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May 24
Lost finale, recap, season 6 4 Comments
So, this is the part where I usually recap the entire episode and pull vital data from various websites and search for Easter Eggs to find out exactly what is happening in the Lost Universe. I’m not going to do that today.
After reading quite a bit, as well as talking with lots of people who watched the Finale, it seems as though fans are almost split down the middle. Those who wanted to see the characters fully realized got what they wanted. Those who wanted more “scientific” answers to the Island’s mythology, well you got hosed.
I loved it and thought it was a near perfect ending. Others disagree with me. But there has been some confusion as to what exactly happened last night. Check out this link at TvFinale.com. I think they nailed down everything.
Here’s a quick summary:
All the Losties really did crash on an Island, the Hatch was real, The Dharma Initiative and everything related to the Island was real. The did skip through time and all that. The Oceanic 6 made it off the Island, returned, and the only ones to physically escape again were Lapidus, Miles, Sawyer, Kate and Claire. When Jack dies in the end scene and sees an airplane fly over, that is the Ajira 316 plane with the escapees.
Now the “flash-sideways” universe we’ve seen this entire season, well, that’s up for a little debate. Here’s a quote from the website I referenced above:
What was the “flash-sideways”?
Christian Shephard tells his son that it was created by the group as a way to find each other once they’d all died and were ready to move on. These people were all connected and experienced the most important time in their lives together. It seems like a purgatory where they could also work out their issues. Jack worked out his daddy issues via his son (who wasn’t real). Christian also tells Jack, “Everyone dies sometime,” and that some of the people died before he did and some died long afterwards.
Was it purgatory or some holding place between life and death? I think so. That part will be pondered for quite a while I think.
What did you think? Did you love the ending? Hate it? Well, Jimmy Kimmel shows us three alternate endings below.
If you were less than satisfied, you are not alone. Check out i09.com and see if this sums up how you feel. The author states that Lost is the ultimate Long Con.
If you like the Lost: Untangled videos, here is the last one. It basically is a commercial for the complete DVD series, out 8-24-10.
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May 24, 2010 @ 14:49:35
I LOVED the finale! The more I think about it, the more incredible it was. I was SO glad that it ended with characters instead of gimmicks… Man, that was really good.
May 24, 2010 @ 19:01:23
I absolutely loved it. I’m not nearly smart enough or original enough to write a complete commentary on how the final scenes remind me of what I wish people’s pursuit of God looked like, but here goes a snippet:
The series refused to exhaust its final episode(s) to merely answering questions about the science, mythology and ‘systems’ that dictated the island and/or its inhabitants. The creators had to know that whatever answers they provided would, undoubtedly, lead to more questions and that the answers people would come up with would not satisfy them. Instead, they focused on relationships. Only the reconciliation between characters and the embraces they shared in the fleeting minutes before the end would make the heart of the viewer sense some sort of peace.
*sigh*
So…I wish that is what our lives as Christians could be more like. I suppose answers to deep theological questions bear some heavy importance, but I doubt those Q’s and A’s can ever be more meaningful than the embraces and relationships we develop along the way. Those are always way better than answers. Theology is, and always will be, trumped by human relationship.
Anyway, someone might read this and banish me to hell for such thinking, but then they’ll have to decide whether that ‘hell’ is on an island or if I can merely wait in a flash-sideways purgatory.
May 25, 2010 @ 01:55:28
“Those who wanted more “scientific” answers to the Island’s mythology, well you got hosed.”
Yeah, they summed it up well didn’t they? you see, there was this cork in the middle of this light, and when you take the cork out there is an earthquake. and when you put it back in, the island regains it’s magical powers…
I’m not sure it was about not answering the “scientific” answers — because those answers were there — but it’s just that those answers were so freaking lame. (and then Christian walked into a bright light while Sayid sucked face with his true love… Shannon.)
The writers created an island of mystery that provided the thrust to the entire narrative of the story, then completely backed off of it and went with a feel good story where everyone winds up dancing around like magical pixie horses in a christian, buddhist, muslim, new age (etc) church. The reality is they could, and should, have had the creativity to do both — and could have done so by letting some mystery remain.
Oh, and I didn’t like the Sixth Sense the first time I saw it.
May 25, 2010 @ 07:11:02
you have to give the writers credit for at least stirring up a debate! Brian, did you like any of Jimmy Kimmel’s alternative endings any better?