Posted on 05/23/2010 5:07:40 PM PDT by Lucky9teen
Which might have been a much more inventive ‘alternate ending’ than the drivel they supplied last night on Kimmel (talk about retread carp, and what was with Damon and Carlton in the third one??).
The alternate timeline was sort of like purgatory, but probably more buddhisty than Christian. They all sort of reached their happy ending there before moving on.
But everything that happened on the island was real and really happened.
I was hoping for some explanation of what the hell the island was, who put it there, who was that lady who killed Jacob's mom and raised them, where was the smoke monster trying to get to, etc. But they went with a sort of "it just is" on all of that.
The church scene was a bit hokey, but it was for the chicks in the audience.
Now comes the spin-off series. With Miles, Richard, Lapidus, Kate, crazy Clair and Sawyer living in LA with Aaron and the Sun/Jin baby, with nine-foot tall Walt playing for the Lakers. Hurley, Ben, Rose and Bernard still on the island, looking for a new smoke monster.
And whatever became of Faraday? And that creepy mother of his who killed him? Where the hell is she going?
One more season!
I like your synopsis and I loved the ending as well. Maybe we’re not as ‘sophisticated’ as the critics. :)
I started to cry when Vincent came from the bamboo. Jack smiled because Vincent was the first living thing he saw after the wreck. Then for Vincent to lay down and wait... Jack didn’t die alone. (Tears flowing again)
The writers were treading too close to an admixture of Eastern and Catholic “spirituality.” I wanted science fiction.
I am sorry for the loss of your beloved.
I think you answered your own question there, dead. LOL
Only a few of the many people in LOST showed up at the church. I am not sure we shouldn’t infer that some of the others might be in the church but the producers couldn’t work out principal photography contracts in time. Still, as you point out, Faraday isn’t there, nor is his mother, nor Michael, nor Walter, nor any of the others who didn’t click with any of our principals. Lapidus isn’t there and if anybody has developed from the beginning, he did.
So maybe they didn’t quite think things through enough, or, as you say, ran out of episodes and couldn’t be bothered to invite Jeff Fahey for the church shoot (we could safely infer his life in the sideways reality from that event, yes?)
Thank you. I believe she’s in the heavenly church and maybe I’ll have a moment with her like Charlie had with Claire.
I know! and i have to work today (I’m all puffy!)
That might have worked, or it could have come out schlocky. SciFi is tough to pull off really well, and bad scifi just goes all silly.
The writers really drew in a huge mix of people watching it for different reasons, some for the stellar acting (Ben was by far my favorite), some for the love stories, some for the plot intricacy, some for the spiritual hints, some for the sci-fi hints, some for the action, some for the humor.
They couldn't make everybody 100% happy, but I was thrilled with the whole show and loved the ending.
Or perhaps the focus was never to be on those characters who appeared with the freighter. The story belonged to those who were on Oceanic 815. The exceptions were Desmond/Penny and Juliet because they lived with the survivors, interacted, and became part of the group.
I watched it for the steller acting (agree with your assessment of Ben) and the writing.
Faraday's mother is the real mystery for me. She knew way more than everybody else and nobody ever explained why. And Desmond told her that her son wasn't going with him and the gang, but I still don't get why. Most of the important people were there, except the really bad ones - the irredeemable ones (like Keemey.) Faraday wasn't a bad guy.
Walt just left the island as a kid and forgot about them like it was a bad dream.
I agree that there is where the focus was and, given how many characters entered the story at one point or another, it was narratively economical to limit the effects to the core 30 or so, with in-laws as appropriate.
And one other thing: those who appeared on the freighter, except Miles, were evil through and through. They would not have qualified to enter the church at the end.
One last weird thought: why not Jacob in the church at the end?
You nailed what I was thinking...I am not a huge fan of science fiction, but the mixture of the character development and the mysteries kept me hooked for the whole six seasons.
I think it was a great cornucopia of elements that snagged a wide range of viewers who might have just given up the show it is was a strict adherent to the sci-fi genre. That was the secret to the show’s success.
I can honestly say in my whole life I have never been as faithful to watching a show as I was to ‘Lost.’ Maybe it was the fact that it had the things you mentioned—humor, love, spirituality, and a kicking story line—that kept me going with it.
BTW, I loved the ending, and the whole scene with Claire giving birth backstage and then interacting with Charlie just made me lose it :) That, and Vincent keeping Jack company at the end.
I hear you and, yes, I heard Harold make that statement on Kimmel last night. It was an important point amid the silliness (Widmore made the other important point: he could never figure out whether he was oriented good or bad). I am tempted to infer that anyone not in the church is not ‘moving on’, especially because people were there who died during the series, Jack who dies at the very end, and those who presumably die later in subjective time. Anyone not on the boat doesn’t go, I guess.
That’s why I thought there’d be a bigger convention at the end, not least to let the actors who made a big mark but were left out of the ongoing plot get a last curtain call (I’m thinking Ana Lucia as the archetype here).
Ben was awesome. As my husband said—just when you thought you had Ben figured out—no, you didn’t, LOL.
And everybody loves Hugo :) Deep in the back of my mind, I had this feeling that Hurley would end up protecting the island.
Walt was in season 5 with Locke and, to me, the conversation closed out that character.
Me, too. So, when Hurley took it, I thought great.
I would have been surprised/disappointed to see Jacob in the church scene.
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