We'll keep this one brief. Maybe a longer one later on this week, but just some thoughts for now.
SPOILERS AHEAD
I don't have a whole lot to say about what happened in the finale, partly because a lot of it is confusing (and from some of the early reactions, there's a lot of WTF), but I'll say first and foremost that I still really enjoyed it.
Can I say the series makes a whole lot of sense on the whole? Probably not. And there are still lots of unanswered questions, i.e. Walt, but oh well. I think that was inevitable with all the stuff LOST had up in the air. What I wanted though was a reasonable enough explanation for the sideways, some good fitting endings for our characters, and some well executed stuff. And I liked it. I really did. And I was moved and hooked until the end. So, just some thoughts on what I liked, what I didn't like (not a lot, honestly), and what I think might have been the case.
First, I will say that the Sideways stuff still confuses me, but I'm sure stuff will come out about that and thoughts on that. I just don't quite understand how they decided to find each other there (based on what Christian said). I also wonder what that means with the island being underground, the other people in their lives (like David, Jack's son), how Jughead last year relates to that, and what that means for Faraday, Ben, etc. (is that some other actual life of theirs? but they're technically dead?).
But I'll say that I liked a lot of stuff. All the flashes to the people were cool. Juliet-Sawyer especially, along with Kate/Claire/Charlie, the lovely surprise of Shannon/Sayid/Boone and the cool thing about Shannon and Sayid being true loves or whatever that implies.... I did like that. After forgetting about it since Season 2, it was cool to see it come back to that.
The scene with Jack and his father was great, and I really liked that Christian ended the show with Jack on a really good note. An amicable relationship.
What did Desmond know? How did it all connect? I don't know. Whatever, I'll read and think more on it later.
The Island stuff was really cool. People had theorized that Jack's tenure would be short-lived, but boy was it meaningful. Hurley taking over was another popular theory, and I guess that makes the most sense. Hurley/Ben taking over the Island in a supposedly friendly relationship is good, and something I suspected. I figured it would end without an enemy, sorta like what Jacob foreshadowed in last year's finale. The disappointment of Desmond failing was scary, with the legit fear that MIB was gonna win there.
It was a little shocking to see MIB die so early, but it was done really well. I really thought Jack was gonna get killed by him there (at that point, I was still thinking that the Sideways people would come to the Island so Jack would come back), and Kate shooting him was baller.
Everyone having happy endings? Technically. Lots of people still died. Don't forget that the happy reunion at the end there was after all those people died, including the crappy deaths still of Sun, Jin, Boone, Shannon, Charlie, etc.
I thought Kate and Jack being together was fitting, along with Sawyer/Juliet in the end there. What happens to them all after they take off the Island? Who knows? Richard Alpert starts a dance club? Lapidus and Miles start a private airplane company? What happens with Sawyer and Kate? Hmm. The main cool thing? Claire getting to come back to Aaron. And that is a nice thing to have realized. Good job, Kate. You managed to accomplish that.
I thought it was really fascinating that they saved Jack for last to realize what was going on. And I loved the ending shot with Jack dying probably where he woke up, with Vincent by him, with the plane flying over, with him happy about succeeding, with his eye closing.
That's all I'm gonna write for now. I hope you all enjoyed it. If you didn't, I really do think that it's the type of ending that will be better with more time to think and to process. Or not. I'm gonna watch the Kimmel show. I might write something else later this week.
Random notes:
-The explanation for the neck mark on Jack? Very cool.
-Kate pointing out the ridiculousness of Christian Shephard's name was good stuff. And the other meta-type stuff, like how Jack's the obvious choice according to MIB.
-Oh man if they'd killed Rose/Bernard that woulda been so traumatizing.
-Jack-Locke fight = Neo - Agent Smith fight
-The flash-realizations were all pretty cool. Shannon-Sayid was a cool surprise. Boone... how did he know already? What did he flash on? Hmm. Maybe... ARZT?
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