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What TV series has the worst continuity or internal plot consistency? (piefed.social)
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[–] 1 point 10 months ago* (7 children)

I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they actually manage to get off the island, back into the real world, only to have something "calling" them back and they need to go back?

If that was so and they were actually in an afterlife, was that real world not real or did they resurrect themselves for a while?

I've never rewatched it so I might be misremembering idk

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    The "official" answer I keep hearing is they're only actually dead in the last episode, which makes everything about it cheap and tacky, so I reject that.

    But there's an alternate timeline shown where they never were on the island as well, iirc. And it's all just weird. You can't be internally inconsistent if there's never any established consistency.

    I enjoyed it like watching a train wreck in slow motion and getting to discuss it with people as it developed. But it clearly didn't have enough of an impact on me to remember anything worth remembering except "Don't tell me what I can't do" and "You all everybody."

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (5 children)

    so I reject that.

    I mean yeah, cause it's not consistent whatsoever, right?

    That was my main issue with it iirc. That the major reveal at the end wasn't internally consistent with the 7 seasons we had had. Especially because at that point, it was quite a significant portion of my actually independent thinking (as in you're not a kid anymore just watching what's on but actually choosing and watching whatever you like) life, so like you say, it felt cheap and tacky.

    I don't even remember those lines to be honest. I just remember the names of a few main characters like Locke and Sawyer, Jack and... the woman uhhh... I wanna say Kate? Spot on damn my memory isn't as bad as I thought.

    You can't be internally inconsistent if there's never any established consistency.

    No but like we were led to believers there would be some consistency, and we just don't know it yet. That was kinda the mystery that hooked people, no? Like pressing random numbers every now and then so... something doesn't happen? I don't even remember if that was ever properly explained.

    It's so intriguing but then they just pull the mat out from under you by saying "lol it wasn't even a thing actually".

    I guess Lost just suffered from getting founded after it should've been cut. Let's face it there's several shows that I would've rather have be finished than Lost. Although if they never finished lost, I might feel differently, as then I'd think there was still a possibility of them making dense somehow.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    "Don't tell me what I can't do" is Locke's catchline. "You All Everybody" is the song that Pippin (whatever his name is in Lost, I don't know) sings with his band. (Whose lyrical inspiration was from someone shouting word salad at the cast of Lost before shooting started and was ad libbed when Pippin was trying to get Jack to recognize him as the lead singer.)

    Maybe I remember more than I thought.

    Also. I think not pressing the numbers caused a (apparently reversible) meltdown that resulted in a huge magnetic field like the one that pulled down the plane. Or something like that.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    “You All Everybody” is the song that Pippin (whatever his name is in Lost, I don’t know) sings with his band

    I had completely forgot that, but yeah, I did a bit of checking and while it's a very understandable mistake, you actually mean Merry, not Pippin. Pippin is played by Billy Boyd, who did not star in Lost, but Merry is played by Dominic Monaghan, who very much did, a character called "Charlie Pace". I sort of remembered a hobbit's face in there as soon as I read your comment, but yeah, wrong hobbit. :D

    Also. I think not pressing the numbers caused a (apparently reversible) meltdown that resulted in a huge magnetic field like the one that pulled down the plane. Or something like that.

    Pulled the plane down... to the netherworld? See, it's just not internally consistent, imo. Or was there like a gate to hell in a specific airspace if you flew through it you'd crash on the island or what the hell. It just doesn't really work. Also I think I remember that Locke line, or at least context. Wasn't he like paralysed before they crashed, or something, and he didn't like people telling him what he's capable of because of that or smth.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Oh right.

    It's only the netherworld after they get back to the island or something. IDK and IDC honestly. I never liked the afterlife author theory.

    And yeah.

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