Monday, May 24. 2010
The End
Yeah, I know. Nothing from me since way back a couple episodes in. Just didn't have the time or energy to put into this thing anymore. Since I started this thing back in season 1-2 whenever it was, other folks had done it better. I gave up. Plus I found myself struggling to enjoy the show while typing furious notes for the recaps and analysis posts, and just wanted to soak it up.
Like last night.
So no big recap, no big point-by-point analysis... Just a few of my thoughts on the series finale.
Like last night.
So no big recap, no big point-by-point analysis... Just a few of my thoughts on the series finale.
Probably the biggest, so lets just get it out of the way right now. WHAT? I thought, Mr.'s Cuse and Lindelof, that we were positively, absolutely, unh-uh, no way, NOT dealing with a 'purgatory' situation here?! That's what you said back in season 1!! Turns out that yeah, we kind of are. I think. At least that's the first thing I'm taking away from that last 1/2 hour. Even if it is only Jack's, or everyone's, or everyone's (on the planet who's ever lived.) I dunno.
On the other hand, if they'd come right out and said early on, "uh, yeah, this is a story about people redeeming themselves and moving onto a better place, so yeah it is purgatory I guess." Then we'd all have said, "Yeah, pfft, whatever." And we probably wouldn't have even made it this far.
I was hoping that they wouldn't wuss out and leave something dangling out there. That it wouldn't be a silly snow-globe, a dream, a Twilight-Zone experiment by aliens, or some lost Nazi bunker complex housing some plot device Indiana Jones style.... (although...) or some other equally Star-Trek-ish ending that would have been just lame.
THAT being said... I thought it was a fitting end to an epic. Between the various incarnations of pretty much every mythology you can think of (anyone notice the window behind Christian in the church?), philosophies, science, fiction, literature.... I'm pleased they returned, at least in this final episode, to the characters. Finally. I'm... contented, knowing that they stuck to their guns and made it a tale of good-vs-evil, of free-will vs. destiny, of reconciliation, and the journey.... vs. any number of endings like I described above.
I'll admit, I was becoming a bit skeptical that the show wasn't going downhill. The last couple of seasons had appeared to become nothing more than a 'connect the dots' type of fanboy orgy. Rush rush rush to explain away things. To try and answer questions, to close up those loose ends. Rush rush rush. The morality plays of the first few seasons seemed to disappear.
But I think I get it now. I think. Like a good book it'll take a few readings to completely get the entire gist of it. To absorb everything. Especially now, knowing the end.
In a way I'm kind of sad. I sort of feel like I did when the ending crawl of "Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" began. "Shit. That was good. Awesome. (Stop yer giggling!) But, damn. It's really over."
So everyone count to 5, realize that Hurley's got it under control, and we'll all wait for the next big epic to happen. I'm betting that LOST will go down as one of those "referential" pieces of recent-modern storytelling.
So I'll leave the site alone for now. Eventually I suppose this'll all just disappear. I may do something else with it, I haven't decided yet. So I'm going to wait impatiently until the Blu Ray box hits the shelves in August, and try to relive it all again.
Thanks for reading.
On the other hand, if they'd come right out and said early on, "uh, yeah, this is a story about people redeeming themselves and moving onto a better place, so yeah it is purgatory I guess." Then we'd all have said, "Yeah, pfft, whatever." And we probably wouldn't have even made it this far.
I was hoping that they wouldn't wuss out and leave something dangling out there. That it wouldn't be a silly snow-globe, a dream, a Twilight-Zone experiment by aliens, or some lost Nazi bunker complex housing some plot device Indiana Jones style.... (although...) or some other equally Star-Trek-ish ending that would have been just lame.
THAT being said... I thought it was a fitting end to an epic. Between the various incarnations of pretty much every mythology you can think of (anyone notice the window behind Christian in the church?), philosophies, science, fiction, literature.... I'm pleased they returned, at least in this final episode, to the characters. Finally. I'm... contented, knowing that they stuck to their guns and made it a tale of good-vs-evil, of free-will vs. destiny, of reconciliation, and the journey.... vs. any number of endings like I described above.
I'll admit, I was becoming a bit skeptical that the show wasn't going downhill. The last couple of seasons had appeared to become nothing more than a 'connect the dots' type of fanboy orgy. Rush rush rush to explain away things. To try and answer questions, to close up those loose ends. Rush rush rush. The morality plays of the first few seasons seemed to disappear.
But I think I get it now. I think. Like a good book it'll take a few readings to completely get the entire gist of it. To absorb everything. Especially now, knowing the end.
In a way I'm kind of sad. I sort of feel like I did when the ending crawl of "Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" began. "Shit. That was good. Awesome. (Stop yer giggling!) But, damn. It's really over."
So everyone count to 5, realize that Hurley's got it under control, and we'll all wait for the next big epic to happen. I'm betting that LOST will go down as one of those "referential" pieces of recent-modern storytelling.
So I'll leave the site alone for now. Eventually I suppose this'll all just disappear. I may do something else with it, I haven't decided yet. So I'm going to wait impatiently until the Blu Ray box hits the shelves in August, and try to relive it all again.
Thanks for reading.
out the details. i loved all the side
ways reconcilations, but the whole
"we're all dead" thing didn't work
for me.