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[skirmish_of_wit]

AUGH I AM SO ANNOYED

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Me too.

[cacophonesque]

I was super happy to see Bernard and Rose and Vincent.

And that may have been the highlight for me.

Oh, and that Lapidus was there. And the expression on Ben's face when Hurley asked for his help.

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I like how Lapidus is basically Sully. Especially sine the character existed pre-Sully.

Also, I liked the Target ad with Smokey in it?

And yeah, Vincent was cool! And I kind of just want to see the spinoff Ben and Hurley show. It will be called, "Cool, dude."

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Yes! It would be awesome.

Re: THE WORST EVER

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Yeah, I could have dealt with the alternate reality scenario, especially since that means Juliet really did save everyone. But in this version Juliet didn't save everyone, just Jack's daddy AKA nondenominational Jesus did :-(

Re: THE WORST EVER

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They were saved in the Jesus sense, like Capital-S Saved, not saved in the Juliet fucking kicked ass and rebooted their universe saved. And they were all saved! Because they were so important to each other because love and shit blah blah didn't you listen to Christian Shepherd? I know I did since he is such an important character on the show and needed to have that much screentime dedicated to him giving out blatant exposition in the last ten minutes of the entire series. That was exactly what I was hoping for in a last episode, you know.

[theafaye]

I had to stop watching at season 3 due to a regular commitment and no record facility and never really got back into it. I'm not really sure that I want to from the odd bits I've seen/heard, which is why I decided to click on a post marked "spoilers."

So basically everyone's dead and it was all a dream sort of thing?

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No, it all really happened but everything that happened this season was a collective subconscious construct in the afterlife.

It had ups and downs. I would say last season it was really good again. This season, there have been a few good episodes but it's been mostly mediocre.

[theafaye]

That seems to match what I've heard others say - that this season has been really disappointing. Thing is, I'd heard that it was like Babylon 5, where they'd mapped out the whole thing right from the start. If that was the case, then I'd expect a real WOW factor which really doesn't seem the case, especially if it feels like they ran out of steam.

And afterlife constructs? Oh puh-lease.

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No, actually, I really believe they had planned this ending from the beginning. But I think they planned this ending when they were like, hey, we're writing a science fiction show for a major network, this is going to last like a season and a half. It smacks of insisting on keeping an ending that the show had outgrown, and become too rich and complex for that ending to accommodate, but they'd gotten attached to it and didn't want to rewrite.

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And now I'm wondering why the hell Sayid ends up with Shannon in heaven, instead of the woman he was in love with for years? Like "Hey, I hooked up with you for a few weeks and you are more important to me than the love of my life!" It made sense for a parallel world where memories were bleeding through... but in terms of a construct of an afterlife... bzuh?

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Yeah, I was thinking about that when it happened in the show. Really, the only way I can accept that afterlife is that it isn't actually a collective construct, it's just Jack's construct of life as he remembers it. Because considering the ending, you would think that if Claire and Kate get away and raise Aaron together, that would be more important to them than the island-- heck, Aaron is more important to Kate than Jack is. And Jin and Sun should have their kid with them. I think Ben's is the only response that makes sense because Alex is more important to him than the freaking random people from the island. He wouldn't want to be somewhere with no Alex.

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Yeah, everything about the church seemed to be Jack's personal journey - he even gets his father to hug and cry manly father son tears with, while everyone else is sitting around patiently waiting to help him move on. I'd prefer to believe this is Jack's dying vision rather than that all those poor characters were trapped in an afterlife that was still All About Jack. Because no one deserves that.

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And Ben is like, "fuck it, why do I want to help Jack with his personal journey?"