DRIVE THE ISLAND!
Yeah, the Egyptian stuff not being explained at all is dumb shit. I demand answers for the Giant Ankh Fortune Cookie.
Honestly I don't think any explanation could have been satisfactory once they got into time traveling/moving the island. But, on that note, fuckin' donkey wheel. How did that work?Golden Light/Hell. Shoehorned in imho.
I suppose the implication is that the water flowing into Hell Portal Rock Pool acted as a kind of a coolant to keep the electromagnetism at bay, if the water just sat it would "overload" eventually. The button in the hatch was linked to some mechanism that would lessen the flow of water there until right it was on the brink of overloading. The donkey wheel was a manual shutoff valve that brought the water full-stop.
But of course, this supposes that Dharma built shit at or around the site of the glowy hole, and why would Jacob have allowed that while he was protecting it? Why does this overload bring a plane down in one instance, and act as a time machine/teleporter in the next? And why the numbers? Why did the numbers ever matter or have power?
Yeah, Dharma just kind of fell by the wayside. It also seemed like all the buildup of how getting to the island required some labyrinthine special bearings was totally cast aside at the end there.Dharma. How'd they get there, why were they there.
I dunno, I thought the ending of the LA-X thing was effective, but you can't say "everything on the island actually happened" and consider this a good wrap-up. There are still a million things that never added up there.
DRIVE THE ISLAND!
Like I said earlier, I thought it was a really good ending. Having said that, they really should have taken a little time in each episode this season to give answers to the questions they had built up over the prior 5 seasons. I'm a lot less upset about the final season with the way it ended but imagine how great it could have been if they took as little as 5 minutes of each episode to answer, even vaguely, the unanswered questions.
It wouldn't have changed anything that happened this season and would have given closure to the fans that stuck it out to the end. It really is a huge middle finger to everyone that invested 6 years of their lives. It could have been amazing instead of what we were left with.
I stumbled onto this earlier and thought it was pretty cool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmacakra
I just realized in the alt timeline, Miles dad has the young son (that we saw at the recital with Jack Jr.) but was never said to be Miles dad.
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n/m Miles did say at one point it was his fathers benefit concert. I guess he just had a little brother in purgatory for whatever and just wasn't invited to the church after party.
Last edited by Dyne; 24 May 2010 at 12:42 PM.
Lol TNLrage™ is out in full force for this. I quite liked it for the most part but learning that the Desmondverse was purgatory... uggggh. Oh well. GUYS ITS ABOUT THE CHARACTERS.
Also, they explained what the island is earlier this season... it's a cork (literally, lol) keeping Hell at bay. I took it at face value.
Last edited by OmegaFlareX; 24 May 2010 at 12:36 PM.
A show "about the characters" who all are constantly wondering what the fuck they're doing and why they're doing it who never get any answers along with the audience.
Oh but it's okay because they're all hugging at the end after they die so who cares right? Because we only care when characters love eachother and not what actually happens to them over the course of the show.
I'd watch Lost: The Hurley + Ben years.
Hurley rules.
Hurley, Ben, Desmond, and Vincent. Loose cannon island cops with nothing to lose.
Hurley is the good cop, Ben is the bad Cop, Desmond just says brother, and Vincent is the tough as nails police commisioner who doesn't take no for an answer.
This fall!
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