Mort-Hog
If moral relativism is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
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I was really worried that the Lost finale would just toss everything off as being "oh it's all God", like the X-Files finale. Instead it seemed to toss it all off as "oh... it's uh.. fate.. or destiny.. or.. uh.. hope", which isn't any more satisfying but does offer hope that a proper explanation will commence next season.
But considering all the crazy crap that's been happening to them, even before they were on the island, I can't imagine any sort of explanation other than some flimsy 'God' thing. Yeah, going all out with mysterious stuff is great and entices and amazes audiences, but a mysterious event needs a clever plotline to explain it. Lost has provided loads of mysteries, loads more things to ponder over than any other series or movie, but I fear it's too mysterious and no plot could be clever enough to explain everything and still be rational. That's a whole load of clever. That degree of clever.. I mean, that just doesn't exist. The Universe doesn't have enough clever to explain Lost.
Other than that, Lost has been an awesome character drama, it has a whole bucketload of fascinating characters all well acted. Locke was my total favourite throughout the first half of the season, but I've been loving Hurley ever since the Numbers episode.
There's still two things that I don't get, perhaps I missed this or wasn't paying attention:
1 - The watch that Korean dude has, what is it? He's shipping it for that mafia dude, but why? Smuggling diamonds or something?
2 - Why was Locke in a wheelchair? I don't remember any explanation for that.. The big 'episode Locke' with his father and everything ended with him in the car crying, after the surgery.. but he still had full use of his legs. The next time we see him is in Australia, yelling at the safari walk dude.
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. " - Bertrand Russell
The Triumph of Stupidity in Mortals and Others 1931-1935