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75% of the shit in the college humor video was either already explained or not important at all.
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I'm honestly a little surpised how many people latched onto those wreckage images during the credits. Never once did it cross my mind while watching the finale that we were supposed to think they all died in the crash. Yet, so many people (I'm finding out now) in the online community thought just that very thing. Weird.
Seems pretty clear to me it was meant more as a reflective thing. A "remember where we started" thing. I thought the images were very evocotive. Unnecessary, perhaps. But certainly not an indication that "they all died in the crash." |
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I've spent way too much time rewatching each episode over the years, and thinking about the finale the last couple of days... and honestly... I can't think of one really "important" question that was answered. Many of the answers are not obvious. But there's enough info throughtout to draw logical conclusions. The only think I'm still unsatisfied with is Walt's resolution. I was really hoping there would be something in the finale that resolved that character. I'm not talking about answers like "why was he special." I mean what happened to Walt in his life. How was the rest of his life, how was his adult life affected by what happened on that island, and never seeing his father again. There's some of this that's hinted at, but I still feel unresolved regarding Walt. Other than that... the whole series was fantastic. The best thing I've ever seen on network TV. Hands down. |
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Sure. That's fair. After reading that so many people saw it that way, I can see it. Just surprised me how many people saw it that way initially. Because it never crossed my mind.
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Well keep us posted as you watch. I'm interested to see if you really have that many questions when all is said and done. |
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I have the hindsight of watching most of the finale and thus knowing that, by the end, the show intended to have a purely character-driven payoff. I will be evaluating the show on two accounts: 1.) How good of a character drama is it (and how does including several potentially-maddening elements of sci-fi and fantasy benefit or detract from the characters) and 2.) Forget the intentions to be a character drama; how does this show really feel?
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Reaper, just so you know my stance on this. There will be 1 or 2 big things that you will want resolved by the end that will be left up in the air and open to your interpretation, but the show is great regardless. I would say they answered 98% of the most important shit. And going back to that college humor vid, you gotta watch the show first man.
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It's like you see on Amazon a book that promises, SWEARS, to give you definitive answers about Bigfoot, Nessie, the JFK assassination, the origin of the pyramids, and the popularity of Dancing with the Stars. And when it comes in the mail it's a tract for the Jehovah's witnesses. The authors could point out that all that 'matters' is your eternal salvation, but that doesn't make the bait and switch any less a bummer.
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05-26-2010, 10:16 AM | #5805 | |
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I get your point (and I don't really believe in that theory anyway)... the show is over at that point, and hell, I went back to hulu to see the credits because they always put a commercial at the end, so I just skip them. I never would have thought of it as being a transition though... if anything, they should have shown a few shots that were obviously how they left the island. |
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