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I am not sure I can articulate how much I LOATHE AND DETEST whiny, crybaby, weasel faced Jack Shephard.
I have never, in the history of television hated a character more than I hated Jack, with Kate being a close second.
I think this exchange on Facebook with my mother and cousin best serves up my opinion:
Melissa: All right, having slept on it, here is my ultimate reaction to the LOST finale: Being such a complex and mind blowing show, they sure did take the metaphysical easy way out in the end, didn't they? I expected better from them, and they didn't deliver. In fact what they did deliver was so burdened with simplistic sentimentality that I'm insulted.
6 hours ago
Mother: Plus it was logically stupid. What was with the same people who were being dead also flying away in the plane? But at least Jack died, so that should please you, though he certainly did cry a lot. And you got the Kate bonus you wanted. But they killed off the baby, too, and that I totally disapprove of.
6 hours ago
Melissa: Well, I don't think everybody died on the island. Christian said that everything actually happened (i.e. everything on the island) and that everyone died at different times when they were supposed to (and you know this because of the Hurley/Ben exchange at the end "You were a great number 2," which implies that they lived on for years on the island after Hurley took on the mantle of island protector, etc. So that means that the people on the plane weren't dead - therefore Claire reunited with the baby, etc.) and came together in the great Church of Sideways. The Sideways world was essentially a limbo they all created in order to move on.
Translation: MUCHO ESTUPIDO. And yes, I got the blood of Jack Shepherd but they even ruined that with the dog lying down beside him so he wouldn't die alone. Plus, the heavy-handed Christ symbolism surrounding Jack was almost too much to bear (struggles with his father, sacrificing himself so that others may live, ascending somewhere in bright white light, even the knife wound in his side).
Grrr!
6 hours ago
Geoff: Add to the list of heavy-handed Christ symbolism Jack's father's NAME...
But I thought it was a great ending. The show has always been really melodramatic and completely preposterous, but in a really fun way. Same goes for the finale.
5 hours ago
Melissa: Yeah... at least Kate made fun of his name briefly. I think I lost (hah) some enthusiasm because without the intellectual resolutions (mysteries of the island) the emotional ones (woo happy afterlife ever after) fall flat. Basically the ending had me till the last 15 minutes and then I wanted to punch it.
Why was Walt important?
Why did the babies die on the island?
Why could Jacob leave the island but no one else? ...
Truly, what was Widmore's beef with the island?
What was the purpose of the Dharma initiative? Were they trying to locate and harness the power of the island or what?
Eloise Hawkings? What was her deal?
I'm suddenly reminded of the big red blob at the end of Alias. I guess I've always wanted to punch JJ Abrams & Co.
5 hours ago
Geoff: Yeah, and that's just the tip of the iceberg, unresolved-issue-wise. How about: WTF with the time travel? And how come the island sinks / world ends if you unplug the drain at the bottom of the island? Seriously?
But whatever. There were so many MacGuffins in the series that they couldn't possibly have worked it all out in the finale. I think a super feel-good ending with everybody off to heaven or wherever was the best we could have hoped for, even if it invited a huge "HUH?" Way, *way* better than the red orb over St. Petersburg and all that Rimbaldi crap!
4 hours ago
Melissa: I guess the fact that it *was* a feel-good ending was kind of a surprise, given the source and the recent submarine bloodbath. Ultimately, I can live with it though, because let's face it: my two wishes came true: Jack getting shivved by Smokey and Miles/Lipidus surviving. And yeah, no red Rimbaldi blob, heh. (Weirdly enough I have a strange desire to rewatch Alias now.)
IN CONCLUSION: MAY WE BE BAPTISED IN THE BLOOD AND COPIOUS TEARS OF JACK SHEPHARD, WHOSE LONG AWAITED DEATH WAS RUINED BY THE INCLUSION OF THE STUPID DOG.
And now onto the next thing! :P
I have never, in the history of television hated a character more than I hated Jack, with Kate being a close second.
I think this exchange on Facebook with my mother and cousin best serves up my opinion:
Melissa: All right, having slept on it, here is my ultimate reaction to the LOST finale: Being such a complex and mind blowing show, they sure did take the metaphysical easy way out in the end, didn't they? I expected better from them, and they didn't deliver. In fact what they did deliver was so burdened with simplistic sentimentality that I'm insulted.
6 hours ago
Mother: Plus it was logically stupid. What was with the same people who were being dead also flying away in the plane? But at least Jack died, so that should please you, though he certainly did cry a lot. And you got the Kate bonus you wanted. But they killed off the baby, too, and that I totally disapprove of.
6 hours ago
Melissa: Well, I don't think everybody died on the island. Christian said that everything actually happened (i.e. everything on the island) and that everyone died at different times when they were supposed to (and you know this because of the Hurley/Ben exchange at the end "You were a great number 2," which implies that they lived on for years on the island after Hurley took on the mantle of island protector, etc. So that means that the people on the plane weren't dead - therefore Claire reunited with the baby, etc.) and came together in the great Church of Sideways. The Sideways world was essentially a limbo they all created in order to move on.
Translation: MUCHO ESTUPIDO. And yes, I got the blood of Jack Shepherd but they even ruined that with the dog lying down beside him so he wouldn't die alone. Plus, the heavy-handed Christ symbolism surrounding Jack was almost too much to bear (struggles with his father, sacrificing himself so that others may live, ascending somewhere in bright white light, even the knife wound in his side).
Grrr!
6 hours ago
Geoff: Add to the list of heavy-handed Christ symbolism Jack's father's NAME...
But I thought it was a great ending. The show has always been really melodramatic and completely preposterous, but in a really fun way. Same goes for the finale.
5 hours ago
Melissa: Yeah... at least Kate made fun of his name briefly. I think I lost (hah) some enthusiasm because without the intellectual resolutions (mysteries of the island) the emotional ones (woo happy afterlife ever after) fall flat. Basically the ending had me till the last 15 minutes and then I wanted to punch it.
Why was Walt important?
Why did the babies die on the island?
Why could Jacob leave the island but no one else? ...
Truly, what was Widmore's beef with the island?
What was the purpose of the Dharma initiative? Were they trying to locate and harness the power of the island or what?
Eloise Hawkings? What was her deal?
I'm suddenly reminded of the big red blob at the end of Alias. I guess I've always wanted to punch JJ Abrams & Co.
5 hours ago
Geoff: Yeah, and that's just the tip of the iceberg, unresolved-issue-wise. How about: WTF with the time travel? And how come the island sinks / world ends if you unplug the drain at the bottom of the island? Seriously?
But whatever. There were so many MacGuffins in the series that they couldn't possibly have worked it all out in the finale. I think a super feel-good ending with everybody off to heaven or wherever was the best we could have hoped for, even if it invited a huge "HUH?" Way, *way* better than the red orb over St. Petersburg and all that Rimbaldi crap!
4 hours ago
Melissa: I guess the fact that it *was* a feel-good ending was kind of a surprise, given the source and the recent submarine bloodbath. Ultimately, I can live with it though, because let's face it: my two wishes came true: Jack getting shivved by Smokey and Miles/Lipidus surviving. And yeah, no red Rimbaldi blob, heh. (Weirdly enough I have a strange desire to rewatch Alias now.)
IN CONCLUSION: MAY WE BE BAPTISED IN THE BLOOD AND COPIOUS TEARS OF JACK SHEPHARD, WHOSE LONG AWAITED DEATH WAS RUINED BY THE INCLUSION OF THE STUPID DOG.
And now onto the next thing! :P