The day after

[cleolinda]

So, I'm still thinking about Lost. Yes, we're still on that. You want me to go back to talking about Twilight? Because we can do that.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Comments

[spectralbovine]

I still think the single best moment of the show was Scarybeard Jack shouting, "KATE! WE HAVE TO GO BACK!" even as everyone was finally rescued, something I didn't even think would happen until the end of the series, and suddenly everything we all, characters and viewers alike, had wanted the whole time was turned on its head. You could actually feel the show turn on its axis at that moment.
That was such an amazing moment, I agree. And I still love Jack's squeaky "WE HAVE TO GO BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!"

I like this post.

[snacky]

Yes, all this.

I was saying to one of my coworkers how pissed I would have been if someone stood there on screen doing a huge infodump: "And this one... well, this is what THAT meant, and this... we meant THAT..." and so on.

I like that it was only part of the story we saw. The rest goes on without us.

[kanedax]

Exactly. Some people wanted the finale to be a list, an FAQ, or a series of checkmarks. Thankfully it wasn't. The island's a mystery, and I love it that way.

[nb2000]

The main thing I took from the finale (and the BSG one): Suddenly I REALLY appreciate the, simplicity seems too mean but that's what it is, of the Buffy finale a lot more than I did when that aired. No last second piece of information that completely turns everything on its head and leaves you going "Wait...what?"

I have the same opinion of the Paolo/Nikki and Tattoo episodes. Paolo/Nikki seemed to know and accept that it was kind of pointless while Tattoo was playing everything utterly straight.

[annlarimer]

If Paolo/Nikki had run in an episode of 1960s or 70s series, it would be considered a classic. In Lost it was just harmlessly doofy.

The Secret Origin of Jack's Tats was pointless, and rather ugly. "O hai screw ur customs so I can has bitchin ink, k?" "K! Hope ai don gets kilt!"

[tabbyclaw]

Am I hallucinating again, or did Darlton recently confess that the Bai Ling episode was bad on purpose because they were trying to get the network to give them an end date and wanted to show just how bad the filler was going to get if they had to pad any further?

[snacky]

I think too, that it has to do with how the viewer approached it. For me, the characters and their journeys and their connections to each other were really the most important things. Back in season 1, I remember talking to a friend about maybe the island was purgatory, maybe not, but the really big thing was that these people were being given a second chance, a choice about their lives, and what was going to matter most was what they did with that chance and their choices

[snacky]

You are probably right about the Numbers! I will try to be zen about them. :D

[annlarimer]

I think Walt and Michael had a group of their own to reconstruct. Their most important relationships, once they'd escaped, were off the island.

[jadesymb]

I watched season one and part of season two.

The main things I wanted to know about were Walt being "special," the necessity of Claire raising Aaron, the Numbers and WTF was the huge monster in the trees and why a Polar Bear.

So basically things that were important early on they never answered.

So in all seriousness, IS EVERYONE DEAD? Was that the point? That they are all dead?

[incogra]

Same here. Maybe if I'd kept watching and had a chance to get invested in the new characters/story lines, I'd be more satisfied with the finale, but as it is...nope.

[snacky]

Well, the polar bear thing and the monster thing were both answered; I think Claire leaving the island last night meant that she did get to raise Aaron, so that's kind of a partial; the Walt thing was totally dropped and so were the numbers.

They're not all dead in the sense of the died during the original plane crash - they died over the course of their lives, as people do, and last night we saw them all reunite before going on to their afterlife/heaven/whatever comes next.