I haven’t really weighed in on the Lost finale yet, because even now, four days after the fact, I’m still trying to figure out how Cuse and Lindelof thought they might escape without revealing so friggin’ much of the mysteries that had been raised during the six-year-run of the show. I’m not talking the nitpicky shit that we, the Losties, could dig up out of some episode from Season 2. I’m talking like the basics…like what exactly was the island? Who set up all these rules by which Jacob and MIB and their “mother” had to play? What did all the Egyptian stuff (like the statue for one) have to do with anything? And the like. The finale was emotionally gripping, but damn, there’s more questions unanswered than a Sarah Palin interview.
Anyway, Ben Linus himself, Michael Emerson, was recently on Devin’s occasional hangout, Attack of the Show, where he dropped the news that there will apparently be a 12 to 14-minute epilogue (via Collider):
For those people that want to pony up and buy the complete Lost series,
there is a bonus feature, which is…you could call it an epilogue. A
lost scene. It’s a lot. It’s 12 or 14 minutes that opens a window onto
that gap of unknown time between Hurley becoming number one and the end
of the series. It’s self-contained, although it’s a rich period in the
show’s mythology that ‘s never been explored, so who knows what will
come of it.
You can also check out the clip here:
16 comments
This answers the purpose of the island: to get you to buy the $200 set.
The Egyptian stuff would just be the remnants of earlier versions of Dharma and Charles Widmores who would have been wiped out by their own in-fighting or earlier versions of Jacob and Smokey.
Jeez with the questions!
1. Those questions aren't "important." The show was about characters coming face to face with the extraordinary. How they reacted to it, how they sacrificed because and for it, tjhose are the answers we were given.
2. The Island is something God-like, something unknowable. Take for instance our desire to know what came before the big bang. We'll never know, but it has affected/effected and effects/affects everything despite our inability to understand. So what? We have limits to what we can know.
3. who set off the big bang? I don't know, but I do know that it is part of who I am, what I'm driven to do, and who I love.
4. Egyptian stuff, early roman stuff, it's all a link to the very long history of man grappling to understand his place in the universe. It effects the story of Lost only so far as it suggests that our 815ers have dealt, like all men, with very similar questions, trials, and sacrifices.
In the end the questions are a means to an end, and questions have always been better at creating conversations than answers. The failings of the finale are probably best seen as failures to deepen those mysteries. If you hated the end, you hated the fact that the writers wanted a way to see all of our heroes, one last time, with each other, in a communal space, smiling.
Is it going to be included in the Season 6 set too, or is it just a big "fuck you" to everybody that actually bought each season as it came out? I never followed Lost, but I've even stopped picking up the individual seasons for the shows that I follow in first-run that are still on and sold off the ones I do already have. When they do these "complete" sets after the show wraps, if nothing else (like if there aren't any extras that are exclusive to the set), they're almost always cheaper than buying the individual seasons if you don't mind waiting.
I'm so burned by this show that I don't think it even matters what these new 12-14 minutes "explain".
Oh thank god! I love Lost with a passion and still love it, but was disappointed when the finale didn't give us the answers to some of the questions you listed. I may have to break down and buy the complete series and then sell all of the other Lost DVD's.
biding time until people stop talking about this show
What #3 said. The rest of you must be pretty frustrated with life in general; there's so many unanswered questions!
Well, that all sounds familiar… comence countdown to the prequels, the animated series, the rerelease with new fx and new scenes and the eventual "ultimate box edition" wich precedes the six or seven "supermegaultimate edition".
Its clear that Abrams was always a George Lucas' fan, there's no doubt about it.
if you read morse's columns, which appear ON THIS VERY SITE, he pretty much answers all of those questions. the answers are in the show, you just have to do the legwork yourself to figure it out.
Oh, David. Don't be bullied by Faraci's snarky troll juggernaut. It's OK to have liked the finale.
Lost is really just like a modern version of the bible, only with a happier ending. lots of supernatural unexplainable shit happens in it, then people obsess over it and love it or they obsess over it and get pissed off. Half the people are saying "Why is this so easy for you to believe" and the other half are saying " I never said it was easy. ;)". come on people the series is filled with so many in-jokes like this it's hard to believe you didn't catch on earlier.
Meh. Who cares anymore? Oooo ten more minutes to explore the mythology (that ruined the last season) that is meaningless after the series finale anyway. Not going to bother.
if you feel "burned" by this show, then you are retarded.
Comment #3 (Posted by Lon)
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I'd have considered you 'smart' if you had said this, oh, about 3 seasons ago.
But you didn't. The ending of LOST is the equivalent of seeing an advertisement for a product that promises to provide all sorts of features, then when you finally plunk down your million bucks it turns out to be for a totally different purpose than what was advertised.
The MYSTERIES are what made the show, and it's full-on copout to say "it was really about teh characters and love and blah blah blah blah". BS.
Comment #15: One could argue over whether it's the mysteries of life (that science and art and religion attempt to explain) or the people in this life that matter the most. People with more compassion and love will always believe it's the people who matter more than the question of where we came from. Damon and Carlton never said otherwise, and have been saying all along that, ultimately, LOST is a story about the characters. The LOST finale wasn't a cop-out any more than the first line of Genesis is a cop-out for Christianity, or the fact that the Big Bang Theory is an unproven theory is a cop-out for science.
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