LOST: The Final Season (Spoilers)

[coyote6]

Maybe they'll start their own crossover-verse. So Sydney Bristow shows up at the last minute to kill Smokey and rescue them, then drops them off in Los Angeles, where they are met by Michael Abaddon, who not only survived but reveals himself to have been undercover FBI Special Agent Broyles all along. Walter Bishop, it seems, did some work for the Dharma Initiative, deciphering notes left by Milo Rambaldi, when he was younger.

The island's true nature is that it's a nexus of realities, and the castaways have been bouncing from parallel universe to parallel universe. The Man in Black was transformed into Smokey by exposure to magnetically polarized red mercury. Now they need to take that red mercury into the future, so Starfleet can try to use it to save Vulcan.

Unfortunately, they red mercury was at Massive Dynamics in NYC, and a giant monster crawled out of the ocean and ate it.

Now the fate of the world rests on one woman's shoulders: Felicity Porter.

 

[Asmo]

Now the fate of the world rests on one woman's shoulders: Felicity Porter.

What? The only possible person that could handle this situation is a certain FBI agent - Dana Scully (with a little help from her parter, Fox Mulder).

Asmo

 

[coyote6]

What? The only possible person that could handle this situation is a certain FBI agent - Dana Scully (with a little help from her parter, Fox Mulder).

I think that's the Fox-verse crossover, not the Abrams-verse crossover.

But if Agents Scully & Mulder need help, they can always call CTU and get Bauer to come help -- that'll guarantee everything will be wrapped up in a day!

Granted, some cities may need to be nuked, and it might cost a president or two, but hey!

 

[RangerWickett]

Man, I'm imagining the 21st century version of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen now.

Jack Bauer
James Bond
Hugo "Hurley" Reyes
Harry Potter
Bella

This is harder because I'm trying to only go for folks who were prominent after the millennium (so Mulder & Scully is a stretch, and no Rambo), and that aren't already part of a super group (so no Avengers or members of the Justice League).

 

[Janx]

How are any of these endings different from what I'm proposing will happen? Cause what I'm basically saying is that the resolution of what is happening on the island will cause the "alternate" reality we've been watching this whole season to be what actually happened... so it's not alternate at all. Which is really the only ending that makes any sense and kind of the only way they can go with all of this. Somehow the flash-sideways-verse has to actually come about. It's the only way the show can actually get a "happy ending."

My observation (which seems to be pissing off/annoying some people) is pointing out that such an ending effectively makes the entire show "all a dream" in that it will have never actually happened because the action at the end of the show will reset reality, making the "alternate" reality the only thing that really happened.

Or it'll be that snowglobe thing and all of this will turn out to be part of the Tommy Westphall-verse!

My points support your idea.

In Dallas, the Just a dream ending leaves at exactly wher eyou started at the beginning of the season.

An alternate reality shift doesn't do that.

Which is why I pointed out that pre-island the surviviors lives sucked. alternate reality with no island, their lives are better. Thus, when it happens, it is NOT the same as being just a dream. An actual change has occurred. It's simply not a change the characters may be aware of.

 

[coyote6]

Man, I'm imagining the 21st century version of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen now.

Jack Bauer
James Bond
Hugo "Hurley" Reyes
Harry Potter
Bella

This is harder because I'm trying to only go for folks who were prominent after the millennium (so Mulder & Scully is a stretch, and no Rambo), and that aren't already part of a super group (so no Avengers or members of the Justice League).

Ooh, neat idea, though it's a huge thread drift.

I dunno if you could/should count Bond; sure, there've been some great Bond movies this century, but he's got such strong 20th century roots. Maybe the Matt Damon/film version of Jason Bourne, since the movies were all 2002 & later (and, frankly, a good chunk of the style of the Craig Bond movies can be traced to Bourne).

I've not read or seen the Twilight movies, but if Bella gets reinterpreted a la Mina, that might be neat. Bella, post-Slayer training.

Edit: I think I'd still prefer Selene (from Underworld) or Alice (from Resident Evil), though.

Coming back to Lost, while Hurley would be amusing, there are a bunch of Losties that could work. Sawyer's pretty competent in a number of areas, and is amoral enough to be interesting. Sayid would be fun, but with Bauer around, it would probably degenerate into torture porn pretty quick.

 

[John Crichton]

How are any of these endings different from what I'm proposing will happen? Cause what I'm basically saying is that the resolution of what is happening on the island will cause the "alternate" reality we've been watching this whole season to be what actually happened... so it's not alternate at all. Which is really the only ending that makes any sense and kind of the only way they can go with all of this. Somehow the flash-sideways-verse has to actually come about. It's the only way the show can actually get a "happy ending."

Who says it has to have a happy ending? That would invalidate all the actions that we've seen. The characters in the sideways flashes are not the same characters we've been following since S1. Lost has always been a show about consequences and choices. Having none of those events take place in the end doesn't go with what the show has been about.

Your proposed ending offers no satisfaction, closure or a resolution to the story being told.

(which seems to be pissing off/annoying some people)

Perhaps you are seeing things that aren't there.

My observation (which seems to be pissing off/annoying some people) is pointing out that such an ending effectively makes the entire show "all a dream" in that it will have never actually happened because the action at the end of the show will reset reality, making the "alternate" reality the only thing that really happened.

And I'll say again that such an ending would be a cop out. You brought up what happened with Bobby in Dallas. That was lame. Historically so that it will be mocked for all time.

Folks can justify it all they want but having a WHATEVER wipe out all that's happened over the course of the entire show is lame. Also, it would be pointless. The show is over so there is no need to wipe things clean, read: reboot. Besides the main character's fates the sideways flash reveal is the only thing left to resolve besides stopping Smokey at this point. It's all but guaranteed that the two resolutions will have a strong connection.

 

[RichCsigs]

Since near the beginning of this season (maybe around episode 3), I've been stating that the flash-sideways are actually flashbacks.

* Juliette sets off the nuke, sinking the island and giving us the sideways time line (think "Biff gives the almanac to his younger self" in Back To The Future II).
* Everybody's lives take different directions.
* Eventually something will happen to get them all to realize that the universe is "wrong".
* They will do something to "correct" things, leading to the beginning of the season with them in the present at the blown up hatch, and not remembering the sideways time line, since it "never happened".

Is that what's going to happen? I don't know for sure. But I still think I'm right. We'll see tomorrow night.

 

[Diamond Cross]

Gilligan's Island was the first Lost.

 

[Hand of Evil]

There were no surviors of Oceanic 815.