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AHHHHH Lost is over!
It's not really affecting me much the whole series being over, and I know it's because I haven't been keeping up with the show regularly over the past two seasons. Binging on it over the past four days didn't leave time for me to get as exited as I would be otherwise. I'm so glad I got to see the finale along with the rest of fans, just like old times.
MY THOUGHTS
Spoilers for the finale and everything leading up to it.
-Yeah, I cried. Teared up during the scene in the church and lost it at the last shot ;_; Actually I went into the kitchen to cry because I didn't want my Mom to make fun of me, lol.
-Especially over Vincent showing up at the end! Not only that the dog's alive and gets the honors of a final scene, but also because Jack wasn't dying alone. I was seriously choked up when Vincent laid down next to him.
-Ben's ending was the beautiful and one of the most heartwarming. The whole time we've seen him he's been working for Jacob on sheer faith, loses his faith when he realizes he has no special connection to Jacob or the island, and in the end he gains that connected he always wanted. Hurley and the island genuinely need him.
-Hurley as the final protector of the island was a great twist. I'd expected it to be Jack - it was predicable that it was him first, but the way they'd been building it up it wouldn't have made sense for anyone else. Then they switch it in a way that gives Jack his meaning and allows the twist! I was also pleased that the last man standing was a) a minority, and b) not one of the conventionally hot people.
-The idea that it was love that connected the alt-timeline and the island-timeline was still pretty cheesy. I didn't buy Shannon/Sayid at all; so much of both his universes revolved around his being in love with Nadia, yet his relationship with Shannon is supposed to override that?
-That said, some of the love connections tugged at my heartstrings like nothing else. Sun/Jin was prob. my favorite, followed by Sawyer/Juliet. Lovely fix-its for the tragedy that truncated those romances on the island. And not all the memory-triggers were love related, which I appreciated. Kate's trigger being Claire giving birth to Aaron was beautiful.
-SPEAKING OF KATE. I never got into the shipping side of fandom, but HOLY SHIT Kate/Claire, I ship it.
-I'm not sold on the entire section with Desmond going into the cave o' light. The only significant thing it set up was Jack's death and Hurley taking over. Other than that it just...set up a slightly more dramatic showdown for Locke and Jack and exit for the plane. The entire arc felt like a lot of bluster with very little result, and I wish it could have been done more cleanly.
-This is more about the whole series rather than the finale, but in the vein of keeping things clean, I think there were too many characters. So many introduced, given some backstory or none at all, then written out. And in the end their stories has little to do with the ending and the main story. With all the people coming together in the last scene I wish there had been connection made between characters like Eco, Michael, Ana Lucia, Walt, Ilana and the others I can't remember and the ending.
I'm watching the Lost special of Jimmy Kimmel right now - Naveen Andrews kissed Michael Emerson earlier!
It's not really affecting me much the whole series being over, and I know it's because I haven't been keeping up with the show regularly over the past two seasons. Binging on it over the past four days didn't leave time for me to get as exited as I would be otherwise. I'm so glad I got to see the finale along with the rest of fans, just like old times.
MY THOUGHTS
Spoilers for the finale and everything leading up to it.
-Yeah, I cried. Teared up during the scene in the church and lost it at the last shot ;_; Actually I went into the kitchen to cry because I didn't want my Mom to make fun of me, lol.
-Especially over Vincent showing up at the end! Not only that the dog's alive and gets the honors of a final scene, but also because Jack wasn't dying alone. I was seriously choked up when Vincent laid down next to him.
-Ben's ending was the beautiful and one of the most heartwarming. The whole time we've seen him he's been working for Jacob on sheer faith, loses his faith when he realizes he has no special connection to Jacob or the island, and in the end he gains that connected he always wanted. Hurley and the island genuinely need him.
-Hurley as the final protector of the island was a great twist. I'd expected it to be Jack - it was predicable that it was him first, but the way they'd been building it up it wouldn't have made sense for anyone else. Then they switch it in a way that gives Jack his meaning and allows the twist! I was also pleased that the last man standing was a) a minority, and b) not one of the conventionally hot people.
-The idea that it was love that connected the alt-timeline and the island-timeline was still pretty cheesy. I didn't buy Shannon/Sayid at all; so much of both his universes revolved around his being in love with Nadia, yet his relationship with Shannon is supposed to override that?
-That said, some of the love connections tugged at my heartstrings like nothing else. Sun/Jin was prob. my favorite, followed by Sawyer/Juliet. Lovely fix-its for the tragedy that truncated those romances on the island. And not all the memory-triggers were love related, which I appreciated. Kate's trigger being Claire giving birth to Aaron was beautiful.
-SPEAKING OF KATE. I never got into the shipping side of fandom, but HOLY SHIT Kate/Claire, I ship it.
-I'm not sold on the entire section with Desmond going into the cave o' light. The only significant thing it set up was Jack's death and Hurley taking over. Other than that it just...set up a slightly more dramatic showdown for Locke and Jack and exit for the plane. The entire arc felt like a lot of bluster with very little result, and I wish it could have been done more cleanly.
-This is more about the whole series rather than the finale, but in the vein of keeping things clean, I think there were too many characters. So many introduced, given some backstory or none at all, then written out. And in the end their stories has little to do with the ending and the main story. With all the people coming together in the last scene I wish there had been connection made between characters like Eco, Michael, Ana Lucia, Walt, Ilana and the others I can't remember and the ending.
I'm watching the Lost special of Jimmy Kimmel right now - Naveen Andrews kissed Michael Emerson earlier!