On 43 Answers To Unanswered Questions About "Lost"
I'm sorry people are disappointed about the lack of answers. I thought I would be, too. But I also think a 2.5 hour show of question-answering would have sucked. I said this before, and I'll say it again...you care about the numbers because you care about how they effected the characters. You don't really care about the numbers themselves. You took a journey with the characters. What they don't know, you don't know. The mystery drove the show, it drove and motivated the characters, but ultimately, it made no difference beyond that. Desmond: "None of this matters". Watching the finale, I kept thinking of Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle" and the karass. For those of you who are dumb enough not to have read that book (sorry, but you are dumb), a karass is a group of people who come together or find each other in each lifetime, in order to accomplish "God's will". Vonnegut suggests that we're all members of a karass. There are two goals for a karass: finding each other, and accomplishing something important. I think this might have been one of the ideas behind the finale. Aside from that, what did you expect? No one single character knew a damn thing. Jacob didn't know shit. Ben didn't know shit. Richard didn't know shit. How exactly did you think you would get the answers that you feel so desperately you needed? Look. You invested your time in this narrative because you cared about the characters. No one owes you any answers. Life isn't like that. And, actually, the writers could have been like, "Go fuck yourselves", and not even given us all those nice reunions or anything. Whatever. Piss and moan about it if you want. It's a stupid TV show. I enjoyed it and I'm happy with the way it ended.
0
On 43 Answers To Unanswered Questions About "Lost"
You might have been. Vonnegut contends that life is bullshit, basically, so yeah. I don't know if I'd say that Lost took itself seriously, although the business of survival after a plane crash and all the events that occurred after that are pretty serious, in terms of how they effected the characters. I know it pisses people off that the writers just decided to be like, "Oh, no one knew shit, and none of it matters anyway"...but when, in life, are you allowed to know the answers, really? My friend complained that she thought some of the "puzzle pieces" would be fit together, maybe like the grand explanation in the Matrix. There are billions of puzzle pieces in our lives...few ever get put where they might actually belong. The Lost characters stumbled around like babies with their eyes closed for 6 seasons. In that light, I have trouble understanding why people think they should or would have gotten all the answers. I think people are just enjoying being pissed off about something stupid and pointless. Which was part of the point of that finale: don't waste your time on the stupid and pointless. Stop trying to explain everything. Let go...right?