I'd love to hear more about why this series/season is so good, because i am missing most of this. Like the above, Really feels like a bit of stretch with the bolded above. So is this 3rd season just a summary of the main points of the show?
Maybe it is how i watched the show too. I watched first 4-5 episodes of season 1 then bailed because i thought it wasn't so good. My wife has been watching so i binged up to season 3 (episode 4 i think) to watch with her. Seems the show is just kind of turned into one of those self-masturbatory things that heads of shows can do from time to time. the whole inside penis jokes with Justin Thoreau pulling his pecker out was just Lindeloff whacking himself out the whole time.
I am wondering if my problem with the show is i am taking it to serious, and looking for a purpose of the story here. And let me emphasize here, i am not looking for a pissing contest or rain on anybody's parade in here, just hoping someone can help me to enjoy this last episode because the more i think about this 3rd season the more i am thinking it is 1 season too long and basic trash. A few things i guess to make this more of a purposeful exploration:L
1. So what is the purpose of this whole "God" character that has been in each of his after life experiences?
maybe it IS god, and god is a fraud, or misunderstood. Or maybe, everyone has a voice in their head/gut that tells them what to do when they're in unknown circumstances, and that voice gets the label 'god' in a lot of cultures. It hasn't been answered, and honestly, probably will not. In that, art imitates life.
2. and i guess with the question above, these are more of "dreams" then any actual after life, right? the times in season 2 when he was in the after-life it felt more like an organic experience and good mix of there being a purpose to it, while also having some self exploration for Kevin. The experience from this season seemed like a total dream, and it seemed not like an experience for Kevin. And if it was a dream idea, he is making up all the answers for everyone back in the "living world". So the whole idea of Kevin being anything special is pretty much bull####? and if that is the case, can others return from the dead with actual experiences like Kevin?
what is the actual afterlife? Is it just a flash of all the memories and experiences that are jumbled up in your head for one last hurrah before you snuff it? Or is there an afterlife? A real other dimension where things are similar because it's what our minds create, but the rules don't really apply? Or is it weirder? Are we just consciousness, popping in and out of existence constantly, occupying multiple dimensions at once, but the pull of the physical body keeps us grounded in this dimension, where our personal narrative becomes our own reality tunnel, but it's not even remotely close to objective truth. It's all just a tale, told by a fool, full of sound and fury and signifying nothing. Again, I don't think they're going to answer this, because, well, in the course of human history, nobody has satisfactorily answered it. I don't think it's what they're trying to do with this show- answer the great questions. They're just telling a story.
3. is the whole idea of the departure a completely different story line? I get what you are saying about the idea of the show how people deal with grief, but i guess i am thinking that the show just seems to jump all over and glaze over this.
one thing that happens with grief, you get a reprieve from your day to day existence. Everybody has stuff that stresses them out every day: bills to pay, somebody driving like an idiot in front of you, I hate my job, my kids are pissing me off, my wife can't put things away properly in the dishwasher, whatever. When you lose someone, all of that becomes meaningless, if only for a short time. You question everything, even the nature of reality. What the departure does, as a story-telling vehicle, is to make that universal and not personal. Even people who didn't lose someone close to them in the Departure were affected by it just because it happened on such a huge scale. It allows for people to question their lives and join cults, or not be too skeptical when dogs start acting crazy and need to be shot, or want to move to a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, Texas. It's seminal to this world and this story, but I don't know that they're going to address the root cause of it. But, that's the thing, again. I don't think they want to try and give answers. I think they want to look at human beings and their reactions to the crazy, illogical, world-shattering loss of a loved one. There are no answers in this world, and there won't be in that one. Still a great story.
I got other questions, and this is intended for anybody who has idea about the show. thanks
