Lost season 6 with spoilers beware

If you were wondering about the montage of the crash during the credits, well...

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sho...ut-the-series-finales-plane-crash-images.html

You know those Oceanic 815 plane crash images that ran after Jack's (Matthew Fox) eye closed and the "Lost" logo appeared on our TV screens? Some "Lost" fans and TV critics have wondered if they were a last Easter egg from the producers, a clue meant to lead us to conclude that no one survived Oceanic 815's crash landing — and therefore everything we've seen over the last six years never really happened.

Well, ABC wants to clear the air: Those photographs were not part of the "Lost" story at all. The network added them to soften the transition from the moving ending of the series to the 11 p.m. news and never considered that it would confuse viewers about the actual ending of the show.

"The images shown during the end credits of the 'Lost' finale, which included shots of Oceanic 815 on a deserted beach, were not part of the final story but were a visual aid to allow the viewer to decompress before heading into the news," an ABC spokesperson wrote in an e-mail Tuesday.

That means, Losties, that we were not supposed to think that Christian Shepherd (John Terry) is a liar. What Christian told his son, when they were reunited at the church, should serve as guidance for our interpretation of the series' ending.

So let's review: Christian told Jack that he was dead and everyone else in the church was too — some had died before Jack, as we already knew, and some died long after. The sideways flashes then were a step in everyone's after-lives, a way to reconnect before moving on permanently. While there still may be unanswered questions related to that religious and spiritual conclusion to the "Lost" story, the photographs were really just a nostalgic, transitional touch added by ABC executives — and not executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.

Love or hate it, that's the final answer.
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I was talking to a friend who was convinced with not a shred of doubt that the footage of the wreckage meant that the Ajira plane crashed on take off. What can you say to that? Just shook my head.
 
While there still may be unanswered questions related to that religious and spiritual conclusion to the "Lost" story, the photographs were really just a nostalgic, transitional touch added by ABC executives — and not executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.
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:wacko This is what happens when 'managers' decide to tweak the work of creative artists.
 
I wish they did long, movie-style credits at the end. Do it to Hurley's Handouts from the season 2 score and show a short clip of each character with their name and who they played. It would have been a touching way to credit everyone who spent six years on this project
 
Do people need to "decompress" before the news? Really? Is that an issue? It's not an airline joke, or some ABC editor having fun with the final broadcast?
 
Noeland said:
Do people need to "decompress" before the news? Really? Is that an issue? It's not an airline joke, or some ABC editor having fun with the final broadcast?
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I think that was just their kind way of explaining it to the people who thought that actually had something to do with the narrative without calling them names. It was obvious that that was some sort of clean plate footage they shot in case they needed it down the line without going to the monumental expense of getting all the wreckage back on the beach in roughly the same configuration. Somebody found it and thought, "Man, after the rough emotional rollercoaster we just sent our audience on, that's just the sort of palate cleanser we need to get us to the news or go to bed or whatever." It's not like they could do a NEXT WEEK ON LOST y'know? :)
 
I can understand the thinking behind it. It provided a buffer between the emotional end and local news shrinking the credits and ruining the mood with their stupid news tease.
 
The thought that this was anything more than just scenics never crossed my mind. It's funny to me to think of people ruthlessly debating it out there. ;)
 
It's hard to decompress before the news when the show was on Tivo and watched at 2:00am. No news following that showing in our household! I hardly watch any TV real-time anymore! Long live Tivo!
 
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45259

On G4’s “Attack Of The Show” today, Michael Emerson described the unaired sequence that will appear on DVD and Blu-ray Aug. 24:

“For those people that want to pony up and buy the complete ‘Lost’ series, there is a bonus feature, which is, um, 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.”
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Okay so you have to buy the complete series set on dvd to get the Hurley Ben stuff or did he mean that it'll be on the final season dvd set?
 
I keep seeign these "unanswered questions" pop up. Some of them are valid (like why was Walt special, how did C. Shepard appear off island)

Some of them, I think, people need to give up on. Here are a few:

  • How did non-mom get to the island? (You can't keep going back and back and back. Non-mom was there to explain Jacob & MIB.)
  • Where was Libby between her time in the asylum and the island?
  • How did the polar bears get there (Dharma! This has been answered.)
  • Who built the statue?
 
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