Lost

[Eagles_Legendz]

Can't wait.  Regardless of whether or not the last few episodes have been disappointing, this should be an amazing 2 and a half hours.

[Rome]

Holy shtein.

[BigEd76]

so pretty much everyone was dead all along.  I knew that 5 years ago

[Eagles_Legendz]

They crashed lived their lives etc, they weren't dead.  Why would Christian say that some died before him, some much after, if they were all dead?  The alt was purgatory/limbo that they had to be in before moving on to 'heaven'.

[MMH]

What.The.farg.  farg Abrams.  Too bad that the series finale was easily the worst episode of Lost ever.  Ever.
Can someone explain exactly why this steaming shteinpile needed to be an extra half-hour longer?
Christ.  I may be done with serialized TV for good after that.

[MDS]

lol @ easy

why you are watching this now? no way you understood it.

loved the closing shot, understood what they were trying to do. there really was no other way to wrap it up then go this route.

[SD]

I don't know what to think, I'm still trying to digest it all.

Edit: Initially I'm pissed off the story was all about Jack. I mean, what?!?!

[MDS]

yea, that too

a lot of people were crying. i did not do this. not trying to act like a man, but i wasnt even close to tearing up.

i will easily rank this above the sopranos ending (sucks/insulting) but below the shield (flawless and perfect, i dont need to see anything else)

i still want more from this show. but i guess thats the point

[SD]

It's been a great ride regardless, but I always thought the show was above 1 character. It was all about Jack?!?! I'm baffled by that.

[MDS]

yea that was a little iffy

but i love how the show started on his eye and ended on it, too

in a way it was either this or you treat it like some corny action movie where someone (jack) sacrifices himself to get everyone else home and then they live happily ever after the end

that ending would appease one timers like easy (seriously easy this is a bad news brotha) but would be cheap. glad they didnt take that.

[The BIGSTUD]

Meanwhile I'm not sure what to make of Breaking Bad's episode. I don't know if I'd call it a pointless episode or an episode that actually developed the characters.

The fly thing was funny at first, but got old after a while.

[SD]

yea that was a little iffy

but i love how the show started on his eye and ended on it, too

in a way it was either this or you treat it like some corny action movie where someone (jack) sacrifices himself to get everyone else home and then they live happily ever after the end

that ending would appease one timers like easy (seriously easy this is a bad news brotha) but would be cheap. glad they didnt take that.

After sobering up and sleeping a few hours, my guess is: The alt timeline was Jack's purgatory.The church they were all at in the end was the meeting point for Jack to ascend to Heaven/Nirvana/72 virgins/etc. Those people were so important in his life that he needed them to move on. They were all dead at that point too, but I'm assuming appeared in the form that they were important to Jack during his life. Ben wasn't ready yet, which is why he stayed outside and said "I have things to work on". Hurley ran the island after Jack died with Ben assuming the role as Richard. The hard question to answer is when did Jack actually die. Was it when he died in the bamboo forest at the end, or the plane crash, or when the Jughead went off on the island, or all 3. I'm confused.

The questions aside, the final episode was as the actors called it 'Beautiful'. And I don't mean that in some corny sappy way, just how they chose to end it. There is some method behind this madness, and I'm sure at some point someone smarter than myself is going to sit down and figure it all out.

[Eagles_Legendz]

I'm not sure it was all about Jack necessarily but I can see how it can be interpreted that way.  You could also view it as him being the last to come to grips with being dead before moving on as a group.  I also don't understand the people who think they died in the crash.  I figured the last shot when the credits were rolling was sort of a tribute to the show and the last 10 minutes were pretty clear in that they died at various points and their lives on the island were the most important parts of their collective lives etc.  The only thing that really disappointed me was I felt it was sort of anti-climactic on island the last hour.  Not as emotional as I was expecting.

[Rome]

I'm still digesting what happened last night.  I'm of the mind that the story we saw represented Jack's destiny and that the things that happened both on the island and in Limbo that we saw in the show were told from his viewpoint/perspective. 

[Feva]

I'm not sure it was all about Jack necessarily but I can see how it can be interpreted that way.  You could also view it as him being the last to come to grips with being dead before moving on as a group.  I also don't understand the people who think they died in the crash.  I figured the last shot when the credits were rolling was sort of a tribute to the show and the last 10 minutes were pretty clear in that they died at various points and their lives on the island were the most important parts of their collective lives etc.  The only thing that really disappointed me was I felt it was sort of anti-climactic on island the last hour.  Not as emotional as I was expecting.

Dead on the way I see it.

Jack wasn't the last one to die, but he was the last one to come to grips/understanding that he was dead, rely on faith and "let go", being he was a "man of science". I thought it was fairly straightforward.