Lost: The Final Season (Premieres Feb. 2)

OK, kids. Somebody explain to me WTF that was all about.

/wonders if he's the only one that didn't get it
//they're all dead?

 

The alternate reality was some kind of weird purgatory their souls all created after they died in the original reality (at whatever point. Jack died there on the Island as we saw it. Hurley apparently had a long, fulfilling run as guardian with Ben as his number too) so that they could meet up and move on to Heaven together, because they are all soulmates.

 

I'll post something if I can ever stop crying. Can't analyze a fracking thing but I can't remember anything this inexplicably moving since "Angels in America".

 

Guess it was the time/order of death that threw me off. So the purgatory is happening far in the future, once they're all dead.

 

J.J. Abrams has to be laughing his ass off.

 

Lived together (for a few years, apparently). Died alone (at least in Jack's case). Headed to after-life at the same time.

Liked the eye closing at the end and the fade to white.

 

My first instincts after watching this:

The great: Vincent laying down next to Jack

The good: Jack telling Desmond in the cave, "See you in the next life, brother."

Rose telling Desmond, "We'll feed you, but then you'll have to leave. You're breaking our rules."

I liked the scenes where the characters each remembered each other with the flashes to the past.

The bad: No Walt or Michael? At all?

Smocke dies by getting shot and falling off a cliff? Really? I kept expecting him to come back in smoke form, and have Hurley kill him. Never happened. This felt like sex without the orgasm.

WTF was Christian talking about?

And the island never sinks. Where was the sinking? There was supposed to be an earth shattering, spectacular sinking.

 

This thread will reach 100 pages.

So they all died at different times, though, right?

Jack dies, but Kate escapes. Their reuinting in the church happens in a place that has no real time line.

Does this remind people of the Albom book about the carnival worker?

 

That was epic. Absolutely beautiful. If you were disappointed by this, I just have to believe you never really understood what this show was about. These flawed but beautiful characters who found themselves linked to each other and, in the end, chose to die together.

 

I'll give them credit for twisting the ending. The first two hours of "and then nothing that happened before mattered because they all live happily ever after in the alt reality with their true loves" was super lame.

 

I liked the dog bit. Otherwise, I wasn't particularly moved or satisfied. With all the couples reuniting, I felt like I was watching a Lifetime movie.

I don't know what kind of ending would have satisfied me, but that wasn't it.

 

Correct.

I'm still not sure how I feel about it. It wasn't good, imo, but it was decisive and had a nice twist at the end.