Well... it's over.

After 6 seasons, it finally happened, just like they always said it would. THE END. Now is the time to look back and remember... and rewatch it from the beginning! Post your thoughts. Thoughts about the finale -- gripes, rage, love, joy. And musings and recollections about the entire past of the series, now that at last we have...answers?!! XD

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Permalink Reply by Brother Bob (The Dancing Bear) on June 7, 2010 at 7:52pm

Well, one question that Lost truly answered once and for all was perhaps everyone's single biggest question. Would we get answers? And the answer is... Nope. This being gotten out of the way, I honestly can say that I found the ending intensely powerful and satisfying, and that I'm anxious to watch the show again from start to finish. I wasn't really disappointed at the rather obvious absence of answers in the finale in that the writers made it pretty plain early on the in final season that they weren't going to even try to scurry around explaining things. They were going to take it easy. And they did. Right up to the end. I thought the "sideways universe" wrap up as being a sort of Purgatory was interesting, and it made pretty good sense. Jack's death at the end was riveting. Such a powerful moment. Looking back on the show, however, I do feel the need to voice my grievances with the infuriating prairie dog town of plot holes throughout past seasons simply left "up to interpretation". My cousin -- a huge Lost fan -- evaluated the show as being the "epitome of post-modern television". I think this is a very insightful assessment. Post-modernism is basically a belief system that holds that everything should be left in the eye of the beholder. In other words, there is never a real "moral" to walk away with from art, it's just what "you get out of it" personally.

Lost bears a lot of similarities in my mind to the Star Wars saga. The wise Jedi Master being struck down by his apprentice, the vivid "light vs. dark side", even Jack's search for his father who turns out to be Darth Smokey. And yet, in Star Wars, things come together, the prophecy is fulfilled against all odds, Evil is destroyed, Good triumphs, the Jedi Return. And it all gets tied up with an interstellar bow. A lot of those same things happened in Lost as well, but there were some striking differences. Questions weren't really answered, it was all a matter of interpretation, Good triumphed and Evil was destroyed, but it wasn't ever made really clear who of the characters exactly was "good" at the end, and who was evil (other than Smokey), and why. I think it's interesting that Micheal, Eko, and Anna Lucia didn't make it to "heaven" however.

So, all in all, I thought Lost was a great show, but really, it could have been greater. The thing that makes Star Wars satisfying over and over and over again is how it all MAKES SENSE in the end. Lost is, in my mind, like Star Wars without a unifying pattern to hold all the complexities together. And I think that is unfortunate. What do you think?