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

unwashed potato! · 30 May 2010 at 18:12

other questions about lost while i remember them...

how come people couldn't have babies on the island if they were conceived on the island? can't remember this being answered and it was a really massive story over the first 3-4 series.

people were candidates and came to the island on the plane as they were "loners". why did a guy tell claire to go the island as she was pregnant and then wouldn't be a candidate? i never once understood here character and it had a lot of potential imo.

how come the island had healing powers? how come it stopped on some people?

when locke was dying after ben shot him, walt appeared, which i guess was the black smoke? if this is true when did walt die and come back to the island for him to become walt? if not then who was it?

sanaxe1 · 30 May 2010 at 18:14

Mammalian said:
other questions about lost while i remember them...

how come people couldn't have babies on the island if they were conceived on the island? can't remember this being answered and it was a really massive story over the first 3-4 series.

people were candidates and came to the island on the plane as they were "loners". why did a guy tell claire to go the island as she was pregnant and then wouldn't be a candidate? i never once understood here character and it had a lot of potential imo.

I'm guessing that jacob made the rule after his mother and the crazy woman incident.

unwashed potato! · 30 May 2010 at 18:19

sanaxe1 said:
I'm guessing that jacob made the rule after his mother and the crazy woman incident.

big guess though from something that was quite a large part of the story for so long. as i've said before missing answers isn't a problem as there was just too many to answer, but something so big seems silly.

Aman · 30 May 2010 at 18:20

Thought the ending was fitting, enjoyed it.

One thing that i was wondering about was why were the rules about jacob and MiB beeing killed different. (iirc you had to stab MiB before he spoke) but for jacob this didn't seem to apply.

silversurfer · 30 May 2010 at 18:25

It might be quicker if people point out questions which were answered rather then all that werent

sunama · 30 May 2010 at 19:07

Aman said:
(iirc you had to stab MiB before he spoke) but for jacob this didn't seem to apply.

Nope. The rules applied to both brothers.

If you remember when the MIB asked Richard to kill Jacob, he said that he had to do it before Jacob spoke. The same rule applied to both brothers.

So, the obvious question: why was Ben able to kill Jacob? I have no idea.

We need Morgan Freeman to answer that question for us.

sanaxe1 · 30 May 2010 at 20:10

sunama said:
Nope. The rules applied to both brothers.

If you remember when the MIB asked Richard to kill Jacob, he said that he had to do it before Jacob spoke. The same rule applied to both brothers.

So, the obvious question: why was Ben able to kill Jacob? I have no idea.

We need Morgan Freeman to answer that question for us.

I thought the whole reason you had to kill them before they spoke is because they both can promise you what you want. Richard got to live forever and sayid was promised his wife back. If you remember MIB/Lock says to sayid that you was sent here to die as the person who sent him knew it wasn't going to work.

silversurfer · 30 May 2010 at 20:11

Hostile17 said:
I bring news from Jacob!

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* Bloopers and Deleted Scenes
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It might be cheaper and more satisfying to watch old copies of Sliders and The one.
I dont think there was any answers just possibilities from alternative reality story lines

G-MAN2004 · 30 May 2010 at 20:11

sunama said:
So, the obvious question: why was Ben able to kill Jacob? I have no idea.

Did Jacob speak first?

* Every Sixth Season Episode

What does this mean?

Aman · 30 May 2010 at 20:33

Jacob spoke before Ben killed him yes.

Demoniser · 30 May 2010 at 20:49

G-MAN2004 said:
What does this mean?

Every episode from the Sixth and Final season of course :S

Nico_Joey · 30 May 2010 at 21:03

"Let's put it this way: any ending for a show like Lost that feels like it could more or less be used to end any other TV show in history is probably an oversimplified ending. The sappy afterlife stuff is an epilogue, not an ending, and it's an epilogue we didn't need. We didn't need to know what happens to the characters after they die, and finding out adds nothing to them or their stories."

Pretty much sums up what i felt about the finale. I have to say, i got caught in the whole emmotional jack/kate storm, with the inevitable soul-mates conclusion, which made the end at least enjoyable as an episode. But as a show, very dissapointed

unwashed potato! · 30 May 2010 at 21:10

sunama said:
Nope. The rules applied to both brothers.

If you remember when the MIB asked Richard to kill Jacob, he said that he had to do it before Jacob spoke. The same rule applied to both brothers.

So, the obvious question: why was Ben able to kill Jacob? I have no idea.

We need Morgan Freeman to answer that question for us.

afaik that was just a myth, else they would have tried it a lot more to kill mib. it was originally said by china man so that sayid was killed by the mib, not so sayid will kill him. i think then the mib said it to richard as he knew jacob would make richard see sense if he had a chance to talk to him, which he did.

Let's put it this way: any ending for a show like Lost that feels like it could more or less be used to end any other TV show in history is probably an oversimplified ending. The sappy afterlife stuff is an epilogue, not an ending, and it's an epilogue we didn't need. We didn't need to know what happens to the characters after they die, and finding out adds nothing to them or their stories.

imo it was needed as it allowed the watcher to realise even though they died, their spirit still lived on and they were together and happy. 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

silversurfer · 30 May 2010 at 22:30

lol the china man is Japanese and the Chinese couple were from Korea ?

What does this mean?

This seasons boxset

alwyn · 31 May 2010 at 11:45

I thought the finale was bull****, 5 years of content down the drain, and the finale didn't require half the season to be spent in the flash sideways.

sid · 31 May 2010 at 11:58

I wasn't personally expecting any answers at all. It was obvious from the episodes leading up the finale, that answers would never be given for the simple reason that there would be just no coherent way to tie it up at all. In that respect, I'm pleased with the ending as they would have failed more had they tried to answer anything.

Theres no point asking "how does it work?" in sci-fi shows anyways. I think we knew as far back as season 3, they were making it up as they went along so there was never going to be a coherent tie up.

Thats my take on it anyways

sid

Spit · 31 May 2010 at 12:40

How come desmond was so in the know in purgatory?

Loved the ending.

Digitalle · 31 May 2010 at 14:02

alwyn said:
I thought the finale was ********, 5 years of content down the drain, and the finale didn't require half the season to be spent in the flash sideways.

Lost was always more about how the story was told rather than the story itself. The fact that you/we followed it religiously for almost 6 years mean that the ending, whether you thought it was successful or not, was pretty irrelevant.

Digitalle · 31 May 2010 at 14:06

Spit said:
How come desmond was so in the know in purgatory?

They were all 'in the know' about the purgatory timeline once they had experienced something that reminded them of their past life. It just so happened that Desmond was first, and so took it upon himself to give the others a helping hand. It could just as easily been someone else.

Destination · 31 May 2010 at 15:34

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?