See you in another life, brother

[ohsemantics]

I'm trying to finally make good on my promise to post here so I offer you my ramblings on certain aspects of the Lost finale. This is by no means a comprehensive recap/review, just a few things I wanted to focus on. Tons of random ranting ahead, you've been warned. ;)

Comments

[smellslikemoon]

My thoughts exactly, all of this.

I was actually a huge fan of the SW timeline, what's mean to be is meant to be, and maybe I'm biased through my Skate goggles too, but Sawyer's line, "looks like someone is trying to put us together"? the fact that they weren't soulmates, nor even acknowledged in the end but spent time building them up in the timeline really made no sense. And I actually loved Sayid/Shannon (I always liked her better than Nadia) and Hurley/Libby was cute (not that I shipped it), but I felt like we were pairing them off just to pair them off. That was never really Lost, so it came off really forced and cheesy. I never really was able to fully buy the timeline after that. The only ones I did like were Claire and Kate, Locke and Jack, and out of the romantic ones that actually did something to me were Sun and Jin.

And even though I do ship Skate, I think I can objectively say that Juliet was the convenient choice for Sawyer, and I blame this on bad writing. I get that Kate loved Jack, but I always understood from what we were shown that he wasn't the one for her. They tried so many times and it never worked out. What's done is done. But as soon as they realized that they had to do something about Kate's reaction to Jack disappearing and staying on the island forever (until he died), I think they didn't know how to write Skate, so they just dropped it. We had a build-up this season and I think the other ships even acknowledge this (it scared a few, and we still didn't know who Kate was going to end up with in the finale, clearly it wasn't one way or the other), but they just dropped it so suddenly. They pimped Skate so much and I think the actors were even convinced, but it just disappeared in the finale. No resolution, good or bad. I would have even preferred a bad ending, but just one ending would have been nice.

I just think the finale didn't reflect the whole story of the show and I was really disappointed, not because of the relationship factor, but it just didn't feel Lostlike to me.

[ohsemantics]

ITA. I think the writers just had too many loose ends to wrap up and Skate was one of those casualties that was left unresolved.