So at the core... Lost = Religious Bullshit

Glad I didn't watch it.

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At its core yes, but aside from the last 20 minutes of the finale, noone knew it was religious crap. I watched it and was still always hoping it was aliens. Man did they fool me!
>> ^honkeytonk73:

So at the core... Lost = Religious Bullshit
Glad I didn't watch it.

>> ^Sigh:

At its core yes, but aside from the last 20 minutes of the finale, noone knew it was religious crap. I watched it and was still always hoping it was aliens. Man did they fool me!
>> ^honkeytonk73:
So at the core... Lost = Religious Bullshit
Glad I didn't watch it.



A lot of US produced (audience targeted) entertainment digresses to some spiritual nonsense. The film '9' for example had a highly interesting concept. It could have been FAR better, but in the end it just digressed to silly religious bunk. They have a target audience.. and a majority of that audience believes in magic, demons under the ground, and flying humanoids in the sky. So it caters to their their need to define their simplistic dichotomous existence of good vs evil, white vs black, friend or enemy of Jesus. Many are incapable of seeing the world as it is.. gray, ill defined, and indiscriminately cruel.

Though I do admit, the fantasy themes around religious myth (of whatever sect it may be from) CAN make for some interesting fiction. Because, that is exactly what it is. Fiction.

>> ^honkeytonk73:

So at the core... Lost = Religious Bullshit
Glad I didn't watch it.


Seriously, if this video is accurate, I'm glad I didn't watch... the finale would have really pissed me off... I'm with Sigh in saying I would have probably wanted it to be aliens...

Essentially watching season 1 then watching the last season will explain everything you need to know.

>> ^honkeytonk73:

So at the core... Lost = Religious Bullshit
Glad I didn't watch it.


Yeah, it did amount to religious bullshit in the end, but there was another story path that was not really very religious that dealt with a corporation called the Dharma Initiative that was there to exploit the island. There was a lot of good time travel episodes and lots of Star Wars quotes. A lot of imagery reminded me of Myst game series, as well. Sadly, the creators chose to abandon this aspect of the story and lean towards the nonsense in the end.

But to be perfectly fucking honest, sometimes religious "nonsense" makes a good story, such as ancient mythology. The show dealt with a lot of Eqyptian iconography, which for me was very interesting. Jacob was represented by a statue of the Egyptian goddess Tawharet. So for mythology nerds like me the show was pretty cool up to a point.

Seriously, the show's entire main story line could have been told in like 5 episodes. This guy just proved it.

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Surprisingly, this video helped me despise the finale every-so-slightly less.

The way lost ended was a huge distraction to try and stop people realising it was a cop-out of everything they'd built up.

I actually think that they had a plot originally which worked and was concise, even if it wasn't mind blowing it made sense and wasn't a disappointment. Then it became popular, so they extended it and so they had to add a lot of things in. People enjoyed the mysteries so they threw a lot of mysterious stuff in.

Entire internet communities sprung up of people fascinated by attempting to solve these mysteries. Many theories came and went and people got so into it you'd barely believe some of the theories. The creators kept getting asked about these theories and they kept saying "Nope! That's not right either!"

They assured people it would be scientifically sound (which people still believed even though it was obviously a lie) and they assured people there would be no time travel (which there was).

All these die-hard people kept insisting they'd come true on their word - they invested hours of their time into arguing that they WOULD NOT BE LET DOWN!!!!

So the end comes, and big surprise the creators were unable to link everything. They left hundreds (literally) of loose ends. Mysteries that people had tried for weeks to solve that they ignored and swept under the carpet, or gave an answer which wasn't an answer (ie. This mysterious magical chair that cures baldness, how did it come to be!?!?!?! This magical elf built it with his magical hammer. And so you wonder where the hammer/elf came from, and so on.)

To distract the die-harders who had invested so much time into solving the mysteries and insisting there would be an answer and a fulfilling ending to the show, they threw in some stuff about them all moving on together in order to give everyone a feel-good factor which distracts them from the fact that 90% of the stuff you were told or shown throughout the entire thing was superfluous and irrelevant to the plot.

The shows defenders are now involved in a bitter forum battle. Every time someone expresses their displeasure at the show or its ending, they post saying "It was all about the characters, it's a character driven story, you enjoyed the ride and that's the point!" We may as well have been issued with their CV's then, if character development is the only important thing in any given story.

But it is of course the ultimate excuse. I'd ask them "Well, why don't you just finish it arbitrarily in the middle of a season? Why bother with ANY ending if the characters are all that matter?" But i don't think they'd get my point.

The mystery on the island is simply a macguffin to tell what is essentially a 6 season long character study. In that way it was good.

But constantly convincing people outside the show that there are real answers is a terrible way to string people on.

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It's nice that fans of this show like the one that posted this video explain the ending of the show, but looking at the comments for people who haven't seen the show I think this is a focus on one of the show's weaker points, that being the explanation, or lack thereof, of it's mythology. It can be argued either way that certain plot devices were left unsettled (cough* Waaaaalt *cough) but it may be a better thing because people with imagination can fill in the plot holes. Many of the things explained were only revealed in the last season of the show. The show's strong point was it's character development and the knowledge that no one was completely safe from dying. Any of the main characters could die at any time and every death was always heartfelt.
I challenge anyone who has not seen Lost who read this post to go to google abc's free tv episode viewer and watch the first 5 episodes of Lost and see what they think.

And i suggest to them to stop after the first season, because it never really recovers.

I think the argument that "you can fill the blanks in with your own imagination" doesn't really work, because the things they leave to your imagination are very small things that are tangential from the plot.

Usually "open to interpretation" stories or games or films are very different to the way you suggest lost could be open. I mean, the questions are like "..did he live? was it a dream? was he dead all along? did he avenge his friend/wife/parent? did he live happily ever after?.."

I can't really think of any "open to interpretation" moment in any book, film or game where they give you a 'resolved' story and just throw some side-tracked things in along the way which are "open to your interpretation" but have no relevance on the plot whatsoever. Here's a really powerful kid who can see things that others can't - he has insight into matters that he shouldn't have. Ok he's leaving now. And the plot finishes without him. So i'm meant to do what with that information? I guess i can imagine that he goes off and has an orgy with 7 supermodels, but it doesn't really affect the plot, does it? Nothing does. Cos the plot finished without him, so why would i be invested into imagining what his life was like OUTSIDE of the plot? I may as well imagine jack's medical training years - it's irrelevant.

remember Neon Genesis Evangelion? Same shit, radder story... and they at least cut the original run off at a looong 26 episodes.

>> ^bamdrew:

remember Neon Genesis Evangelion? Same shit, radder story... and they at least cut the original run off at a looong 26 episodes.


Man, I actually thought the ending to Evangelion worked.

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