Lost

[caliente_uk]

Well, I've just seen the finale of Lost.



I was taken by surprise at the ending, but...I kind of loved it. I'm still processing it, but the way I saw it (and please tell me if you saw it differently) everything that happened on the island over the last six years really happened.

Jack dies on the island (that final image of Jack's eye closing was exactly how I thought it would end - perfect!). Hurley and Ben continue to protect the island, Desmond goes back home to Penny and baby Charlie, and Kate, Sawyer etc. get off the island on the plane.

It's only when they all eventually die, at various points in the future, that they meet up again in the 'sideways verse'. That's why not everyone is there, as they haven't died yet. Ben decides he still need to work some things out before he is ready to 'let go' and move on.

It was...emotionally satisfying.

I only wish we'd got to see a little bit more of Desmond/Penny, but we had so many wonderful scenes with them over the course of the show that I can't really complain.

I need to process it more, but it had a lot of similarities to another show I've seen lately (and if you've seen the show, you'll know which one I mean).

More thoughts later...

Comments

[harper47.livejournal.com]

As long as Sawyer got to be with Juliet, I'm good. It was emotionally satisfying and, true to the tradition of Lost, left us with some answers and more questions to debate forever.

[caliente-uk.livejournal.com]

I was so glad we got that final scene at the vending machine! I think I found it more emotionally satisfying because I got the resolution I wanted (especially Sawyer/Juliet and Desmond/Penny), but I think I'd see things differently if I was a Sawyer/Kate shipper! ;)

[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

You know, I was a violently rabid Sawyer/Kate shipper but I quickly realized that Juliet was very much the better woman and actually made him happy as opposed to the anger and resentment he seemed to feel whenever he was around Kate.

[caliente-uk.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I was definitely a Sawyer/Kate shipper in the earlier seasons of the show, but Sawyer/Juliet worked so much better together. I was gutted at the end of S5/beginning of S6 when she died.