So here we are. The much debated divisive ending.
What we all can agree on is that it was emotional. I dare you not to cry when Sawyer and Juliet remember each other, or when Vincent lies down beside Jack. It was a many hankie episode.
Good ending? It was ok. I found it good enough. Didn’t completely obliterate my mind and heart like “The Constant” episode, but at this point nothing they could have done would have been perfect. There was just too much to deal with.
From a sci-fi perspective it was a fail. I agree with the sourpusses on that one. We still don’t know what they island is, why it is, etc. I didn’t really care about the magical stopper Desmond and Jack moved in the cave. I kind of get it on paper. It could be taken as a much more literal interpretation of the stopper Jacob had more eloquently described earlier in the season. Or not. Who knows. It was a dumb Raiders of the Lost Ark looking water fountain thing for your backyard.
I found the final showdown between Jack and Flocke a little Plant of the Apes-y. I think it was the pause on Jack jumping up in the air about to beat down on Flocke and then they cut to commercial. Needed swords like an Errol Flynn movie or something.
The flash-sideways spiritual resolution of the show? I actually didn’t mind it. I keep calling it the Quantum Leap ending. As I recall, the punchline to that show was he was dead and really was an angel helping people and just didn’t know it. Right? That’s what the recesses of my fuzzy tv show memory have logged.
On LOST, all the island stuff did happen. It was real. They weren’t dead, it wasn’t purgatory. Flash sideways, well, that sort of was purgatory. Purgatory in the sense that it was a waiting area before the next step in the afterlife. Limbo. Not in the sense of purgatory that its a place where people go who aren’t good enough for heaven or bad enough for hell. But long story short, the writer’s original punchline was that it was purgatory. We the fans all guessed it early on, so this was their way of getting that ending without it being as obvious as it might have been if we weren’t all such smart asses.
In the end, all the characters came together for Jack, so I suppose it’s open to interpretation whether or not all of this was just Jack’s awakening. Could be. I don’t especially like the idea of the show being all about him. After all, his character was originally supposed to get killed off in Season 1. I am also am a bit bothered by baby Aaron being in the church at the end. The original purpose of Purgatory if you go way-way back in Catholic teachings was that it was a place where babies who weren’t baptized went if they died. They recanted that whole explanation in modern times, but it was out there in church teachings a long time.
Do I think there will be a movie? Maybe. They left enough stuff out there for there to be a movie. I would have liked to have seen Hurley and Ben running the island. All-in-all I think I can live without any further LOST stories though.
So… worth six years of my insane levels of devotion? Yeah I think so. It was a good show. I loved its craziness and it’s complicated twists. Some of the actors like Michael Emerson (Ben) and Terry O’Quinn (Locke), were like Shakespearean level of spectacular-ness. The character of Desmond ranks WAY up there with some of my literary faves like Mr. Rochester from Jane Eyre or Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice. I fucking LOVED Desmond. Yes, even though he ran Locke over in the sideways world. That wasn’t cool at all, but I guess technically it wasn’t real so I can forgive. I still love ya brotha!
Am I satisfied? I think so. I wasn’t left with a terrible taste in my mouth like other people. I’m also not left with the same insane level of devotion I’ve had at other points in my relationship with LOST, but I’m ok. It was an ok end.
Namaste.
Like many a person out there, I delight in the crazy ramblings of Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP newsletter. The world she lives in is so very odd. And her view of the world the rest of us actually live in is even odder.
Actually trying to do some Netflix rentals again. It’s summer. Everything on tv is about to go dormant. I grant you I’ll have my super favorite summer tv show shortly (WIPEOUT!!!!) but it’s not really enough to fill the dull times.
Russell Crowe’s Robin Hood was pretty bad. There were a lot of things that made no sense. There were strange lost boys like in Peter Pan running wild in the woods. They wore burlap sack masks just like the Scarecrow in The Dark Knight. They were supposed to be orphans of the men who went to the Holy Land to fight the crusades. Um…okay. Don’t know why they had to give Cate Blanchett’s Marion such a hard time but I guess she’s their Wendy.
What a bullshit motherfucker of a morning!!! 
!! @#$@$!!!!
Do you have days where you just wish you were invisible? I’m having one of those. Can’t wait to be done with work and off to the movies tonight.
Well, I was right it was 
