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DimitriCushion t1_ja9xxft wrote

Reply to comment by Dismal-Past7785 in Finally giving LOST a watch in 2023. by shadowdra126

I had a discussion with someone on here awhile ago who apparently was a huge fan of the show when it aired, but they hated the ending and had never gone back to it since. Only thing was that they had misunderstood the ending in the way that many people seem to have. After a back and forth on the subject they refused to accept what I was saying and put it down to "different interpretations", despite what the show explicitly spells out to the viewer. Incredibly frustrating. I've got no problem with anyone who disliked the ending, but I really don't get how so many people managed to misunderstand it when they basically have a character knock you over the head with exposition explaining everything.

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Dismal-Past7785 t1_jaarlkf wrote

>!Jacks dad (Christian) literally says “you’re dead now, but everything happened on the island while you were still alive, with these people, and it was the most important time of your life which is why you are now in the afterlife with them getting ready to move on”. It is mind boggling how people get from that to “island = purgatory”.!<

It just blows my mind that people don’t understand it. I just can’t figure it out. I remember watching it live in College, then talking the next day with people. To this day I think less of the people that thought >!island = purgatory!<.

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Queasy_Turnover t1_jacsf7q wrote

I think a lot of people had that theory in their head the whole time they were watching it and just refuse to accept that they were wrong. Kind of like a "See? I called it years ago!" attitude.

I'm with you though, I can't help but judge someone who watches a show for that long, is explicitly told in the finale what happened, and still completely misses the point. I had a coworker who fairly recently was going on about what a waste of time Lost was because the ending was so bad. I told him his interpretation of the ending was flat out wrong and why, but he wouldn't accept it.

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Khiva t1_jablvkf wrote

I absolutely loathed the ending, and still do, but I did a quick search to find the conversation you had in mind and honestly it's hilarious, and a little sad. I really have no idea how a person can be that wrong.

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Logical_Copy_8465 t1_jad1p3y wrote

The guy trys to argue the last scene with Jack and the dog happens after the crash. As far as I remember the dog wasn't even present at the time of the crash and if it was it wasn't fully grown

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heysuess t1_jad384s wrote

Well now you're both wrong. The dog was present after the crash. It's in the first scene of the show. Vincent wakes Jack up and runs out of the woods.

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Logical_Copy_8465 t1_jad3ox7 wrote

Fair enough, it's been almost a decade since I watched it. But their interpretation would mean the dog comes out of the forest wakes jack up then he just dies

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staedtler2018 t1_jac8nrz wrote

>I really don't get how so many people managed to misunderstand it when they basically have a character knock you over the head with exposition explaining everything.

I imagine that these people got lost somewhere around flash-forwards and time travel shenanigans and just didn't have a good grasp of anything that was going on by the time we got to the actual ending.

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Logical_Copy_8465 t1_jad2dud wrote

The final had ratings that hadn't been seen since early season 4. A lot of people had stopped watching and just came back to the last episode or two to,see how it ended. Unsurprisingly its not an easy final to understand as a standalone episode

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