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The Lost finale (*Spoilers)
I stopped watching years ago because I know a
handjob when I see one.
The story always went in circles and I hear it
got triple-crazy at the end.
But it's funny to read the different takes on how it ended.
Robert Bianco (USAToday TV critic) said "Best show ever - I came 44 times."
Excerpt:
With the greatest stories, the answers you get
can be better than the questions you ask.
For six spellbinding years, Lost trapped its characters
inside TV's most ingeniously constructed puzzle, leaving you
to wonder why they're there and how they'll escape.
In Sunday's emotional feast of a finale (* * * * out of four)
— one that can stand with the best any series
has produced — we discovered that Lost wasn't just interested in
answering questions about the island and its
residents, though the major ones were, indeed, answered.
Over at televisionwithoutpity.com there were less ecstatic.
Excerpt:
Lost has raised hundreds of big and small questions
over its six provocative seasons and the series finale left many of
them unanswered.
Why couldn't women get pregnant on the island?
Who built the statue?
Why was the Dharma Initiative there?
Why did this island exist in the first place?
Honestly, we didn't have high hopes that we'd
find a resolution to these in "The End,"
but we also didn't expect to have so many fresh
questions added to the list by this last episode.
The folks at gawker.com felt downright betrayed.
Excerpt:
Lost ended tonight, and with it the hopes and
dreams of millions of people who thought it might finally get good again.
SPOILER ALERT: It didn't. What did we learn?
Nothing. We learned nothing from two-and-a-half hours of slow-motion
bullshittery backed with a syrupy soundtrack.
Those guys know how to write a finale. That
was why we kept watching the show:
The amazing, game-changing, cliffhanger finales.
And so it stood to reason that maybe they would
pull together this pitiful excuse for a season with some kind of
halfway-coherent, tightly-paced, tightly-plotted
finale that would answer some of our lingering questions and
wash the taste of C.J. Cragg as Hypatia out of
our mouths. Ha, ha! Why did I think that?
And then there was the litany of unanswered questions:
Why weren't Walt and Michael (Harold Perrineau) there?
Why did we see the island at the bottom of the sea in the Sideways timeline?
Why was Eloise Hawking (Fionnula Flanagan) so adamant that Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick) not wake them up?
How did she know that they were in an intermediate state?
Why did the Others act the way they did when the Losties arrived?
What in hell was up with the pregnant women dying?
So what was the island?
What was your intepretation of the scene inside
Eloise Hawking's Church of the Blessed Dharma Pendulum,
aka The Ark to Heaven?)
Is Smokey really defeated?
If Hurley is now the protector, is he immortal?
Who put the island there in the first place?
Are you sure everyone didn't actually die in the original Oceanic 815 plane crash?
They're comparing it to the last Sopranos episode, except, "I
wouldn't have expected
The Sopranos finale to clear up my questions
about a giant stone foot."
ha ha
Maybe Tally will have a recap for us?