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NBR: Lost series finale
DISCUSS. Aaaaaand go...
(((((****SPOILERS****)))))
From the time the finale ended to when I fell asleep and even upon waking up this morning, I was super disappointed. I am a pretty die hard LOST fan and I felt let down. For a while there, it really went over my head and I thought that they had died in the plane crash. At least that's why I thought they showed us the wreckage without anybody walking around in the closing credits. And I was pissed. But then after thinking about it more and reading about it online, I "got it." Now, the more I think about it, the happier I am with how it ended. I'm dying to watch the episode again because I feel like I was so wrapped up in trying to figure out the big explanation that I didn't get as emotionally invested as I could have. I teared up in the Charlie/Claire "awakening" but that's about it. The rest of the time I was just watching the clock thinking, "Okay, they only have X amount of time left, how are they going to explain everything and wrap this all up?!?!" Ultimately, this show was always a character thing for me. I cared emotionally about the characters and their storylines. I am not a big sci fi person so while those things interested me, they didn't make or break the show in my opinion. I didn't need every little question answered or every little mystery solved. HAVING SAID THAT...I think there were too many loose ends. I think they tried to do too much and didn't do an adequate job of giving closure to a lot of the island mysteries.
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Re: NBR: Lost series finale
I LOVED it! There were a few episodes this season that had me worried about how they were going to end it, but I loved it. I try not to read too much online because I don't want to read any spoilers, but I did read an article before the finale in which the writers explained that they were going to give the show closure but leave a lot unanswered. Once I read that, I didn't worry too much about the unanswered questions. The writers also mentioned that it was the characters that were the heart of the show. So, I loved how they gave everyone closure. When I saw the closing credits, it just reminded me of how the island has so many stories to tell (even from before the time of Jacob and the man in black) and now that wreckage is just part of it's history and all the people from that particular storyline have come and gone.
I would've loved to see the show continue because I loved the characters and the scientific theories behind everything that happened on the island. But, I also like that they left a lot to the imagination. Sometimes finales can go totally wrong when they try to explain everything. The show ended the way it started with these characters and their purpose for coming together. So, I definitely felt satisfied with the ending, but I also felt like I was saying goodbye to good friends.
One of my biggest question now is the significance of the sideways storylines. I get now that none of that was "real" and it was just something that the characters experienced between the times of their death and their moment of "moving on" to heaven in the final scene at the church. In between that, they each had their moment of awakening where they remembered their "REAL" lives, which the show is trying to tell us the most significant parts of their lives was the time they spent together on the island.
But the lives they imagined in "purgatory" before they were able to move on together were different than their real lives, more than just the fact that 815 never crashed. Why, in that life, were Jack and Juliet married? Why was Desmond on the flight? Why was Nadia married to Sayid's brother? etc. It wasn't even like they were living their "ideal" lives because you'd think that in an idealized form of their existence, Sawyer and Juliet would be together, Kate and Jack would be together, etc. They were all still flawed in that alternate reality, but the details were different than their real lives. I don't really understand yet what the meaning behind all of that is. Also, it seems like other characters from the island were present in that alternate reality/purgatory imagined life (Daniel, Charlotte, Miles, etc.) but then they didn't "move on" with the Losties. What's that all about? When Daniel and Desmond had their encounter in the middle of the season where Daniel told Desmond that he woke up one night writing out mathmatic equations that he didn't understand, what did that all mean? What part did Eloise Hawkins play in all of this? It seemed like she didn't want Desmond to succeed in getting everyone to move on...why??? Was that everyone's shared state of purgatory and people like Eloise are just still stuck in it, not ready to move on? Or was that just purgatory as imagined by the Losties? Why did Penny move on with them in the church if she never stepped foot on the island and therefore, the most significant part of her life was not that shared experience? Of course Desmond was the most significant relationship in her life, but if Christian's explanation to Jack is to be believed and if I am understand it correctly, you'd think the two of them would have moved on together without needing Jack, Kate, Sawyer, to do so.
::brain explodes::
I think it's going to be interesting in the next few weeks to see the different theories that fans come up with since so much of it was left up to us to interpret...
I was happy with the ending. The show revolved around each of the characters flaws and ended with them overcoming them and finding the best qualities in themselves and eachother.
You know what's funny? This morning I was thinking the same thing and I remembered that Eloise asked Desmond "are you going to take my son?" and he said "not right now". SOOO it made me think Desmond symbolizes the transition between purgatory and heaven. I guess he still comes back and gets the rest of them when they are enlightened and ready to move on. Also, although Penny didn't step foot on the island, she was searching for it for a while because she was searching for Desmond. And they did all end up on her boat that time. So maybe she's there because she's destined to be with Desmond. OR maybe the church scene is Jack's funeral (and not everyone else's) and it's just HIS perception of how things should be. Christian said that there's no time, etc. there so what I understood was "okay, maybe they're all dead NOW (even though I thought maybe Ben and Hurley were still alive on the island at first) but since there's no time for all we know 40years could've gone by in purgatory and now they all met again". Does that make any sense? I can't stop thinking about it lol
I looooved the finale. I thought it gave us just enough closure while still leaving a lot for the viewers to interpret - it was exactly what I had expected and hoped for. I always saw this as a character-driven show as well, so I wasn't as concerned as getting answers about the Island as with the characters all getting their happy endings. I cried so hard. When Claire and Charlie found each other, when Jack and Kate told each other that they loved each other before Jack went to save the island, when Sawyer and Juliet found each other by the vending machines. Those moments were what the finale was about for me.
When Jack opened the coffin and it was empty, I just about died. That's when I figured out that he was already dead and that's why they were all "leaving". To me, the most important thing Christian Shepard said was that their spirits all created this place so that they could find each other. All of a sudden Desmond's famous line "I'll see you in another life, brotha" made SO much sense! The way I interpreted it is that they had all been in purgatory until then and they each had to find their way back to the other characters and "the most important time of their lives" in order for them to move on. I think the storylines in sideways flash were all irrelevant - it was just a means to find each other in their afterlives so they could all get to the church.
Did anyone see Jimmy Kimmel after the show? The characters were all on and Matthew Fox gave his interpretation - he said that he thought that in order to leave that purgatory they were in, they had to remember, they had to sort of come to the point where they could move on on their own. Harold Perrineau also explained why Michael wasn't in the church, which I had been asking myself - his spirit was still stuck on the island, as we saw throughout the season. And I think Penny was at the church because her place was always with Desmond. And Aaron was an infant because Claire and Charlie were meant to raise him together. Maybe that's how they get to spend their afterlife. I don't know. That's the whole point, I think. You're not supposed to get it.
I was satisfied. I am going to miss the show so much!
It was AWESOME! It was so "LOST" of them to end it that way and considering all the twists and turns in the last 6 years they did a pretty cool way to wrap it up. There will always be 'what ifs and questions because its hard to explain the mysteries and time travel but over all i was very satisfied. I also felt better the next day after I read the theories and that the flash sideways was the purgatory (i thought it was the island)
Its the best show i've ever seen