Lost: The Final Season (Premieres Feb. 2)

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Am watching Jimmy Kimmel's "Aloha to Lost" special - I never watch Kimmel but this has been pretty darn entertaining so far. And who knew that Marilyn Manson was apparently a fan of the show?!

 

See, I was just about to post that it was a disappointment (Kimmel, not the finale). No live Sawyer, no live Kate, no live Hurley. And the alternative endings included Bob Newhart and the Sopranos endings? Professional writers came up with those? Egads.

I did like the "tender moment" montage. And, since I missed it when it aired last week, I was kind of hoping they'd run the Unnecessary Censorship: Lost Edition again. Heard it was hilarious.

Oh, well.

 

The tender moments montage just aired here in ATL. Loved that it ended with Michael getting hit by the car.

 

Local news is taking forever here in Colorado.

 

Nice theory from kimmel that the show was a way to show jack's "test" to see if he would go to heaven or hell.
kimmel 2 showed a clip from the first episode this season. Jack on the plane and they hit some turbulence.rose tells him to let go, that it was okay. Kimmel's thought was that turbulence was the exact moment jack died and thus his version of purgatory began.
matthew fox claimed he always knew how it would end, jack closing his eyes as he died.
and ben didn't go into the church then because he was still alive.

 

I don't think Kimmel's theory about Jack dying on the plane before it crashed made any sense. From my understanding, Jack experienced everything on the island alive like all the other 815ers. His death set them free is one way or another and the church was the meeting place for them to go after they were done with purgatory.

 

Kimmel's theory makes perfect sense.

Think of it this way. Everything that happened in the alternate timeline happened AFTER everyone from the crash died.

At their moment of death, they are sent to purgatory but they have no knowledge of it. They're just taken to a particular moment of their lives, things are just a bit off.

This is where Jack's moment was. He plugged in post-turbulance. (According to Kimmel).

Once they've chosen to accept that they are dead (and to do this, they must find that person that awakes them and floods them with memories of what happened), they can move on.

This particular group of people have all chosen to move on together and since they've all been woken at around the same time, they meet in a church to go to the afterlife together.

Make sense?

 

Apologies if this question has been answered ... but about that Lost finale script that showed up on Deadspin a while back, was that legit, a fake, a decoy?

 

I've been searching the spoiler sites for about an hour trying to find the cast list that leaked, the final script, e.t.c.

I had a hard time not clicking last time and now I'm curious to see if they were right or wrong.

 

This dude was seriously pissed about the ending to this show...

http://gawker.com/5545877/the-lost-finale-was-incredibly-dumb?skyline=true&s=i

I encourage you to read it because it's hilarious. This line cracked me up: "And Vincent! The goddamn dog! There you are, doing dog stuff."

 

I liked it - and will accept the flash-sideways stuff just to bring back Sun and Jin, but the last 15 minutes were a let down. I'm sure Doc Jensen will do 15 pages on Kate's outfit change at the church alone. And I doubt I was the only one who thought maybe Linus wired the church with C4.
But the thing that disappointed me the most was the way they ended it with Vincent coming to Jack and Jack closing his eye - a total reverse of the opening scene of the series - complete with shoe in the tree. I understand the "full circle" thing, but I thought it was a bit cliche for a show like Lost. Still glad I watched all six years, and even more glad I watched on DVR the way they loaded it up with ads.

 

Though I do appreciate the care the writers put into the show. You really got the sense that they did have a lot of this stuff mapped out a season or two ago (to some extent) and wrote it in a way that provided a payoff (in big and small ways) to those who have been watching for so long.
I just wish 24 was written with such care.