zeppelinrox said:
/now waiting for JasonN's rant...
God zep, it's like our souls wavelength are connected by the Red String of Fate or something.
For starters, I really wanted to shoot everyone at ABC for that damn 2 hour clip show: just give me the damn finale, dudes, I don't need to see a recap of a series that I've watched every episode to!
That and I really, REALLY can't stand watching Dalton and Cuse at this point - they are so damn smug and self-serving with their witty-clever heads so far stuck up their asses and every other word out of their mouths are either compliments for themselves or explaining in detail exactly what I'm watching on screen as if I was one of those blind deaf mutes (should sic the Laughing Man on their butts). :roll:
First the good:
[spoiler:1tr9d2bz]- everything involving Hurley in the finale made me smile: I loved his confidence and charisma in the Sideways world and his methods of handling both Sayid (his speech about believing that he was a good person, taking him the Shannon) and Charlie (shooting him with the tranq gun and chucking him over his shoulders got the biggest laugh from me in the entire Season); I knew that he'd receive the guardianship in the end, but it was still a satisfying moment; and his recruiting Ben as his "Second" and their final talk at the end of the Sideways world was one of the best moments in Season 6 for me.
(and I'm definitely super curious as to what their future history as Island protectors was like)
- Damn glad that Frank Lapidius turned out to be alive.
- Even though it was the afterlife, I was glad to see Charlie again and especially John Locke, the REAL John Locke, whom I've missed watching for the last 2 Seasons (and I enjoyed his last talk with Ben and forgiving him at the end).
- even though I've generally hated the character of Jack throughout most of the series, his final sacrifice to reseal the Light and his death out in the bamboo fields with Vincent at this side and closing his eye to the world was very touching and was a much better end note to the story than the cast fading into white light in the Sideways reality.[/spoiler:1tr9d2bz]
And now the rant:
[spoiler:1tr9d2bz]- Well, the alterative universe of the Sideways world was every much the damn "cast reunion" as I feared it would be, but it also turned out to be much worse. I say that because, in the end, the Sideways universe had a single message that seriously pissed me the hell off: Nothing that occurred really mattered after all, because in the end everyone got to meet again in the afterlife. Every Sideways flash throughout this entire Season has proven to have nothing to do with the Island, the Jacob/MIB war, the Source of Light, the Candidates, or anything that was brought up in the current or previous seasons, etc.... it's all about a group of dead friends meeting together in a type of "Purgatory"-type afterlife and moving on to the next existence (heaven, nirvana, take your pick). It also makes the entire "time travel" and "H-Bomb" subplots of the previous Season 5 entirely pointless and a waste of time (unless the Sideways world was in fact the bomb's creation, as the rumor mill has been circulating in the last few days, and that the Purgatory-type story was in fact rewritten only a few episodes before the finale).
Yes, it's an emotional and "happily ever after" ending that's uplifting and moving for the characters... But at the same time it rings so hollow and phony and false, because of how much of the plot that proceed it from the beginning of the story was discarded and rendered immaterial.
(And I literally dropped my jaw later at the end credits when I remember Desmond's "None of this matters" speech to Jack, as if the writers are directly acknowledging that none of this entire plot matters in the end due to the Sideways afterlife universe)
- Still no explanation at all on Eloise Hawking and her "Time Cop" dealings with Desmond. Sighs, that a bitter pill to swallow....
- Jack to Kate: "The Island's all I got left"
Yep, still a complete d*ck. I can see why Jacob liked him.
- Why oh why did they feel the need to bring back Rose and Bernard? I thought they had a decent enough sendoff last Season, did they really need to be brought back into the current timeline? (especially since they really don't give a sh*t about anyone else anymore and want nothing to do with the other Lostees)
- God, can Kate get Claire out of her head for five damn minutes?
"Miles, is that Claire?" "Miles, what's happen to Claire?" "Claire, is she all right?"
- So Jack really had no big secret plan on saving the Island... absolutely jack nothing. He was making up sh*t as he went along thinking he was completely and totally right (as usual) and it ended up biting him on the ass as he was proven wrong (as usual).
- So the Cork wasn't a figurative metaphor from Jacob to Richard, the Light is really kept at bay with a stone cork. Uh huh...
- So let me get this straight: Nadia, the love of Sayid's life, was not his "soul connection" in the Sideways world, but was in fact Shannon, a pathetic, shallow girl who had a brief fling with him after Boon died and hasn't factored into this entire show in the last 4 seasons???
- Knew that Juliet would be Jack's ex-wife, but.... Who or what is their son, David? Is he a former soul? Is he a construct designed solely for this alternative universe?
- Kate should just change her occupation to midwife and be done with it
- Jack "Did the Jump Punch".
So what... now he's Jason Borne or something?
- God, did MIB go out like a pansy-ass punk... anyone who actually can get shot shot by f*cking Kate of all people deserves to die, but then add in a couple of movie-like one-liners and then kicked off a cliff by a wounded Jack? Lame as all hell.
(and I really wanted to see the Smoke Monster one more time)
- Did I mention that I wanted to see the Smoke Monster again in the finale?
- Ok, did the editors just FORGET that Ben was trapped under an unmovable tree or what? I mean, I didn't blink for five minutes and end up missing an entire scene, did I?
- Am I the only one who no longer believes Jacob about the fate of the world in the event of MIB being freed or the Light going out in the heart of the Island? I can see how destroying the Light would destroy the Island, but the whole world? And just how would MIB be capable of destroying the world? Evidently, his supposed "tainting" of people as claimed by Dogen and Jacob proved to be total BS, plus even if he destroyed the Island's Light how could he do anything to the rest of the world since apparently destroying the Light makes him mortal and unSmoked.
- Ummm... what the hell ever happened to Mother's warning of not touching the Light, as it's "A fate worse than death"? The last time someone touched the Source, the MIB transformed into the Smoke Monster. But Desmond touched the Light and nothing happened (though that's part of Desmond's electromagnetism specialness coming into play) and then Jack touched the Light and he died normally in the forest.
- Maybe the writers were trying to be clever with the church windows using symbols of various major religions, but to me, it came off as pretentious and misguided as the religious symbols and icons in the two Matrix sequels.
- Do you remember how everyone complained about how cliched and uninspired the little girl making a technicolored rainbow at the end of
Matrix Revolutions?
That's exactly how I feel with everyone sitting in a church and fading into white light as the end of
Lost[/spoiler:1tr9d2bz]
Overall, it was an OK ending to Season 6, but as the finale episode to the entire Lost series?
... No, no damn way. :|
