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Post by EarlSlick on Aug 27, 2019 22:40:23 GMT
I'm still lost.  |
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Aug 28, 2019 11:49:57 GMT
Need context.
Most people who ask this want to know the mystery part (Derp! Whattabout polar bears?!?!Derp!)
Lets try a simpler show to set a base standard.
What is the meaning of Friends?
what is the meaning of
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Post by Vits on Aug 28, 2019 12:19:20 GMT
What do you mean by "meaning"?
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Post by kuatorises on Aug 28, 2019 13:39:46 GMT
Can you be a little more specific?
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Post by sweetpea on Aug 28, 2019 20:37:39 GMT
Have you been found?
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Post by Catman on Aug 28, 2019 22:37:21 GMT
You need one of these:  |
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Post by Sarge on Sept 1, 2019 4:15:21 GMT
None really. It was more about the journey than the destination. Like many shows, it was written piece by piece with no overall plan, which is pretty obvious from the meandering storyline. One of the best finales I've ever seen though. |
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Post by MCDemuth on Sept 1, 2019 4:40:57 GMT
4 + 8 + 15 + 16 + 23 + 42 = 108
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Post by EarlSlick on Sept 7, 2019 13:37:46 GMT
None really. It was more about the journey than the destination. Like many shows, it was written piece by piece with no overall plan, which is pretty obvious from the meandering storyline. One of the best finales I've ever seen though. That's what I mean. What did the finale mean? It was all just a dream?
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Post by Marv on Sept 7, 2019 13:42:13 GMT
None really. It was more about the journey than the destination. Like many shows, it was written piece by piece with no overall plan, which is pretty obvious from the meandering storyline. One of the best finales I've ever seen though. That's what I mean. What did the finale mean? It was all just a dream? No. The flash sideways that was introduced in the final season is an afterlife...but everything else was real. Jack and company fought the man in black and defeated him, Hurley became the new protector of the island. Whoever was dead was dead. The flash sideways is them all meeting up in the afterlife to 'move on together'.
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Post by EarlSlick on Sept 7, 2019 13:48:25 GMT
That's what I mean. What did the finale mean? It was all just a dream? No. The flash sideways that was introduced in the final season is an afterlife...but everything else was real. Jack and company fought the man in black and defeated him, Hurley became the new protector of the island. Whoever was dead was dead. The flash sideways is them all meeting up in the afterlife to 'move on together'. I'm gonna have to watch it, again. That's what I get for jumping to the end. 
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Sept 7, 2019 17:32:05 GMT
There was no meaning
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Post by Sarge on Sept 9, 2019 2:37:51 GMT
Most of the stories would make no sense at all if it were real. I feel like the showrunner dude who said that wasn't paying attention to the big picture.
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Post by azzajones on Sept 9, 2019 7:10:11 GMT
Meaning of Lost: no longer possessed or retained
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Post by twothousandonemark on Sept 13, 2019 4:23:55 GMT
The island was needed to keep fullest of evil at bay... and even that was perhaps only the Jacob era, when he threw his brother down the glowing well.
The LOST characters were all misfits, chosen by Jacob because they were the best candidates to find greater purpose in life & take helm of the island, semi-voluntarily.
The last canon of the show was Walt being recruited by Hugo to take over the gig. I really doubt there was evil to stop via the island, nor do I think there was prior Jacob & MIB.
So the meaning of the show itself is probably redemption. The meaning of the show's premise is more finite considering the lore of the island goes well back (& forward) apart Jacob's aforementioned era.
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Post by amyghost on Sept 13, 2019 12:35:04 GMT
The meaning of Lost was: don't announce to the world that you have a fully formed and cohesive story that will provide an ending which satisfactorily wraps up the plot, when all you really have is a slumgullion of scattershot ideas that were made up as you went along and which limped to an ineffectual and meaningless conclusion.
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Post by Vits on Sept 13, 2019 18:21:20 GMT
don't announce to the world that you have a fully formed and cohesive story that will provide an ending which satisfactorily wraps up the plot Who did that? And when?
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Post by amyghost on Sept 13, 2019 18:47:19 GMT
don't announce to the world that you have a fully formed and cohesive story that will provide an ending which satisfactorily wraps up the plot Who did that? And when? This from the Wikipedia article on the series: Although initially hesitant, Abrams warmed to the idea on the condition that the series would have a supernatural angle to it and if he had a writing partner.[44][48] ABC executive Heather Kadin sent him Damon Lindelof, who had long intended to meet Abrams as he wished to write for Alias [one of LOST'S original pre-production titles] .[49] Together, Abrams and Lindelof created the series' style and characters and also wrote a series bible that conceived and detailed the major mythological ideas and plot points for an ideal four-to-five-season run for the show.[50][51] The novel idea of a story arc spanning several years was inspired by Babylon 5.[52] Because ABC felt that Alias was too serialized, Lindelof and Abrams assured the network in the bible that the show would be self-contained: "We promise ... that [each episode] requires NO knowledge of the episode(s) that preceded it ... there is no 'Ultimate Mystery' which requires solving." That certainly implies fully formed and cohesive story, with a definite ending .Which certainly didn't prove to be the case, nor did the assertion that no knowledge of prior episodes was necessary to follow the plot prove to be, either.
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Post by poelzig on Sept 13, 2019 21:27:01 GMT
The meaning of Lost was: don't announce to the world that you have a fully formed and cohesive story that will provide an ending which satisfactorily wraps up the plot, when all you really have is a slumgullion of scattershot ideas that were made up as you went along and which limped to an ineffectual and meaningless conclusion. Well said and spot on.
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