LOST season 6

[Steve of Bloomington]

I don't think necessarily we wanted the instructional reel guy to come out and explain things to us, but it wouldn't have killed them to have thrown us one or two 'oh, so that's what that was' bones.

In the second-to-last episode they made the man in black more ambiguous; he wasn't necessarily evil but definitely was curious and skeptical of superstition, and Jacob was kind of a momma's boy then boom, MiB is pure evil again. So in a way we end up with that 'there are questions you shouldn't ask and places you shouldn't go' anti-science message found in various sci-fi/fantasy and Bible stories over the years. 'Shut up, kid, you ask too many questions. I'm gonna turn you into a smoke monster now. How do you like that?'

All that said I mostly just went along for the ride with that show. It was entertaining enough. I like watching David Lynch's films, and they aren't exactly full of neatly tied up logical elements.

[Sarah]

Oh, it's just some hokey religious metaphor:  the smoke monster isn't really the man in black; it's the evil introduced into the world by Jacob's murder of his brother that just happens to be able to don the guise of the dead, acquiring their memories in the process (which is why Jacob and the MiB are still chummy even though they are antagonists).  

I don't think it was pure evil.  When you come down to it, the smoke monster was equated with science; Jacob with faith.  And Cuse and Lindelof chose the anti-intellectual route and came down resoundingly in favor of faith. 

[orator]

I don't think necessarily we wanted the instructional reel guy to come out and explain things to us, but it wouldn't have killed them to have thrown us one or two 'oh, so that's what that was' bones.

In the second-to-last episode they made the man in black more ambiguous; he wasn't necessarily evil but definitely was curious and skeptical of superstition, and Jacob was kind of a momma's boy then boom, MiB is pure evil again. So in a way we end up with that 'there are questions you shouldn't ask and places you shouldn't go' anti-science message found in various sci-fi/fantasy and Bible stories over the years. 'Shut up, kid, you ask too many questions. I'm gonna turn you into a smoke monster now. How do you like that?'

Yeah. For a little while there I thought they were going to do something really cool with the MiB, which is make him sympathetic and make the actions of the protagonists morally ambiguous. For a little while there he was just a guy who got screwed over by his brother and his insane mother and he just wanted to leave the island through any means. A tragic villain. They made Jacob look like a huge asshole with questionable motives. And then really quick they killed all that with "if he gets off the island, everyone in the world will die!" Why? "BECAUSE!" And then for some reason that wasn't enough, so they made him want to destroy the island, too.

Oh well.

[Pregnant Pause]

For whatever reason the ending reminded me of the ending of Labyrinth

[buffcoat]

For whatever reason the ending reminded me of the ending of Labyrinth

David Bowie's package?

[fonpr]

David Bowie's package?   Pregnant Pause

Band name and album title.  Buffcoat = brilliant.

[bakersfieldchimp]

It was the goddamn dog that did it to me. I can't stop thinking about Vincent laying down next to Jack. I am SO easy.

Same here-- I didn't get to watch the finale until last night, but that image really stuck with me and made me sad-ish.

[buffcoat]

David Bowie's package?   Pregnant Pause

Band name and album title.  Buffcoat = brilliant.

Thanks, Freddie!

[erika]

I want royalties on that album, Buffy.

[Wes]

For whatever reason the ending reminded me of the ending of Labyrinth

David Bowie's package?

There was an episode this season called "The Package" that would have been the perfect time for that reveal. Though I could see that causing issues with ABC standards and practices.

If Bowie would have played Jacob, that might have gone a long way to salvaging the pretty worthless final season of Lost.

[dave from knoxville]

So much hatred for a fluffy entertainment. I think some of you are constructing a mass hallucination purgatory for yourselves. It's time to let go!