Theories on Lost (2004)

[Jack Corbett]

What do you think it is about?
Frankly, I reckon that the theory of they are all dead and the Island is purgatory is interesting.

What are your ideas?

[Jack Corbett]

I know you're out there. I can hear you breathing.

[BoyScoutKevin]

Supposedly, the creator of the show has said that some of the theories ,posted on some of the boards dedicated to the show ,are very close to the truth. Of  course, he didn't say what theories he was talking about. Though, the island being a form of purgatory is a favorite theory.

[Susan]

I thought about purgatory (altho now after seeing more about the characters it doesn't seem feasable), although I have to wonder after this week's episode what the real significance of the numbers are.  Yeah they're cursed, by why, and why does it seem that everyone touched by these numbers were ended up on this island. The guy in the assylum mentioned the numbers being used have opened the box, pandora's? I like the show because you never really know what is going on, and there are so many different mysteries on the island to speculate about. The great thing is the reveal is very slow, if at all. Sometimes for shows or movies the worst climax is actually finding out the truth, when much is left to the imagination it makes for a more exciting story


Anyone else into this show like I am? It's high in the ratings but oddly I only know of one other person (a girl i work with) who is really into it like I am. I'm just so fed up with all the reality and drama crap it's refreshing to have a show like this.

[odinn7]

I watched the show for the first few weeks it was on. I started to get the feeling that the writers were making it up as they went along and never really knew where this was coming from at all. Then I started to wonder how far we would get into it before they decided to cancel it and never give us an ending. Face it, the day they give us the answer to it all, will be the day that it pretty much ends. With that in mind, they will keep filming with the ending way out of reach. But, when the network says they've had enough (eventually it will happen), there won't be any ending ready to neatly tie it all up. The viewer will be left wondering what happened.

[Fearless Freep]

I watched the show for the first few weeks it was on. I started to get the feeling that the writers were making it up as they went along and never really knew where this was coming from at all

I get a sorta similar feeling from eXistenZ, Donnie Darko and myabe X-Files.  Like the writer really didn't have a 'reason', that they were just throwing up confusing weird stuff for the sake of it and maybe enjoying the speculation on 'what did it really mean...what really happened?' when it didn't really mean anything other than the writer just wrote some non-sensical junk.

With a TV series you have the added advantage that you can watch the controversy and speculation unfold and maybe decide 'hey, that *is* a good idea...ok..let's write that in and make *that* the 'reason'"

[Susan]

Yeah but the great thing is there isn't just one mystery, the writers are creative enough to come up with various angles to the island, to each persons past, adding additional people on the island it's basically a non stop adventure. At first you don't know what is going on but as the weeks go on the mystery begins to unravel, which is why i'm not sure that they are literally making it up as they go. Because if you look back on earlier shows you see clues and little things they threw in that you would not have even paid any attention to but now make sense and add to the story. It's original and that is really lacking these days on tv.

I mean wow, somebody had the balls to actually air a show like this on network tv instead of giving in to more Bachelorette, Fear Factor, or the typical drama shows that revolve around cops, courtrooms or hospitals.  It's got me hooked!

[Eirik]

I'm giving the show at least a season.  I was thinking some form of afterlife when we learned that Locke mysteriously got his ability to walk back, but now I'm leaning toward aliens of some kind.  Of course a great episode would be for one of these knuckleheads to actually get around to trying to circumnavigate the island (without getting distracted like Sayed did) and find out theyre really on the undeveloped side of some resort island, or better yet, a peninsula somewhere.

This is definitely a show with the potential for the X-Files syndrome (just keep jerking the audience along and milk it until the audience is all but gone -- I quit watching that show after the movie where Sully actually remained skeptical after being incarcerated on a giant UFO and being left in Antarctica next to a gaping, smoldering crater.  "There's plenty of scientific explanations, Mulder."  Shut up, Sully!  You suck.).  My hope is that the writers will be smart enough to resolve the mystery in a season or two and then go in the direction of the characters dealing with what they discover to save themselves.  The big trap is for them to think they have more than maybe five seasons out of this show.  If they get that idea in their heads, it will go straight where odinn7 predicts.

[Susan]

The question is, do they really want to be saved? each one of the main characters has seemed to get a "fresh start" of sorts and in many ways the island is benefiting them. I can't imagine Locke would ever leave, he went from a nothing cubeworker at a box factory who was in a wheelchair to a "go to guy", who after years of merely wanting the dream has finally achieved it. But I also ahve to wonder what is real deal is, prior to his box company job. We assume he was paralyzed but we don't really know, nor do we know how he got to be that way. They could be part of a government experiment, maybe they are in a bermuda triangle, or another dimension, or another time (remember the twilight zone episode where the plane went through a wormhole in time that propelled them back to the age of dinosaurs?)  Or maybe they are in limbo. But one has to wonder why the numbers seem to play an important role in how everyone was drawn to this location

Remember the black lady on one of the first shows was saying that those who died on the plane aren't dead, and they probably think the same of them? I like the show because it has so many different storylines and numerous mysteries going on at once. :) I mean we still kinda wonder what that big thing is in the jungle but i'm not so obsessed about it anymore since there are so many other distractions to interest my imagination.



Post Edited (03-06-05 20:38)

[Jack Corbett]

Nice ones.

At least me and my friends aren't the only ones who like it.