Does anybody here watch LOST? (A bit spoiler-y inside)

I just watched last night's ep--one of the few remaining--that was focused on the starcrossed true-love characters Desmond and Penny. I was a complete wreck by the end of it --> :cry: :cry: :cry: (Happy tears, that is.)

If you're not a LOST fan, the key revelation from last night (one of the few remaining eps in the series) is that basically the entire point of the show has boiled down to "love". And I was pleased because I had figured that out a while ago (yay me--I usually never figure out cryptic mysterious shows!)
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And I realized the show, like all good TV series and movies, is a metaphor for real life--in other words, you can have all the action sequences and fistfights and evil villains and sci fi shockers and plot twists you like, but in the end it comes down to being with the person/people you love and who love you. Nothing else matters. (Oh crap I'm getting all teary again. Ultimate truths tend to affect me like that.)

Some people online have been griping about all of this because it's not action-y enough for them, and that makes me feel bad. They're missing the point. But I have to remember that that's just their choice of perception.

Anyway, I just thought I'd share, because it's so cool that one of the most pivotal TV shows of the decade turns out to be about something so "simple" yet so essential, but something we tend to forget way too easily. :hi:

until I watch it on the DVR tonight. I'm trying so hard not read your post. Check back with you later :hi:

(and, let's face it, who doesn't?) you'd better have some tissues handy. :cry:

:rofl: My skin is angel bumping.

as the most pivotal series of the decade, but that's just me. I love that kind of science fiction and not so much the kind that comprises lost. And plenty of atheists on this board hated the ending to BSG, so that's another plus for it

That's why I can only call Lost "ONE of the most pivotal". I loved BSG as well.

But now Lost has the same thing going for it--everyone who wants "slam bang pow" to be the Ultimate Meaning of the show are gonna be piiiiissed to have to deal with the fact that the most important theme is love. How neo-hippy-dippy New Age (and I love it!) :D

As you know, but others may not, I just have a problem with Abrams' "need" for overt violence, and too often for seemingly no reason than to shock. BSG was certainly violent, but at least it had a reason within the context of the story. Immediately apparent violence that appears to be more random than planned may appeal to those that come to it for just that aspect, but it turns me off, no matter how "deep" the underlying message.

Then again, I haven't seen anything yet by Abrams' that I liked. Now if he were to try something on the order of Jodorowsky or Buñuel, then I might give it a try ;)

Is the reason I had to quit reading Sci Fi and Fantasy. I don't like death for death's sake and violence for the sake of violence, it leaves lingering disturbance in my being for DAYS.

My husband and I sat on the couch and cried like babies during the last episode. I felt like I had had a spiritual experience for days after that episode, seriously. That was the best damn thing I have ever seen.

If it had ended anything like "Torchwood" I would have been insanly upset. Big difference between a series who works toward proving that there is simply "nothingness" beyond this life and one filled with mystery wonder. But in Torchwood's favor "Captian Jack" is seriously hot....... }(

Ah, Captain Jack. What a guy. I swoon. I swoon. I know in real life he's gay and married to his long time partner - but a girl can dream :rofl:

People have tried to straighten me out and make me like that last episode but I tell them they are drinking the f-ing Koolaid, it was horrific, and intentionally so. Not a good message and unworthy of the characters IMO.

And the way I figure, John Barrowman is Scottish anyway and an ocean away, so it doesn't matter that he's gay, he's serious eye-candy!!!! YUM! :9 (He did a documentary on Castles one time and wore a kilt when they visited a Scottish Castle, nice.)

Does that count?

Or did you find it again?

It was a nice watch too. Really.


I'll bet your comment was an allusion to the show and it was totally lost on me. I'm Lost!!!

I don't know the show so that allusion to a stopwatch is lost on me.
I have become illiterate on popular culture. A well-intentioned friend actually told me that I should watch more television so I can relate better to people.

that losing your watch would "count" if it was a stopwatch...get it? ...Er...never mind. :blush:

I finally got it.
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Okay, I'll stop now.
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Boy, that sailed right over my head! I'm still trying to figure the dang thing out!

I tend to forget tons of details and then I get all confused. I've gotten into the habit of checking online analysis after I watch an ep, just to see if I missed anything. Today I found this, which affirmed what I suspected (and made me proud of figuring something out for once!)

Lost Redux: Find Out What This Show Is Really All About!

A couple weeks ago, after I got a little intel on tonight's episode, I floated the following theory to Damon: "Is it safe to say that at its very core Lost is a love story?"

Damon replied: "You are the very first person ever to get the meaning of the show. Yes. It is a love story. Always has been...always will be."

I tell you this not to brag (Damon's message framed above my mantel does the trick), but because if you are a fan of the show's "constants"--Desmond and Penny, Charlie and Claire, Sun and Jin, Rose and Bernard, Daniel and Charlotte, Richard and Isabella, etc.--then, like me, those words from Damon just might be the sweetest ones you've ever heard about this series.

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b175281_lost_redux_find_out_what_this_show.html?utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories#ixzz0kQRc16Pq

I didn't even know that site existed!! That would have made my life a WHOLE lot easier! :)

Lost is loosely based upon? I've promised myself not to read it until the series is over.

But I couldn't help but look it up recently.

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Third_Policeman

but I haven't read it. That writeup makes it sound intriguing, though! Hmm...might have to invest...but you're right--AFTER the show's over. Only a few more eps to go, after all. :cry:

Have been a watcher, but thanks to Hulu, watch on MY time.

I've never sought to 'tie it up,' that is, whats it about, and had I done so, I'd NEVER have said, its LOVE! After all, her father is SUCH a bad guy! But I'm wrong, I DID 'tie it up,' recently, and here is MINE:

NO EXIT

HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE.

Sartre.

No tears here (EXCEPT when Said and his great love were separated.) Will check it out!

Expounded upon the idea in my blog (as always, gimme a shout via PM if you need a link) but I'm still not sure I got it quite right...
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work got so crazy I couldn't watch it anymore. Some of the most enlightened friends I have are totally into it. I'm going to have a marathon and watch season after season (I have to do that sometimes because of work).

I remember how I felt when Six Feet Under ended :cry: It was horrible. And the last season was the very best AND the specific episodes got better throughout the season with an ending that IMHO was the best I've ever seen.