I've only watched like the first season of Lost, and I've heard bits and pieces of Lost discussion over the years from friends and in chatrooms online, and over the last few days, I decide to take a look at some synopsis for myself.
And all I have really been thinking to myself while I've delved further and further into the lost plot summaries is "what the fuck is this clusterfuck of shit?"
Jack, now believing that his destiny is on the island and more accepting of supernatural phenomena, gives Locke a pair of his father's old shoes. The Oceanic Six, although hesitant or not wishing to return to the island, are passengers on Ajira 316 and are consumed by bright flashes in the middle of their flight. Because the original flight was not recreated exactly, some of the survivors time travel and find themselves on the island in 1977.
We have a bunch of people who've escaped from the island who now decide their destiny is on the island for no apparent reason, and they, for some reason, are able to return to the island by recreating their previous flight, including impersonating some other passengers, and the island magically decides to teleport them to itself in 1977.
Jack is mortally wounded in a fight with the Man in Black, and dies at the end of the finale. He kills the Man in Black and saves the island and learns the alternate timeline is actually the afterlife where he reunites his father and friends who have died before and long after him.
So the man in black, which is apparently the smokey bear monster or whatever and the guy who resurrected sayid from the dead, fights Jack in a battle to the death in the series finale, and Jack finds out that the alternate reality, which, as far as I can tell, has been seen in episodes all the time since like the 2nd season, is simply a singularity that exists outside of the realm of space time, where everyone on the island meets up with everyone else from the island to make their peace and have a family reunion with each other. It is a place where individuals who mean a lot to each other, like those on the island, who die past, present, and future travel to together to reunite before they phaze out of existence or go to heaven or wherever. What the fuck is this shit?
And the island has the ability to travel through space time. the time traveling aspect of the island is activated by detonating hydrogen bombs to release all the electromagnetic energy stored inside the island's core. I swear to fucking god, that was the exact same plot device used by K.A. Appelgate in one of the Animorphs books. What the fuck is this shit?
I'm not trying to troll, I just seriously can't believe the story I've been exposed to from season 1 goes so fucking far off the deep end. It's the most convoluted mess of a plot I have ever read about. Maybe it makes more sense in the context of 120+ hours of television, but it sounds like a mindless jumbling of superstitious religion-inspired hand waving, unexplained plot devices pulled out of nowhere, and character logic that is completely illogical. Is this what everyone has been going crazy over for the last six years? Because I'm not impressed based on what I've read about seasons 2 through 5.
