Thursday, May 20, 2010

SEE YOU IN THE NEXT LIFE, BROTHER: A menu of potential reactions to Sunday's Lost finale:
  • OMFG my mind is blown
  • OMG I'm satisfied
  • O I'm disappointed
  • OMG I'm enraged
  • OMFG I intend to murder Carlton Cuse and/or Damon Lindelof for wasting the last six years of my life
  • All my questions have been answered
  • All my questions have been answered with other questions
  • I had never watched the show before this episode, so I found the extended "previously on Lost segment useful
  • I got home late, please tell me what happened in the first 23 minutes
  • What obsessive web site will I run now?
  • That confirms the theory I proposed after Season 2, Episode 3
  • I wish that were more like the theory I proposed after Season 2, Episode 3
  • I can't believe they never told me who was shooting at them on the outrigger
  • Don't discuss this show, please, I plan on watching several weeks from now
  • The show is fundamentally flawed because Russell didn't win
  • It certainly was an unusual choice to introduce an entirely new group of characters two hours and twenty minutes in
  • Needed more Bai Ling
  • The explanations were unnecessary -- they should just have trusted their audience's working knowledge of speculative quantum physics
  • Excellent work by special guest Judy Greer
  • The dinosaurs were a bit much
  • So it was because she was a lesbian
  • Jack is kind of a dick

28 comments:

  1. I was right about Ben Linus all along!
    So, um, Walt?

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  2. Devin McCullen11:48 AM

    Magic Ticket, my ass, Hurley!

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  3. "How the heck do we syndicate a 2 1/2-hour-long episode?" [Network executives only.]

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  4. Joseph J. Finn12:40 PM

    "# Don't discuss this show, please, I plan on watching several weeks from now"

    Bingo.

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  5. "I've never seen a series end with 25 minutes' worth of scrolling footnotes before."

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  6. The Pathetic Earthling12:47 PM

    Given the unsatisfactory reaction of my friends, I'll take Season 1/Disc 1 out of the Netflix Queue.

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  7. Andrew1:01 PM

    Was the 20 minute long musical number at the end really necessary?

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  8. Meghan1:16 PM

    Ah, the Infinite Jest of the TV world.

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  9. So wait...did the cops know that internal affairs was setting them up?

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  10. Ramar1:39 PM

    "How did Lapidus find a rocket launcher?"

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  11. Andrew1:45 PM

    When are we going to get to the fireworks factory?

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  12. Eric J.2:22 PM

    Waaalllllt!

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  13. bill.2:38 PM

    They're going to Mars?

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  14. Just three more months until "AfterLOST"! ("The one with Jamie Farr!")

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  15. Carmichael Harold2:46 PM

    Ha! I was going to go with my ode to the Newhart finale: "Huh. So Jack woke up with Neve Campbell sitting next to him, and it turns out it was all a dream."

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  16. Jenn.2:57 PM

    Dude, they all just got eaten by a pack of roving polar bears. Totally didn't see that one coming.

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  17. Ramar3:19 PM

    "Jack woke up with Neve Campbell sitting next to him"

    Wait, what? That just raises further questions...

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  18. Tosy and Cosh3:30 PM

    The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

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  19. That only works if first they go down to the center of the Island, and find Darlton sitting there, frantically typing away on a typewriter, right?

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  20. Eric J.4:17 PM

    The whole world is The <strikethrough> Village</strikethrough> Island.

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  21. bill.5:07 PM

    My second one was going to be "Premorse -- I could've sworn Suzanne Pleshette was dead." But she is dead and I gave up trying to decide if that made the joke better or worse.

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  22. bill.6:13 PM

    Locke: You cursed brat! Look what you've done! I'm melting! melting! Oh, what a world! What a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness? Oooooh, look out! I'm going! Oooooh! Ooooooh!

    Hurley: Oh, will you help me? Can you help me?
    Jacob: You don't need to be helped any longer. You've always had the power to go back.
    Kate: I have?
    Desmond: Then why didn't you tell us before?
    Jacob: Because you wouldn't have believed me. You had to learn it for yourselves.
    Sawyer: Son of a bitch.

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  23. "It wasn't as good as the end of The Wire."

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  24. spacewoman7:12 PM

    Here was my reaction to bill's comment in real time: "uh huh, uh huh, i get it, uh huh --- bahahahaha!"

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  25. Carmichael Harold7:23 PM

    I'm so ashamed. I just read the last of James Poniewozik's interviews with Cuse and Lindelof at Time, and Lindelof made exactly the same Newhart/PoF reference I made.

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  26. bill.9:08 PM

    Bob Newhart jokes are too easy to pass up. I wrote this in 2006:

    How Lost will end: They'll all wake up in Bob Newhart's bed when Bobby walks out of the shower holding a snowglobe. If none of that makes any sense then you're too young to be reading this OR you don't watch enough TV.
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    In the same post, I also had "Make a note of it: Desmond will be revealed as the man in charge."

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  27. isaac_spaceman10:30 PM

    So you're saying that they've confirmed the theory you proposed after Season 2, Episode 3?

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  28. piledhighanddeep10:38 PM

    Just got back from the NY Times Live chat/Phantom Event with Carleton Cuse and Damon Lindelof. Very entertaining evening. The major takeaway I took from the discussion (no spoilers) is that this show was really a collaborative effort on the part of many, many writers, actors, directors, editors, and other crew members. The two men did a lot of talking about the collaborative process, and how much the imput of others was crucial to the success of the show. You don't often see Hollywood types giving credit to others for their success; it was nice to see. We did have some spoilers tonight, though; if you start a spoiler thread, I'll share--and I can't imagine there aren't other folks on this blog who were in attendance tonight.....

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