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Posting will be pretty light this morning as I try and get through this Lost recap, because oh boy, right guys? Right? Oh boy, right? But now that Lost is finally over, we can start to speculate on how they’re going to tie up all the loose ends on that other paranormal world of mystery and wonder: The Simpsons. I read that the creators of The Simpsons only wanted to do 190 seasons of the show, because they had a specific story to tell and they didn’t want to drag this thing on forever and ever. Get it? You get it. (Image via TheDailyWhat.)
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Santa’s Little Helper is going to lay down right next to Bart after he finally finishes his chalkboard sentences, then a big flash of “SIMPSONS” across the screen, and it’ll go through the main title sequence during the credits with nothing strange happening.
Then Tracy Ullman stumbles out…
You sir, put the cherry on top
i’m just glad the writer’s went for good storytelling instead of this:
The mysteries can stay what they are. The finale was awesome.
I am going to agree with you now to get out ahead of all the anger over religion.
Same. Great ending to a magnificent show.
So you prefer that they did the ending of Ghost over the ending of The Matrix: Reloaded.
I’m gonna have to agree with you there.
I have somewhere to be, so I’m just going to share my Lost comments here. If Nick Madson is around, maybe he can “write” my comments over in the proper thread later?
1. Ben/Hurley spinoff anyone? Let’s do it! Half hour comedy with Scooby Doo hijinx. I WANT TO SEE THIS.
2. Felt very satisfied with the ending, and did my best to not cry when Vincent laid down next to Jack. I’m a big girl! I don’t cry at TV shows! HOWEVER, I’m a bit disappoint that they did not go with the actual science parallel split off reality (or did they? I’m so confused!), and instead went with the “It was all a ghost dream to bring you all together. But not you Walt.”
3. They almost went there. “No man is an island.” Almost! I feel like they did go there and the rewrote it because HA!
4. Also want to see the episode where Richard Alpert meets the real world all Encino Man-ish. (I’m pretending there was no Dharma Initiative because it’s funnier for me to imagine him afraid of flushing toilets.)
5. Also a bit bummed that the happy ending was that they all “found” their soulmates and could go off into the ether or whatever. Sorry, single people! Better luck next island! Except Boone, though. Boone’s soulmate is Boone.
6. Jack’s kung fu moment was pretty cool.
7. Did anyone watch this without ffing through commercials? It was brutal. Seriously.
8. I don’t feel like writing this all the way to 15 or something to make this Lost-y, so I’m done.
Re: #7 – I think Lost’s greatest mystery is how they can put together a 2:30 finale with only roughly 53 minutes of actual content.
“7. Did anyone watch this without ffing through commercials? It was brutal. Seriously.”
Except for the Target commercials. Those were the BEST
RE:#2 – I am pretty sure at the end they were at the entrance to heaven (where you still gotta get your Dad’s coffin signed for by Des). There was the merging of their consciousness and the remembrance of their lives/deaths in the flashes and “Feeling It” they felt. Everyone died, basically.
The island was real, it’s powers were supernatural, and the fact that the O6 even got away the first time is miraculous.
There will be more mind melting discussion later I am sure…
I liked it too. Mad love Lost. and now I’m sad. Won’t be around to coment until way later. looking forward to the recap Gabe. Also: SPINOFFS! YES! I mean, Lapidus could do his own show too…with Miles and special guest star KATE AUSTIN as KATE! but ugh guys. i’m still emotinally drained. So it goes. Hugs all around.
As soon as Miles plucked the gray hair, I completely hoped he get off the island so I could see your #4 scenario. Oh well I have a great imagination, I will just imagine it on my own just like all the other plot holes in Lost. Overall great ending but as soon as Jack died I started feeling Lost withdrawl.
P.S. Not scared to say I swallowed my tears when Vincent laid next to Jack at the end and I am big boy so no need to feel bad about swallowing or trying to swallow your tears, it is end of an era of TV. Happy Town isn’t go to fill the void.
Spoiler alert.
But if you are on Videogum and you didn’t watch Lost finale yet, then you have no idea who Jack is and would care about me saying he died.
P.S. I got to go so it will be a while before I can reply to this but, who thought for a few seconds that the Smoke Monster made it out other sideways universe when Jack’s dad was not in the coffin?
I DEFINITELY thought that Christian was the smoke monster in bizarro world. I was relieved when he wasn’t.
Happy to go on record here and now to admit that I too honest-to-goodness cried when Vincent lays next to Jack – Jack smiles, the plane passes over – it’s all coming to an end – the music – it just got me – and any and all pre conceived notions at not getting outwardly emotional over a TV show just fell by the wayside – I’m actually proud I cried – proud I felt that I’d just been honestly entertained and intrigued for 6 years by something so ambitious yet so comfortingly understandable despite it all.
I’m with you on this one. There have been a lot of complaints about the writers supposedly pulling it out of their asses as they went along, but as far as I’m concerned I really did feel connected to the characters they created. The show may not have wrapped up as cleanly as I had hoped, and then were definitely some missteps along the way, but I was genuinely sad to see everybody go. And, yeah, I bawled when the dog laid down next to Jack. I consider that a success.
I hate to be all nerdy but Richard had been off the island recently to recruit Juliet.
Stop ruining everything!
Re #2: I was disappointed too. I’m not big scifi nerd (honest!) but I thought it was super fun trying to figure out how the time line split if they all jumped back to 2004 and it turns out they weren’t in 2004 at all, just some weird afterlife waiting room that choose to resemble itself after the year 2004? Boo. But I did love the writers choice to have Boone and Shannon brought back into the story by being thrown into bags of trash. So it all evens out.
I will reserve longer comments for later posts, but yes: I teared up when Vincent trotted out and laid down next to Jack. And the silent shots of the beach wreckage. And Sawyer and Juliet. There was alot to like, alot to argue about and a good end to a great show.
re: 1
let’s do this you guys.
I really love #3 Lulubelle.
That is all.
heh
They find out that their Springfield is actually the same Springfield that exists in every state and they’ve been living in a warped, cohesion. The show has been a commentary against State’s Rights from the beginning.
Maggie wakes up from a dream to find that season 10 through season infinity were all a dream. Only 1-9 exist! Only 1-9 exist!
If the first season where they all looked like anteaters were a dream, that would be OK too.
The simpsons can end their run in a dignified way by using the remaining 6 seasons Fox would’ve. given them to Give us more Futurama and Arrested Development.
I will sign your useless online petition or join your similarly useless Facebook group pledging my allegiance to your above given ideals.
Chill-ass dude extraordinaire Otto washes ashore just in time to get the family (and the top 65 characters) out of Springfield/HELL onboard a bus (they were previously going to blow up to prevent Mr/ Burns from Taking it).
Bart closes his eye, and the credits play under a Tracey Ullman sketch.
It turns out that Homer actually died when eating the poisonous blowfish and all subsequent episodes are his journey through purgatory. Which would explain the lack of aging to any character.
Either then or during El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer
Kang and Kodos took over the world. They injected everyone with daze-inducing slave juice which made each person visualize a different fantasy world. We are seeing the world through Principal Skinner’s POV.
Nice one! Very Funny. If one has a rather dry sense of humor.
Unfortunately my sense of humor is compleatly dry, so I in fact found
no humor in the above comment.
heh
The Simpsons will end with Bart and Milhouse riding a toboggan down a pristine, snowy hill and then Bart says, “Lets go exploring.”
*sniff* NOTHING.
Bob Newhart wakes up, rolls over, and tells Suzanne Pleshette, “Wow, I had the strangest dream. For a while it was the best dream of all time, and even though by I end I pretty much just wanted to wake up, I’m still glad I I had that dream.”
Or maybe it’ll end with Homer sitting in a diner booth while Lisa parks the car and Journey is playing. And then the image cuts out early, followed by 11 seasons of mediocrity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyKyjeRodd4&feature=player_embedded
That was awesome! Even if those Nick Madsons totally ripped off me and jerkface killah’s jokes.
Wow. Maybe we’re all Nick Madsons. It’s like that Busch song: “We live in a wheel, where everyone Nick Madsons.”
Millhouse (evil Locke) bought Bart’s (everyone except Michael and Walt) soul(s), but then Lisa (Jack) bought it back for $5 (delusional dream sequence) and they all rowed off to heaven (heaven) together.
I’m telling you, Tony Soprano definitely got whacked. It’s all explained right here:
http://masterofsopranos.wordpress.com/the-sopranos-definitive-explanation-of-the-end/
As opposed to the (now mundane) skateboard ride home in the opening credits, the final episode opening credits see bart skateboard through springfield, assasinating each character one by one, thus sparing the audience the inevitable disappointment of sitting through a full last episode
Except he’s not actually assassinating them. He’s helping them “feel it.”
Nothing to do with this but ICP’s Miracles is playing on MTVU right now
Or does it have everything to do with it? Miracles?
Monorails? How the fuck do they work?
The ring came off my pudding can.
cancelled.
I think a show like the Simpsons will just kind of …end. There will be no big mysteries to solve, not big plot twists, unexpected endings or shocking revelations. It”s be a well-written, funny, sweet and thoroughly enjoyable episode.
I’m thinking they’ll do a lot of cool stuff in their final season rather than just the final episode.
Peace out.
by ‘cool stuff’, i suppose you mean a foray of cameos by c-list (occasionally b-list) celebrities?
But, without the Simpsons, who will Seth Macfarlane steal storylines from?
Manhattan will sink but it’s all in Chuck’s head.
… oh wait