tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18174368.post4006203056762238781..comments2023-10-29T03:18:11.093-05:00Comments on Schmoker Sense: Dead is dead, and that's how it should be.Schmokerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03985960616299425129noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18174368.post-23701193193995192692010-05-05T16:07:33.871-05:002010-05-05T16:07:33.871-05:00Oh my. I've been thinking about this all last...Oh my. I've been thinking about this all last night and all day today and I'm mainly depressed. Not even Ryan's telling us they've added a half hour to the finale has made me happy.<br /><br />And I'm mad at myself! I PLAINLY SAW Smocke hand Jack the backpack and it was obvious but I still didn't get it.<br /><br />I thought Sayid was back with us and I think he was but now he's not.<br /><br />I'm one of those who kept thinking why doesn't Sun OR Jin say something about their daughter (though I'm willing to forgive them since they weren't even used to being back together yet and knew they were going to die and realistically, they may have only been thinking of themselves.) Can't fault them for that - they were reunited for what? An hour?<br /><br />You're right about the digital watch conveniently being there. TOO convenient - too coy - too precious.<br /><br />Does being a candidate now mean that you're gonna die?<br /><br />After watching Hurley break up on the beach, which DID bring tears, I'm almost AFRAID to watch any more and that is NOT the way I wanted to spend the next couple of weeks.<br /><br />As you say, Schmoker - doesn't bode well - not well at all.Jannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18174368.post-55157051584116968392010-05-05T13:45:27.046-05:002010-05-05T13:45:27.046-05:00I don't know what to think now, but I do know ...I don't know what to think now, but I do know that the entire death by sub exercise was terribly plotted and staged. From the impossibility of the escape (you can't swim out a blow hole that is still filling up, let alone swim to the surface from five minutes down without getting the bends and drowning on your swim back to the beach) to the dramatic inertness of the deaths (Sayid's actually happened off screen, and was such a quick turnaround from the Zombie he had become that it made no sense that he ever was a Zombie), I sat their stunned for all the wrong reasons.<br /><br />It was like the writers thought that, since the show had been a sci-fi/fantasy mish-mash all along, they could completely throw out all realism and logic now that the end was coming. <br /><br />Basically last night was saying, "We have to wrap it up now, so we have to abandon everything that made the show great up to this point."<br /><br />Realism matters even more to a show such as Lost. When you are telling a fantastical story, you are even more hidebound by the reality you create than if you were telling a mundane story. You can't violate the reality you have created, because then all tension evaporates.<br /><br />How could Sun and Jin and Sayid and Frank all die without my shedding a tear? I cried when freaking Ana Lucia died, for goodness sakes. I cried when Ben had his cathartic moment with Ilana. I cried when Sun sat at Jin's fake grave and cried herself, and I even knew then that Jin wasn't really dead---yet I still cried.<br /><br />How could I not be moved by their deaths?Missynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18174368.post-27260793752425997562010-05-05T13:13:54.095-05:002010-05-05T13:13:54.095-05:00Is your heart made of stone, Schmoker? For someon...Is your heart made of stone, Schmoker? For someone who says he loved Sun and Jin, how could you not be moved by their deaths? Separated for seemingly forever, now they can be together forever in death. That was poetry.Sunny Sidenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18174368.post-56395908264229916502010-05-05T13:12:35.000-05:002010-05-05T13:12:35.000-05:00Our daughter will be rich. What does she need two...Our daughter will be rich. What does she need two goofy parents for?Sun & Jinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18174368.post-17509369159191235022010-05-05T12:37:26.475-05:002010-05-05T12:37:26.475-05:00Come over to the dark side, Schmoker.
You are not...Come over to the dark side, Schmoker.<br /><br />You are not the only one who didn't like last night's episode, but unlike you I have been feeling that way for most of the season. Now that you have finally seen the light (or dark), I look forward to what you have to say about the episodes to come.<br /><br />That Sun would simply allow Jin to stay there and drown with her, allowing her daughter to become an orphan without even a token fight, violated everything they had ever established about her character. That moment, where their child was never mentioned so that reality wouldn't intrude on the faux-Titanic bullshit of it all, was the true shark jumping moment. They violated character and logic in order to pull on heartstrings, which, in my case, didn't work at all.<br /><br />And that was without me ever even stopping to consider how shaky Smocke's master plan was, as you have pointed out so well. That was the 140 year plan in the making?<br /><br />I've been sort of so-so on the season as a whole this year, but your blogs on it have brought me around time and again, Schmoker. Nothing, however, will alter how bad last night was. Six years for that? Six years for a bullshit, manipulative death that violated the heart of those two characters?<br /><br />I'm a journey guy, too, Schmoker, but now I don't even really care where the journey goes from here.Snidelynoreply@blogger.com