Lost - The Final Season Thread

I would submit that there are as many unanswered questions about BSG as there were in Lost, and that the core mystery was explained just as well in Lost as it was in BSG. And also that the central conflict in Lost was completely resolved.

There's a very great deal we know about the island now. We may not know ultimately why, but then, we don't know why "god" is continually running the same experiment over and over in the BSG universe, either.
 
I guess I felt the size of the question mark in Lost was so much bigger, and hovered over the entire show so strongly that the absence of a real answer left a bigger hole. Bsg's mysteries weren't the motivation for the whole show.
 
They pretty much were, specifically, the Cylon PLAN. That was the lead-in to every single episode for three seasons.

The only thing you really don't know about the island in Lost is why it exists, just as you don't know why "god" is lining the same petri dish over and over. Sure, tons of detail questions, but the major questions have answers, even if not especially good ones. And there are gobs of leftover questions in BSG, even big ones.
 
Batutta said:
I guess I felt the size of the question mark in Lost was so much bigger, and hovered over the entire show so strongly that the absence of a real answer left a bigger hole. Bsg's mysteries weren't the motivation for the whole show.
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I have never seen a television show more dependent on having a good central mystery than Lost. The mystery was the main plot of the show. The individual characters were just fodder.

It wasn't like The X-Files where there is a larger mystery that is touched upon from time to time, but the main point of the show was the cool individual episode stories.

Virtually every episode of Lost was based around revealing more of the Big Mystery.

They could have made Lost a more serious version of Gilligan's Island, like Lord of the Flies, where it was about the characters developing friendships and enemies and splitting into factions while trying to survive.

But they didn't do that. They made it about the mystery.

And in that regard, it is probably the least successful finale in television history.
 
Mark Harris said:
Sorry dude, statute of limitations way up on this one.

Also, Darth Vader is Luke's father.
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Understandable - just didn't expect to read about it in the Lost thread.
Wound up ruing one series ending for myself on my way to complain about another series ending.
Serves me right, I guess.

:)

EDITED TO ADD:
For the record the LOST finale was about as bad as I can imagine.
Lazy and insulting to the audience.
The only thing more annoying are the cries of those who insist on assuming that if you don't like it you just "didn't get it."
 
they did exactly what I seem to recall them saying they weren't going to do... It wasn't supposed to be some unexplainable mystery... Is that the best they could come up with, really? The whole point of all of this was that they all died at some point (duh) and had to reunite in a fake, phony world in order to move on to the light?

Whatever... that was some lame crap.... there's this light... and that's all you need to know.... just don't ask questions.... pffff
 
You know what else...Locke was definitely my favorite character on the show, and turning him into Flocke really prevented him from having a satisfying conclusion, as he basically sat out this entire final season on the island. His flash sideways storyline wasn't particularly interesting. Perhaps that's why it didn't really resonate with me emotionally. I was never that into the whole Jack, Sawyer and Kate love triangle. And I hated the hole man in black story. My favorites were Locke, Faraday and Desmond, and the first two were pretty much sidelined this last season.
 
that whole false sideways timeline was completely contrived for the purposes of their contrived ending and had absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the show... the end.... cop out :)
 
Jason Ramsey said:
that whole false sideways timeline was completely contrived for the purposes of their contrived ending and had absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the show... the end.... cop out :)
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Agreed 1000%

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Worst series finale ever.
 
You know, thinking about it, BSG and Lost actually parallel each other pretty well, all the way through to the finale. Just as Lost centered in detail around the mystery of the DHARMA initiative and then just gave up on it, so too was the fate of the Cylon Plan. And it all pretty much came down to a "god" in both, in a storyline which had little to do with the early show.
 
that the finale showed that life is a series of unanswered questions, we don't ever see the bigger picture while alive... we have to learn to embrace the questions and do the best we can with the choices we have. :engel017:

ah screw that. i watched this show religiously for 6 damn years under the assumption we'd finally get some freakin' answers and this is what we're left with? the writers lied to us!! tell us what the island is dammit! and what in the pluperfect hell happened to walt?! you vicious bastards!!!! aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! :kali:
 
David Jimerson said:
You know, thinking about it, BSG and Lost actually parallel each other pretty well, all the way through to the finale. Just as Lost centered in detail around the mystery of the DHARMA initiative and then just gave up on it, so too was the fate of the Cylon Plan. And it all pretty much came down to a "god" in both, in a storyline which had little to do with the early show.
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But I still maintain 'The Cylon Plan' wasn't the juice of the show. It was the war between desperate, outnumbered humans and the Cylons. That's why I watched. To see how that played out. And what it did to the characters. I didn't spend every episode wondering, 'What's the Cylon plan?'. Whereas every week on Lost I was hoping to learn a little more about what the the hell that island was.
 
The Cylon Plan is why the war happened. It was all about what the Cylons wanted. It was supposed to be their raison detre in the show.

But it IS a good parallel to the DHARMA Initiative, because DHARMA turned out to be superfluous interlopers having nothing to do with what was really going on, whereas they were initially presented as crucial to the central mystery, if not THE mystery.
 
Luis Caffesse said:
Understandable - just didn't expect to read about it in the Lost thread.
Wound up ruing one series ending for myself on my way to complain about another series ending.
Serves me right, I guess.

:)

EDITED TO ADD:
For the record the LOST finale was about as bad as I can imagine.
Lazy and insulting to the audience.
The only thing more annoying are the cries of those who insist on assuming that if you don't like it you just "didn't get it."
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Crap, I'm sorry! :( I haven't seen LOST yet... so any Spoilers I read will be long forgotten when I get there (I figure anyway)
 
David Jimerson said:
The Cylon Plan is why the war happened. It was all about what the Cylons wanted. It was supposed to be their raison detre in the show.

But it IS a good parallel to the DHARMA Initiative, because DHARMA turned out to be superfluous interlopers having nothing to do with what was really going on, whereas they were initially presented as crucial to the central mystery, if not THE mystery.
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What I'm saying is that it might have been their reason, but it wasn't MY reason for watching the show. That's why it didn't feel as disappointing.
 
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