@NetRunner - Okay, clearly, there are many unanswered questions about the hatch. I stand corrected. I will say that most of those questions are awfully specific, and I don't think that their unanswerededness (yeah, that's a word -- don't look it up though, just take my word for it) really impacts the show all that much. I mean, it would have been nice to know that stuff, but I think most of it falls in the category of minutia. I mean, we know that pressing the button somehow keeps all that electromagnetic energy contained -- as for HOW it actually does that... do we really need to know that? We know that the failsafe somehow dissipates all that energy without destroying the entire island, but scientifically how...? I don't know. Why does that matter?

Like I said, I don't think Lost is perfect. There are things that bug me, such as the contradictory way the others acted in season 1, and the whole pregnancy thing, which was clearly set up to be significant and then dropped for whatever reason. But even if the writers of Lost had been much more forthcoming with answers than they were, I don't think there would have been any way for them to answer every single question down to the smallest detail. Some things are going to have to be left somewhat vague.

@blankfist - I disagree with the theory that they all died in the explosion. I think they all died at various times in their lifetimes (ie. Sayid in the sub, Jack at the end of the last episode, Hurley and several others much later into the future) and then found themselves in the flash sideways world together. We, the viewers, first see that world when the bomb goes off, but really, it's not taking place at any specific time in the real world (I believe Christian said something like "there is no now."). It's taking place at some time in the future, after the last of them has died, whenever that may be.

>> ^blankfist:

I just watched it. I'm a bit irked. What about the hatch?! Seriously?! It felt like another X-Files season finale to me, but I expected that. If you remember, the show creators promised us it wasn't purgatory or the crew wasn't dead. They. Lied.
If you liked it, I think you may be justifying it like the girls who are sexually abused by daddy yet still think he loves them.


What about the hatch? I don't think there was anything about the hatch that was left completely ambiguous -- that seems to be one of the few elements on the show that didn't really leave any lingering questions. Am I forgetting something?

As for the show creators lying about it not being purgatory, they weren't. I'm not sure if you're making this mistake, but a lot of people seem to be making the incorrect assumption that the entire show was some kind of afterlife for these characters, which isn't the case. Just the flashsideways.

Look, I can completely understand the complaints from the "not enough answers!" people. But I was mostly satisfied with the amount of answers we got. It probably helps that I've only watched every episode once, when they originally aired. Plus I have a terrible memory. So I don't even remember a lot of the specific questions that were left unanswered.

I don't know, I just thought there was something really satisfying about a conclusion that gave all of our characters such a happy ending, especially on a show that didn't seem to lend itself to such a happy ending for its characters. There was something kind of nice about seeing, say, the Sayid/Shannon reunion. Or the Sawyer/Juliet reunion. I also liked the final moments, with Vincent lying down next to Jack, to be with him as he dies. And of course the last shot of Jack's eye closing. Good stuff, man. I don't care what anyone says.

So far it seems to make sense. The explosion created a parallel reality and Sayid has come back to life as the reincarnation of Jacob, though I could be very, very wrong.

Was that Sayid in the pool?

this is a great, spot-on documentary and even the general pop. not just the interrogations cadets need this kind of eye-opener. I really hope it makes it to the top of #15. instant upvote from me (and yes, you should, too)!

*edit* by the way, regarding the second part, did anybody see the previous Lost episode (yes, I know I'm not getting any respect now that I've confessed I'm still watching it, but whatever)? Is it possible the producers realized the effect from over-stylization of torture and decided to use Sayid (SPOILERS follow) in this covert-relationship "interrogation", rather than just have him use brute force? I'd certainly like to think so.

Amazing film. I haven't seen this series or The Century of the Self so this is a great post for me!

It is great to see that the narrator has remained consistent from the earliest to the most recent series The Trap: What Happened To Our Dreams Of Freedom? I also like that in this series there is not so much emphasis on background music as there was in The Trap or The Power of Nightmares, which sometimes got overbearing.

It is also great to see the themes in this film that are carried through into the other films: the use of fear to control and manage the people in the society by the rulers; the imposition of quotas and plans that are useless and stupid; treating people like selfish robots because that is what the people who put these plans into action are(!); the using of people and then disposing of them; the surveillance culture (called consumer panels in the film, but could also apply to viral marketing and invasions of privacy by the state) and the continuial return to these ideologies (the USSR here but in The Power of Nightmares Sayid Qatb's radical Islamist ideologies) being influenced by the example of the US!


Also fascinating to see a film made only just post-Soviet Union and before the experiments on the economy that destroyed the country and led to anarchy were in full swing (the same experiments that The Trap says are being done in Iraq - letting the economy collapse etc)

Thanks for this post - if I could vote this up more than once I would, lol!

Quick transscript from YouTube's comments since it was hard to hear:

Kate says that she wants to visit the CES show once she leaves the island (the show where this is being shown) then tells Sawyer that she chooses Jack because 'his boat is bigger'. Cue Pirates of the Caribbean gag (Capt. Jack Sparrow). Sayid asks Ben for the secret of the island, but it conveniently cuts out when Ben explains. Sayid says "I thought it was purgatory", which relates to the most popular online theory that the island is purgatory for the survivors of flight 815.

sayid says" I had my money on purgatory"

Hello swinging singles. My name is Sayid. I'm in the Iraqi National Guard...