The day after the finale, I posted this on Facebook: "I think I would like to travel to a parallel universe and see a different #Lost ending." I've changed my mind. I would rather use a time machine, travel back in time, and tell myself not to start watching the show in the first place! Of course, I can't be sure if this will affect my timeline or create an alternate timeline in which I never watched Lost. Will I exist in the alternate timeline or the original one? Perhaps I will forego time travel and interdimensional travel, and instead have all memory of season 6 wiped from my mind.....
Several other interesting posts relating to the series finale, before I forget about it and move on:
Never Raise a Question that You Can't Answer by Andy Inahtko
What Anime Can Teach You About Ending a Story by Madeline Ashby (io9)
Someone from Bad Robots take on the Lost finale (Lostpedia)
I would like to make one comment on that last post, by "Someone from Bad Robot." He or she claims that the writers knew how the show was going to end all along. However, check out this quote from James Parriott, creator of the short-lived sci-fi series "Defying Gravity:"
“I love the show [Lost], and Damon [Lindelof] and Carlton [Cuse]. I did a lot with Grey’s Anatomy during the first couple of years of Grey’s, and that first year of Grey’s was the first year of Lost, and I did a lot of dinners with ABC buyers with those two guys and Shonda Rhimes from Grey’s. Carlton is a really bright and funny guy, and he gets up, and the first question out of the foreign buyers’ mouths is ‘where’s it going to go? Do you know where it’s going to go?’, and he said ‘I haven’t a clue.’ And then he sits down across from me at the dinner table, and I remember saying ‘Damon, come on, that’s bullshit, right? I mean, you know where it’s going to go.’ And he says, ‘Jim, I haven’t a clue. I’m four episodes out; that’s all I know.’
Source: "How Defying Gravity would have progressed, straight from the creator" by Keith McDuffee (cliqueclack.com)
'Nuff said!
3 comments:
Sounds a lot like my life, Dr J, I haven’t a clue. I’m four episodes out; that’s all I know. LOL. I watched all of 15 minutes of the Lost finale, and I think that's the only 15 minutes of Lost I ever watched, sounds like I didn't miss much.
I'd have to say, one episode ruining an amazing 6 year ride seems pretty sad, doesn't it? Sure, they didn't know everything going into from the start (what shows do? I mean, *really*? Excepting the Wire, hardly any dramas know where they'll end, especially on Network)
But really, 80% if the finale was great. The entire on-island story was incredible. Closing the way they did made me misty, and I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Yes, 40% of season 6 was a let down with all the alt-timeline because of the way they ended that, but to say it ruined the entire show? It really doesn't effect much of the show at all, considering it's all supposed to happen *after* the main, on-island story.
Obviously you're more into sci-fi than I am, and perhaps since they didn't explain, and threw out so much of its sci-fi elements, I can see why it may have been more disappointing for you. But to say that LOST is at all a sci-fi show is very much missing the point.
My final point is, sure it didn't end with the game-changer everyone hoped it would (since every other season of LOST did end that way) but I would do it all over again because the show was still an incredible ride.
I do agree, Chase, that it has been a great show, and I really don't regret getting so involved in it. I was just being over-dramatic to get laughs!
Seriously, though, I just feel like the writers took the easy way out with the finale. They could have done so much more with it. I don't necessarily care that they left so many questions unanswered. However, boiling down the entire flash-sideways to a cosmic waiting room to get into heaven was lazy and highly derivative, in my opinion. It's been done before, and I had just hoped they would come up with something more original, like they had done with the series up to that point.
I also, quite frankly, feel that the giant drain plug/cork was a major shark-jumping moment. I cringed a little bit inside when it happened.
I have many other reasons for disliking the episode, but I don't really want to get into them. It seems that Lost fandom is split half and half on the finale, and people either loved it or hated it. I suspect that is what the writers wanted anyway, so it was a success on their part. This way, the warring factions will be debating it for years to come!
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