After watching lost for 7 year (yes it has been that long) I feel like a dumb ass.
I still don’t get it.
Please let me know if you guys have figured it out
I have a few question..namely the ones asked by this guy
The show started out very concrete, real and physical and slowly absolved into symbolism with last night being such pure symbolism that you cannot say for sure when they died or what the afterlife was or what the church represented or where they went at the end when the doors were opened. It reminded me of a few anime series I watched in this respect where the shows digress into absolving themselves of anything earthly or logical in some sort of ethereal climax of visual and auditory sequence or cues. Problem was that none of Lost’s resolutions sat well with me.
My issue with Lost is that the entire series was sold with the premise of ‘theres a mystery, watch to find out what it is’. Its built up and built up, so many things are hyped and then discarded, and when we get to the final episode … nothing.
Well the J.J. Abrams the producer, writer and director seems to have had a simple formula
Formula:
1. Create an excellent concept.
2. Create interesting and varied characters. Usually horridly and obviously flawed.
3. Create an ever growing mystery for the audience; to wit you’re sure the character flaws can feed.
4. Continue to build a mystery such that nothing makes logical sense, characters don’t feed or develop in any meaningful way. Characters follow no logic and betray their character at every turn. Hopefully the audience will believe this has to do with the ever building mystery rather than a failing of the Abrams. Realistically, it has more to do with the fact there was never a real plan, story arc, or long term development by Abrams.
5. End the story in a completely illogical manner such that it punishes the audience for trusting Abrams beyond the beginning of step four; whereby it becomes very obviously not only is Abrams unable to deliver any substance, its plainly beyond his ability to do so.
6. People walk around scratching head wondering what the fuck just happened while trying to explore their own meaning in a story which never had any meaning from the beginning. All personal meaning is strictly coincidental as Abrams never delivered anything.
Like nuclear war, the only way to win is to not play – anything in which Abrams participates.
The numbers? Just numbers. Walt? He’s busy trying to live while being officially dead. The rules? Oh, that was just a Jacob thing, he’s gone now. The Frozen Donkey Wheel? That’s just the magical escape hatch, no big deal. The statue? Just a statue that got hit by a ship a while back. The smoke monster?
There were many many story holes, far too many for me to list here. But one that really needed some sort of explanation was the Darma food drop that happened shortly after the crash and saved Hurley from a much needed diet. Why was there a Darma food drop if all of Darma had been killed years earlier? Who did it, and what else are they doing? How did they even make a food drop on the Island, the mysterious nature of the Island should have made it unreachable by air, Darma had to use a sub to get there other times. But the message to viewers who were trying to actually figure out the story and make some sense of it was “screw you, the writers don’t care about such things, we just want to have melodramatic deaths and church scenes with the major cast (but curiously none of the extras who also died).
I should have stopped watching the show when they killed the charecter I started to watch for. Anna lucia Cortez (michelle rodrigz)
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