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To ask (3 years too late) what happened in Lost again??

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Spice17 · 10/04/2013 15:59

A bit of a diversion from the trillion MT threads (and possibly very dull, so I apologise in advance)

My brain meanders A LOT when I'm in the shower, and I found myself thinking while in there this morning - what actually happened in the TV series Lost? I followed it avidly (saddo) and all I can gather from it is that 'they all died' which is the answer that everyone seems to give but no one really knows when or how.

Now I imagine a lot of you will think 'who gives a shit' but hey I invested a lot of time in that bloody programme god knows why and would love a brief answer if anyone knows?

Apologies if ths makes me sound like a bellend loser with no life - am at home with my 6 month old all day :)

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redlac · 10/04/2013 16:55

She's in Revolution I think and the series about the super power family

ilovesparklythings · 10/04/2013 16:55

Oh my god - Gene Hunt. loved him too. If your husband spoke to you like he did you'd tell him to fuck off. But if Gene Hunt did it... Wink

IAmNotAMindReader · 10/04/2013 17:10

I think the general plot idea of at some point there being a purgatory involved is valid. However I believe the waters got muddied by the writers,creators or whoever it was spending too much time scouring various boards looking to see if anyone had worked out a plot point yet. if they had it got tinkered with, thus the plot moved to a series of dead ends and twists that made no sense.

mrsjay · 10/04/2013 17:10

Oh right dd and dh were watching that when i said oo it is juliet she was also in the new V on scyfy channel I said it then too,

DoIgetastickerforthat · 10/04/2013 17:42

I think it is easier to understand Lost if you think of it in terms of themes rather than getting to stuck on the intricacies of the narrative. I think that the overriding themes were; time, love and it's destructive or healing power, fate v's free will, good v's evil and science v's faith and how each of these concepts affected each character and their journey to redemption (or not).

Nobody died on the plane (other than the extras). Locke and Rose were healed by the 'energy' from the island. The 'energy' was what sought after or protected by various characters.

TheCatInTheHairnet · 10/04/2013 17:58

I thought they did die in the plane crash. As the final scene was Jack lying dying on the island and his (dead) dog came and took him onward.

DoIgetastickerforthat · 10/04/2013 18:15

No but that final shot was a mirror of the opening shot of Jack in the bamboo forest only at the end he's watching Kate et al escaping on the airplane.

Sanctimumious · 10/04/2013 18:22

So, it DID turn out to be a type of purgatory but only after the ones who escaped returned to the island??
I watched it. I don't think it made that much sense.

ScarlettInSpace · 10/04/2013 18:48

I'm more confused now than I was three years ago. I'm going to stop reading this thread now and just be satisfied that the ending to Lost is something I will never know.

What bottled said Grin

MiaowTheCat · 10/04/2013 18:51

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MysteriousHamster · 10/04/2013 18:59

DoIgetasticker has it.

Plane crashed. Main characters survived.
Stuff happened, they all jumped about time a bit. This is all still 'real'.
When we start getting the flash sideways, these are the bits that weren't happening in the 'real world'.
The characters died at different times and then waited about in the afterlife/sideways world until they were ALL dead, then they went on together.

Happy days.

Still confusing and not nearly as good as it could've been. I enjoyed the final episode at the time but in hindsight it was a mess.

madhairday · 10/04/2013 19:01

I never got why only some of the characters in the flash sideways purgatory thing went to 'heaven' -so Charlotte, Daniel, Michael, Vincent among others weren't there in the church iirc. I think the island was real, and it was the most important time in their lives or something, so when they met in 'purgatory' they came together to go forward together. Or something. Confused

still confused after watching all series at least twice....

mrsjay · 10/04/2013 19:07

I think they just made peace with the fact they were infact dead and could move on others couldnt

OOO I mentioned others Grin this thread is driving me nuts I agree with some and not others I think the ending was lazy and we were all meant to take from Lost what we wanted ,

GeneHuntsMistress · 10/04/2013 19:23

Ooh did someone mention the sexy Gene - and Sawyer in the same post - be still my beating heart

Ok so what about the crazy Aussie girl and her baby? What was that all about?? So in real life(!) Kate DID get off the island and DID take her baby with her? And then also IRL she returned to the island? Ad then they all did die IRL or maybe IRD.

And what did lie in the shadow of the statue?

I invested so much of myself in that damn series and felt genuinely ANGRY at the last episode that it was all left unexplained and then that wanky viral email about how the writers had planned it ll along - like fuck they did, they just made it all up as they went along, after reading various boards and someone said up thread - totally agree.

I don't get it!!! Waaaah!

Floweryhat · 10/04/2013 19:33

madhairday I think the answer to your question may lie more in contract negotiations than plot intentions Wink

mrsjay · 10/04/2013 19:34

I think the answer to your question may lie more in contract negotiations than plot intentions

oh so cynical tis much deeper than that surely Grin

NotDavidTennant · 10/04/2013 19:55

'I thought they did die in the plane crash. As the final scene was Jack lying dying on the island and his (dead) dog came and took him onward.'

The dog wasn't dead, we saw it living with Rose and Bernard in one of the final episodes (and it was never Jack's dog either). Jack died after restoring the 'heart' of the island.

And the people who think the island moved to the north pole - what show were you watching?

QueenCuntyChops · 10/04/2013 19:58

They turned the wheel to move the island and it was all ice.

That happened, didn't it?

Or was I drunk?

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Spice17 · 10/04/2013 20:04

One of DD's middle names is Juliet and now I have another reason why I chose it apart from loving Romeo and/in memory of a cousin. Had forgotten about lovely Juliet in Lost - well, her characters name anyway.

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redlac · 10/04/2013 20:05

Yes that did happen Queen

NotDavidTennant · 10/04/2013 20:14

'They turned the wheel to move the island and it was all ice.'

The chamber that the wheel was in was very cold, due to the electromagnetic anomalies or some such. Pretty sure the island as a whole never got cold or went to the poles.

And as stated above the polar bears were brought to the island by the Dharma Initiative. They were kept in the same cages as Sawyer and Kate and were being trained to push buttons for food. It was hinted that at least one of the polar bears had been trained to push the wheel as its skeleton was found in the desert near where people ended up after pushing the wheel.

redlac · 10/04/2013 20:17

But the island did move didn't it? My memory is shocking!

mrsjay · 10/04/2013 20:18

yes it did that is what the big wheel was all about the had to shift the island incase it was found or something there was a huge flash and it was gone,

mrsjay · 10/04/2013 20:19

did it move in time then

DoIgetastickerforthat · 10/04/2013 20:25

It was freezing in the chamber where you turned the wheel to move the island but it didn't move the island to the North Pole (although the turner did get 'beamed' to Tunisia, somehow) and Dharma had used one of the Polar bears to turn the wheel previously, which is why Charlotte found the skeleton in the archeological dig.

Honestly, I didn't find it that hard to follow. I'm guessing contractual negotiations, dui's, the writers strike and network pressure meant the writers had to heavily edit the storyline to fit it all in and the last season was rushed, but I don't think they were winging it.