Why do we keep assuming everything will turn out OK?
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By chemjohn
- Why do we keep assuming everything will turn out OK?
- Created: Jun 9, 2008
- Last updated: Aug 14, 2008
- After episode: 4.13: There’s No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3
- Status: Current
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We are obsessed with figuring out how everyone is going to end up better…why?
Every story and movie (well, almost every one) has a happy ending. The good guy almost always wins…
For sure, this isn’t really a theory…It’s a question and a solicitation to come up with some really negative ideas.
We all keep assuming that everyone (except the dead, of course) are going to live happily ever after, at least the good guys will anyway. I’ve recently begun to wonder if maybe this will not be the case…What’s the WORST ending you can think of?
I don’t mean something really stupid like Jack is actually the second coming of Christ and humanity is starting over on the island, which is really Eden, and that he and Kate are to be the new Adam and the New Eve. That, I think we’d agree would suck.
I mean something like Ben gets the Island back and enslaves everyone, or destroys the Island with everyone on it.
What really SAD, negative endings can we come up with here? I’m beginning to doubt we’ll have a happy ending…which, actually, lol, would make me happy :).
i don’t believe there’s gonna be a sad ending, i mean, how many people from lost’s public are gonna like that? after all, the show is all about being liked by people, and i don’t think the producers are gonna make it end badly. What i think, though, is that it may actually not end: they got to a point where it’s really hard to find a good ending that everyone will like and that is acceptable and not too ridiculous. So maybe in the end, as someone already theorized, the whole thing is gonna start back with Jack waking up on the island (first episode of lost) and the story will end up being a loop. That’s because, as Ms. Hawking said, it’s impossible to change the future, and since Jack wants to always fix things, he’s gonna try to fix this, which is impossible.
Yea i think that its going down that road. I mean a lot of people are dying lately. It just keeps running through my head when i think about the end.
I don’t think “everything” will work out, but I hope there will be a happy ending. I would be very disappointed if there was not.
Personally, Cenoura…I’d prefer a sad ending to a loop, but that’s just me.
I think a Jack-centric time loop would be VERY boring.
Personally, I could see the writers making the “end” as strange as the Begenning. I see them throwing in some loops, while answering questions -but leaving some new possiblilties open and new questions to be answered.
Do I perhaps hear the sounds of a full length movie? Think of X- Files, Sex and the City, and Serenity… it has happened before!
The time loop has been done before in literature and in movies, and the Lost writers pride themselves on being original and avoiding cliches, so I think that’s really unlikely.
I’m thinking that a group of Losties will finally realize the power of the island, ending in a conflict that will take the lives of most of them in order to keep the island a secret - and they’ll then resign themselves to living on the island forever. And just when they decide that they are going to live peacefully on the island for the rest of their lives, something funny happens - like a plane falling from the sky, and the new Ben (Jack, maybe?) realizes that he must make all the same ruthless decisions that Ben made in order to keep the island safe…
piratefalcon325 - funny idea - can you imagine if it ended that way! The only thing is how would another plane crash? There is no button to push anymore - and I doubt that they would turn the wheel again. So, (at least for what we know now) there does not appear to be anything on the island that would cause such a disturbance. But, if the island did move into the past- it would eventually have to “catch up” in the time line. Perhaps the Losties will go back, and finally stop Ben early enough- (before Clarie, Micheal, and other key characters die) so the wheel never gets turned, they are still alive and they stay on the island— could fit in with your idea?
No kidding. I mean if they are able to move the island back in time, this show could go on forever and ever and ever. And then they could do spin offs like a show with Richard Alpert who becomes the leader of some new age cult and takes over the world. Wait a minute… never mind.
Funny post. Worst case scenario:they finally make it back to the island and the volcano erupts! I hope not!just playing
We’ve already reached the worst that things can possibly get with Locke dead, the O6 mentally breaking down and god knows what’s happening to those left on the island. Or maybe not. I have a feeling that the island’s secret will be kept secret (otherwise it would become an overrun tourist spot in no time — like the one ABC/Disney might make from LOST).
I think in the last episode it will be revealed that Michael and the rest of the Losties are all regular guys in the labor force, and Walt has a snow globe with the island in it.