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The way I read the comment was that the "great majority" were disappointed, which, I think, is a gross overstatement. When you read the comment in context, including the other posts (for example, "the majority of fans" in post 1869 above), the feeling is that only a few die hard fans were...

No, they most certainly did not. Nobody ever said that everything would be explained by science. Everyone who writes/says/thinks otherwise is either mis-qouting or mis-remembering, hence my comment. What they DID say is that the science in the show has to be "real" in that it isn't...

Oh, are we doing LOST discussions again? :) A few things: - The ending was indeed polarizing, but I don't think it's fair to say that "many fans" felts "ripped off" by the ending. - It is definitely a misstatement to say that there were quite a few things that went unanswered--even a...

*Sigh*   Okay, the polar bears were ENTIRELY explained. There are NO questions about the polar bears that went unanswered, other than their names! What could you possible want to know about them?

For those who can't wait for the box set, here's a clip from the LOST epilogue extra: http://jezebel.com/5606489/

I watched it online, and it was certainly interesting.

No problem. "It's Personal" is when it is revealed that everything was really a purgatory within a purgatory within a dream!

What? He most certainly *did* say that to Faraday. It occured in the episode "The Variable," in which we see a young Daniel playing the piano, and being told by Eloise that there is no time for "distractions." Years later, Daniel is sitting in his house watching the news report of the 815...

I don't see the irony.

An update on the "Bad Robot" staff member and the blog post from a few days ago. According to ABC, the person did indeed work there, but as an intern, and they were let go three years ago: http://lostmediamentions.blogspot.com/2010/05/someone-from-bad-robots-take-on-finale.html

Fair enough. I still think it's obvious what everone is meaning when they use the term vis-a-vis LOST. "Meeting Place" is probably the best term, since that's essentially what Christian referred to it as. However, in an era of increasing secularity, the term pugartory is being used...

Exactly. I figured Joe, of all people, would have realized that. That's why in one of my earliest uses of the term, I said "purgatory (or whatever you want to call it)." Most of us are just going with the flow here.

I'll answer these three because they run the gamut from serious and funny :) - At the very end of the scene, Sawyer grabs a large-ish tree branch and uses it as a lever while everyone else quickly frees Ben. It's very quick and the camera is sweeping past and there is dialogue, so it's hard...

I think you misinterpreted that comment as to be directed at you, which is understandable since the rest of the post was. That particular line was meant in the same way as "if you can't trust your friends, well then who can you trust," among other famous phrases. The 'you' wasn't *you,* but...

I would agree that solid meaning is, for the most part, detrimental to enjoying a show such as LOST. However, meaning and interpretation only applies in any real sense to analogy, symbolism, inference, metaphor and the like. Saying specific things that happened were completely different things...

I don't know what else to tell ya. Cuse and Lindelof literally stated that they (the LOSTies, on the Island and in the flashbacks) aren't dead, and that the Island isn't purgatory. They said it, recorded it, and had it written down and plastered onto the internet, for all eternity. Your idea...

Well, here ya go: http://ca.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b8208_lost_redux_okay_now_it_purgatory_get.html http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Portal:Official_Lost_Podcast/Season_3 (listen to the podcast for April 30th, "D.O.C"/"The Brig," and scrub to 3:30) "we were not lying...

Appologies for two posts in a row (though the way this thread moves, it probably won't be). Holadem, I think I finally understand what you are saying, thanks! I can definitely see why some people wouldn't like that--how they added another layer, and then removed it in one fell swoop. I...

That article by the staff writer was great. His (I'm assuming the writer is male) description of the Dharma Inititiave is virtually the same as what I've said many times, including way back when we were first introduced to them: they are nothing more than another group in a long line of people...

They didn't say it because it would have been incorrect. 95% of the questions were answered by the end of the finale. For a portion of that 95%, there are a few different "takes" (see the debate between Matt and everyone else), but they *are* there. Seriously, ask me a question, any...

It was definitely a cheat of sorts. Though, to be fair, we were shown ruins of things that were there before the 815 crash, so we were shown the island literally without the LOSTies; in the end, the sideways purgatory really was the LOSTies without the island.

Intellectually cheated? I don't know what you mean there. Your description of the flash sideways as a 6-month long epilogue is great. That's exactly what it was, in retrospect. The fact that it *didn't* focus on the central light vs. dark conflict, but rather the characters themselves, was...

To be fair, there were numerous statements by those involved (actors/Cuse/Lindelof/Jimmy Kimmel himself) that the alternate endings were shot specifically for the Jimmy Kimmel episode, were not in any way actual endings to the show, and were never meant to be anything but jokes.

Exactly. Moreover, Christian actually *did* turn to the camera and say it was all real, he just left the baseball bat behind :) Your comments on the plane wreckage are spot-on. That was the perfect way to show that the 815 flight has gone the way of the statue, the Dharma stations, the...

This one is both simple and complicated. Children can't be conceived on the Island because that's the way Jacob runs it. It's possible this was the way the Mother Guardian also ran things, but all that matters is that that is how Jacob has made it. Why? A few reasons. First, Jacob draws...

??? What makes *you* think that? Again, that's just wrong, plain and simple. ALL of the main characters had baggage from *before* the crash. They didn't have to let go of their life on the island, they had to let go of their life BEFORE the island. The island was a way of them overcoming...

What a terrible (it's blog, so that's par for the course) write-up. This author *clearly* doesn't understand the show, or how imagery or symbolism work within a piece of fiction. I picture an individual sitting on their counch, slamming their face full of popcorn while the flickering images on...