So I finally watched the epilogue short... and it was neat, but hyped up a little too much. I understand that some audiences don't like figuring out things for themselves, but the way this hit you over the head with things that were implied in much earlier seasons detracted from it, in my...
Well yes, I agree that's how it ended up playing out. I just feel like it'd have been much, much more powerful if we hadn't already seen them off the island. Like I said, that's the one nitpick I continue to have with the overall structure of the narrative... so if that's the only thing, I'd...
The statue had four toes because it wasn't of a person. It was of the Egyptian goddess Taweret. As long as we saw the cabin, Jacob hadn't lived there. It was always Christian, who at the time said he was "speaking on Jacob's behalf" who we now know to be the smoke monster / Man in Black...
While on the subject, "There's No Place Like Home" is a good episode, but in retrospect, it also contains the most-anticlimactic / disappointing part of the show in many ways to me. The part where the Oceanic 6 actually arrive in LA safely was just absolutely ruined by the flashforwards...
Eh, I still don't see any room for interpretation, myself. Finally listened to Bill Simmons' wrapup podcast and he was on with a friend of his, with journalist Chuck Klosterman, and with critic Alan Sepinwall, and the general sentiment was something I agree with. The biggest problem with the...
Last comment on this, but I also wonder how the "they were dead all along" people reconcile the fact that Christian tells Jack "These were the most important people in your life."
So on an entirely different note, I was wondering something last night and can't remember if they showed it to us before. How did Boone start to remember things exactly, to have been able to help Hurley get Shannon to LA to help Sayid?
I think the wreckage at the end makes a poor example if you're trying to use that to sell the whole 6 seasons as being purgatory. If that's the case, where are all the bodies that would've been strewn across the beach at the time? I don't want to sound like a jerk or anything, but to me I...
Haha, I'm pretty sure I've attempted close to that in the past. I've definitely done it straight through with a season or two of 24 though back in college. Still, 6 seasons is a lot to go through in 4 days like that.
Bill Simmons from ESPN actually did an interview with Cuse as well in his 5/14 podcast. If you're caught up, there aren't really any spoilers, and I thought it was a very interesting listen. It even answered a question that some of us have discussed for ages, whether they're making it up as...
It seems to have a record of killing everyone that it could that had no benefit to it. My assumption is that at the time it didn't kill Locke, it was because he was a candidate and it couldn't kill him. The list as referenced in the third (and first) season was done by the Others. Ben...
I don't think it really matters too much. I have a view similar to a post in this thread a while ago. Based on the past 5 1/2 years with the show, I think that while yes, the show creators' faith will play into the ending, but it won't be a solely Christian ending, or a solely faith-based...
Not that it matters much because I loved the episode, but after thinking about it some more, I wonder why none of them who knew where Ben, Richard, and Miles were going (as previously mentioned, to blow up the plane), didn't stop to think that maybe the C4 came from the 3 of them, and not Widmore.
For some reason I was thinking that when he got in the limo, Eloise would be there waiting to talk to him.
But in general, the structure itself threw me for a loop entirely last night. First when he went to the flash-sideways I assumed it was going to be like "Flashes Before Your Eyes" and...
I think it was worse here... we had almost constant flood emergency warnings, which at some points were covering up the subtitles for what was being said.