Well, Lost is officially over. We didn't watch the finale until last night, and I'm sad to see everyone go. What is my interpretation of the whole thing? I don't really know. I didn't like the very end, up to the last five minutes I thought was good. But I feel like the writers were trying too hard. I guess Sideways life was purgatory (or at least that's what they are claiming), but I just don't get it. The island was never clearly defined and should have been. And I do think a better ending would have been to leave them finding each other in the Sideways world without it being purgatory - or whatever it was. I liked the awakening moments and how they all started to remember. It was really cool. I wish they would have left it there instead of throwing us for another loop! Overall I really enjoyed Lost...wish I knew more answers to questions but still enjoyed it. I think they left a lot open to interpretation by answering so many questions, which honestly is how they maintained such a large audience throughout the whole series. Too clearly defined, and they may have "lost" some of their mainstream secular or "lost" some of their spiritually inclined viewers (such as many Christians I know who enjoyed it). I still don't think the writers knew what they were doing after season two, even though they claim they had it all planned out. And I really thought the Dharma Initiative would have more to do with it all in the end. But it turned out that Desmond had more to do with it than we all would have thought! Well, in the spirit of Lost here are some video clips about the finale and season overall. Goodbye Lost! I will miss you!
If you would like to read a really great blog that is pages long about the whole finales, check out Entertainment Weekly's Totally 'Lost'. Their blogger really breaks it down for you - probably more than you would want! :-)
2 comments:
Love the cat video! So funny. :)
I kind of feel the same way you do. Unsure about the finale. I did like the characters finding each other in the end and moving on to whatever it was together. Especially seeing Sawyer & Juliet back together. I really loved them.
But my biggest beef was that Dharma didn't have more to do with it and we never really found out more about the island - because that was their real life unlike sideways land. In some ways it seemed rushed.
YES! I agree. :-) I feel like the island was a character through all the seasons and we never really learned why it was so important. Why did Whidmore keep trying to find it? What the purpose they had for Desmond? We know why Flocke wanted him, but why Whidmore? Yeah, I wish they would have ended with more about the Dharma initiative. I kind of want to go back and rewatch all the seasons - but Steven made fun of me for wanting to do that! But I wonder if it would make more sense rewatching everything now that we know the ending.
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