I'm with you on the "I loved it....but" front. I actually think everything that happened in "our" universe was reality and the sideways world was purgatory, or at least their version of it. Christian said that many of them had died before Jack and after but they were all waiting to take the big trip together. I suppose Michael, Walt, Ana Lucia, Ekko, Paulo, Nikki, Faraday, Charlotte, and Widmore were all not ready to cross over? At least that's how I'm taking it anyway.
I cried like a baby at the Sawyer/Juliet reunion. Kudos to Josh and Liz for making it so beautiful and touching.
I find myself wanting to ask questions since there's so many... but I don't remember what to ask anylonger lol. A tv show is good fun when it's mysterious and weird, but Lost just lost (no pun intended - seriously) itself along the way.
Oh now I got some questions. Maybe you can answer? LOL 1. Why did Claire and Sayid act so weird in the last season? 2. What was the smoke monster? And was it really in Locke? 3. Anything about Jacob?
IMO Lost did indeed lose itself along the way. I knew the finale wouldn't produce a wholly satisfying ending and that's basically how it turned out. The problem I had was after the 1st season, they began to introduce more characters and it soon became too difficult for me to keep track of everyone from week to week. I liked Lost, but a show shouldn't be a chore/challenge to watch. It should be fun. Can't say that was always the case.
Hmmm....Well I'll try to answer these...
1. Claire was weird from being left on the island alone for too long, with only the smoke monster as company for some of it. Sayid became not!Sayid after he died and then came back. 2. Yes, the smoke monster really was in Locke. As for what it was....well, it was some kind of evil that came from the magic tunnel of light on the island. 3. Ah, Jacob...he IS a mystery. :P
i replied to you over in my LJ, but: everything that happened on the island happened.
LA was kinda a "waiting room" until the Losties made the connection. the reason they were all there in the church at the end still was they were still all connected to Jack and had to wait until he made the connection as well.
The ending was so profound! I think the creators had to choose--tell the story of the characters or tell the story of the island? And they chose the characters and only gave us what they could about the island.
My take was that Sideways world was purgatory and that the Island was real life, and that Sideways world had no 'time', so to speak. Everyone in it was dead but all had died at different times (like, we obviously saw Charlie's death and John's death, but we don't know when Sawyer died or Kate or Claire, because they survived the Island). You can sort of see that when Hurley acknowledges Ben outside the church as a 'great number 2' and Ben says back 'you were a great number 1' meaning that Hurley was the guardian of the Island for some undisclosed period of time and has now passed the burden on to someone else. The ending in the church was everyone realizing their connections to everyone else and being together going beyond their purgatory into something better.
I don't disagree that centering on the characters was the right way to go, but I also think the show dug such a deep hole for itself that they had no way to answer a lot of the important questions.
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I cried like a baby at the Sawyer/Juliet reunion. Kudos to Josh and Liz for making it so beautiful and touching.
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Oh now I got some questions. Maybe you can answer? LOL
1. Why did Claire and Sayid act so weird in the last season?
2. What was the smoke monster? And was it really in Locke?
3. Anything about Jacob?
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Hmmm....Well I'll try to answer these...
1. Claire was weird from being left on the island alone for too long, with only the smoke monster as company for some of it. Sayid became not!Sayid after he died and then came back.
2. Yes, the smoke monster really was in Locke. As for what it was....well, it was some kind of evil that came from the magic tunnel of light on the island.
3. Ah, Jacob...he IS a mystery. :P
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LA was kinda a "waiting room" until the Losties made the connection. the reason they were all there in the church at the end still was they were still all connected to Jack and had to wait until he made the connection as well.
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(what happened to my edit button? nevermind....)
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My take was that Sideways world was purgatory and that the Island was real life, and that Sideways world had no 'time', so to speak. Everyone in it was dead but all had died at different times (like, we obviously saw Charlie's death and John's death, but we don't know when Sawyer died or Kate or Claire, because they survived the Island). You can sort of see that when Hurley acknowledges Ben outside the church as a 'great number 2' and Ben says back 'you were a great number 1' meaning that Hurley was the guardian of the Island for some undisclosed period of time and has now passed the burden on to someone else. The ending in the church was everyone realizing their connections to everyone else and being together going beyond their purgatory into something better.
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