Lost: The Final Season (Premieres Feb. 2)

Loved Vincent lying down next to Jack. he didn't die alone. Also loved the last shot of the eye.

That ending is going to piss a LOT of people off, largely for the love-it-or-hate-it blockbuster movie that particular ending evokes. It's also going to make a lot of people happy. Right now, I have mixed emotions all the way around.

- It brought the story to a close. After six years of so many shockers (some of which could be described as "bait-and-switch" to the nth degree), I was good with a straightforward finale.
- There was an air of predictability to the proceedings. Par for the course for the end of a long story. The last time I didn't find the conclusion of a major story to be somewhat predictable was Matrix Revolutions, and I'm still trying to wrap my head around that one.
- I'm glad there weren't any final 'WWWARRRRGGHHh!!!!!" moments where the MIB rises from a seeming grave and tries to stop them. They needed to use the final hour to resolve the FlashSideways.
- Didn't mind that the MIB was killed so early. Let the rest of the show be about the main characters and their escape.
- I guess the underwater Island can best be explained by Lindelof and Cuse in the retrospective: they said that removed the island from the storytelling, and prevented a cheesy "We've got to GO BACK!!! AGAIN!!!!!!" storyline.

OK . . . .

- On the one hand, having the FlashSideways resolved in this way was absolutely brilliant. "They're in PURGATORY!!!!!!" was THE prevalent theory in the first season, so for them to return to it now is a nice nudge nudge, wink wink to those who have been there since the beginning. Remember, they said they've known the final shot since the first season. It also is the simplest way to explain things, and does tie it up with a neat little bow. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
But it does easily answer the question of "If the FlashSideways is a world that isn't right, and they have to get back to the actual real, Island reality . . . how will the people who know they were meant to die be convinced to go fight evil in the real world?"
- HOWEVER . . . when Christian Shepherd was talking, I thought "Are they REALLY going with "purgatory" as the Sideways explanation? What the F#@$?!?!?!?!!?!"
- Then Jack entered the church, and damn if the waterworks weren't flowing in this here household. It was absolutely reminiscent of the ending of Titanic. And that one was very impressive in the realm of "Tugging at the Heartstrings."

I liked it. I also like that for the next few days, the wife and I, as well as our buddies, are going to discuss it at length, and form our own interpretations of the Source (I think Desmond didn't get Smokeyed because of his immunity . . .and because he wasn't being punished for killing his Mommy).

Again, I enjoyed this show, and the finale did nothing to change my view of it as one of my favorites of all time. Thanks for taking the time to discuss it lo these many years.

 

I loved the first 2:15. The reuniting was fantastic. I honestly did not give a shit about answers at all.

The last 15 minutes? I'm not so sure I like where they left us.

Should we be content with these are all people who were not happy but now have passed on as contented souls?

 

Everything in the original timeline was real.

 

That show was just a disaster of epic proportions. I want my six years back.

 

This was the first episode I watched. Would any of you recommend I go back and watch it from the beginning?

 

PR, The Sopranos left us hanging big time as well.

 

Outing alert: J.J. Abrams is P.T. Barnum.

 

Near as I can figure out, here's what it all meant. And I only post this because I think I figured it out.

1) Jack, obviously, is dead. The walk into the church/walk through the jungle was his death march.
2) Miles, Lapetus, Claire, Kate, Sawyer and Richard (the "new" Oceanic 6?) all got off the island on the plane and lived happily ever after.
3) Hurley and Ben stayed behind to protect the island.
4) The church is not necessarily purgatory, but rather heaven or simply eternity. The folks in the church were all dead, just not necessarily right now in the present. Whenever they die (whether it was a few years ago like Boone, or many years from now like Kate, Sawyer, etc. al) their souls congregate there. It's their happy place.
5) Ben is not dead, or is dead and still in purgatory. He's not at peace yet, based on his "I still have a few things to work out" comment to Locke.
However, he and Hurley obviously spent plenty of time together based on their final exchange.
6) The only way MIB could leave the island was to become mortal (which he did when Desmond removed the stone). That also meant he could die, which Kate and Jack took care of. Dead is dead in his case.

 

You are now the annoying person who is asking questions during the last two minutes of the Super Bowl.

Give us 24 hours to sort this out.

 

I've never really watched this until tonight, but while watching the last half hour and the dog lay down next Fox, Jack jumped into bed and curled up next to me...Lump hit the throat...

 

The other thing that I thought would have been a great 'Holy shit!" moment would have been if they somehow would have snuck Mr. Eko in for a scene, maybe walking Locke out of the hospital or something like that.

But yeah, how could they not have had Walt in for a scene. They could have had Michael show up at the concert and Jack's son deciding to bring a friend with him from school.

 

I thought the ending was sort of an easy way out, but they executed it flawlessly.