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LOST! LOST! (Spoilers)
I can't be patient any longer and wait for someone to start the thread.
What did you think? I want to watch it again, but I think I loved it...
I don't even know where to begin. Charlie. Locke. Ben not going with them in the end. I don't know if my favorite moment was Shannon and Sayid's reunion, or the simple little act of Vincent lying by Jack.
ETA: ...or the thing that made Jack "remember" being his Dad, and not Kate. I loved that.
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Re: LOST! LOST! (Spoilers)
I liked it a lot. I mean, how else could they end it really. So I guess the Island was real but the alternate reality was just a time/place they existed (i.e., were lost) until they could find each other?
Couple of things:
- Were Michael and Walt at the funeral home? I didn't see them.
- I still want to know who built the damn statue.
- I wonder how long Hurley and Ben lived?
- So, was Widmore 'good' or 'bad'?
Agreed about Widmore.
Walt and Michael weren't there in the end. Was Faraday?
And why was Penny there if those people were not?
So - Richard became able to age? Wonder what happened to he, Miles, and Lapidus.
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I liked the concept of the end, and Vincent laying by Jack was my favorite part for sure.
...soooo, we assume that the guys in the plane didn't make it? Especially since the other three in the plane were not in the church.
When did Penny die? Was that Ben's handiwork last season? And, did Claire and Charlie had little baby Aaron with them?
Damn you Lindelof and Cuse for those little loose ends!
I guess we could chalk it up to "there really is no time here" and they all die when they die? I made the statement "Suspension of disbelief" maybe 3 times in the last 30 mins.:)
Walt wasn't there because they (the producers) couldn't justify the fact that he's obviously grown a LOT since his time on the show, but none of the other characters were supposed to have aged from their island years once they were in the sideways/purgatory reality where they were all waiting for each other. That was just a logistics thing. Michael wasn't there because he did some unforgivable things (shooting Libby when there was no need to, etc) and as such when he died on the freighter his soul (or whatever you want to call it) was stuck on the island forever as one of the "whisperers".
They sort of went over that in the Jimmy Kimmel episode after the show.
Sometimes I pin stuff
Just a quick point before I run to get ready for work (again, long story):
I think they established (via Christian) that everyone was there in the church whether we had seen them die or not but were there because they had died, they understood and accepted that death, and they were ready to move on. That's why Michael wasn't there. That why Ben, though he saw the flashes of his real life, wasn't ready to go in yet. He wasn't ready to move on - still had issues to work out with himself and what he had done in his life.
I have questions, so many questions. But I'm happy with the way they tied up the story. And I can't wait to watch it again! (Maybe tonight.)
BFP 12.20.2010 :: missed m/c 1/2011 around 8 weeks
BFP @ 9dpo 5.24.2011 :: missed m/c 6/2011 around 7 weeks
positive for ANAs (1:40) with a speckled pattern
MTHFR c677t mutation (heterozygous)
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BFP @ 9dpo 2.1.2012 || HCG = 8 : Progesterone = 19.2
2nd HCG @ 11dpo = 40 || 3rd HCG @ 21dpo = over 5000!
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I couldn't stay awake for Jimmy Kimmel, I'll have to Hulu that.
Yeah, we don't know when they all died. They could have been dead 100 years or 10 years, and I think the point is that it didn't matter as long as they all eventually found each other.
ETA: I think Ben stayed back to right the wrong of letting Alex die on the Island. Maybe eventually all three of them - Ben, Alex, and Danielle - will move on together.
I loved it until the end, I was so annoyed by the last 10 minutes (I'm more ok with it today, after thinking about it for awhile, but I was hoping for a lot more answers!)
It was quite the tearjerker.
So was purgatory kind of what each character made it out to be, in the quest to search for answers and peace? Is that why Jack had a son, and Claire had Aaron with her?
I'm guessing Faraday and some of the others were not ready to "move on," so they weren't at the church with everyone else.
I don't think I ever (repeatedly) gotten goosebumps over a TV show...ever. Not to mention, I was pretty misty-eyed at the end and especially once I realized what was happening. Holy cow, this finale is going to stick with me for a while.
Yeah, that's still bugging me as well.
Re: Jack's son... I interpreted it to mean that he doesn't really exist in "real life" as Locke told Jack after his surgery. I think it was just a way for him to be happy in the sideways life and forgive his father for all the issues and know that he doesn't have to make those same mistakes.
Also - I like to think that Hurley (and Ben) ran a much simpler, happier island than Jacob did. Where Desmond could easily go home somehow and Lapidus could safely fly the plane back to the real world with Kate, Claire, Sawyer, Richard, and Miles. I hope that Kate would go and help take care of little Ji-Yeon or at least she would remain an important figure in Aaron's life once Claire settled back into the mother role. In any case, I hope she got to be a mom again one day. I wonder what Richard did with his new freedom.
I'm still processing and intend to watch it again tonight, but the more I think about it, the more I loved it.
BFP 12.20.2010 :: missed m/c 1/2011 around 8 weeks
BFP @ 9dpo 5.24.2011 :: missed m/c 6/2011 around 7 weeks
positive for ANAs (1:40) with a speckled pattern
MTHFR c677t mutation (heterozygous)
*folic acid, baby asprin, Prometrium, acupuncture, Lovenox*
BFP @ 9dpo 2.1.2012 || HCG = 8 : Progesterone = 19.2
2nd HCG @ 11dpo = 40 || 3rd HCG @ 21dpo = over 5000!
Stick, little one, stick! EDD October 15, 2012
I think the boy represented Jack as a child. His thing was always getting his fathers approval so before he was ready to "move on" he had to experience that.
I LOVED the finale! My husband HATED it. Isn't it funny how this last season was so divisive (sp?).
I'm pretty sure the people on the plane did make it back. I think this is represented when Kate says to Jack that she has missed him. This, to me, indicates that she lived on after his death.
Me too! I actually had to watch the last 10 minutes twice, because the first time I was like, "Whaaa. . .?" and the second time it started to make sense.
I don't know if the reason for the island causing fertility issues was ever explained, but maybe it has something to do with how Jacob & Smokey were stolen from their mother as babies, and then the mother was killed? Plus, women who were candidates got crossed off the list when they became mothers, like Kate. And then there's the way Claire was warned not to let someone else raise her kid--like the weird lady who raised Jacob & Smokey and chaos ensued.
I read a summary on E! that I liked, especially the "what we learned" explanation.
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I am still on the fence. I loved some of the imagery from the last episode, and I enjoyed seeing everyone come together and "remember" each other. That last shot of Jack laying with Vincent closing his eye was amazing and made me remember how the series began.
I am still a bit annoyed that many things were not really explored or explained further. Many of the more science fiction elements of the show got dropped in the end, for a more faith based story.
I had to watch the finale ALL BY MYSELF in an East Texas hotel room last night. I was bawling by the end of it. Not an episode you want to watch alone...
I loved it. I thought it did the characters justice. I think whether you loved it or hated it really depended on whether you were attached to the characters or whether you were more interested in the plot and getting the questions answered. If it was the latter, then I can see how it would be disappointing.
I stayed up for the Jimmy Kimmel thing, which was kind of lame in my opinion. The alternate endings (Newhart, Survivor, and Sopranos) have been floating around the internet for weeks and were much funnier in theory than in practice.
I stayed up for Kimmel, too. I thought the best part of his show was Josh Holloway and his "Snakes on a Plane II: Electric Boogaloo" bit. Way funnier than those lame "alternate endings."
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