Lost: Season Six

[Drake Tungsten]

I disagree that it meant the Sideways stuff was a waste of time.

Dude, there was no good narrative reason to spend half a season slowly setting up the awakening of the Castaways in the Sideways waystation. It was pretty emotionally satisfying when they finally woke up, but almost all the time spent on the Sideways world before the finale was redundant drudgery and a pointless "spot the difference" fake out.

I think it's now clear that Darlton simply didn't have enough story left to fill an entire final season and the Sideways world was their means of killing screentime.

It was where everyone finally had to work out their flaws; it was Purgatory.

I don't think it was Purgatory. The Castaways weren't being purified or punished in order to be worthy of moving on; they were just chilling out until they remembered their life and were ready to move on.

Mother****ing Kate being the one to kill nameless?

Jack killed him. Kate just got the assist, like fellow Canadian Steve Nash.

Plus, only Lapidus can pull off quips like the one she attempted.

QFT. Know your role, Freckles.

[Drake Tungsten]

Reading the AV Club comments have opened my eyes to just how many Aspies were into this show. How else do you explain the people who seem to care only about mythological answers and don't care at all about a satisfying emotional conclusion for the characters?

[Asher]

Drake, it's a sci-fi show...not Grey's Anatomy.

[Drake Tungsten]

It was really only a sci-fi show during Season 5 (and even that was more mystical than real sci-fi). Apparently the Aspies couldn't pick up on all the emotional drama in the first four seasons and thought they were watching a different show.

[Kuciwalker]

To be fair, from the start of the show a big draw was the mystery -> answer -> deeper mystery cycle. That's what makes Walkabout so amazing. If it were just a character drama we wouldn't need any of the mystical island stuff.

[Dinner]

I have not read a single post in this thread but I know it is gay. I will not read any posts in this thread.

[Drake Tungsten]

To be fair, from the start of the show a big draw was the mystery -> answer -> deeper mystery cycle. That's what makes Walkabout so amazing. If it were just a character drama we wouldn't need any of the mystical island stuff.

I'm fine with people who were interested in both the character drama and the mysteries, and who feel let down by the latter. They certainly have good reason to feel that way.

I don't, however, have any time for people who care only about the mysteries and think it was a waste of time for Lost to provide a satisfying emotional conclusion for the characters we've been following for six seasons.

[Drake Tungsten]

When Christian explained that the flash sideways was because it was the most important part of their lives, I finally understood why Lapidus wasn't there. Fighting an ancient evil and saving people is what Frank Lapidus does every day of his life

[Asher]

I only liked two characters on all of Lost, on a personal level:

Lapidus and Hurley

I liked others for being jackasses: Locke and Linus mostly

Everyone else should've died.

[Drake Tungsten]

Everyone else should've died.

Most did. Only 11 characters ultimately survived, including 3 of your top-four.

[Guynemer]

With the exception of Kate (and less so, Claire), I liked all the characters who survived.

Miles: airplane duct-tape mechanic



I'm shocked by the number of people who arrived at the exact same couldn't-be-wronger conclusion as NYE. I mean... really? Galnemer hates the show, last night was maybe the second time ever she sat down and watched a whole episode, and even she got it.



I know it wasn't literally Purgatory, but that was what they made it into themselves. Witness Ben, who decided to stick around because he had "a few more things to work out." Or Ana Lucia, who "wasn't ready yet." While not the mythical Purgatory that we think of, it was a purgatory of sorts for all these characters, until they learned to let go of their past, that whatever happened, happened. And, of course: live together, die alone.

[Guynemer]

Everyone else should've died.

Most did. Only 11 characters ultimately survived, including 3 of your top-four.

Yup.

Hugo
Ben
Frank
Richard
Miles
James
Kate
Claire
Bernard
Rose
Desmond


Throw in Walt and Aaron to make it a baker's dozen.

[Guynemer]

I only liked two characters on all of Lost, on a personal level:

Lapidus and Hurley

I liked others for being jackasses: Locke and Linus mostly

Everyone else should've died.

Are you telling me you didn't like Desmond? Because I will countenance many things, but that shall not stand, my friend.

[Drake Tungsten]

Miles: airplane duct-tape mechanic

"I don't believe in many things, but I do believe in duct tape."

I'm shocked by the number of people who arrived at the exact same couldn't-be-wronger conclusion as NYE. I mean... really?

Yeah, at least a quarter of the population really is retarded.

[Asher]

Are you telling me you didn't like Desmond? Because I will countenance many things, but that shall not stand, my friend.

Desmond was okay but his "brutha" thing was obnoxious. Brutha.