Lost

[badriyaz]

I was going to write a bunch of stuff about Lost, but I think I will just say "What TLo said."  I still feel a bit like the series pulled a BSG on us, but the more I reflect, the more I can be okay with it.

Also it made me cry twice.
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Comments

[meddevi]

heh, as we lay in bed last night contemplating it, I said to Keith, did you really expect it to be any more satisfying than the ending for BSG?

[badriyaz]

Ultimately I think it was more satisfying--at any rate, it didn't piss me off ;-)

[meddevi]

Yeap, didn't piss me off either...though I would have liked more meat on the mysteries, but I already expected it to be whitewashed over with the treatment of it a few episodes about the light...that was the time to explain...

[_perihelion_]

now I see why it had to be 2 and a half hours long. that thing had more commercials than the SuperBowl.

[badriyaz]

Agreed!

[jenwrites]

I agree with a lot of what that reviewer said, but in the end, I'm one of those people he pities because I need more answers, damn it.

[badriyaz]

I'm slowly letting go of needing answers, the more I think about it. I guess I am moving on ;-)

[jenwrites]

Maybe I'll get there some day. But for now, I feel like marking this final season up with a red pen and jotting writerly advice down in it like, "If you pick up a gun in the first act, you need to use it before the final scene." And I'd write that next to notes on Walt, Aaron, the mystery of women dying while pregnant...

[silas7]

I havent' followed the series at all, but I think saying that they mysteries don't matter, that it's all about the characters, is a cop out. I might feel differently had I watched the show.

[badriyaz]

It's kind of a cop out, but it's a fairly valid cop out, since so many of the mysteries existed as tests of character. The more I think about it, the more I think I'm okay with it.

[ayun]

I'm with TLo as well - LOST has emphasized over and over again that Man of Science/Man of Faith dichotomy and ALWAYS come down on the 'Faith' side. I never really found any of the science-y stuff (Faraday's whole deal) convincing in the first place, so the spiritual-y conclusion wasn't much of a shock for me.

I'm pretty satisfied with the ending, myself.