I might be in the minority here but the LOST finale was satisfying for me. I kind of REALLY liked it. And the more I think about it, the more I liked it.
WARNING: FINALE SPOILERS AHEAD!
I mean, yes, I am still chock full of many, many questions that will never be answered.
Like..
Where is Walt?
What’s with all the Egyptian symbolism? What was its significance? And the temple?
Why did some Ajira passengers go to the 70s when some went to the present? Was that on purpose…or some sort of glitch?
Why were only some of the major LOST characters in the chapel? Why didn’t Ben go in? Was he not ready? Did he want to wait for Alex? Where were Alpert and Miles and Lapidus and Charlotte?
When did Alpert become mortal? Did everyone lose their special powers once Desmond pulled the cork thing, which, interestingly, turned out to be an actual cork?
What the heck was going on in the closing credits? What was that? Was that part of the Ajira plane? Were we supposed to think that it crashed?
Did Hurley create the sideways world? Is that what Ben (his number 2!) meant that he had some ideas to run things differently than Jacob had? Was this Hurley doing what he does best…taking care of people?
Where did the four-toed statue come from?
I’m still unclear as to what the point of Charles Widmore was….
Why can’t women have babies on the island?
Did you think that Jack’s pass-the-torch move to Hurley was simply symbolic? And, I mean, he made Hurley drink a water bottle filled with dirty water. So, maybe that’s all Hurley needed? Someone to tell him he was in charge? Or did Jack still have that Jacob-y ability to make Hurley “like him?”
Questions aside…I mean, what’s an episode of LOST without untied ends? I KNEW it wasn’t going to be a little present handed to us all tied up with a nice little bow. This is LOST. We had to expect some things to be left unexplained and open to interpretation.
NOW, I finally understand what Juliet was saying when she was mumbling about going dutch and her “IT WORKED” was not talking about the bomb, it was her bringing some of the “waiting room aka LA” world onto the island right before she died. Which is interesting, because season 6 is full of the opposite…it’s full of people in the LA timeline bringing some of the island world into their world. LOVE THAT.
Hurley stays on the island for Jack. LOVE. Ben just can’t leave the island. It’s who he is, he doesn’t know anything else. The look on his face when Hurley asks for his help, that Hurley is giving him a Richard Alpert-type job. Brilliant.
I love that Kate finally has a purpose. Comedy relief with her “Christian Shepherd? REALLY?” and the end of NotLocke. She saved that bullet for him. Also, her moment of remembering as she was delivering Claire’s baby was tremendous acting on Evangeline Lilly’s part; something I really haven’t seen from her for six seasons.
I KNEW Lapidus was still alive. We didn’t see his body and SOMEONE needed to fly the Ajira plane! Also, I was so happy that Miles stuck around for the comic relief – he doesn’t believe in many things, but he DOES believe in duct tape. Heh.
I do NOT get why people are thinking that they all died in the crash. Clearly, they were not listening to Christian. Whatever happened happened, remember? The island was real. Everything that happened on it was REAL. They all died at different times…some before Jack died, and some after Jack died.
I kind of loved that the sideways world was this world that they created. I loved all the revelations when they figured it out. Jin and Sun? ohmigod. Sayid and Shannon. Kate and Claire. Claire and Charlie. They were so perfect and just really made me remember how much I loved all of these characters and made me remember how much they all went through together and how much they meant to each other.
So, much like the Sopranos finale, there will be those who loved it, those who hated it, and those, like me, who sobbed their way through an emotional end to a show they have emotionally invested in for many, many years and felt like the ending did the show justice and did what theyI fully expected it to…leave them hanging for more. And already missing it.
It was pretty good, but I was disappointed.
I was surprised to find out that they were already dead…only because I guessed that back in the first season very early on. The only difference is they didn’t die in the crash. Everyone basically died at a different time in their life. After everybody died they had to meet up to actually finish with the passing. (They were living in their “made-up limbo” lives until that happened)
That is what I figure the ending meant. But who knows, the writers are obviously “effed” (or brilliant) to come up with such a crazy, suspenseful show that always leaves you with more questions than they actually answered. That goes for the series finale as well MORE QUESTIONS LOL
Denleigh…I’m fairly certain the Titanic reference is about when Rose dies at the very end…and then they show her on the titanic again and all the people who died on the boat were all there smiling and jack is there waiting for her and takes her hand…it was like she was finally ready to put it all behind her and move on. at least that’s the impression I got when people were making titanic references?
Loving all these LOST recaps – def feel the same way as you. I’m a latecomer to this show. WHY? I don’t know, since it’s so everything I’m into. But, I, too, found the finale satisfying. In addition to all that you said, and maybe strangely, I loved that Jack cried, mourned his own death. THAT was satisfying and profound — and I was really touched by it. It made the show complete for me. A fitting END.
I thought I got it until Midget Invasion brought up the Titanic.. and now I’m TOTALLY confused! hahahaha
I totally expected Jack, Kate and Hurley to pull Jacob’s mask off revealing it was old man Foley, the owner of the old amusement park.
I’m so glad that I never watched this show.
It hurts my head to hear everybody talk about it.
I will now show this post to Sean.
Kristabella, the creators never said that it had nothing to do with Purgatory – they said that the island wasn’t purgatory, which was totally true.
I’d like to listen to the commentary on the finale when it comes out on DVD.
I didn’t fully get it till someone told me that the alternate timeline was like the end of Titanic. Bingo!
I knew Lapidus and Richard weren’t dead.
Last random thought-All I ever cared about was Desmond and Penny getting to be together, and they were, so BEST SHOW EVER!!!
I would PAY MONEY to see a Hurley and Ben movie!
I’m liking it more and more, the more I think about it. I might have screamed BS at the TV with the Purgatory thing when the creators kept telling us it had nothing to do with Purgatory!
Obviously it wasn’t a perfect little present, but I knew it wasn’t going to be. I would have liked more of “Life after Jack’s death” to see Hurley and Ben on the Island (SPIN OFF!) and to see Claire and Aaron re-united.
But overall, like all the recaps say, this was a show more about the people, less about the mythology and that’s how it ended.
Lost, I will miss you!