The emotional whirlwind of the past 20 days has begun to start to hit me. What a month. Anyway, I went through half the YuBlog.org comments for Lost‘s final episode, “The End” (we had a record number of page views during that episode by almost double; I was in complete & utter shock and then total happiness when I checked it when we got back to the hotel in the wee hours of Monday morning – THANK YOU!!!!!!). I had to stop for a second because I read an email from my dear cuz Paul aka Barenaked Hurley, who hated the episode. Jay and I were reading reviews on the plane yesterday and we just didn’t understand. Anyway, I know it’ll get lost (pun intended) in the YuBlog comments so what the hell, I need to not have a title that says “Delta is a piece of shit airline” as the top post on my blog lol.
Here’s some of my very brief thoughts through the tears from my first rewatch:
I don’t feel the Sideways was a gateway to heaven necessarily; it was just another journey to ‘move on’ to wherever you interpreted it (I admit heaven is a reasonable argument). And Kate, Sawyer, Hurley, Miles, Alpert, Lapedus, Claire, Rose & Bernard lived the rest of their lives off camera. I didn’t feel we needed to see anymore because the story was about castaways on an Island, not any other period in time.
Yes, I would’ve loved to find out some more mythology stuff (the fertility problems on the island, for instance) but Damon & Carlton are giving us like 30 extra minutes of new footage on the DVD AND they’re doing a special feature where they address smaller issues that were unresolved in the show (like taller ghost Walt, blah blah blah). We’ll get some stuff then and it’ll be a fabulous little treat and then other stuff we’ll debate like with Harry Potter. I was satisfied with the character resolution and an emotional ending to me is better than a mythological ending. I only wish that when Kate had shot Locke she had gone, “NOT MY DOCTOR YOU BITCH!”
I thought it was beautiful that they were so important to each other during life that they still strongly carried that “live together, die alone” theme even after death. In the Sideways, they were all dead and it was almost like a far-in-the-future epilogue. Sure it was arguably cheesy in premise but it wrapped up the characterization in a show that so strongly focused on the lives and deaths of its characters. Think about this – in the Sideways, they each created a life for themselves that was what they had hoped more for in life: Jack wanted a good father/son connection so he had a son who he resolved daddy issues with; Kate wanted to be innocent and she was; Locke wanted to be with Helen and he was; Sawyer got to be a ‘good guy’ with a buddy like Miles when he was previously a con man loner; Hurley finally had good luck, Desmond got to be bff with Widmore, Sun & Jin didn’t have marital problems, etc al. I felt it gave them all the acceptance and redemption that they all needed for themselves (like Sayid finally realizing he was a good guy or Ben deciding that he was staying because he had to work out how to come to terms with his behavior prior to becoming Hurley’s #2). How poetic that in the end of both timelines, Jack had to accept his destiny and learn to let go. And if you really want to take it one step further in the sentimental direction, Lost was also wrapped up so beautifully that these castaways, who were lost souls prior to Jacob bringing them to the Island – our Losties – were found as they found a way to move on together in the end of all things.
Well said.
Said well.
Thanks for the good review. I thought it was the best episode of television i ever watched. Im a man and I cried both time that I watched it. I don’t care about Walt. I just accept the fact that he was a special person like Miles or Hurley and thats it.
You have no idea how many people I have fought with telling them that they did not die when 815 crashed but at different times later! Great review and I absolutely loved this episode!!! Also I am so happy Miles made it off the island and lived! At least one of my main cute guys managed it!!! Cuz Charlie and Jack definitely didn’t!!
It was a beautiful episode. I loved it. I couldn’t have asked for a better ending. I never expected to get all the answers. I decided at the beginning of the season to just sit back and enjoy the show.
My favorite parts are when Juliet & Sawyer and Claire & Charlie find each other again. Matthew Fox definitely deserves an Emmy nomination this year.
Tonight the line, “Everybody dies sometime, kiddo.” got me.
Great episode – I guess I am lucky that everyone I know loved the ending! (or maybe they were just too afraid I would go all LOST-crazy on them!
The stories were brought together so well, I mean who couldn’t love the Charlie and Claire scene!! (Jay had to even like it!!)
Loved every bit of it – so worth the 6 year wait!
Not that I believe it, but there is another interesting theory (which it sounds like Kimmel also believes) that the events on the Island didn’t actually happen. They all died on the plane. The stuff that happened that we saw was something that happened in a split second between life and death that they all experienced. This would explain why crazy shit happened on the island like people walking and cancer being cured.
So its possible that no one walked away from that insane plane crash, which when you think about it kind of makes sense.
Though I don’t want to believe it that. I would like to think it has more meaning then that.
I loved the show, and I loved the finale…. but there is still a part of me that wonders: what was the purpose of the flash sideways? Was it simply a plot device so that we would be guessing all season long whether Jughead “worked?”
Rishard – It was out yesterday that the plane crash footage at the end of the credits wasn’t meant to make us think that the plane crash never happened. I also thought it was pretty clear what Christian explained to Jack about how everybody dies at different times and they created that place so they could find each other again. Also, Hurley says to Ben, “You WERE a great #2″ and Ben replies, “You WERE a great #1.” I think that’s a pretty strong case that it all did happen and they lived out their lives for years after Jack died.
Eric – I interpreted the Sideways as a season long epilogue. It was kinda like a waiting room where they all went after their individual deaths and ‘lived’ in until they all arrived and were ready to remember their actual life experiences, embraced their deaths and were able to let go and move on. Kinda like the ultimate flash forward haha
Colleen
Yeah I agree with all of that. Its just one of those theories thats out there. At the same time, for every argument that you just made, I heard counterarguments as to how each of those things could have still happened in an instatnt.
I’m not going to fight their fight for them though since I don’t by into it either
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Great comments from everyone! I loved the episode & now that I’ve had time to think about it I love it even more. I can’t wait to watch it again. Colleen – can you please set up a YuBlog where we can discuss all these questions & thoughts?
Yes, it was so emotionally satisfying! After all, it was always the characters who mattered most in LOST and they made it the great show it was.
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