I think I may still be crying from last night! I know that I am biased to this show but I challenge any show out there to come up with a better and more satisfying ending than what we just saw on Lost. After six years of building and building you would have to wonder just how brilliant and involved the writers would have to be to come up with just the “right” ending, and they managed to do it.
Do we still have questions, YES! But I’m OK with that. I really started getting it in my head that I didn’t want them to answer everything. I like my ideas and my theories and sure, they could have addressed a few of the bigger issues but I really am OK going out like we have.
NOTE: I don’t have a copy of the epi last night so I don’t have screen caps yet.
1. Yes, I watched Jimmy Kimmel live and he addressed two items that I thought about as well. One, why weren’t Michael and Walt in the church? The first thought is that Walt isn’t dead yet so he can’t be there. As for Michael, is he not headed to the same white light they are? Harold Perrineau said it is because Michael is “trapped” on the island, like he told Hurley earlier this season. I like that better than what I thought. The other idea he presented is that the show was Jack’s redemption song, if you will and I like that too.
2. However, I was laying there last night and still crying… and thinking that there were many of them that found redemption on the island. Yes, Jack was our main character and the show really focused on his redemption especially this season but I like to think that the reason they can all meet in the church is that they all found their redemption.
3. I also like the idea that in many religions that there is the theory that you are reincarnated, if you will, until you get “it right” and at that point you can go on to heaven. I don’t think that everyone in that church died at the same time but that they were all kind of wandering around waiting on each other to come before they could all go. I think the message there is of hope.
3. So I guess Jack and Jacob had a little more talking off camera. Sounded like Jack knew that he was only the temporary carrier of the torch.
4. I was thrilled that Richard didn’t die so easily at the hands of Smokey. I loved that by releasing the light Richard was set free and started showing a gray hair. I just wonder after being on an island for hundreds of years what on earth could he possibly do back on land? Imagine the culture shock!
5. And I also never would have guessed Claire and Kate BOTH raising Aaron. Nice touch.
6. When Jack was down in the cave I kept expecting him to come roaring out as a plume of WHITE smoke. Especially when he woke up in a very similar position as MIB after he was thrown in the cave. His death, if I may, was beautiful and poetic. And when Vincent came over and laid down beside him it was all over for me. I couldn’t actually fully see the ending because I had a good “ugly” cry going on.
7. So Des got a look at “the other side” when Widmore had him in the cabin with the electromagnetic energy and that is why he did whatever they needed him to do. He knew that on “the other side” he would end up with Penny and his friends and he knew that everything that happened on the island didn’t matter. I like when he is about to go into the cave how he tries telling Jack but Jack seems to still be holding on to one little bit of his science minded side.
8. I love that this episode opens basically telling us the end. The coffin is not for Christian at all.
9. So David was what? Just a wish of Jack’s? That in an of itself is totally heartbreaking.
10. I can’t believe that the big Jesus statue with it’s arms open didn’t clue me in to what was really going on. Then there was Kate asking why she was “here” and Des telling her that no one could tell her why she was there. And him telling her that he just wanted to leave.
11. I was totally expecting Eko to show up and preside over Jack’s funeral. That was disappointing actually.
12. Them all being dead in the side time line explains why they could see the flashes of the island (life flashing before their eyes) but the island folks couldn’t see to the side.
13. Miles and Sawyer both got off the island. I guess those two really could become cops back home.
14. I love that Hurley is the real care taker of the island and that Ben agrees to help him. I bet Hurley could come up with some crazy rules for that island. Did the writers know this way back when? I remember Hurley coming out of the forest in a robe looking very angelic back in one of Charlie’s weird dreams. I worry about Ben though because we have seen that he’s got a very, very bad side. I would hope by Hurley telling him he was a “good number 2″ that means that Ben was good to him on the island.
15. I guess Desmond’s flash of seeing Claire get off of the island in a helicopter was wrong.
16. The smile on Hurley’s face when he first sees Charlie is priceless. Sweet. I loved when Sayid asks him “what was that” he says “that was Charlie.” LOL’d
17. And Vincent! Hooray! I’m so glad, even though it’s silly, that we got to see the fate of that dog. I guess we can assume that Rose and Bernard do live happily ever after too now the Hurley is running the show on the island. They are the new Others, only they don’t get involved.
18. Des is the only one that crossed to the other side and came back.
19. Since this seemed to be Jack centered redemption, then the show ending on the 23rd makes even more sense.
20. Cracked me up when Flocke asked Jack how he planned to kill him and he told him it was a surprise. Sounded like something Sawyer would have said.
21. Dan and Charlotte aren’t “ready” yet and thus no flashback and they are not in the church. Plus, they weren’t really a huge part of the Losties lives so I can see why they wouldn’t be there. Plus it was nice that they left Dan behind to be with his mother. As mothers we can understand why she would want him to stay with her.
22. I loved the look on Charlie’s face when he sees Claire.
23. MIB cracks Jack a good one upside the head with a rock. Like mother like son!
24. The Jack and Locke fist fight was a long time coming and it did not disappoint. Especially the part where Jack pushes him off of the edge of the cliff.
25. Did I mention yet that it’s a good thing Des got them all dressed up since they are all going to their funeral (s)?
26. There has been a lot of speculation about the rain. I think that the rain is brought on by the light or the island. What it means is still to be discussed but after Des uncorked the light it started raining.
27. I’ve rethought (already) why Ben didn’t go inside the church. His real love is Alex. Alex is probably not ready yet to cross over. Ben logically wants to wait for her. Christian says everyone wants someone to cross with and it makes sense that Ben would want to cross with her.
28. Duct tape. I think that they have a new use they could show in their ads.
29. Did you guys have the Lost-related Target commercials? I really loved that someone on-staff is obviously a Lost fan and they would make special commercials just for us. I will do more shopping there just for that. I already do shop there but I may think of them first for other things now too. I couldn’t TiVo through them so at least they were entertaining.
30. Fitting for MIB to die the way the Locke should have. Locke was thrown from the window and landed just like MIB did on the edge. I’m also glad they let him go before the end because I didn’t want the end to be a scene of them fighting. This gave time to really build to a meaningful conclusion to the show.
31. After Hurley drank the water (which was filthy, btw) he looked like he kept waiting on something to happen. Can Hurley give Ben everlasting life like Jacob did for Richard?
32. I was holding my breathe until the plane made it up in the air. This show is so unpredictable I wasn’t sure if they would really make it or not. But I’m glad they did. And I’m glad that I can make up what happens from there for myself. And if you’ve ever seen Stephen King’s The Langoliers you were probably wondering what they would face once up in the air too.
33. So the plug in the cave is like one big button to press?
34. Jack wakes up in the same pool area that we’ve seen many times. Kate and Sawyer took a swim there and Kate, Jack and Hurley woke up there after being transported off of the Ajira flight. It must be close to The Source and would explain why it’s special.
35. I will post some screen shots of the office Jack enters at the church. Appears to be religious symbols from every religion you can think of. Bravo Producers.
36. Jack and his daddy issue = RESOLVED! And wow was it moving.
The End.
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