Wait, what? I know that Lost’s ending was controversial, but this is the first time I’ve heard that it’s not internally consistent. It’s whacky, but it’s SciFi. Do you know any examples of what isn’t internally consistent?
I mean, correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t they actually manage to get off the island, back into the real world, only to have something “calling” them back and they need to go back?
If that was so and they were actually in an afterlife, was that real world not real or did they resurrect themselves for a while?
I’ve never rewatched it so I might be misremembering idk
The “official” answer I keep hearing is they’re only actually dead in the last episode, which makes everything about it cheap and tacky, so I reject that.
But there’s an alternate timeline shown where they never were on the island as well, iirc. And it’s all just weird. You can’t be internally inconsistent if there’s never any established consistency.
I enjoyed it like watching a train wreck in slow motion and getting to discuss it with people as it developed. But it clearly didn’t have enough of an impact on me to remember anything worth remembering except “Don’t tell me what I can’t do” and “You all everybody.”
I mean yeah, cause it’s not consistent whatsoever, right?
That was my main issue with it iirc. That the major reveal at the end wasn’t internally consistent with the 7 seasons we had had. Especially because at that point, it was quite a significant portion of my actually independent thinking (as in you’re not a kid anymore just watching what’s on but actually choosing and watching whatever you like) life, so like you say, it felt cheap and tacky.
I don’t even remember those lines to be honest. I just remember the names of a few main characters like Locke and Sawyer, Jack and… the woman uhhh… I wanna say Kate? Spot on damn my memory isn’t as bad as I thought.
You can’t be internally inconsistent if there’s never any established consistency.
No but like we were led to believers there would be some consistency, and we just don’t know it yet. That was kinda the mystery that hooked people, no? Like pressing random numbers every now and then so… something doesn’t happen? I don’t even remember if that was ever properly explained.
It’s so intriguing but then they just pull the mat out from under you by saying “lol it wasn’t even a thing actually”.
I guess Lost just suffered from getting founded after it should’ve been cut. Let’s face it there’s several shows that I would’ve rather have be finished than Lost. Although if they never finished lost, I might feel differently, as then I’d think there was still a possibility of them making dense somehow.
That’s mostly just because it never explains anything up until the last few episodes when it’s all “Oh, uh… it’s all about god and heaven and hell and stuff I guess!”
Wait, what? I know that Lost’s ending was controversial, but this is the first time I’ve heard that it’s not internally consistent. It’s whacky, but it’s SciFi. Do you know any examples of what isn’t internally consistent?
You’re correct. There are things that don’t connect, but there’s not like a ton of internal contradictions.
I watched the whole show. I didn’t notice any glaring issues. It’s confusing but it’s supposed to be.
I mean, correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t they actually manage to get off the island, back into the real world, only to have something “calling” them back and they need to go back?
If that was so and they were actually in an afterlife, was that real world not real or did they resurrect themselves for a while?
I’ve never rewatched it so I might be misremembering idk
The “official” answer I keep hearing is they’re only actually dead in the last episode, which makes everything about it cheap and tacky, so I reject that.
But there’s an alternate timeline shown where they never were on the island as well, iirc. And it’s all just weird. You can’t be internally inconsistent if there’s never any established consistency.
I enjoyed it like watching a train wreck in slow motion and getting to discuss it with people as it developed. But it clearly didn’t have enough of an impact on me to remember anything worth remembering except “Don’t tell me what I can’t do” and “You all everybody.”
I mean yeah, cause it’s not consistent whatsoever, right?
That was my main issue with it iirc. That the major reveal at the end wasn’t internally consistent with the 7 seasons we had had. Especially because at that point, it was quite a significant portion of my actually independent thinking (as in you’re not a kid anymore just watching what’s on but actually choosing and watching whatever you like) life, so like you say, it felt cheap and tacky.
I don’t even remember those lines to be honest. I just remember the names of a few main characters like Locke and Sawyer, Jack and… the woman uhhh… I wanna say Kate? Spot on damn my memory isn’t as bad as I thought.
No but like we were led to believers there would be some consistency, and we just don’t know it yet. That was kinda the mystery that hooked people, no? Like pressing random numbers every now and then so… something doesn’t happen? I don’t even remember if that was ever properly explained.
It’s so intriguing but then they just pull the mat out from under you by saying “lol it wasn’t even a thing actually”.
I guess Lost just suffered from getting founded after it should’ve been cut. Let’s face it there’s several shows that I would’ve rather have be finished than Lost. Although if they never finished lost, I might feel differently, as then I’d think there was still a possibility of them making dense somehow.
That’s mostly just because it never explains anything up until the last few episodes when it’s all “Oh, uh… it’s all about god and heaven and hell and stuff I guess!”
I said I heard. I haven’t watched it.