i'm still waiting for doc jensen to post his finale epic review of the closing of lost. he posted a small teaser but says he'll crank out a full one soon. i've watched it once and left it on the dvr. may watch it again just to see if i got everything. let's see...i totally thought desmond was going to grab smokey at the last minute and jump into the oblivion of golden light. otherwise i don't think i was surprised at anything about the ending except that they left so many questions unanswered. apparently after skimming a few articles and blogs the writers never intended on answering our questions and only meant for the story to be focused on the main characters. oh. i was shocked that juliette was jack's ex-wife mother to his son in the side ways part. didn't see that coming. teared up with the reunion of jin and sun and more teary with the reunion of sawyer and juliette. and being a born a christian i stumbled over the whole holding tank of purgatory we all get to the heaven we make kinda thing. it was also sweet how tender kate was to jack. i will miss the show. oh. and you guys remember that i got to see so many of the locations while i visited oahu in january? sweet memories there.
Oh Lost. I'm so sad it's over. Ok. I think the finale was amazing. Beautiful. Touching. And I really loved it. But OMG! It didn't answer anything. While I didn't really expect it to answer everything, I expected at least a few nuggets! Oh well. I've always loved Jack & Kate so that made me happy. And I'm glad that they are ALL finally happy and at peace (although I'm with you Lauren about the purgatory thing - but it is just a TV show after all).
.. so we were watching dead people all that time? i was a little disappointed but considering the show overall, it was good.
I think this synopsis is really well written. So everything on the island was real...everything in sideways world was purgatory. I do have lots of questions about the time travel, Faraday, Eloise storyline. Overall, the finale was just like every other episode we watched. It made us think, and for me...made my head hurt just a little bit.
Yes, that describes every episode of Lost for me! I loved all the reunion scenes and how just about everyone found their soul mate again. The whole purgatory thing...well I was hoping that was the real life because it was so much nicer than their real life. Most of my unanswered questions revolved around Claire and her real life storyline on the island.
okay, I am trying to avoid work and so now I am going to be reading all about Lost! I agree with everyone else.... The entire show as I was watching it, I was like, ooh this is such a good episode, all the things that I loved about Lost, and it was so enjoyable to watch, but at the end, we all just sat around and were like, wow, that was good, but I am still confused! I loved all the awakenings moments--so sweet and tender...especially with Jin and Sun and Sawyer and Juliet (I had read a blog earlier that was guessing she was Jack's son's mom, so I wasn't super surprised by that!) Loved Jack and Kate finally getting to be happy together too. I had read earlier that the writers were maybe not going to resolve the romantic aspects b/c the show was "bigger" than the romantic triangles, but personally, I think there would have been some major discontent if they hadn't resolved some of that. But, I hated the Sayid and Shannon business, it just didn't seem to coincide with how he had always been in love with Nadia. I too struggled with the spiritual aspect and how it didn't really mesh with my Christian worldview, but it kind of fit the show, if that makes sense. I thought that this article was a kind of interesting concerning it being a Christian allegory. in the end, I don't think they answered a ton of questions, like the whole Eloise and Daniel storyline. i kind of want to go back and watch from Season 1 start to finish. But, I did think it was a good episode, loved the way Jack finally gained his confidence, how Hurley took over, and overall still liked the themes of redemption and forgiveness. Obviously, they are skewed, but definitely starting points. And it was just beautiful to watch. ETA: loved that summary that Amy linked to!
Since I'm Catholic I actually got the whole purgatory thing. I only ever watched a few episodes a season, so most of it goes over my head regardless, and the relationships were all I really got anyway, so that it ended with them made me happy. I told my husband last night that since I know the ending now, I might go back and watch all the episodes of every season. I was always kinda torn at investing that much time into a show if it wasn't a good ending, is that kinda weird of me? LOL.
Great link Amy!! Well, I must confess that I was a little disappointed with this whole purgatory thing. I too expected that side-ways were their real life and somehow they would figure something out to merge the island reality and the side-ways. Despite not liking the end I really loved the reunion scenes! My heart simply sank when I saw Sawyer and Juliet.. I think that was the best moment of the finale! Oh, Sun and Jin were pretty amazing too. I shed so many tears on Sunday! Now I gotta watch it properly since I've seen the whole episode on the net and the streaming wasn't very good. Here in Brazil they will show the ending tonight!! So don't count on me for anything from 8 o'clock on!! I'll be back with more theories about the finale very soon!!
I really loved the ending. I cheered and cried a lot. I was so happy to Vincent the dog! LOL! I think the last season answered so much so it was nice to see the ending really focus on characters. It reminded very much of the end of the Chronicles of Narnia. I loved seeing Charlie and Boone. Oh, how I've missed Boone. Glad I can see him on the Vampire Diaries! LOL! And I'm going to miss Doc Jensen, too.
Me too me too!! I'm so going to buy it!!!!!!! I really want to see the whole thing again...... Maybe I'll understand the bits that remained answered.....
doc jensen has posted his finale recaps. and yes, i got teary eyed all over again. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20313460_20387946,00.html http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20313460_20388269,00.html
I really want to save my pennies for when they release the big box set of the entire series. don't know when that will be or if I will be able to justify it....but I want to! LOL I have those saved to read, Lauren!! I love his recaps!