Lost - SERIES FINALE! - 5/23/10

Loved the finale. It was a satisfying ending. Jack vs Flocke. Good vs evil. There was a satisfactory conclusion to what had been building up. I really like that they refused to answer everything about everything. There will still be arguments about what exactly the island is, and endless points of Lost mythology to debate about. I've always preferred mystery to knowing everything. I think the writers were smart enough to know that NO answer they could give for the Island would ever be as rich and deep and good and fun as the ideas that people make up for themselves. So, they chose the wise course, and left it for us to interpret.

More than anything, this show has always been about the characters. And ****** if they didn't just knock it out of the park in the finale. All those moments of revelation as the Losties touch and see and remember who they are, and who they are to each other. That alone was magic. My wife was bawling, and it was just so emotionally powerful. Hats off to the writers and actors. Incredible job. Hurley was pure gold in this episode. The scene where he goes to get Charlie. Just that look of wonder and happiness on his face at seeing his friend again... wow. I couldn't have imagined them ending on a better note.

I loved the Watchmen-esque closing scene. Jack running through the forest, falling, his eye closing, mirroring his eye popping open, rising, running through the forest in the first scene of the pilot. A great symmetry to it all. Amazing show, amazing ending.

I will also say this, the ending to the sideways universe is affecting me more now then it did initially. I have been thinking about it and it has taken on a personal twist.

You all know what happened with my mom and how she brought me to Lost and her passing the day of the Season 6 premiere. So for the show that we both loved to end on the note that in the next plane of existance, the people who had the greatest impact on you and who you had the greatest impact on greeting you seemed to be speaking to me. Not only was there a philosophical point on Lost that I believed in long before the show, but now, more than ever, I wanted to hear it.

Dang it, Lost, you got me again!

I liked it.

I don't mind a little genre-mixing here and there and I believe that someone who wanted it to be metaphysical/supernatural probably got more out of it then those that wanted sci-fi but i'm just happy with it being, well...Lost.

One thing made me a little sad though...not all dogs go to "heaven". = (

Thinking about it... since we were told that the whispers were souls that were trapped because they couldn't move on, then doesn't that make The Island purgatory as well? or at least, somehow the physical location of purgatory, and so the flash-sideways stuff was happening on The Island, in a metaphorical sense.

I think it would have helped tremendously if they showed how people "died" off the island. Maybe, perhaps in their "awakenings" as well? From the people i've talked to about the show this morning, very few believe that they all made it off the island alive.

Wait, I just remembered something. Did Soul Sister Kate tell Jack that she missed him, or was it vice versa? Because that is another subtle clue that she lived a long time after leaving the Island that some people might not be picking up on.

About Sayid and Shannon, how do you all feel that Sayid's "true love" was Shannon not Nadia?

I think it makes some sense, because as much as Sayid loved Nadia, she was always a reminder of who he was. Not only did she remind him of his torturer days, but she was tortured by Sayid himself. Their love was always doomed, as it would always cause Sayid to revert to his torturer ways/bad impulses. We saw it when he betrayed his best friend in Sydney to get some info on Nadia. We saw it when, after Nadia's death, Sayid worked for Ben. We even saw it in limbo, when Sayid killed Keamy and crew to protect Nadia.

Sayid and Shannon, on the other hand, allowed each other to start anew. Sayid could be romantic without his past over his shoulder. Shannon could be accepted. They were truly each other's clean slate.

The Others, to the Dharma folk were natives to the Island, and were called by Dharma, The Hostiles. Think to the British colonization of the Americas. At first, they tried to help the Native Americans here, but eventually, it turned to hostilities and war. Dharma vs The Others/Hostiles is that in a nutshell.

And, like I said, Dharma was hippy scientists. They were trying to understand humanity. They were working on something called the Valenzetti Equation which was supposed to predict the end of the world. The Pearl Station, Station 5, was their version of a Skinner Box. It was meant to test how man would react to man if one side was removed from the other. If we were made "gods" in the sense that we could observe all, how would we react? Remember, those stationed at the Pearl would eventually return to the Barracks, where undoubtedly, they would interact with the very subjects they were observing. The Pearl Station was meant to test how its runner would react to being isolated and observing research, not how they see what other people are doing.

The other research stations (save for The Swan), are meant to aid in finding the fundamental truths about the universe and the Island. Including human behavoir.

Also, Dharma was funded in part by Alvar Hanso, whose great-great grandfather, Magnus Hanso was the captain of the Black Rock.

And you can also say that the Dharma folk were brought to the Island by Jacob to be potential candidates (Horace's name was on cave wall). How Jacob brought people to the Island was varied: shipwrecks, plane crashes, etc. Perhaps the only way to bring all those people to the Island to be "judged," as it were, was to plant the seed of Dharma in the DeGroots' minds.