fuckyeahlost:

“Come on – heaven and hell, man? I thought you guys were going to get scientific with it, other dimensions with it, like [Stephen] Hawking’s with it, but no man, you had to go the heaven and hell route. It really gnarlied me out. I was saddened by that. I thought they were going to go there. It’s okay. It’s a TV show. Who didn’t enjoy that ride? It was a cool ride – always wondering what’s going to happen.”

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Michelle Rodriguez

Oh dear, let’s try this again. WHAT HAPPENED IN THE LAST EPISODE DOES NOT EXPLAIN EVERY SINGLE THING THAT HAPPENED IN THE PREVIOUS SIX YEARS. Using an afterlife (incidentally what scientific explanation did people think there was going to be for a giant smoke monster raising Locke’s body from the dead?) does not mean that two years of making science references didn’t happen. That the parallel universe turned out not to be a parallel universe doesn’t mean they didn’t spend the previous year purposefully introducing the idea that such things exist. Using religious or spiritual themes does not make you intellectually bankrupt. The religious are not (neccessarily) stupid. People can hold more than one thought in their head at once. AND SO ON.

(I’ve said before I personally didn’t engage with the ending because I didn’t believe it. So I get that but the argument above does raise a bigger issue - Seriously, do people who think this not read anything with religious ideas or characters? Or just term them inferior by default to those that feature the scientifically minded? Maybe the classics get let off because they were written in the past where people didn’t know any better? I know this is yet again down to me not understanding why people get upset by the very idea of believing something “untrue” (as opposed to when people act like cunts because of it) but I can’t be the only one, can I?)