Bye Lost!
Wow, I did NOT expect to be so moved by this finale. When Lost first started I was as in awe of it as everyone else. Over the course of the first season I got annoyed because it was not what I expected or wanted - I wanted a more mundane mystery, I felt it was exciting enough without the supernatural stuff. And then they killed my pretty Boone and gave us 20 new questions per episode and there was that ridiculous and frustrating season finale and so I wrote it off for 5 years. Not just wrote it off, I hated on it. A lot.
So when I got caught up this winter I had abandoned all hope of it having a worthwhile payoff and anything more than a ridiculous ending, I figured I'd try and enjoy the ride much like with a bad horror movie. And I did enjoy it, sort of like that, and up until the very last episode I really didn't care so much - or atleast I didn't think I did. But darnit if they didn't get me in the end, and when I say "get me" I mean waterworks. And you need to know that I NEVER cry anymore, not actual tears. I get sad, maybe possibly a little moist in the eyes at the very most, but I haven't cried for years. Figured my tearducts were all dried up from all the bawling I did growing up in my own personal little hell... Good to know they still work!
Maybe it's my hormones, maybe it was so freaking perfect and mushy that it managed to completely bypass my cynical side, but more likely it's because it appealed to my philosophical one. Because damn, if that wasn't the perfect parody of all human fantasies of heaven/the afterlife then I don't know what. A whole lot of weird, inexplicable crap (both good and bad) for no appearant reason followed by a perfect, happy ending where everyone's with their loved ones and there's a bright light and everything comes full circle. I'll never understand how people can truly believe in that fairytale. I can see why they'd want to, but just because I want to believe a million dollars will fall in my lap I can't, because I KNOW that's not happening. Atleast not by all imaginable probabilities.
Still not sure where this leaves me when it comes to my general opinion on Lost. I'll never consider it the greatest show ever but after this I can't really deny that it's extremely well-acted and -written (for the most part, and in an extravagant way, but still). Maybe if they hadn't overdone quite so much I would have really adored it, because I certainly loved where it ended up. And as far as continuity goes this is one for the textbooks, (possibly as an example of slightly overdoing it but I'll take that over no continuity at all any day) because the callbacks to the pilot were amazing.
So when I got caught up this winter I had abandoned all hope of it having a worthwhile payoff and anything more than a ridiculous ending, I figured I'd try and enjoy the ride much like with a bad horror movie. And I did enjoy it, sort of like that, and up until the very last episode I really didn't care so much - or atleast I didn't think I did. But darnit if they didn't get me in the end, and when I say "get me" I mean waterworks. And you need to know that I NEVER cry anymore, not actual tears. I get sad, maybe possibly a little moist in the eyes at the very most, but I haven't cried for years. Figured my tearducts were all dried up from all the bawling I did growing up in my own personal little hell... Good to know they still work!
Maybe it's my hormones, maybe it was so freaking perfect and mushy that it managed to completely bypass my cynical side, but more likely it's because it appealed to my philosophical one. Because damn, if that wasn't the perfect parody of all human fantasies of heaven/the afterlife then I don't know what. A whole lot of weird, inexplicable crap (both good and bad) for no appearant reason followed by a perfect, happy ending where everyone's with their loved ones and there's a bright light and everything comes full circle. I'll never understand how people can truly believe in that fairytale. I can see why they'd want to, but just because I want to believe a million dollars will fall in my lap I can't, because I KNOW that's not happening. Atleast not by all imaginable probabilities.
Still not sure where this leaves me when it comes to my general opinion on Lost. I'll never consider it the greatest show ever but after this I can't really deny that it's extremely well-acted and -written (for the most part, and in an extravagant way, but still). Maybe if they hadn't overdone quite so much I would have really adored it, because I certainly loved where it ended up. And as far as continuity goes this is one for the textbooks, (possibly as an example of slightly overdoing it but I'll take that over no continuity at all any day) because the callbacks to the pilot were amazing.