Long Rambley *Unedited Stream of Consciousness* Stuff on Genre Stories, Endings, and Answers

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Warning: Spoilers for BSG finale, very vague but possibly spoilerish LOST finale, Spoilers for Star Wars, and, oh hell, Buffy, Angel, Farscape, and the BtVS comics too So I've been thinking about the Lost finale (I know. But... I can't help it. Actually, I think it's a good sign that it's continued to intrigue me) and I've popped over to TWOP

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That said, in retrospect, I find the sideways rather nifty and worth examination. I do think that LOST works better as an allegory. You're right that the plot goes off in erratic directions. But, as I said, what we need to feel satisfied varies from person to person. I know if I look too hard, the cracks are there. And I know there are things that aren't answered. I was shocked and saddened when I realized what was going on and that they're all dead... But, despite all of that, I'm not disatisfied. I can understand feeling disatisfied. I do. Strangely, the more I've thought throught the sideways-verse, the more that it works for me. I do understand not feeling that way. So I'm not saying you should.

I was just rather hacked off with the TWOP poster who thought that being satisfied equated to unicorns and crazy-cat-ladies and then his holding up midichlorians as a 'good' explanation when it was just really obvious MacGuffin bullshit that really didn't mean anything. The plot holes are plot holes regardless. Midichlorines isn't qualatiatively different than a devine glowhole.