Perhaps we could lower Obama down to the site of the smoke monster's birthplace oil geyser and let him re-insert the Giant Magic Cork Of Power. Sure, he'd sacrifice himself, but he would save the rest of us.
And really, isn't this the exactly the kind of thing we expected of him when we chose him to replace that last guy (George, Jacob, Jingleheimer, Schmidt - or whatever his name was) ?
Cause... this oil thing is fucking horrible.
HERE BE SPOILERS!
So what did you think? Especially the whole ‘Flash sideways was actually purgatory’ twist?
I resigned myself to knowing we’d *never* get any real explanations – and that it was all about the characters – a long time ago so I was very satisfied (and a little choked up at times like the big girl I am.)
And a literal cork (although made out of rock)? ha ha. Genius.
i wanted more answers.
but, looking back, it’s clear that giving answers was never their thing; they pretty much always answered old questions with new ones. but, nonetheless i would’ve liked it better if they spent more time this season on finally answering more of the questions they spent six years asking, instead of reminding us that Jack has daddy issues. in other words, i didn’t need the sideways stuff – didn’t like it when it was going on, and didn’t like how it was explained at the end.
“about the characters”… yeah, that’s what they ended up with. but frankly, you can do a show about “characters” without building a giant multi-century sci-fi mythology around them.
/bitter
:)
Should have watched the finale for 24. No weirdness there, and not *quite* as many commercials.
Perhaps there will be a spin-off show about Hurley and Linus’ time looking after the island. But I doubt it.
Ah well – True Blood is back next month and Dexter in the Autumn. Other than those two shows there is little I want to watch. The only UK show I catch every week is Dr Who and that’s more out of being completely obsessed with it during my childhood and not wanting to miss anything.
Mind you, I am burning 4 episodes of Grey’s Anatomy and three episodes of Private Practice to DVD for Mrs C as I write this. God help my mortal soul. Time to dig out the guitar for a few hours!
Sweet jesus there were a lot of commercials. I’m going to laugh my ass off when I find out how much of that 2 hours and 30 minutes was actual show.
I didn’t mind Purgatory being where everyone all ended up. But, honestly, I think the whole show was built on false premise. The writers played a heavy Sci-Fi hand, but at the end of it all they choose to disappoint. The whole Desmond arc made it sound like he was more than just a glorified electro-magnetic-proof plumber. The host of little mysteries surrounding failure of child birth and the mysterious numbers and what was up with the little black kid went unresolved.
And “light in the cave” was such a humongous MacGuffin cop-out. After all that build up, it felt so hollow to get so much of the mystery waved off with “a wizard did it”. You could have done the same story, minus all the techno-babble, and it would have been much less of a let down at the end.
I mean, part of me wants to say the way they did all the cut-scene splicing and flash back / flash forward / flash sideways made this show truly incredible. But part of me was just left disappointed.
The heavy handed bitch slap of Jesus didn’t exactly win me over either.
I’m going to laugh my ass off when I find out how much of that 2 hours and 30 minutes was actual show.
45 mins of commercials. f’in a.
I think the whole show was built on false premise. The writers played a heavy Sci-Fi hand, but at the end of it all they choose to disappoint.
right. my feelings exactly.
for 6 years they built a world where surreal, magical, unexplainable stuff happens; the characters follow these strange events and try to make sense of them. and by the end, some of the characters (Jack, Desmond, Locke, Hugo, Ben) are up right in the heart of whatever causes these events. they could have (at least some of) the answers to the whole crazy magical island thing.
but instead of having those characters tell us WTF, the writers wrapped-up a storyline that only took place in the final season. that was the big finale: they explained the mystery of the season six sideways flashes. to the questions that they developed over the other five seasons, they pretty much just piled-on more questions.
and just to be fair, i think they did the finale well. it was a very good episode. but it wasn’t a series finale. it was a season finale. IMO.
just to keep things interesting, those closing shots of the plane wreckage on the beach: not part of the script.
that shot had Mrs C and me thinking that perhaps the whole series was supposed to be some kind of campfire story that the survivors told each other until, one by one, they had all died – with Jack being the last, since he was the last to arrive at the ‘church’. oh sure, Christian said “it was all real”. but let’s face it, the Lost universe is not a place where things are what they seem and magical characters always tell the truth in short straightforward sentences….
It was actually John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt.