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I watched the finale, cried a lot (shut up, I'm a girl and it was emotional) and am marking the end of an era. It was fun Lost, we had great times, like when I played that spin off game and the first thing I heard when approaching the beach was Michael screaming 'WAAAAAAAAAAALLLT!' and the fact you turned me into a virtual whore for having far too many characters that I fancied, sometimes for inexplicable reasons. I like that you made me come up with the most insane theories and once or twice I was right. Mostly I love you for your characters even when I hated them, you told me a story about a group of people that I'm going to miss. I feel like a right saddo for saying that but I really am going to miss them.
Repost of my about the finale comment on cpn_jacksparrow's Lost post.
You know I probably would have loved this finale if it weren't for the total WTF?! of flashsideways universe being a complete lie. WHY DID YOU SUBJECT US TO ALL THAT FAKE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT ONLY TO GO 'OH BY THE WAY THERE ARE ALL DEAD.. even though we trolled you earlier by saying the Island wasn't the afterlife hurhurhur.'
It was all nonsense, all of it, even if the reunions were touching and made me remember all the great things Lost has done over the past 6 years.
I just feel lilke they wasted half of this series with a long con and I'm not terribly trilled to have the rug pulled out from under my feet like that. Although I did start to figure it out before the big reveal which they probably didn't want anyone to do. I really want to know who the hell Jack's kid was, was he imaginary? If so why did he pick Juliet of all people to be his babymomma?
I would have loved it if the alternate Losties somehow got back to the real universe and helped Jack beat Flocke. Like Alt!Locke somehow taking control of Dead!Locke's body so Jack could kill him. That would have sucked a lot less.
I really liked most of the on Island stuff(I'm not going to bother with Jack basically pushing a reset button to undo what happened when the most important man in the world failed to save the day, for shame Desmond! Mostly because I sort of knew that they were going to pull SOMETHING like that although putting the plug back in without explaining what the plug is or what the frig the light was is annoying) and really loved Ben becoming Hurley's sidekick. I even liked Jack and Kate before the end. Truthfully I have liked Jack since he became the man of faith a few episodes back. How did this happen? o_0
I could have liked the last scene of them all in the church together if the set up had been different but as it was I just feel like they wasted the ending on some grand statement about death that I seem to be missing. Speaking of death what happened to the people that died in the 'place'? Is Keamy now opening a restaurant in heaven so he can serve the best damn eggs in the universe to God?
I think the writers owe us a comprehensive guide to the Island and all that stuff they never bothered to explain in the show. I'd even pay for it if they wrote a book just to give them some motivation to do it. I can live with not knowing but frankly they said they knew everything and had planned most of it out and I want the proof cos we all think they were talking shit now it's over and done with.
I still love Lost though which I'm glad about.