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Did LOST Forget Something?
I’m tired. Like much of America I stayed up way past my bedtime watching the series finale of LOST. I’ve seen every episode. I’ve been a LOST-ite, LOST-ian, LOST-er, LOST-ie (or whatever you want to call a fan) since the beginning. But I’m also tired from not being able to sleep.
I’ve been wondering if I missed something. Or worse, did the writers miss something?
Now I’m not trying to be detached and critical in order to seem cool. I just really think there is a gap here. Someone please help me.
After all the mystery, intriguing stories, amazing cast, did they forget to reveal the whole premise? Did they fail to answer the one question we all needed to know in order to put a period at the end of the nebulous sentence? Did the show that captured the attention of nerds and cool people alike get lost along the way and stay lost?
Did they forget to answer the ever-important (and preeminent) question:
WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE ISLAND? And in so answering should also reveal why it should be saved.
Maybe I think too linear, but did I miss something? Or did they?
Purpose is important. In life and even a show. It must be answered in order to make sense of it all.
What’s the purpose of it all? Someone PLEASE answer that for me in regards to LOST if I missed it.
WHAT THE HECK WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE ISLAND?
Waiting….
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I have not followed Lost, although if I had more opportunity to watch TV (not necessarily a good thing) I surely would have been. Judging by what I see in the press, and comparing it to some of the Sci-FI novels I’ve read (A lot!), here’s my best guess.
The writers may be cowards, but they are surely not fools. Instead of imposing a particular interpretation on the viewer, (and disappointing thosse who would disagree) they leave it open. What was the purpose? Look within yourself. What purpose do YOU see? (If this sounds to you like existentialism, you have much to go on).
So you look within, and you still don’t see the purpose? Well then, perhaps the purpose of the island was to get the viewers to look within.
If you think this is BS, again, you have much to go on. But at least it’s not *my* BS. I’m simply trying to imagine the viewpoint of the writers.
Hope this helps,
-Steve
I never meant to imply anything “Christian”. Heaven/hell are themes that seemed to be underneath the story–them redeeming themselves or not.
So is it the old ‘it means whatever you want it to mean’ crap? I hate when writer/directors/producers do that stuff. It’s cowardly. Obviously they mean to tell some story/message.
Thanks anyway. I guess we’ll never know.
I don’t know… they probably didn’t want to shove answers down our throat (not all of them) so I guess most of the other questions/answers could be open to interpretation.
Yes but who put them all on the plane? 50% luck and 50% Jacob IMO.
Heaven or hell? I guess it depends on what you believe. It’s not a “christian” show.
Why save the island? For the “light”. But what’s the purpose of the light? Does it represent good in the world? That’s still something I’m wondering.
Thanks for the input. I pretty much got that from the show, but I still have some questions.
So Jacob ‘chose’ them, but didn’t the plane crash b/c Desmond missed entering the numbers in the hatch?
So the ‘purpose’ of the island is to test people who are bad so they become better people. For what? To make it into heaven or to go to hell?
I’m just trying to figure out the real purpose of the island? In other words, why save it? So it can mess peoples lives up?
Don’t get it. If this show was just meant to be cool, trendy, and to make me feel stupid, I feel like I wasted my time.
I mean… it’s all open to interpretation but if you watched the Jimmy Kimmel show afterwards, oh well.
The island was kind of like their “test”, their life outside of the island wasn’t good and the island was a way for them to redeem themselves. Jacob chose them because they were all alone like him and flawed.
One of them had to become the next leader and it turned out to be Jack, not because Jacob chose him but because Jack decided it was what he HAD to do.
Clear?