After Sunday’s finale of Lost, and several days of mulling over my own thoughts and reading a myriad of reviews on-line, I got all nostalgic. I spent like – seriously?! – 120 + hours of my life with that show. Kinda disturbing.
When it came on the air Ryno and I were settling into the 2nd year of our marriage and it was the first tv show that we started watching together, as a couple. I loved the first couple of seasons and kinda couldn’t stand the middle years – the “tailies” anyone? anyone?! Ryan eventually could not longer take it and stopped watching but I was determined to stick it out and find out what the frak was going on…
And so, the series has ended. In all honesty, I really, really liked the finale. I have a few questions nagging at me (and they don’t involve polar bears or the giant statue feet, because, I don’t care). Essentially, the way I have understood things, everything that happened on the island and in flashbacks and with the Oceanic Six was real – only the “sideways” plotline of this final season represented something of a purgatory that (as jack’s dad told him) they “all created together” so that they could move on into that bright light that represents… maybe heaven? Maybe everything good that they fought to save? I don’t know. But I cried like 9 times in the finale and felt like it summed things up in a confusing but satisfactory way for me.
(If you were one of the many confused by the silent images of airplane wreckage in the closing credits – which left a lot of people wondering if they all died in the original plane crash – ABC issued a statement saying they added those as a buffer between the final scene and the evening news.)
Here are the questions that I am still scratching my head about:
- What happened to Farraday, Charlotte, and Miles? Or even lapidus (the pilot)?
- Why in the sideways world did jack have a son? And what was the significance of Locke being the one to say “You don’t have a son.”
- So did Hurley cross over into the other world with the group (one reviewer noted that the seating pattern in the chapel mirrored airline seating,which I did not notice) or is stayin’ around to keep protecting the island a la jacob?
What did you think? Were you satisfied or frustrated? How many times did you cry? Which was your favorite reunion (mine? tie between sawyer and juliet and charlie and hurley… sniffle).
I had tears streaming down my face during the Sawyer & Juliet scene. They were my favorite couple after Desmond & Penny and their reunion on the boat when the Oceanic 6 left the island had me crying, too. Overall, I was satisfied with the ending. I read one review that said Jack had a son in the sideways world so he could resolve his own “daddy issues” — makes sense, I guess. Great show…great finale…see you in another life, brotha!
Ryan & I have enjoyed our “dates” of watching Lost together. I will miss that common time. We watched the ending & Ryan liked the end of Lost. His biggest hope for the ending was that Jack would prevail & “Locke” would die. And he hoped for few loose ends. Thanks for the info on the crash scenes at the end….I had wondered if it was all fake because of that.
As far as Hurley….I think that all that have the flash sideways’ have died. Not all at the same time, some sooner than others. I think Hurley protected the Island as long as he could…..as mentioned when Hurley told Ben you were a great number 2 & Ben told Hurley you were a great number 1. Ben, I’m guessing, didn’t go into the church cause he wasn’t finished & ready to let go because of his daughter and the mom.
As far as the others that weren’t in the church, but had a flash sideways (ie. Farraday, Charolette, Miles..) I believe they either aren’t ready yet to “remember and let go” or they did at an earlier point. I think that’s one of the unanswered, but answered, loose ends.
I enjoyed all of the reunions….lots of happy moments.
I was super ticked right after the finale. It did not leave me crying, but frustrated. But, then I read this post from one of the Bad Robot guys and it made me feel a little bit better. You may have already seen it, but thought I would link it just in case as it has answers to some of your questions. http://lostmediamentions.blogspot.com/2010/05/someone-from-bad-robots-take-on-finale.html
I have mixed feelings about the finale. I kinda like the idea of them all reconnecting before moving on (the sideways world), but I kinda thought it was a crappy ending to the show. I like it more after reading the “bad robot” review.
I was disappointed by a lot… Sayid & Shannon?? Yuck. What about the numbers? Why did they take the kids?
It would have been nice to see Eko again.
I don’t know what the deal was with the “tailies” but I’m willing to let that go because it brought together my favorite couple of the whole show – Rose and Bernard.
There was one supremely shocking moment in the finale (for me anyway), when Kate says, “Christian Shephard? Seriously?” and I thumped my forehead with my hand ’cause I can not believe I didn’t catch that before. Duh.
At first, I felt let down by the finale….but then, like you, I kind of felt myself really enjoying how they closed the show. I really had to think about it for awhile…
I feel like Hurley stayed around and guarded the island the remainder of his life (after Jack died) because when he stepped out of the church to talk to Ben, Ben said “you were a good number 1″ and then Hurley said “and you were a good number 2.” Makes me think that the “sideways” collective waiting pool wasn’t happening on the same time frame….some, like Jack, died on the island and some went on to live a long life (maybe Kate, Sawyer Lapedus and Miles escaped safely and lived long lives?). Finally, afer time, they were all able to meet up in the collective dream state/limbo state…whatever it was…once they had all died. I still have a lot of questions, but I think that’s the point…we have to let go (Just like Jack!!).
I really enjoyed the series. The first year came on during the first year of graduate school…so it became an escape for me. I have never been so attached to a show…a little bit scary. Loved every minute of it.
Oh crud. I might be in big trouble. I’ve never seen even a single episode of this show. So, I just looked it up, and it’s available on Netflix’s Watch Instant. Oh dear!
We watched it from episode 1 and never looked back. Got annoyed many, many times though! haha
I liked the finale. Pretty much expected- in a way? The reunions were lovely.
I keep thinking about the finale, too, and all my times watching the show along the way (grad school, moving to Indiana…).
Jon’s grandma died on Sunday morning, and mostly I just felt like the ending made all of my sadness about death okay – and reminded us to celebrate as well as mourn…
Okay, here is what I think: I think I’m glad I quit watching after the polar bears showed up waaayyyyy back in, what? The first season? Because I just don’t need my veg time to be that confusing.
Though I now feel like I’ve missed out on a defining aspect of our modern American culture. Maybe I need to check out Netflix.