I am glad I don't have to watch Lost now 8)I watched the first two episodes (the pilot and the first episode, or whatever), and I hated it. It just reminded me of Cloverfield. Anyway, great job at condensing that down.
I don't think everything was planned from the beginning, but I do believe people are grasping at straws to discredit the show. Obviously time travel was possible in this universe, but how would they explain it in a way that satisfies the skeptical audience? There doesn't need to be an explanation about how its possible, it's not even a mystery. It's simply possible! And in closing, a lot of the mysteries brought up throughout the seasons were periodically answered one way or another across the series. Almost all of the real, important and interesting mysteries (the others, the hatch, desmond, charles widmores story, the priests on the island, the ghosts, the smoke, the electromagnetivity, the islands remoteness, where the island was, why it was important, the reason they were all there, the dharma initiative, richards story, bens story, i could go on...) were answered and to ignore that is ridiculous. Questions were constantly being brought up throughout the series because thats the kind of show it is - it grabs you with mystery after mystery until you either give up or stick it out to get some answers. To the people who did, the majority were rewarded. To those who gave up, they should stop complaining.
I know you're being sarcastic, but I actually liked that episode. It didn't do anything in terms of understanding Lost, but I felt it gave an ambiance to the series.
People didn't like the episode because it wasn't a particularly entertaining episode. It was a Nikki/Paolo episode. The problem was that it was an "explicative" episode. You had to see it to understand what was Jacob/MiB all about. Its the struggle that defines Lost saga. Jacob/MiB was the series "MacGuffin". There was almost no way to make that episode good, because we basically don't give a crap about Jacob/MiB since they were introduced in the final season.
You guys still don't get it. Both Jacob and MiB killed tons of innocent people. That's because the Island's Protectors have to orchestrate their own deaths in order to die. That means arranging for a replacement, and someone who will kill them. That's what Foster Mom did previously.Lost is not really a morality play about the struggle between pure good and evil. Its just a struggle of agendas. If Smoke Monster leaves, disaster happens. If man either destroys or takes control of the mysterious light source, disaster happens. They are both MacGuffins. The STORY is about the characters on the island, the choices they are confronted with, and how they chose to resolve them.
"The author says about these 'soulmates', that skip from 'existance' to 'existance', in the real world. If that's the case then how could they be alive on the island like he says BUT at the same time be off the island as well. "One interpretation: Because the island was a temporal distortion which experience time at different rates. (That was the shtick with Faraday's experiments.) If you're on the island in 2000, but managed to get off the island, the world could be at 2005, but you'd still be experiencing the year 2000 on the island. Its not at the same time, but geographically, it seems simultaneous. i.e. - The island exists on the planet in 2005, but island is not experiencing time at 2005. If you were on the island at 2000, then you could be in the real world in 2005.Another interpretation:Events on and off the island were experienced linearly, but the TV show chopped up the order in which they were shown. If you don't understand this, you don't understand Pulp Fiction.Another interpretation:If you're referring to season 6, we (or Lost) exists in a multiverse, and when Sawyer was a cop, he was in an "afterlife" dimension, which is a staging area to collect relevant souls to experience their afterlife together, even though other dimensions, they're already dead, or living out their middle age, etc. Think of the world that has Sawyer as a cop as a "fake" existence; its Purgatory, hanging out until other souls complete their life journey. No explanation as to why they have to be collected to the same moment in time.
mosi13May 28, 2010
I am glad I don't have to watch Lost now 8)I watched the first two episodes (the pilot and the first episode, or whatever), and I hated it. It just reminded me of Cloverfield. Anyway, great job at condensing that down.
mixmastabeefMay 29, 2010
idiot? stupid?go watch your vampire sitcoms and jersey shore
Closed AccountMay 29, 2010
nicely done sir
j035u5Jun 2, 2010
Why is it worse to kill women and children? Jacob wasn't much better. Hell, Sayid was a good guy and he tortured people for money.
microkusaJun 4, 2010
I don't think everything was planned from the beginning, but I do believe people are grasping at straws to discredit the show. Obviously time travel was possible in this universe, but how would they explain it in a way that satisfies the skeptical audience? There doesn't need to be an explanation about how its possible, it's not even a mystery. It's simply possible! And in closing, a lot of the mysteries brought up throughout the seasons were periodically answered one way or another across the series. Almost all of the real, important and interesting mysteries (the others, the hatch, desmond, charles widmores story, the priests on the island, the ghosts, the smoke, the electromagnetivity, the islands remoteness, where the island was, why it was important, the reason they were all there, the dharma initiative, richards story, bens story, i could go on...) were answered and to ignore that is ridiculous. Questions were constantly being brought up throughout the series because thats the kind of show it is - it grabs you with mystery after mystery until you either give up or stick it out to get some answers. To the people who did, the majority were rewarded. To those who gave up, they should stop complaining.
Closed AccountJun 5, 2010
.... touched a nerve eh?
netantJun 14, 2010
I know you're being sarcastic, but I actually liked that episode. It didn't do anything in terms of understanding Lost, but I felt it gave an ambiance to the series.
netantJun 14, 2010
People didn't like the episode because it wasn't a particularly entertaining episode. It was a Nikki/Paolo episode. The problem was that it was an "explicative" episode. You had to see it to understand what was Jacob/MiB all about. Its the struggle that defines Lost saga. Jacob/MiB was the series "MacGuffin". There was almost no way to make that episode good, because we basically don't give a crap about Jacob/MiB since they were introduced in the final season.
netantJun 14, 2010
You guys still don't get it. Both Jacob and MiB killed tons of innocent people. That's because the Island's Protectors have to orchestrate their own deaths in order to die. That means arranging for a replacement, and someone who will kill them. That's what Foster Mom did previously.Lost is not really a morality play about the struggle between pure good and evil. Its just a struggle of agendas. If Smoke Monster leaves, disaster happens. If man either destroys or takes control of the mysterious light source, disaster happens. They are both MacGuffins. The STORY is about the characters on the island, the choices they are confronted with, and how they chose to resolve them.
netantJun 14, 2010
Lost haters do seem like 4 year olds constantly insisting upon an answer for "why?".
netantJun 14, 2010
"The author says about these 'soulmates', that skip from 'existance' to 'existance', in the real world. If that's the case then how could they be alive on the island like he says BUT at the same time be off the island as well. "One interpretation: Because the island was a temporal distortion which experience time at different rates. (That was the shtick with Faraday's experiments.) If you're on the island in 2000, but managed to get off the island, the world could be at 2005, but you'd still be experiencing the year 2000 on the island. Its not at the same time, but geographically, it seems simultaneous. i.e. - The island exists on the planet in 2005, but island is not experiencing time at 2005. If you were on the island at 2000, then you could be in the real world in 2005.Another interpretation:Events on and off the island were experienced linearly, but the TV show chopped up the order in which they were shown. If you don't understand this, you don't understand Pulp Fiction.Another interpretation:If you're referring to season 6, we (or Lost) exists in a multiverse, and when Sawyer was a cop, he was in an "afterlife" dimension, which is a staging area to collect relevant souls to experience their afterlife together, even though other dimensions, they're already dead, or living out their middle age, etc. Think of the world that has Sawyer as a cop as a "fake" existence; its Purgatory, hanging out until other souls complete their life journey. No explanation as to why they have to be collected to the same moment in time.
nyactor511Jun 15, 2010
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