Pound that rock onto the damn bomb already and let's see what happens. We all sat on the edge of our seats, this was it, the last episode of season 5, the attempt to blow up the Island and put everything back on track was failing miserably. Juliette, all bloody and hopless, pinned in the magnetic pit of doom, scratching her way toward an errand rock so she could complete the task by bashing the A-Bomb, sending her and the crew into the oblivion of the past which would presumably set things back to normal.
OK, wham, it worked. The end. Season 5 ended on a kick ass note that spewed forth a collective breath of wonderment and exhilaration from the masses. It was a very good ending to season 5, and made for a torturous wait until season 6 began.
OK, that's the good news.
The bad news started with the opening of season 6. oh how cute, the castaways all get a 'side life', which really made no sense all the way to the end. Oh, no, they were not 'dead' after all, everyone was still 'on' the island. Now what. If the side-life was really the life they would have led, had the A-Bomb explosion at the end of season 5 worked, then the show should have ended there. Why bother trying to tie together the side-life and the island life. It never ever worked in any kind of way and was the beginning of the downfall, precluding any chance of a legitimate and powerful ending episode.
Why?
Because it no longer made it possible for the Island to exist after the end of season 6 with new stewards. Think about it, all of season 6 was wasted on trying to tie together the side-lives with the island life. This became a big mess and took valuable resources away from the writers in a deadline driven environment to answer questions which we all wanted to have answered.
Where was Walt? He was so integral to the first few episodes and introduced us to the 'Others' by way of the 'children' taken from the plane who supposedly were 'special'. Walt had special powers and seemed to me (along with Aaron later) to be a big piece of the puzzle. Well, guess what, neither of them played even a minor role in the last season and finale. They just disappeared and that was it. A load of crap.
What about the Dharma Initiative? The big player throughout the series.
In season 6 - what Dharma initiave? who cares about that anyway, it was just fluff that had nothing to do with the show anyway (according to the writers).
What about the second plane that crashed? In the temple the people who were separated from the 'beach' survivors in episode one (by landing further inland, presumable being in a different section of the plane), were now living with the Fu Man Chu guy, talking cryptically about other plane crashes and debating the smoke monster. The writers never brought that up again, failing to develop what could have been an interesting story line.
But I digress. Suffice it to say that by creating the 'side-life', the writers put about 12 nails into a 14 nail coffin.
Next time I'll talk about a more viable beginning to season 6 and we can start to develop Walt's story (which we'll see plays an important part in the 'real' ending (Walt after all is where the story really started when he played chess with Lock).
But more on that later.
Never fear the answers are here ....
thelostboy
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Black and White
Setting aside for a moment the obvious failures of the writers' version of the last season and final episode, one must consider LOST as a microcosm distilled from only two elements. Black and White.
We are introduced to this concept in in the Pilot episode, when Lock and Walt play backgammon. Walt is Black, Lock White. The game of backgammon consists of Black pieces and White pieces. The goal is to move toward the end and survive.
So who won in the last episode? The black or the white? This is a staggering question which was not only not answered, but was avoided completely (on about the same scale as having Whitmore waiting in the closet just to be shot lazily and collapse to the floor, his entire role in the vast expanse of 6 seasons reduced to absolutely nothing.
A big question mark. It was as if the writers just gave up on the show and just wanted to finish it and move on, forget all of the themes and sub-themes which were meticulously developed during the course of the previous years, forget about the entire Dharma Initiative, forget about the giant fertility statue torn apart which guarded Jacob's cave, forget about the 'cabin', the whispering voices, the reason why Walt returned to keep Lock from killing himself in the mass grave (remember Walt returned after being 'kidnapped' by the 'Others', dripping wet, as if he just popped out of the water, standing on the lip of the vast cavernous grave where Lock held the molding gun of a poisoned Dharma worker.
The writers wanted us to forget a lot of things.
Well, for those of us who really liked the show, we don't want to forget, we want answers.
I've thought about the show and it's 'ending' all Summer, and I've decided that the last season and end is just not acceptable. I will tell you the answers to the questions, the reasons, the secrets and the lies. I will re-write Season 6 and give you the true ending (once you hear it, you will know the truth and you will feel at peace and find closure). No, it has nothing whatsoever to do with wine and cheese in a church (where as they fly into the golden light, I'm assuming the giant pendulum still swings, cutting out time and space to the coordinates of the place we know still exists, only with new stewards.
Yes, I know, and I will tell you.
As I said, it all begins and ends with Black and White. Why do you think Bernard the white man is called Bernard, and his wife Rose is called Rose? They are not the ultimate guardians, but they serve a very unique purpose.
It all comes to circle around, only when Jack closes his eyes in the writer's finale watching the plane cross the boundary of his vision, it is a serpent eating it's tail down to nothing. Not a true circle, which as we will see, is more analogous to a corkscrew, continuing it's turning forever.
In the next post, I will delve into the origins of Black and White, pulling together the facts and relationships from the beginning, building the ending and open the 'real' sixth and final episode which can only lead to one culmination.
The continuation of the Island. I'm about to put the mystery back into the show we can't live without.
Come along for the ride. I will guarantee you will get hooked again. (and be glad you did).
theLostBoy
We are introduced to this concept in in the Pilot episode, when Lock and Walt play backgammon. Walt is Black, Lock White. The game of backgammon consists of Black pieces and White pieces. The goal is to move toward the end and survive.
So who won in the last episode? The black or the white? This is a staggering question which was not only not answered, but was avoided completely (on about the same scale as having Whitmore waiting in the closet just to be shot lazily and collapse to the floor, his entire role in the vast expanse of 6 seasons reduced to absolutely nothing.
A big question mark. It was as if the writers just gave up on the show and just wanted to finish it and move on, forget all of the themes and sub-themes which were meticulously developed during the course of the previous years, forget about the entire Dharma Initiative, forget about the giant fertility statue torn apart which guarded Jacob's cave, forget about the 'cabin', the whispering voices, the reason why Walt returned to keep Lock from killing himself in the mass grave (remember Walt returned after being 'kidnapped' by the 'Others', dripping wet, as if he just popped out of the water, standing on the lip of the vast cavernous grave where Lock held the molding gun of a poisoned Dharma worker.
The writers wanted us to forget a lot of things.
Well, for those of us who really liked the show, we don't want to forget, we want answers.
I've thought about the show and it's 'ending' all Summer, and I've decided that the last season and end is just not acceptable. I will tell you the answers to the questions, the reasons, the secrets and the lies. I will re-write Season 6 and give you the true ending (once you hear it, you will know the truth and you will feel at peace and find closure). No, it has nothing whatsoever to do with wine and cheese in a church (where as they fly into the golden light, I'm assuming the giant pendulum still swings, cutting out time and space to the coordinates of the place we know still exists, only with new stewards.
Yes, I know, and I will tell you.
As I said, it all begins and ends with Black and White. Why do you think Bernard the white man is called Bernard, and his wife Rose is called Rose? They are not the ultimate guardians, but they serve a very unique purpose.
It all comes to circle around, only when Jack closes his eyes in the writer's finale watching the plane cross the boundary of his vision, it is a serpent eating it's tail down to nothing. Not a true circle, which as we will see, is more analogous to a corkscrew, continuing it's turning forever.
In the next post, I will delve into the origins of Black and White, pulling together the facts and relationships from the beginning, building the ending and open the 'real' sixth and final episode which can only lead to one culmination.
The continuation of the Island. I'm about to put the mystery back into the show we can't live without.
Come along for the ride. I will guarantee you will get hooked again. (and be glad you did).
theLostBoy
Monday, August 9, 2010
The beginning of the final LOST chapter, the way it should have been.
Ok, let’s not beat around the bush…the final episode of LOST was less than hoped for by a great number of LOST fans. Oh, Hell it was possibly the worst final episode ever made – this is my humble opinion – but I have to believe that a lot of LOST fans must feel the same way, cheated, stepped on and hung to dry. Not to mention, patronized by the network and writers. My five year old could have written a more plausible satisfying ending (and he never even watched the show).
Most of the questions that we psychoanalyzed, over weak office coffee for weeks on end, never got answered, and we were asked to believe that the whole thing was just a cute little jaunt through life in angst ridden chaos, just to be explained away in the end as a bad dream, that really wasn’t that bad of a dream because as Christian told Jack at the end, “the time on the Island with these people was really the best time of your life” Wha..?? Are you F%$#$#@ing joking! Then why the Hell was Penny in the Church at the end?? She wasn’t even on the plane for Gods sake. It makes me want to weep every day, the way the last season and the ending went wrong.
Now before I get a bunch of angry emails and or responses by those of you who felt the ending was 'just right', don't bother wasting your virtual ink. Deep down, you know I'm right, and if you give this blog a chance, you'll see that things could have ended a lot more satisfying to the true LOST fan.
But for now, we’ve gone from being LOSTies to LOSers with the weak-kneed Chesire Cat smile ride into Heaven that ended the greatest television show in history. Seriously, I felt like any hope of getting the nagging questions which were left hanging answered, got sucked along in the jetstream behind the golden chariot racing into Heaven with the sickly sweet smiling cast. ( I swear I could hear the angels whispering in unintelligible voices of the disembodied jungle. It makes me want to beat my breast and scream against the injustice.
I no longer know these people. What happened to the real castaways? I think the writers thought that a tear jerker ending where everything turned out to be just a dream would placate the fans like me, who lied to my mother about having a broken leg to get out of cleaning the gutters, just so I could watch each episode, feeling the communal solidarity with millions of other Losties across the country, as we trudged along next to Hurley, anticipating the one liners, or following Lock into the unknown-because he had the big knife and he was the best bet to stay alive. I lived for the moment when I was with Sawyer getting shot at (which occurred approximately once per episode), but having avoided the screaming bullet, could get satisfaction from seeing the ‘others’ who did it get the crap kicked out of them when James caught up with them.
All of these things were taken from me by the excruciatingly bad ending. Ripped from my person, as if a big hand came from the netherworld, dug into my heart and tore it free while it continued to beat frantically, hoping against all odds that justice might yet prevail and closure would yet get granted.
But instead I just watched the finale, while my exposed heart beat slower and slower until with a final agonizing twitch, it beat no more.
Well, this here is one Lostie that isn’t gonna take it laying down anymore. I will make things right. In the pages to follow I will bring forth the hanging questions, meanings and whatever else the writers neglected to finish ( well most of them anyway, if I tried to address every one of these issues I would be have to live to be 219 years), and put them into a context that is not lame, ultimately tying everything together with a plausible ending that would have left us with a sense of closure, or at the lest a feeling of being able to let the show go.
So, follow along as I bring together the lose ends, construct reasonable theories and build convincing arguments for a better final season, which will ultimately lead to a final episode the way the writers should have written it in the first place.
If you like what you read, Hell even if you don't, tell your Lost friends about it and we might just have some lively conversation.
The next episode will begin shortly.
the LostBoy
Most of the questions that we psychoanalyzed, over weak office coffee for weeks on end, never got answered, and we were asked to believe that the whole thing was just a cute little jaunt through life in angst ridden chaos, just to be explained away in the end as a bad dream, that really wasn’t that bad of a dream because as Christian told Jack at the end, “the time on the Island with these people was really the best time of your life” Wha..?? Are you F%$#$#@ing joking! Then why the Hell was Penny in the Church at the end?? She wasn’t even on the plane for Gods sake. It makes me want to weep every day, the way the last season and the ending went wrong.
Now before I get a bunch of angry emails and or responses by those of you who felt the ending was 'just right', don't bother wasting your virtual ink. Deep down, you know I'm right, and if you give this blog a chance, you'll see that things could have ended a lot more satisfying to the true LOST fan.
But for now, we’ve gone from being LOSTies to LOSers with the weak-kneed Chesire Cat smile ride into Heaven that ended the greatest television show in history. Seriously, I felt like any hope of getting the nagging questions which were left hanging answered, got sucked along in the jetstream behind the golden chariot racing into Heaven with the sickly sweet smiling cast. ( I swear I could hear the angels whispering in unintelligible voices of the disembodied jungle. It makes me want to beat my breast and scream against the injustice.
I no longer know these people. What happened to the real castaways? I think the writers thought that a tear jerker ending where everything turned out to be just a dream would placate the fans like me, who lied to my mother about having a broken leg to get out of cleaning the gutters, just so I could watch each episode, feeling the communal solidarity with millions of other Losties across the country, as we trudged along next to Hurley, anticipating the one liners, or following Lock into the unknown-because he had the big knife and he was the best bet to stay alive. I lived for the moment when I was with Sawyer getting shot at (which occurred approximately once per episode), but having avoided the screaming bullet, could get satisfaction from seeing the ‘others’ who did it get the crap kicked out of them when James caught up with them.
All of these things were taken from me by the excruciatingly bad ending. Ripped from my person, as if a big hand came from the netherworld, dug into my heart and tore it free while it continued to beat frantically, hoping against all odds that justice might yet prevail and closure would yet get granted.
But instead I just watched the finale, while my exposed heart beat slower and slower until with a final agonizing twitch, it beat no more.
Well, this here is one Lostie that isn’t gonna take it laying down anymore. I will make things right. In the pages to follow I will bring forth the hanging questions, meanings and whatever else the writers neglected to finish ( well most of them anyway, if I tried to address every one of these issues I would be have to live to be 219 years), and put them into a context that is not lame, ultimately tying everything together with a plausible ending that would have left us with a sense of closure, or at the lest a feeling of being able to let the show go.
So, follow along as I bring together the lose ends, construct reasonable theories and build convincing arguments for a better final season, which will ultimately lead to a final episode the way the writers should have written it in the first place.
If you like what you read, Hell even if you don't, tell your Lost friends about it and we might just have some lively conversation.
The next episode will begin shortly.
the LostBoy
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