*** Lost: Season 6 (Final Season) ***

[ODogg]

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Is there going to be a Lost movie?

[Pared]

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Is there going to be a Lost movie?

God no. This isn't Sex and the City.

I hope this never happens.

[DrJones]

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Is there going to be a Lost movie?

Never say never, but...no.

[Sportsforever]

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Why does everyone keep calling it a flash sideways. It wasn't side ways by any stretch of the word. They were all already dead at the point that the "flash" was taking place. The first episode of season 6 showed a flash of Jack with the cut on his neck from his fight with Locke in the season finale. Everything in the flashes this season were all in some sort of after life with their lost souls trying to find peace.

The producers used the term "flash sideways" on purpose. Their point was they wanted to avoid people thinking the two stories were alternate realities, so they used that term so people would realize they were both things that actually happened.

[nccomicfan]

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Did I get every answer I wanted? No....but I think anyone who watched the show regularly and wasn't deeply moved by last night's finale has no heart

People were dreaming if they thought that every question was getting answered

Kinda hard to bring Walt into 2004 purgatory ( I prefer heaven's waiting area) when the actor who plays him is twice the size he was when the show started

[aukevin]

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So what exactly did the credits scene show? I saw it last night but really wasn't paying attention, I thought it was just showing the camp at the beach as they left it. Did some of you say there were bodies on the beach? I thought I just saw wreckage, I know I saw some little shelters put up, so I figured that's just what the beach looked like at the end of the show. I thought it was just one final shot of the island kind of like how other shows have shown a final scene of the set when wrapping up a series.

[Beantown]

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So what exactly did the credits scene show? I saw it last night but really wasn't paying attention, I thought it was just showing the camp at the beach as they left it. Did some of you say there were bodies on the beach? I thought I just saw wreckage, I know I saw some little shelters put up, so I figured that's just what the beach looked like at the end of the show. I thought it was just one final shot of the island kind of like how other shows have shown a final scene of the set when wrapping up a series.

That's all I saw/took from it, as well.

[CMH]

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Is there going to be a Lost movie?

Pared and Doc said no and I think they are right because Lindelof and Cuse said no.

BUT, Lindelof and Cuse did confirm that the show is the property of ABC and considering its popularity they believe ABC would be foolish to not try to capitalize on the success of the series.

What that means exactly, who knows.

I'm hoping it's graphic novels or books. I wouldn't mind reading a monthly graphic novel about Hurley and Ben running the Island. Or reading books on Jacob's time as the protector of the Island during the 1800's.

Either way it's handled, Cuse and Lindelof said they won't be involved at all. They are done with the series forever.

[NYJets]

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I agree with P2K, and the other people who were pretty meh, thought we were duped, whatever, with how it ended.

I feel like they picked a really generic way to end it, that made sense for the overall theme of the show, but didn't go much deeper than that. And that's disappointing both because of what the producers said about how everything would fit together, and just the style of the show, with the flashbacks/forwards/sideways, and telling all these separate stories at once, made you think if you kept watching eventually things would become clearer and make some sense. I feel like they could of cut out 2-3 seasons worth of bs and everything would have made more sense. They just tried to take it in too many different directions that didn't really fit together.

I loved the first couple of seasons, and the rest of the series was still fun to watch, still better than a lot of other shows on TV. So I wouldn't go as far as saying I wasted time watching 6 seasons. But for the first half of the series I had much higher expectations for this show and it ended up being pretty underwhelming. From the beginning, it seemed like one of those shows that when it was all over, I would want to watch the whole thing again, and that in some ways it would be better to watch the 2nd time as things from early in the show that didn't make sense the first time, now make sense. But now I don't think that would do much good and don't really have an interest in watching it again.

[aukevin]

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Pared and Doc said no and I think they are right because Lindelof and Cuse said no.

BUT, Lindelof and Cuse did confirm that the show is the property of ABC and considering its popularity they believe ABC would be foolish to not try to capitalize on the success of the series.

What that means exactly, who knows.

I'm hoping it's graphic novels or books. I wouldn't mind reading a monthly graphic novel about Hurley and Ben running the Island. Or reading books on Jacob's time as the protector of the Island during the 1800's.

Either way it's handled, Cuse and Lindelof said they won't be involved at all. They are done with the series forever.

I hope they do what Star Wars has done with its expanded universe. They have lots of novels that continue on with the stories of their characters as well as prequel type books. I think there is a definite audience for that with Lost.

[CMH]

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I hope they do what Star Wars has done with its expanded universe. They have lots of novels that continue on with the stories of their characters as well as prequel type books. I think there is a definite audience for that with Lost.

Agreed. Someone else also mentioned Star Trek with their Deep Space Voyager, Next Generation, etc. series.

I can see something like that happening with Lost. The Island will always be there so there are an unlimited amount of stories that can be told in the future and from the past.

However, if any show, book or whatever focused on the current Losties coming back again then I will avoid it. I rather it be an entirely new cast telling a story that existed in a time far, far away from the moments we witnessed.

edit: Obviously I don't watch much Star Trek with my Deep Space Voyager screw up. I'm gonna leave it like that because I think it says everything.

[Pared]

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I hope they do what Star Wars has done with its expanded universe. They have lots of novels that continue on with the stories of their characters as well as prequel type books. I think there is a definite audience for that with Lost.

This almost seems like it will happen one way or another.

Not something I would like to see. Leave it as is; Let the fans keep falling down the rabbit hole...

[quaziemoto3]

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Because people always thought it was a flash sideways. They know differently now, but they just call it that so we know what we are talking about.

I think the crash at the end of the credits was a bad idea. Seemed to cause more theories than to be taken at face value.

Most are saying that they were dead when the plane crashed and none of it ever happened despite being led down the rabbit hole while hand-held.

the plane crash wreckage during the credits says the exact opposite to me. To me it further establishes that the events on the island were real...but i guess i can see why people were confused.

[MachoMyers]

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Okay, here's how I read the flash-sideways. It was the producers' "long con" of Season 6: we were meant to wonder if this alternate reality was the result of Jughead going off, or possibly of the MiB escaping the Island. Turns out it was neither; the alternate reality was Purgatory, for lack of a better word. Whether you feel that it was a clever, earned plot twist or a cheat is up to you.

IMO it was Purgatory, not just for Jack, as some are suggesting, but for all of the Losties. After they died in the real (Island) world, both before and after Jack's death on the Island, they started their lives anew in Purgatory, where through different choices and different circumstances (some subtle, some not), they resolved the issues that they had in their former, "real" lives. Part of that was the presence of Jack's son; it resolved his father issues.

Although the Lostie characters died at different times (Hurley might've lived thousands of years as the protector of the Island), they were "reborn" within Purgatory at whatever time they were born in their real lives. They were brought together in the real world by the Oceanic 815 crash. When the Oceanic 815 flight occurred in 2004 Purgatory (the sunken island in the Season 6 premiere was to show us that in their Purgatory lives, they could live free of Jacob and the Island's influence), it was significant. Because the Oceanic 815 flight was the most meaningful event of their real lives, when it occurred in Purgatory, that was where the Losties began to see and remember evidence (Jack's neck cut, etc.) of their former lives.

I'm guessing that none of the Losties within Purgatory had any deja vu feelings before Oceanic 815. Desmond's consciousness, because of when he blew up the Swan station in Season 2, could travel through time, space, and apparently, death itself. His simultaneous awareness of Island reality and Purgatory expedited the process of the other Losties becoming aware. In the Season 6 premiere, as Juliet was on the thin line between life and death, she had a brief flash of her existence in Purgatory. When she told Sawyer, "It worked," she probably thought Jughead was responsible; it wasn't.

Why was Aaron a baby? Because it was 2004 in Purgatory. The dead don't enter Purgatory in the state in which they die (ie, Aaron as an old man), they enter it as they entered the real world. All of the Losties were "born" in Purgatory and re-lived their lives, making different decisions along the way. Remembering and coming to grips with their past lives is the final step before entering "Heaven" or whatever. The reason Ben doesn't go in the church is the same reason Michael, Eko, or Ana-Lucia aren't there: they have a lot more to answer for (ie, murder, greater sins, etc.) than the other Losties. Richard isn't there because he was born in the 19th century, Jacob and the MiB aren't there because they were born thousands of years ago; they already re-lived their lives and found resolution in Purgatory long before the events we saw in the flash-sideways.

The only things about this theory that doesn't fit is why Helen (Peg Bundy) wasn't with Locke in the church, and why Ben was "woken up" by Desmond in Purgatory, as he wasn't "leaving" with the rest of the Losties. The real answer, of course, is that Michael Emerson is one of the show's stars, and couldn't exactly be left out or a secondary player in the storyline. Heh. I suppose it could be rationalized that he was made "aware" so that he could gain forgiveness from Locke, which was necessary for Ben's eventual redemption somewhere down the line.

EDIT: Someone above pointed out Sayid moving on, and that's an excellent point. I guess the best (though still flimsy) explanation is that he already went a ways towards redeeming himself before dying in the real world by refusing to kill Desmond and by sacrificing his life for his friends.

Cheers for that.

[Sportsforever]

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Another puzzler for me from S6 is the whole pirate temple/commune folks...what role did they really play at all? We had the guy talking about Jacob bringing him here to see his son if he did what was asked of him...how does that tie into all of this? Once they were gone, they were gone...that really didn't seem to fit into anything at all.