Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION The Anywhere Machine Lost: The Final Season

Frank, Miles & Sawyer go to a new island and have a King Kong type adventure!

In case this escaped attention due to Cobie's inane King Kong post...

Lost II: Isle of Kong was just too hard to contain!

Fuck! I shoulda guessed:

The Island from Lost = SKULL ISLAND!!!

It's so freakin' obvious in retrospect! Darlton be crafty, yo!

Sawyer's first line when he sees Kong:

"Son of a bitch...!"

Followed later by "old banana brain over there ain't gonna like us hanging out in his jungle"

At one point, he refers to Kong as "Hurley"!

Plus, Frank gets to save the day by being the pilot who shoots down Kong.

And Miles listens to the remains of the dead Kong ate in his stools!

Wow! We should totally submit this to Darlton!

Wow! We should totally submit this to Darlton!

^The above posts reopens the whole LardLad = EDE subplot from years earlier.

Fuck! Where's my nebulizer...fraternizer...WHATEVER!!

Interesting...I was reading a Wiki article on Walt (which I had looked up to see what the character's last name was for "Miscasting Classics"), and I found an interesting theory on what Walt's purpose may have been. It's proposed that it was originally Walt, not Desmond, who was supposed to have the electromagnetic powers and serve the role that Desmond eventually served. As Desmond really caught on with fans and Malcolm David Kelley presented large timeline problems with his obvious aging, Darlton modified Desmond's role and pushed Walt aside.

It isn't presented as fact, but it seems pretty compelling, given how Walt had unexplained powers. Food for thought anyway.

Interesting. I kind of assumed that the powers were supposed to imply a potential candidate.

That actually would make a hell of a lot of sense.

I liked the finale, BUT....

I think there is a legitimate complaint to be made about a lack of answers and/or plot resolutions. I agree the story is ultimately about the characters, and Jack in particular, but the show was presented as a combination of mystery and mythology and that's what drew people to the show and was part of the fabric that that wove the narrative together (the show wouldn't work if you removed these elements and still had the same character arcs).

A number of elements played a major role in the show and even took focus for major portions of various seasons: The Valenzetti Equation, Walt, the nature of the Smoke Monster, the Dharma Intiative, the structure and purpose of the Others, etc. I think a lot of these go beyond just nitpicking, and it is a narrative cheat to leave them on the table at the end.

I'm all for leaving mysteries to discuss, but these aren't David Lynch style mysteries where all the clues are there and the creators leave you to do the heavy lifting, these are mysteries without context or clues (inside the narrative itself anyway, there's actually a lot of "Canon" answers on-line, but that's almost worse).

I don't begrudge people for wanting more out of it.

I certainly think there are things that we probably should've been given more info about.

However, I blame the "Across the Sea" episode for not giving us enough answers, not the finale...

I agree, having over a solid week to think about it. The finale felt close to perfect for me. "Across the Sea" should have delivered a few solid answers to get that out of the way. I'm not saying they needed to spoon feed us the entire history of the island, but some solid answers were appropriate.

I'm definitely more in the 'positive' side of the spectrum in my feelings to the last season, but I will certainly concede the above.

The more I think about it, I would've moved "Across the Sea" earlier in the season, and then gave us more of a "recent history of the island from Jacob's perspective" episode where "Across the Sea" was. We could see such things as the foundation (corruption?) of the Others, the coming of Dharma, etc.

my only fault with the ending / resolution of the series is that i'd planned to go back and re-watch from the beginning ( and although i WILL !! )

watching it all over again ( with hind-sight ) will not really reveal anything more on the mysteries that were played out to us during each season !!

so it's almost like there is no need to re-watch it again ...... as you won't really see anything further ( hope that made sense !!?? )

of course i'm not putting the series down ( i LOVED it !!! ) i'm just a little sad that i can't re-watch it and find out new stuff, or have that moment where you can say to yourself, that's what that means etc ...

matthew.

I actually DO plan to rewatch this summer and expect to get quite a bit out of it. One, it's always an excellent watch. Two, I suppose I want to see for myself what is left hanging and what feels resolved.

Yeah, I want to go back and see stuff like exactly how the MiB's manipulations of the Losties played out.

i hope people didn't take my post ( the wrong way )

i really will re-watch again ( and will be still entertained and excited ) but i think what i was trying to say ..... was because certain story points were not revealed at the end, which i thought may have been !?

by going back to the beginning and starting again, i had hope to watch certain scenes with 'hindsight' about them, which i won't have now ....

again ... hope that made sense ???

cheers

Matthew.

Makes sense to me. I plan to rewatch, too, and I'm really afraid now that the story won't hold up to seeing it all at once.

I should say that my main problem was with the last season as a whole ore than the finale itself. I hated the purgatory thing, though. (Loved the on-island part.) Imagine if Shakespeare added a scene at the end of Romeo and Juliet where Romeo and Juliet met up in heaven and existed happily ever after. Kind of ruins the impact.