Why did Locke get so screwed despite being the one person who actually appreciated the Island for what it really was?

Why did Locke get so screwed despite being the one person who actually appreciated the Island for what it really was?

because test audiences reacted in a desirable manner to such storylines

it was his arc.

It was bullshit. Locke was the only one who knew how special the Island was and he gets shafted for it. While Jack who is so retarded he denied it even when he saw the smoke monster with his own eyes gets to become the protector. Lame.

Rewatching now. Forgot about how sad his thwarted proposal to Helen was. Dude just had an awful life from start to finish.

>mfw one of the smartest and most calculating people on the island turned out to be the biggest puss in the end

>mfw he went to hell instead of whatever nice place all the others went to

>mfw all the build up of the feud between him and Widmore ended with a wet fart and meant nothing

Locke only appreciated the island because it was the first time he felt like things were looking up for him. His life up until that point was miserable and hopeless, but when he landed on the island, he could miraculously walk again. Locke was the only person who genuinely gained something by crashing.

Everyone else (except maybe Rose and Bernard) gets screwed over during their time there. Then Locke got screwed anyway because of fate or some shit.

What was the point of his arc?

that is what we call a 'tragedy'

>misato will never lay a wet fart right in your mouth

there is literally no point in trying to have any kind of serious discussion regarding this show.

Why? It was good. It just ended kind of badly because they didn't even attempt to try and answer all the questions they added to create mystery.

Yes

I think cause Ecko left the show. It probably was suppose to be Ecko as the smoke monster and Locke as the hero.

Because of the notion that they have all died and the island was essentially the epilogue they needed to be fulfilled.

Locke was a man with untapped potential in a million different ways and he was never challenged appropriately to become the hero/martyr that he would have liked to be.

On the island, he got his spiritual walkabout; he had his trials, he actually got to utilize his survival skills, intellect, courage, and moral fortitude.

And it played out exactly as he wanted. Sure, he suffered and eventually was killed (in purgatory?), but it's sort of what he needed to feel complete and give his life the epilogue it needed so he could move on to the next phase (heaven?) in the end.

He didn't go the hell, in the finale, he just didn't "pass on" with the rest because he wasn't ready yet.

And all of these motivations would be much harder to align and much more interesting without the shitty purgatory copout at the end.

That ending stained what could have been an incredible legacy for a tv show. It would be better to NOT end it properly than give a lot of shitty cop-out endings (purgatory and the "evil plug" at the end).

Since the very beginning nearly everyone thought "purgatory" and the show runners would clearly say many times in interviews that that's NOT what it is, so we were hoping for a more interesting answer than that...

I guess it's supposed to be that Locke sacrificed himself to inspire Jack to believe and go back to the island. But the fact that we thought (for a while) that he'd been resurrected and that it was actually Ben who killed him kind of ruins it.Also for some reason the writers wanted to resolve the Jack vs Locke conflict by making the MIB look like him, the characters even call him Locke even though they know it's not him. The MIB and Locke are also opposites in personality in relation to the island.

I don't think the writers knew what to do with him during the later seasons so they just winged it.

bingo.
Jack was to die after the pilot, kate would be the leader.

The island isn't purgatory.
Kate, Claire, Richard, Lepenis and the asian guy leave the island. And die later.

The pocket dimension they all go to after their death, some sooner som late (christian shepherd quote), is their purgatory.

>Since the very beginning nearly everyone thought "purgatory" and the show runners would clearly say many times in interviews that that's NOT what it is
And it wasn't. Please don't tell me you're one of those retards who thought just because the alt universe in the last season was the afterlife that they were in purgatory all along because you're wrong. Everything that happened on the Island was real.

Locke's entire existence was getting fucked over. Can't be surprised when he keeps getting the shaft.