Michael to leave?
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they allowed them to leave because michael helped them out by freeing ben. iirc walt was protected because he was a child. the others took children from everyone to protect them.

the numbers were each candidates number. i don't understand the significance of each number though, e.g. why those 6 in particular?

4: Locke
8: Hurley
15: Sawyer
16: Sayid
23: Jack
42: Sun/Jin

is what the main numbers related to, but everyone had a number which at some point got crossed out, e.g. kate after she became a mother, yet those 6 have been seen throughout the whole series.
 
whitecrook said:
I think it's just a 'lost' thing. They don't really mean anything, nothing really mattered, they're all dead.
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Or it did matter because they were alive? :/

Also i'm pretty sure the numbers thing has been covered a few pages ago.. as well as the Michael thing, etc etc. This thread is really starting to repeat itself.
 
Inazuma said:
Or it did matter because they were alive? :/

Also i'm pretty sure the numbers thing has been covered a few pages ago.. as well as the Michael thing, etc etc. This thread is really starting to repeat itself.
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will have a look. that's the trouble with long threads, no one will ever read the middle where it gets more interesting as you'd spend forever looking for something which might not be there
 
Bah, i watched Season 1 to 3 in straight succession & was totally hooked with its genuinely creepy beginnings to deep characterisation further in. But when season 4 started with its time travel malarkey, i got a bad feeling it was all going nowhere. Season 5 was really awsome, could feel it finally coming together (Dharma stuff especially) but once again when season 6 started very slowly (with little answers) i finally realised it really was going nowhere. Character wise it was one of the best TV programs ive ever seen but plot wise its one of the wost. They shouldnt be mutually exclusive.

They simple answered none of it. People trying to squeeze answers out of very little, feels like the explanation of Reservoir Dogs ending....why did the dude confess he was an under cover cop, only to be shot in the head for it? Some people 'got' it some people didnt. I didnt get this one folks.

I was especially disappointed with Jack's hallucinations of Christian Shepherd (season 1) being explained away as simply "you needed water Jack, i led you to it". Didnt convince me for a second & took away all the mysticism from those classic season 1 moments.

The entire series remdinds of a review for that movie The Cell. It says the film was a producers dream because they could come up with what ever they wanted, without offering any real satisfactory explanation. "the setting was the inner working of a psychopaths mind". Give me the budget for 6 seasons of Lost, 6 years of my life, a crayon plus torpedo to write on & il come out with a better overall storyline.

So the island was purgatory yeah?:D
 
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Ali195 said:
Give me the budget for 6 seasons of Lost, 6 years of my life, a crayon plus torpedo to write on & il come out with a better overall storyline.
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It is quite true though - at some point last week I realized I actually read better presumed and speculated wrap ups and endings in this thread before final episode aired than writers could come up with. Tonight I scrolled through few last few pages and realized this thread, one in about several thousand forums discussing Lost and finale, also contains much better excuses and "stretch-until-it-breaks" answers to what the writers couldn't wrap up.

I guess that's what happens when the writers try so hard not to meet any of the main speculations the only thing they can do is slap generic "fits-any-series-from-band-of-brothers-to-stargate" type of ending and leave it at "it's whatever you want it to be".
 
I seem to have spanned both camps regarding this disparate ending.

On the one hand I really liked the ending for the characters, on the other hand I'm a bit disappointed (but not surprised) that they left a lot of questions unanswered.

I'm neither elated nor enraged by it. I certainly don't feel like I've wasted six years watching it because it's been extremely entertaining. However, I also feel they could have done it differently/better.

Most of what I feel has been expressed in here already so I won't go back over everything. All I will say is it's been a hell-of-a-ride and I'll miss it.
 
If they had ended the series when the hatch blew up would that have been a better ending ?


I think I liked that series ending better but Im glad they did more episodes after anyway.

Surely lost deserved an ending with a twist and there was none really, they were all dead doesnt really qualify to me so I think that might be whats bugging most people
 
TurnipHead said:
It's a good job that wasn't what happened then.
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Except it was.

Ok, they were only dead in the side timeline of S6. But that was the 'twist' of the finale. In the main timeline, they'd lived on the island and experienced everything we'd seen in most of S1-S6, but that the 'un-explained' side-timeline of S6 was finally uncovered as their 'journey' to meeting up again after death (purgatory).

The thing that annoyed me, and I think annoyed a lot of other people, is that the ending of the 'real' timeline was so terrible. All the events leading up to the Jack/John fight and the 'candidates' taking over from Jacob, was just so poorly written in comparison to the early series. The writers really seemed to lose their direction with the main plotline around about the time when they started to introduce all the time 'skipping' through the ages. After that they kept hinting like the main plotline was going to go in an interesting direction, but ultimately the direction they took it in was very disappointing.

The 'twist' (side timeline) could have been introduced by the writers at any point, as it was completely unrelated to the main story. So it gave them a way to end the show at pretty much any point, without any concern for how the main plotline would be wrapped up.

That's why I felt it was so much of a let down.
 
Could an expert please answer a few questions for me if u can spare the time.

Its about the actual island itself.

what was the significance of the giant collosus style statue and the temples and wells on the island, did they ever say who built them?

About the smoke monster, in one episode it was seen puling somone underground and it seemed to be partly controlled by a chain system with lots of mechanical sounds.

the temporal effects and power that the island had, that was actully real ? and the red button with its release valve kinda thing in the bunker that was real so to speak??

the one time they didnt press the button and it went bonkers a series of hyroglyphs popped up instead of numbers, did that actually mean anything ?? seems to be an egyption theme going on or just BS ??
 
Efour2 said:
Could an expert please answer a few questions for me if u can spare the time.

Its about the actual island itself.

what was the significance of the giant collosus style statue and the temples and wells on the island, did they ever say who built them?
Araid not)

About the smoke monster, in one episode it was seen puling somone underground and it seemed to be partly controlled by a chain system with lots of mechanical sounds.

the temporal effects and power that the island had, that was actully real ? and the red button with its release valve kinda thing in the bunker that was real so to speak??
The island and everything on it/that happened on it was real

the one time they didnt press the button and it went bonkers a series of hyroglyphs popped up instead of numbers, did that actually mean anything ?? seems to be an egyption theme going on or just BS ??
IIRC the producers said that the Dharma folks just incorporated them into the counter as a visual nod to the presumed creators of the other hieroglyph styled ruins on the island.
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chrispystix said:
Twice actually. I am still to hear any reason why you all believe otherwise.
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It's quite simple and was explained verbosely in the finale... lol

the "alternate reality" was their own form of purgatory... yet the main lost storyline 'really happened' and as there is no time in purgatory as soon as each character died in real life (after having lead their own full lives and dying of natural causes or whatever - the ones that were still alive at the end, of course) they met up in the purgatory that they had created as a group...
 
Mammalian said:
i'd like to know alternaives the writers were thinking/planning. would be great to hear what the story would have been if eko had stayed/charlie (still don't beleive they wrote him out by choice as clairs character at that point become aweful!) and if they had had another 1/2 seasons to explain more what else would they have done.
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Me too!

My mum and he bf were in vegas just as they were about to film the final episode... there was a big media conference they were attending.

They got to interview the producers/editors... apparently there were 7 potential endings, all of which were being filmed.

I would LOVE it if they would release all the extra alternate endings on the DVD release... would be very interesting to see what other paths they were thinking of taking.
 
crinkleshoes said:
I would LOVE it if they would release all the extra alternate endings on the DVD release... would be very interesting to see what other paths they were thinking of taking.
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I was under the impression that the writers knew exactly from Day one what the ending was going to be.

Anyway, this thread goes to prove what a load of ******* the ending was.
 
dmpoole said:
I was under the impression that the writers knew exactly from Day one what the ending was going to be.

Anyway, this thread goes to prove what a load of ******* the ending was.
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Sorry - should clarify - "production team"... not producers... people like jj abrahms / damon lindeloff (sp?) knew what the ending would be... or so they said
 
Mammalian said:
this was a better conclusion for me as i was upset when people i had become attached to died such as with the chinese couple, but when you think that they continued to live, just not on the island, that's alright with me :)
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This did make me laugh, people you became attached to, the KOREAN couple you didn't know the names of, hell of an attachment there :p

Abrahms didn't have an ending from the get go, most likely, or it would probably have been better.

Though after Star Trek and Lost I question how good he really is so maybe he did come up with this dire ending years ago.

The fact is throughout the years they answered what things in the island were, with bigger questions and backed themselves into a corner where no explanation would work, so created an alternate story to be able to finish easily, and frankly the epilogue was still complete tosh and made fairly little sense. I mean, things were different in their past, they were living these alternate lives, in purgatory, for decades worth of memories, becoming different people and then found each other after a stupid flight they were all on through some ridiculous notion.

Now the question begs to be asked, why didn't they die, go to heaven, remember everything and just go talk to each other? Why on earth did they force (maybe?) each other to forget about each other to live out this timeless existance in purgatory, just to find each other after a random event(its purgatory its timeless, they made up the place to find each other(utterly stupid notion) why didn't they meet at high school and live out happy lives together. Why did kate live out a unhappy existance when its made up, just to find people after decades of a bad life.

Purgatory as a story , had a start, finish, end, explanation, albeit it poor, but it still made NO sense.

The actual island storyline, had a start, but on explanation on how or why it started, it had a middle and rarely an explanation for anything that happened, if had, a half ending, again unexplained with lots of daft events that meant nothing.

All with this undertone of "we're going to explain what the island is next episode" throughout, i think 80% of the viewers were watching waiting for that answer, ok so make them wait till you're bored of making the show and everyone wants to stop living in Hawaii for 6 months of the year, so explain it in the final episode..................... so why the heck didn't they.

Will the pay some random people to write anything that links up events and stick it on a documentary on the dvd as a way of explaning everything and getting people to spend money on the dvd boxset? I can tell you now, if they do that, I'm downloading that, they've already stole part of my life I can't get back, they aren't getting anything else from me.
 
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