The End Of Lost

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The episode titles need to be added to the old threads anyway, so I'll compile a list and ask a mod to fix that ;)

Thanks to suzybeezy for making the changes for me :clap:

Ok...for some reason I keep remembering a statement made by one of the creative genius's behind the series...something along the lines of 'Is it really even an island?'

Yup, I remember that clearly! They were in an interview and said, in unison, "If it IS an island..."

That said, right now, if any of the lostaways does manage to take Jacobs place, and that really is a one man job, then the one best suited for the position is Hurley.

I totally agree.
 
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LOST will end with Jack (wearing white) and Locke (wearing black) sitting on a beach together, debating amongst each other about good and evil. If we're lucky, we might get to see them playing a game of Othello... or Backgammon!

Then we'll see a plane flying over the island... breaking apart in mid air... and then...

POW

(cue LOST logo)

You've seen it here first, friends. Redguard PROPHECY!!
 
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That'll be a spaceship flying over earth... breaking apart in mid air

In an attempt to respect the show's observance of travel technology... I thought of saying spaceship as well.

But then I thought to myself, "If a spaceship breaks up in mid air, there's no way the passengers could survive the fall!"

Jacob told Ricardo that he and MIB had been doing their "thing" for a very long time. I wonder if all of their previous pawns had arrived by boat as well?
 
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If Jacob is good and MIB is bad then I can think of 2 ways it can end.

1. Jack and company can defeat the smoke monster and save the world or...

2. The smoke monster can destroy everyone on the island and then escape and destroy everything else.

Either way it's too predictable. I hope there is some way that the writers can surprise us and end it in a way that no one saw coming. But in a "good"way.

I sure hope they can do it!

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As long as they don't pull a twist of "Jacob is actually bad and MiB is good"...cause after liking Jacob...that would be more of a bummer than a shocker. Although... IMO...I do think it's been said over and over how MiB is evil...not to mention is manipulations of everybody.

Anyways...Seems like a really good ending would be hard to pull off...but then again, I'm not a skilled writer. Like you said, something like those two would be too predictable...for LOST. Even if they explain the flash-sideways. What could they have in store for us.
 
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LOST will end with Jack (wearing white) and Locke (wearing black) sitting on a beach together, debating amongst each other about good and evil. If we're lucky, we might get to see them playing a game of Othello... or Backgammon!

Then we'll see a plane flying over the island... breaking apart in mid air... and then...

POW

(cue LOST logo)

You've seen it here first, friends. Redguard PROPHECY!!

I like your way of thinking here, If that was to happen I think it'd be a good ending. :thumbsup:
 
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Just an FYI - I heard last night that the series finale has been extended by 30 minutes. So it will run from 9:00 p.m. ET to 11:30 p.m.! Plus the recap before, plus the re-airing of the series pilot on Saturday night, plus the post-finale wrap show on Jimmy Kimmel.

Lots of LOST on the weekend of May 22/23!!
 
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Just an FYI - I heard last night that the series finale has been extended by 30 minutes. So it will run from 9:00 p.m. ET to 11:30 p.m.! Plus the recap before, plus the re-airing of the series pilot on Saturday night, plus the post-finale wrap show on Jimmy Kimmel.

Lots of LOST on the weekend of May 22/23!!

Wow, thanks so much for all the info, Snooch! :thumbsup:
 
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1, 2 and 3. The lives they are living in the flash sideways are going to work out for them all in the long run (1.) But that is contingent on 3 happening on the island in current time which probably involves 2 somehow.

^^^ This! Though I suspect if that's what we're thinking, it'll be totally different than that. Can't wait to find out... and yet I can because i DON'T want it to end.

LOST will end with Jack (wearing white) and Locke (wearing black) sitting on a beach together, debating amongst each other about good and evil. If we're lucky, we might get to see them playing a game of Othello... or Backgammon!

Then we'll see a plane flying over the island... breaking apart in mid air... and then...

POW

(cue LOST logo)

You've seen it here first, friends. Redguard PROPHECY!!

Love it!!!! I'd rep ya, but unfortunately I didn't see the thread in time. It's too old now.

If Jacob is good and MIB is bad then I can think of 2 ways it can end.

1. Jack and company can defeat the smoke monster and save the world or...

2. The smoke monster can destroy everyone on the island and then escape and destroy everything else.

Either way it's too predictable. I hope there is some way that the writers can surprise us and end it in a way that no one saw coming. But in a "good"way.

I sure hope they can do it!

:clap:

LOST doesn't seem to really have completely good or completely bad characters. Everyone has potential for both. Look at Claire. Who would have guessed she'd turn out so nasty? With Jacob and MiB, my best guess is that MiB is something more of an evil entity and Jacob is some kind of gatekeeper. A number of things they've shown about Jacob suggest he's not "good" exactly. I'm even highly suspecting that when Ricardo's wife came to speak to him with Hurley, it was really Jacob pretending to be her.

Or perhaps Jacob and MiB are in some kind of tug-of-war yin-yang kind of thing where either can be good or bad, but never both completely at the same time?

Someone probably mentioned this already somewhere, but what if they create a huge cliff hanger and save the actual finalé for a big screen movie?
 
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Given the way things are going, the title of the Series final episode, and certain barely remarked upon issues, my suspicion is that all of the lostaways on the island, along with everybody or nearly everybody else there, dies either this episode or the next - before (or maybe right at the start) of the final episode.

Things keep bugging me that don't quite fit with most of the 'end' scenarios described thus far:

1) First off, we have Hurley and the dead people. He doesn't seem to have displayed this ability in any of his pre island flashbacks, and all of the dead people he's seen - except for Alperts long dead wife, which I am inclined to think of as suspect - died on the island, and are presumably trapped there in spirit form, for want of a better term.

2) Second, we have Jin and Widmores top female flunky (who, I suspect will be communicating with Hurley via the spirit world in this next episode or the one after). Almost the very first thing she started grilling Jin about was the 'energy pockets' on the island - apparently because he mapped most of them in the 70's while looking for Jack, Kate, and the rest. These energy pockets are what make the island unique (apparently). (Side note - it might have been Jin's surveys that determined the placement of both the Swan and Orchid stations). Draining one of these energy pockets (the one under the Swan) let the island slip into the 'real world' for a short while. What happens if they are all drained in a similiar manner (not blown up with a nuke)?

3) the combination of 1 & 2 implies that the 'energy pockets' are what keeps the trapped souls on the island. However, as witnessed with the demise of Juliet (and probably the traumatic experiences undergone by the 'flash sideways' lostaways) those who die on the island or who enter into near death states or some such, become aware of the alternate reality, though they cannot enter it and their influence there is minimal at best. I would also suspect that these energy pockets are not just trapping the dead souls on this island, but are also somehow sustaining them.

4) This, in turn, brings us to the Man in Black. Given his abilities and claims...I find myself wondering if he has not, in fact, been dead for a very long time, that he is in fact simply a very old and very powerful spirit creature - maybe the first to die on the island or some such. Does his existence depend somehow on these energy pockets? And if so, is he aware of this? He might be arrogant enough to think otherwise.

5) Then there is the original and now dead Locke. Where did his spirit end up at - released to the afterworld off the island? Or trapped on it somehow? I suspect this question will become of crucial importance.

6) For what it is worth, I figure we are looking at one more extraordinary time travel session - a lostaway or three will venture back to the time Jacob and the Man in Black first arrived on the island to understand what really happend and what is really at stake. This might be the next episode, or it might be part of what the series final episode revolves around.

7) I also excpect the 'flash sideways' timeline will catch up to the current one in the series finish episode: Locke will be able to walk thanks to Jacks miracle surgery; Kate and Sayid will have served enough of their time to be released or parolled, ect.
 
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Ok...saw a mention in some magazine or other ('Entertainment...?') that the studio ex's were already brainstorming Lost Spinoffs and/or movies. To me, this has catastrophe or one shot wonder written all over it in large glowing letters, but...

Might be some potential for stories in the early Jacob/MIB days. Somebody had to build the lighthouse, install that wheel near the source, Jacob at least had to learn how to travel off the island, the Hanso family had to be aware that the island existed (they apparently knew of it for at least a couple hundred years prior to the crash of flight 815, and were behind the Dharma initiative), which in turn might mean that a Hanso family member or three not only made it to the island in the old days, but made it off again as well.

The other thing would be a series set during the Dharma period. The Dharma folks were up to a lot of stuff during their stay on the island: weird biological experiments, attempting to contact aliens, goofing around with time travel, ect. One faint possibility here: we know that setting off a nuke was enough to 'split' the timeline; so maybe a Dharma series could focus on creating another timeline split, one where Jacob doesn't have to issue the order that gets the Dharma folks massacred. One other point to explore here: the Dharma folks found the island in part because of the affinity between the energy pockets on the island and other similiar energy pockets on other parts of the globe. Possibly, there are other places like the island - little 'pocket world' type places that could also be accessed this way?

But then again, barring a writing miracle, I don't see either concept lasting more than a season or two, if that.
 
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