LOST Finale
Boy, I always thought the afterlife was supposed to be peaceful -- turns out it's a helluva lotta work, with folk getting shot, hit by cars, beaten up, and generally being miserable until you "remember" that you once spent time on an island with a bunch of these same people -- but only a dozen or so, because you just didn't "connect" with the other 40-50 people who also crashed on the plane with you.
There were bits of it I liked, but the whole "sideways reality is some kind of waiting room for heaven" was profoundly disappointing; I was expecting Desmond's actions to have created some kind of alternate reality in which all were allowed to have a better life, and some variation on that would have been more satisfying. Christian says they all "created" this sideways reality in order to "find each other" -- but how? And why make it so hard? If they "created" it themselves, why not just all show up in the church?
Ultimately, I really don't care. I gave up on LOST in season 3, and even though I eventually watched the rest of it on DVD, I just can't get too worked up about it one way or another. To me, it was a crappy way to go out, but I can see where people found it uplifting. But I did think there were more interesting ways they could have gone.
For instance -- after Locke's surgery, when Jack is in his room talking to him, and Locke looks up at Jack and says -- "It worked!" I suddenly had the thought (and said as much to Barbara) that the Man in Black had managed to "jump" from the island reality to the "sideways" reality; that would have been good fodder for drama, although would have been a bit grim for the finale. But no, it was just Locke realizing his surgery was a success. Also, I thought it would have been more interesting if Ben had been left in charge of the island rather than Hurley.
But oh well, it's over. And I'm just not too bothered about it. :)