I like how it pokes fun at the mystery of "What's the deal with Jack's tattoo's?" then proceeds to ask a whole bunch of questions that are basically as important as Jack's tattoo's.

Sawyer told Kate about his daughter. It was revealed in the show IIRC. I think when Kate goes to the chicks house.

I think it's more making fun of the show for sucking for wasting time covering that and not anything that actually is important. That episode is pretty much the entire MO, but condensed to one episode. If there is one episode that pretty much described the overall depth of Lost, it would be that episode.

oh ya true... lol i forgot about that. Meh...

[ Saywer had a daughter that he wanted Kate to visit and make sure she taken care of financially. Kate had already met her, the gold chain con.

Time slows to nothing as you approach the core of a black hole. When you speed up the contents of what is moving actually travels slower in time (this was proven using atomic clocks on commercial flights btw). Stephen Hawking even perceives that time can reverse itself when the "time arrow" can point the other way (such as the events of a big crunch).

When bodies in space can independently experience time and where there is no single "clock" where everything is moving relative to it then you can have a situation as the purgatory waiting room indicates.

The problem isnt that it makes no sense, its just that you dont understand it.

Yeah I know. I just need logical explanations. It's not even about science. You can make up your own science. Just have some kind of consistency. When things get completely arbitrary and there is no logic whatsoever outside of "hey they are in purgatory things don't have to make any sense" is when I start to have a problem.

this is obviously false. it doesn't even make sense. the whole series up until S6 was about presenting interwoven mysteries and gradually revealing very specific answers, and as the article says promising more. there was no room for personal interpretation.

really you're just making an excuse for the lame way the show ended.

This is absolutely not the case. Sayid being the target of an assassination directed by Widmore is completely contrary to his motivations of getting them back to the Island. Also, Widmore already knows that Sayid cannot be killed because he was on the island in 77 and shoots Ben, goes with Ellie to get Jughead, etc. Nadia had to be the intended target.


Widmore also makes no attempts to harm any of the other members of the Oceanic 6 or their loved ones. I am convinced that there is no logic to it, and it was simply a device to turn Sayid back in to a badass assasin and provide some melodrama.

Nice catch, forgot entirely that he would (probably) recognise the Oceanic 6 and not go after them.

In that case it looks like a random car accident and Ben just spun the story to get Sayid to perform some hits on Widmore's men.

No it still doesn't make sense. I know about the twins paradox and all of that, trust me. Here though basically they were all going through time at different rates that were all arbitrarily converging on them meeting on Oceanic 815 in Purgatory at the same time and at the same individual age as when they all separated, even though that could have been thousands of years apart. At this point they would all start going through time at the same rate for no reason. Basically something along the lines of it was their destiny to all meet up in Purgatory. But that would mean the only point of Purgatory was for them to meet up in it and remember their past why even go through all the drama let them all just wake up in the church and take the next step

I think this show clearly thrived more on the collective fervid imaginations of its viewers than any well-posed grand narrative given by the writers. If you want to see the bright side in that you can always argue that the journey was more important than the finale.

+1. Best journey in TV history I think. Writers definitely got a little too ambitious though there was no way in hell they were going to be able to satisfactorily wrap things up

OK but the answers are out there. I understand maybe you don't like the answers, but that doesn't mean they aren't out there. When people come by and bitch about OMG THE NUMBERS without even looking to see if this was addressed...what else can you say to them?

the show thrived because it presented numerous intriguing mysteries and (very) gradually doled out specific answers to them. the answers were viewer crack, not the mysteries.

But the numbers explanation was so lame can you blame people for missing it? People wanted to know why the hell, in WORLD WAR TWO, years before any of the candidates were born, a signal beacon was repeating the numbers in the South Pacific. Why, after saying those numbers, did some dude get horrible bad luck, again years before any of the candidates were born?

I think you missed my point. The video makes fun of the fact that they answered "What's up with Jack's tattoo's?" but is seriously asking questions like "WHATS THE DEAL WITH LIBBY'S HUSBAND'S BOAT???"

How is the latter any more important than Jack's tattoo's?

Yeah, but with a sitcom, there's not tons of crazy mysteries that all seem to build to something that can explain the basics of the island and amount to nothing. My major gripe with this show is that it pretends to be something that its not. I don't think it's the "crazy fan-base reading too much into it". It's the writers that kept introducing new mysteries with an apparent overarching way to tie them together. "In the end it will all make sense", "Season 6: All questions answered", etc. I already posted about this. It was all just a bunch of nonsensical stories strung together only because they had to do with the island. There was no reason any of these had to happen. We were expecting a big reveal to make sense of all the "puzzles" that were put in place. Not more details about the puzzles themselves. The show pretends to be some super intellectually complex mystery, but it's not much of a mystery if it's just a bunch of random mythology.

In terms of all the puzzles, this says it best:
This is the summary of nearly ALL the puzzles presented in the show. Some seemingly super important intellectual mystery with tons of clues that dragged on for many seasons just explained with some silly explanation. Why was there a ship in the middle of the island? Oh, it washed up there in a storm many years ago? WTF, that explanation had no cohesion to any of the rest of the story, just some random disjointed story explained it, that had no real bearing on anything important. If the reveals they gave were satisfying in themselves, we wouldn't necessarily need to know more. None of the reveals were that satisfying, so I (like many of the dissatisfied viewers) were expecting that the writers couldn't possibly be bad enough to not tie them up into some overarching AHA moment. I guess I just had too much faith in the writers to be good writers, as opposed to soap writers. Each mystery was just more silly details in the Lost mythology, without expanding back towards any sensible cohesion.

Yes, the show was a fun ride, but only because I thought I was riding to Great America. I was led on a complete wild goose chase and ended up in my backyard swingset.

I believe the writers left questions unanswered to continue the Lost imagination and always provide intrigue. What happens to a magician when he reveals his tricks? He aint special anymore, and is easily forgotten. I am sure the writers want to keep Lost interesting and I for one hope they never reveal all these unanswered questions and leave it to the imagination of all of us to wonder.

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Valenzetti_Equation

Like I said, sorry you don't like the answers.

Quoting for vagos as I'd like to hear what he has to say.

wait, i'm confused about the show. so the cops knew internal affairs was setting them up??

i was very confused about this as well? someone care to explain?

Why couldn't they just have included that in the show? That isn't bad. I'm not a super Lost geek I had no idea what that was. Explaining the numbers as simply the corresponding candidate numbers was super lame. One explanation I loved was the reason the plane crashed, way back from season 2. It was so well done, weaving in Desmond's life story, tying in the CIA guy from Iraq, plus what was currently going on with Locke refusing to push the button.

exactly.