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+ HOW DID BEN GET OUT FROM UNDER THAT TREE? this i really want to know. it had me talking to myself for a couple minutes afterward.
+ Ben did not kill Locke, as I predicted, but Kate certainly gets credit for ending him. Touche, writers. I did not see that coming. (Also, did anyone else have a LION KING flashback when Jack jumped down off the rock ledge and they had their massive fight? Seriously guys. I'm telling you the writers parodied this.
+ I did yell at the t.v. screen "KISS HER!" during the Kate/Jack goodbye scene. I felt like we've been building up to that for awhile, even if I don't actually believe that they could have a functional relationship after going through the three years back in L.A. after leaving the island. I believe that Kate and Jack did love each other on and off the island, but as for soul mates? Sorry. I'm not there on that one.
+ Saying that, however, I LOVED the realization scene between Sawyer and Juliet. the i'm a cop / you should read it its rights banter and the smiles and the immediate we should get coffee sometime after the initial hand touching and the kiss me, james. I teared up. My only regret is that Elizabeth Mitchel didn't have more lines during that scene. But I will say that when Sawyer said "i've got you, baby" my heart swelled up. They could have ended the show with that scene and I would have been beyond satisfied.
and I like how we all called Juliet being Jack's ex wife in the Flash Sideways. My twitter stream was filled with "called it!" "didn't see THAT coming" and "told you so" after that scene. :P
+ I think we've all known it for awhile and have been discussing how one of the major themes of the show is our "constants" and the individuals we have these spiritual and romantic and platonic connections to. So in that sense, I was very happy to see all of our pairings together in the church at the end. Whether or not I support the religious connotation is a different story, and I'd rather watch the finale a couple more times and really ingest it to be able to say how I interpret it.
+ I will say, however, that I refuse to believe that the characters died on the initial crash. I honestly do not believe the creators of the show ever intended that to be the case. I believe that there was a group of strangers who landed on this mysterious island, who were brought there for a reason, discovered that, left, and came back. Now whether they died on the second flight to the island, or whether it was the Hydrogen Bomb is up for grabs. Personally, I believe its the H-Bomb that killed them all, because it fits in with Juliet telling them it worked and creates the flash-sideways, which we find out in the finale is a place for the characters to rekindle their relationships and come together.
Making the entire show take place in purgatory completely discredits the relationships and lives of the characters. Why create a show based so heavily in the emotional investment into these characters if they're all dead? If that was the case, then these constants never existed and people's actions never mattered, because it was never real. But Jack's father said that their lives do matter, what they did mattered-- so I have to argue that what we saw on the series did happen. I've always been with Jack on the Science vs. Faith debate, which is why I'm so uneasy with the Biblical ending of making Christian Shepard the equivalent of God or Jesus who goes around collecting individuals and leading them to the afterlife. When he says that they all died, some before, some after I think that's a) a deliberate vague answer so that fans can interpret its meaning for themselves and walk away with their own beliefs and b) a clue that certain individuals must have met during their lives in order to search for them in the afterlife. And as we know, Sawyer and Juliet never met before the island, neither did half the others.
So yeah. This is how I'm calling it. They didn't die in the original crash.
+ After all this speculation, I will say that the finale definitely lived up to the spectrum of the series. I think it stayed true to its purpose as a show and the fan's wants and needs. I'm pretty satisfied with it. I think it will definitely go down as one of the greatest and most influential television shows ever created.