I stopped watching in season 3. Someone fill me in.

LOST SUCKs

It was going in circles from the very start. I gave up halfway through the first series. Surprisingly, I could follow the story rather well when I overheard people talking about it..

I have no clue what happened in the last season though. So, could anyone fill me in (briefly)?

Ok

WARNING HUGE SPOILER::::

Since no one watched the last season... or so it will see -- Let me summarize Season 6 -- As i'm at work with nothing better to do

Last season ended with Julia smack and atomic bomb (Real smart?), It appears as if it exploded, season 5 ends --

The beginning of season 6 starts with what appears to be an alternative reality much along the conjecture of the string theory/multi-verse notion of what could been, is (Somewhere) - Everyone lands in LAX from Oceanic 815 like they were suppose to, they go about their lives, however - Several things are different -- Jack has a Son, and is married to Juliet, Kate is still wanted for murder, but in this reality she didn't actually commit it, John Locke is still in his wheelchair, but it's not from his daddy throwing him out a window, but as it would appear he got his pilot license, and him and his father went for a flight (John' and his father have a close relationship through this reality), and the plane crashed due to inexperience, killing his father, and crippling him. -- Sayid meets up with his long lost love Natia, but she is married to his brother, and has kids. Sawyer is a police officer, specializing in white collar crimes, and undercover con stings (lol who would a guessed?), Hurley is rich, and owns abuncha of businesses - he is still fat (lmao), Tsun, and Jyn are not married, but they are having sex, and love each other, much to the dismay of Tsun's father who tries to kill Jyn in this alternate reality, Desmond is Mr. Whitmoore's number 2 guy, and at-first doesn't even know who penny is, Daniel Faraday is a Musician instead of a Physicist, where he is an acknowledged son of both Eloise Hawkings, and Mr. Whitmoore. Ben is a high-school science teacher, and later John Locke teaches at the same high-school after losing his job for an unauthorized trip to Australia for a walkabout (In this reality he actually was allowed to go on it). Charlie is still a junkie playing bass in drive-shaft --- Claire is reunited with her brother Jack, and still wants to give Aaron up for adoption. No mention is made of Micheal or Walt, or the dog Vincent.

OKK So, that is what the writers refereed to as "Flash-Sideways", and those scene appear at random times throughout the season.

Back on the Island --- It appears as if the A-Bomb didn't work, and that they only saved the Alternate Reality from the fate of the Island.

As things go Sawyer wants to kill Jack for letting Juliet die, Kate wants Sawyer, Sawyer doesn't want Kate, as he fell in love with Juliet, Hurly can see the undead visage of Jacob, Locke is not Locke he is in fact the "Man in Black", known herein as The Smoke Monster, and Jacob's Brother.

Jacob is killed by Ben, who was tricked by the smoke monster to do it, as it turns out, seasons 1-5 when ever one referred to Jacob it was really the smoke monster pretending to be Jacob, setting up a course of actions to kill Jacob, for as it would seem both Jacob, and his brother are ancient powerful creatures that were tasked with protecting the island, and at the island's heart the "Light", by their adoptive mother, who held the office of protector long before them, but before she died she made sure Jacob, and smoke monster couldn't kill each other. With Jacob being dead the smoke monster seeks to leave the island, and spread his evil to the rest of the world, but first, he must turn off the "Light", Jacob is dead, but seeks to protect the light by finding candidates to take over as the Island's Protector, of which is : Jack, Hurly, Sawyer, Kate, Tzun, Jyn, Sayid -- As it would appear Jacob planned all along to bring everyone to the island before they were born to test them, so they could become the new guardians (There was more candidates, but they fail their tests). The whole season basically shows the smoke monster trying to kill the candidates so he can leave the island, and the candidates trying to figure out how to get off the island or survive.

In the end Jack Becomes the new Guardian, the smoke monster turns off the light, through use of Desmond (Desmond has a special gift that allowed him to survive the task, anyone else would die), turning off the light had 2 affects, 1. It robbed the smoke monster of his powers (Leading to Jack killing the smoke monster [who was wearing John' Locke's face], but before the monster died he stabbed Jack inflicting a mortal wound) 2. Turning off the light causes the island to start to break apart, and fall into the ocean. Jack realizes to save the island he has to turn the light back on, but in doing so could kill him, -- So he appoints Hurley as the new Island Guardian, and goes off to turn the light back on -- During which Sawyer, Kate, Claire, The Asian dude that hears undead voices, Lapidies the Pilot, and Richard get on the plane that Lapidies flew and landed in the last season on Hydra Island -- They barely manage to get the plane off the ground, but they do -- The final scene -of the island-  Shows jack standing in the bamboo field (in which he woke up in season 1 pilot), with Vincent the dog next to him, they watch the plan fly away to safety, and then Jack dies. Sayid dies in an explosion, Tzun, and Jyn Drown together.

Back to the "Flash-Sideways", at some point everything through certain contact with the other castaways "Regain" all the memories of what happened on the Island, it's a beautiful sequence, as allot of it is reconnection of lost love (Sayid finds Shannon, Hurley, and that Blonde chick, Sawyer finds Juliet, Tzun, and Jyn, Desmond, and Penny, Daniel and the red haired chick), and others which are reconnection of lost friendship - Jack, and Locke - Boone, and Hurley, ect -- The Finale had EVERYONE init, minus a few people (Micheal, Walt, Mr Ecko) but they tried to reconnect anyone who had a major impact on the core characters. Jack is the last person to "Reclaim" his memories, and this is where is gets stupid... when Jack runs into Kate he starts to get his memories back, but not all of them, Kate tells him he needs to go around back of this Church, and when he is ready join everyone else inside the Church to "Leave", Jack goes around to this priest's office, inside his is father's casket, he touches his father's casket, and gets all his memories back --- He than opens the casket to find it empty, he turns around to see his father standing their, surpised -- he asks his father how he is there, and his father replies "How are you here", Jack than realizes he is dead.

EVERYONE IS DEAD, as it was said -- Some died before Jack (Charlie, Shannon, Ect), and some many years after (Kate, Sawyer, Hurley), but in the end everyone dies, and all the 50 people who originally crashed on the Island + Ben, they had somehow (Was never explained how), created this "purgatory-like" place where they could all be reconnected after their deaths, and advance to heaven together.

Allot of it doesn't make sense, as if they "Created" this world, why did they create it in the image of a life they didn't lead? It was a pretty shity explanation, everyone dies, and they turn to religion to explain it... stupid as hell...

It didn't answer ANY QUESTIONS from 1-5, and did a half ass job of answering the questions from season 6..

It was an Emotionally driven Finale --- Which for that alone was decent, but the write was horrid, and doesn't make sense, all around a piss-poor finale.

Which is a cop out.. the show has always been about science, and cliff-hanging provabilities, i mean seriously who cared about who fell in love with who - The only interesting thing about the Kate-Jack-Sawyer love triangle, is when Sawyer would beat the shit out of Jack

It was awesome. Perfect way to end a show.

> lmperial wrote: I've not met a single -true- lost fan that has been here since the start that liked the ending.

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or wether -you- are truly lost

hmz, i kept up with the x-files for quite a while i must say, and hten came a period where homework was more important..

So if I had continued watching Lost past episode 2 I'd have been treated to 5 series of vague daytime-TV sci-fi dotted around intense personal drama, followed by a series of "you're stuck here because you forgot to embrace jesus, and we're devils out to bum your souls" or something, yeah?

It never caught my attention...

Heroes started sucking as well... I think all originality has dried up