I did.

Apparently the finale is getting an extra 30 minutes, so it'll be 2.5 hours long.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/369530...entertainment/

I hope this turns out to be epic.

Wow. This could be really good or terribly bad. It could just be a giant exposition laying out the plot. I don't know.

Yep, that's exactly what I'm afraid of.

It's going to be the Nat Geo commentator sitting in an arm chair reading the script.

Scroll down to the lost promo.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/172...fringe-promos-

Just the finale left. I feel like most of the BIG questions have answers (not all). Still a million little things left though.

Finale is on Sunday (2hr30mins long including commercials). At midnight (approximately 12:05 AM), on Jimmey Kimmel Live, 3 alternate endings will be aired.

How did Jack get that cut in the beginning of the alternate verse?

I always enjoyed Desmond's role in this show.

Seeing Hurley power walk after kid Jacob made me laugh.

End of an era inc.

I hope we get the biggest lost MONTAGE ever.

Asano i know you cryed.

So I thought it was a good ending. I like how Sawyer called Locke Smokey. So we called it on Hugo being the next Jacob, rofl at that coming true. So a question to throw out there, was the sideverse the afterlife the whole time?

Was nice to see Kate and Jack get back together in the end.

You gotta love in lost where you are told one thing that makes you think you can't do something but it's ok for the story.

EXAMPLE: During the season they said if the light of the island ever goes out there is no turning it back on. It's ok for Jack to turn it off to kill Locke, so it can be turned back on? I thought it couldn't come back on!

So there are some questions we would of liked answered like how the island came to be and the egyptian stuff. As the example in the post before this one with the light, I think the bones leading to the light kinda shows that there were many protectors of the island for who knows how long. I think the protectors went back so long that the information they recieved along the way made them not really know it all. The reasoning behind the egyptian stuff just like the spanish stuff and other stuff just was there over time. I mean I know it sux as an answer, but I think we can only guess at this point.

Some of the other stuff brought up, why was Desmond so special. How did Smokey become smoke at all. Is it cause the protector before Jacob/Smoke set up it up where one of them had to be good and the other bad? Which means Jacob was surpose to be the bad one cause she loved Smoke?

With the other three endings coming up on Jimmy kimmel live I hope one of them is Smoke getting off the island and the world becoming smoke. As for the other two, I haven't had that much time to think about it.

Absolutely epic ending. I can't believe it actually lived up to the hype (imo).

There are obviously still lots of little questions left unanswered, but I'm definitely satisfied with how they ended it all. Incredible moment in television history, and anyone following will be hard-pressed to surpass it.

That's my understanding, yeah. Which means the island eventually sunk into the sea at some point in time (as we saw in the season opener), right?

Awww, really? It's coming on in about 10 mins here. I kinda don't want to see the other endings, just because it'll just cheapen what I just watched. But I do want to hear from Cuse & Lindelof and the other cast members.

Ok, I've only seen the first 5 mins of JKL so far, but I think his theory regarding the opening scene in this last season with them on the plane, hitting the turbulence, and Rose later saying "It's ok, you can let go now" is spot on. I never picked up on that, but it's way too big of a coincidence. What an amazing show Lost was.

Lol the "alternate endings" were funny

Yeah, the bit with Carlton and Damon was kinda funny, but overall that was a pretty pointless show. Nobody had anything worthwhile to say. Judging by Matthew Fox's response, I'm pretty sure none of the actors will be allowed to say anything specific about the show's story for quite some time. I almost wish I didn't see it, b/c it killed my post-finale high.

Jimmy Kimmel is gay and faggot. That whole thing was dumb.

As for the actually finally, I think I liked it. I was much more satisfied with it as an ending than BSG. I think it makes sense in context to the show, and was an appropriate ending. My only issue is that there were MANY things that just got kinda left out. I don't totally mind it, especially if their explainations would have been lame, but they (writers of show) made it sound like no stone would be left unturned by the time it was all over. So in that sense, I was left a little wanting. Overall, I am good with it. Melissa on the other hand, disappointed.

Loved the ending. Very emotionally charged ending for all these characters that we've seen throughout the years go through hell in service to the island, Jacob, each other, and trying to find themselves and their purpose in life.

In the end the whole "live together die alone theme" was swung in the other direction as we really saw some redemption in all these characters at the end being together.

I was definitely a bit dissatisfied with them not answering a lot of important questions, but I'm not sure how they could of done what I wanted within the 2:30 they had and did they ending they picked as well. A one liner like the answer about the whispers would not of done it for me. It hit home that it definitely was also a character based show and I enjoyed what the characters brought to it a lot more than I expected when I first started watching and just concerned about the mystery of the island.

I do feel however, (crossing fingers for the dvd extras) they eventually address a lot of the answered questions of the mythology for the fan base to give a fitting close to that side of the lost journey.

Its too bad they couldn't do two finales, one for the mythology and one for the characters. What's nice about it is that there's so much room for interpretation and I need to rewatch the series and the ending again to see it in its entirety after knowing how it ends.

Yoox, The smoke monster discreption is almost best compaired to as Agent Smith in the matrix.


The man in black was "stuck" in his natural body, but when knocked out and thrown into the light everything that was "good" is no longer and its just a nightmare manifstation of the man in black who's free to roam/take on who ever is dead on the island.



Its almost as if jacob unlocked the true potenital in the man in black.

I was kind of hoping jack would "plug the hole" (whatever the hell that was) and hurley would be sitting there, and a giant cloud of black smoke would come shooting out. Later we would see jack and hurley talking, and jack would be like "I did my part, now I want to go home" and hurley would be like "dude, you know I can't let you do that".

Here is the other thing I keep reading today that is also wrong. They weren't dead as soon as they got to the island. They all EVENTUALLY die. Jacks dad says so, "your time on the island was the happiest time of your lives." the problem with that is, that means the ending, the whole side-universe has NOTHING to do with the plot of the show/island. The island was just this shared experience, that when they died "united" them. It that sense, I don't actually know if I liked the ending.

I liked the ending. I enjoyed the show. We knew they wouldn't answer everything. I went into it knowing this would be the last time this show would be on. Enjoyed lost and it will be missed. I kinda did the same for BSG. If you expect all the answers you will only become mad and be disapointed with parts of it. I think they did a good job finishing it up, all good things come to an end.

Fucking Boon.

Dunno if any of you watched the recap episode beforehand, but in it Carlton and Damon said that Jacob and Smokey were -- quote -- Gods -- unquote. I thought that was interesting since I hadn't heard it confirmed before. So you can almost explain them, the mother, and almost everything else island-related with your own god-related beliefs. Kinda of an easy way out for the writers, I suppose, but it does provide some kind of closure to those questions.

BTW, if you didn't catch JKL afterwards, here's a video of the first 5 mins w/ Matthew Fox, which was the only worthwhile moment of the show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCXlLNWRULo

I'd bet money that the writers, Fox, and JKL were all in on that "theory" -- it was a staged/planned release.

I liked the final episode. I was ready for disappointment, but in the end I feel satisfied.

To know that the entire series of events that happened on the island was real made me very happy. To know that Hugo and Ben carried on the "mission" of the island for an indefinite period of time is really cool to me.

I thought that it was clever of the writers to make the island, the perceived purgatory, reality. And the flash-sideways, the perceived reality, purgatory (or something similar). I really didn't come close to seeing that one before hand.

I thought that it was really interesting that almost none of the actors on the show knew shit about the intricacies of the plot. The after show was intriguing just for the fact that Harold Perrineu, Michael, was there. You'd think that if there was any hard feelings he wouldn't be there. The GF told me she read that the only cast member that was invited and turned down the show all together was Echo.

Rambling thoughts ramble.....I'll try to make a concise post soon.

How Lost TRICKED YOU into liking the finale

I don't agree with everything there, but if you're feeling particularly cynical this morning about the finale, you might find some solace there by commiserating with like-minded cynics.

After sleeping on it, I still love the finale. Maybe we were "tricked" a bit, or betrayed with the lack of answers to the mythological stuff, but I'm willing to overlook a lot of that stuff at this point. We do need to start an "Unanswered Lost Questions" thread though...

I'm not really. When you think about it there are many rumors about how nothing was super natural and other things to throw people off track. You can see where they were going with the show from early on, but it was hard to believe in what you thought was true cause you would hear things like no this is 100% wrong like the super natural thing.

We knew that Jacob and Smokey were not human after a period of time, sorta since we knew about the bones in the cave from early on. We were forced to believe something else from being thrown off.

I think it's open for discussion, and in the end what we come up with will be very close. I like what they did. I'd love some explanation to the early stuff that wasn't on the show, the stuff prior to Dharma time period, I think we'd all love that. But that wasn't part of the story for the Jack crew I guess you can say.

Anyone who enjoyed Lost and hasn't tried it already should give "Fringe" a chance. It started as sort of a spiritual successor to the X-Files but has really moved into excellent territory. It bears some hallmarks of the most recent Star Trek movie, but I wouldn't really call that a detriment.

I missed S1, but i watched S2/S3. I like the story with them in the other universe, specially with how the father from one universe stole Peter from the other universe. The observers are kinda cool too. It can get alittle boring inbetween sometimes with them solving random cases, otherwise it's a decent show.

I wasn't unsatisfied with the ending. It was an ending, we know what happens to the characters, there is room for people to fill in how the characters live the rest of their lives, blah blah blah. I think in that respect it was more than fine. I guess its just the last 2 years i kept reading "Everything will be explained" "no questions will be unawnsered" and stuff like that. So I guess I was just waiting for that stuff, and never got it. The "gods" thing is a cop out, in my opinion.

Yeah I agree about the questions, but the samething with BSG they aren't gonna tell you everything little thing in detail. The reason why this would be alittle more frustrating is cause the writers were kinda telling us one thing then doing another. So you expect this, but got that instead. That part about lost I hated, but overtime dealt with. Also when i would assume or bring stuff up i'd have people tell me stuff like, but the writers said no. Then it came true, that was annoying.

Stephen Hawking made a cool documentary with Discovery. The music was awesome. You should check it out.

INTO THE UNIVERSE WITH STEPHEN MOFUCKING HAWKING

I dunno where you heard that. In fact, the writers have been saying the exact opposite all season. They flat out said they wouldn't explain every question and several things would remain unanswered and open to interpretation.

I thought they did a good job of managing those expectations this year, but I could understand why you'd be frustrated from the misinformation.

I just want to know four things.

What is the island?

Why was Walt special?

Was Jack hallucinating when he saw his father when he was back in Los Angeles? (because it was smokey on the island, was it Jacob off the island?)

Why aren't babies able to be born (with the two exceptions of course)?

If I got the answers to those four things I would be completely content.

I'm just going on record as saying i thought the ending was a cheesy cop-out