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05-24-2010, 01:51 AM | #5521 |
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I am still upset that some devious polar bear wasn't the puppet master of all these people.
I would have bet money on it.
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Everything that happened was in Jack's mind. It cheapens the series and the story. Oh well. |
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05-24-2010, 01:58 AM | #5523 |
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Thats one reason I disagree. It would cheapen the entire thing because none of it would have happened at all.
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05-24-2010, 01:59 AM | #5524 |
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I haven't been able to sort out the others of it being purgatory the entire time and they all died in the crash, or the island was real but the alt storyline this year was the purgatory because of the extreme amount of lose ends and conflicting plot lines to either of those.
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05-24-2010, 02:03 AM | #5525 | |
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Didn't St. Elsewhere end like that back in the 80's?
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05-24-2010, 02:06 AM | #5526 |
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I have no idea. Never watched that show.
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05-24-2010, 02:08 AM | #5527 |
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I'm going to bed guys, but all of the signs point to this being all in Jack's mind.
Forget seasons 1-5 and focus on season six, from Jack's "child" to Sawyer being a cop to Hurley being a multimillionaire. Add to the fact about the ambiguous power source to the MIB not having a name to Jack = Jacob and so on. He has no children (hence, Tawaret). It was a great series and I'm not "mad" about the ending but it is what it is: A complete fabrication on Jack's part while dying in a jungle immediately after a plane crash. We saw his pathetic life. Failed marriage, no children, inferiority complex, dead father. He "crash lands" on a island where he's the hero. He saves the lives of people he "touched" on the plane, he makes strong decisions and becomes a leader: something he could never accomplish or do in real life. The rest, he assumes. It's all a byproduct of his imagination as he lies dying. A justification for being weak and lame. His father leads him to the actual light. End of story. |
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I am just going to imagine in my mind that this happened. Makes it easier.....until the wacky spin-off with the minor characters where they ruin it completely.
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05-24-2010, 02:24 AM | #5531 |
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The island was real and everything that happened on it was real. Christian Shephard pretty much explains as clear as day what the ending is when he's talking to Jack, so I don't see how you're not getting it - "Some died before you, some died far after you, but they needed you and you needed each and every one of them to move on." Some died on the island, some died off the island. When they died is irrelevant because ultimately, they met up in alt-verse to be together one last time before they all "moved on." |
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05-24-2010, 02:47 AM | #5533 |
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It makes no sense to say it was all "in Jack's mind." The whole point was that what is important are the relationships you have with people. The church scene was a reuniting of all of these characters. Why would Jack's big after-life reunion be with a bunch of people he imagined?
IMO, What happened on the island happened. As the various characters died, they entered the afterlife. They were all stuck in a world created collectively and needed the help of each other to move on, the point being that their time on the island was the most important time in their lives. In fact, their time on the island is what gave their lives meaning at all. They needed each other in life, and they needed each other in death. I agree, from a storytelling standpoint, this was a little strange. It did in a way trivialize the events of the show. But, then again, the events being trivial was sort of the point, I think. There is something more than our daily struggles and what not, no matter how earth shattering they seem. Might be a little cheesy, but no more than anything else in this show. This show is flawed, sure, but I think some of you guys are over simplifying this ending a bit. All things considered, I give it a |
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This is how i see it. They went to the island because they were all Lost in life. Their time at the Island, they found their way on what they wanted out of life and found some direction.
Thats it. nothing more, nothing less. Enjoy the ride, i did. |
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