"we find out that Ford really wasn’t the bad guy "

What a fucking great movie ! One of the best action movies ever. I watched it at least 10 times.

It was clearly a dream if you rewatch the movie, everything he sees later is in the program they insert - the woman, the alien structures and so on.

There have been dozens of studies specifically constructed to allow people to express freely what they think. And in the more progressive european countries where most of these restrictions do not exist the percentage of gay people is exactly the same.

People feel free to behave like they want and there are still less than 5% gays.

Outside of the weird progressive bubble, life is mainly the same as it was. There are not more "queers", most people never met a transgender in their life, women still take care of kids and making food at home much more than men and so on.
The future will be more religious and more traditional since these are the…

Bernard's hospital flashback did happened in our present day as it was Arnold's history and happened over 40 years before the present of the series. So in fact it confirms that this happens in the future.

There is not even one single reason to believe we are seeing alternate history. Usually, alternate history is presented in the premises of the show. There is no alternate history here, this is Sci Fi, in the future.

"he park's current technology is not supposed to be decades into the 21st century, it's supposed to be contemporary,"

You may not like it but it was explained in the episode itself. And even if season 6 was the weakest, the narrative was not all over the place.

"he J.J. Abrahms association; I've always viewed his habit of using shifting/alternative timelines as his #1 narrative "go to" as laziness, rather than as a bona fide motif."

I really like the show and the degree of details. For example, when I first saw the "Bernard" flashback with his son at the hospital I was annoyed by the fact that it looked like it was happening nowadays while this is supposed to be a story happening a few decades in the future. But the hospital, the machines, even…

Just fucking rewatch the episode. They even say it literally. The island was real. The alternate universe parts happened dozen of years later *after* they were all dead and they reunited in this world before going to the next. It had in fact nothing to do with the main narrative.

Which mysteries were never answered ? Almost everything was. Including the numbers. Of course there should be no answer to the numbers. And what the show proved is that questions are more interesting than answers.

Some geeks decided that every mystery had to have a scientific or at least pseudo-scientific sci fi explanation. They hate spirituality and mysticism for some reasons. I do like them - to a certain limit - and enjoyed Lost for what it was. It was not a hard sci fi show and never even pretended to be one. I like…

The ending was not purgatory. The island was real as were all the things that happened on it.

Season 3 was great. The first episodes are slow, but it's only 6 of them and they are not so bad. There is one really bad episode iun the season that everybody knows (The One With The Tattoo) but you can skip it. From episode 7 it's pretty great (but the tattoo episode) and the final stretch of episodes is among the…

I think this episode was fantastic.
I do not understand people who want answers quickly, all the fun is taking time (but I did love Lost until the end and the fact they waited entire seasons to answer a mystery introduced 50 episodes before).
I don't know if William is the MiB but this episode seems to reinforce this…

I have no idea what reddit is.

I think the world building is atrocious, incoherent, stupid, and she had no idea what she was doing. It starts as a book for kids, then she tries to make it more serious and adult, and failed completely and it ended being a kids book.