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

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

That was exactly how I saw it, as well... it really was surprisingly satisfying as an ending.

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

I just watched it and even though I braced myself for disappointment I feel cheated.

I guess your interpretation is right, that's what I understood from the conversation Christian adn Jack had, and from the Ben/Hugo conversation too and I am not happy with it.

I dislike the fact that they chose the easy way to end Lost without explaining anything that we have seen in the six seasons but the alter!verse. And it had to be all about Jack in the end!

Grrrrrrr

[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

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.

That's what Christian literally tells Jack in his last little speech to him. "Some of them died before you, some after."

[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.