*Spoiler* The LOST Finale

[Spectre]

The Season 2? opening with Desmond was awesome, I do think u bring up a good point in that it might have been cut due to time constraints. On another note i just pre ordered the uber expensive blu ray edition of Lost the complete series

[jitz]

So over the past through months i have been rewatching from the start, I just finished season 3 last night. Ben sees his dead mother in an episode (she died while giving birth to him). Now she never stepped foot on the island. He body was never taken to the island. He even sees her inside the Dharma Village, so inside the pylons. Which by the way were also featured in that episode or and episode close by and shown to hold the black smoke out. So knowing that the black smoke is the one taking on all these identities using their dead bodies. How the fuck?

Walt was stretching it, I gave them the benefit of the doubt. But inside the pylons, with a woman who never stepped on the island. The walking dead bodies explanation as the black smoke is bullshit. The writers should watching their own tv show once in awhile.

[Smacktalks]

They confirmed that there was two reasons behind the dead people being seen, 1 being the smoke monster and the other being an actual ghost. They confirmed the second after Richard's episode with Isabella speaking to Hurley. So that likely means the same for Charlie visiting Hurley off the island, it was his ghost, even tho he died on the island. I guess ghosts arent limited to where they can appear.

[jitz]

No Paul, that's a convenient plot device, not an explanation of why.

Let me put this to you in very British terms you will probably understand. Blinovitch Limitation Effect. Mean anything to you? Probably not, it's a major time travel principle in Doctor Who for why he cannot interfere with past events, and why the same person from different times can never meet or else they will destroy the world. What is the Blinovitch Limitation Effect? They have never explained. It's a convenient plot device, so the viewer doesn't question "why doesn't the Doctor just do this?". He doesn't do that because then the episode would be over in 5 minutes, and he would be at home happy on Gallifrey sipping tea without a care in the world. Instead "It's because the Blinovitch Limitation Effect will destroy the world, don't ask anymore".

"It was ghosts", is that plot device without explanation.

[Smacktalks]

Indeed it is.

I'm just hoping for some kind of spin off that goes more into the mysteries of the island, etc. I heard Disney want to expand the Lost universe, so there's bound to be something in the works.

[jitz]

Why can Hurley even talk to ghosts?

[Aero]

why could miles get feelings from dead ppl? why was desmond immune from magnetic fields? why didnt more planes crash as aresult of the magneticness of the island?

horley could talk to dead people because he could... atleast its a constant they had running from fairly early on

[Smacktalks]

lol.

The planes not crashing was a result of Desmond not pushing the button, the only other time would have been when the Hatch imploded but I guess there wasn't any planes in the area at the time. After it imploded I guess the magnetisim destroyed itself in that area.

I could see some Dharma spin off in the future showing them experimenting on children, kinda like in Fringe to explain Hurley & Miles' abilities, etc.

[jitz]

The Miles one I bought more, because it was always a constant of the character. Infact he as a character got short changed with only one episode centred on his backstory, when all of the other people he came onto the island with died. One episode Hurley was winning the lottery and having bad shit happen to him, the next he's in a crazy house talking to Dave. They needed to tell the story of inbetween those two, but they never did.

[Smacktalks]

They told you about how Hurley's Grandpa died, his chicken shop got hit by an asteroid, etc. and that he'd placed himself in there as a means of him trying not to hurt anyone else he cared about with his bad luck.

As for Dave, I'd guess he was an actual ghost/whispers off the island that was the first Hurley came into contact with, but i'd still like to know how/why.

[jitz]

Yep yep, that bit is coming back to me. If the episode where he places himself in the ward is in season 1-3, then I must have either been talking through it or going to the toilet or getting a beer. Otherwise it's explained later, and I cant remember back two years.

As for why Hurley started seeing ghosts, maybe a magic lottery ticket?

[Smacktalks]

Magic Cursed Lottery Ticket!