LOST. :(
Um, um....
Some jumbled thoughts about LOST. I am so sad it's over. I'm still kind of in shock.
I don't know how I feel about the ending. I LOVED the mythology throughout the show, particularly the Dharma stuff, and I'm kind of sad that in the end none of it really mattered. At the same time, I get why it didn't matter and I can appreciate it. I'm just bummed that the last few minutes of the show cancelled out all the particulars in the previous seasons that I found to be so much fun.
My disappointments:
- Annie. I wanted to know what her deal was and what kind of relationship she had with Ben past his flashback.
- Finding out a little more about the physical nature of the smoke monster/ the science behind it.
- No big Smokey vs. Widmore (or someone) fight. I was really hoping for one last epic Smokey-gets-angry-and-breaks-everything scene. I felt like his death was a little anti-climactic.
- Crapping out with the Walt and Aaron being "special" thing. They were building both characters up to be something more.
- The plug in the cave, I wish it'd been explained better.
- Ben not joining the others at the end. I understand why they did it, but I still wish he had.
- Cutting Widmore's story short. So much of this season had focused on Widmore coming to the island, and it'd seemed like it was going in a particular direction.
There was one other thing I can't remember off the top of my head. It may have been about the numbers. I think at some point after watching it crossed my mind that a lot of people didn't understand what the numbers were about and some of the particulars with Dharma unless they'd participated in some of the viral games and watched the videos from that time during the show.
I'm bothered by the fact that the last couple of episodes were about Smokey destroying the island, the main characters protecting the island, the island being important, etc.... and it wound up not being important in the context of the very end of the episode.
I was also griping a little about the fact that when The X Files' final episode aired, there was not nearly this kind of fanfare. I guess I'm jealous that LOST has such an active and widespread fanbase. :P
I love Ben. He was LOST's Cigarette Smoking Man, except a bit more varied in personality and a lot more redeemable as a person. For a while I really thought of him purely as a villain, and one thing I'm really glad the show did was to expand on him and make him more real, to give him motivations for the things he did, and to make him seem genuinely sorry at the end.
One thing this show has always done that's amazed me is to layer information on each season, putting the previous season's events into a different context and warranting a rewatch. I think I've watched the show through three times and each time I've picked up on something new.
I guess when all is said and done, it's a character show, which is why it ended the way it did. I'm kind of wishing I hadn't gotten as attached to the show as I have, because I hate that it's over. Fringe, don't fail me now.
Some jumbled thoughts about LOST. I am so sad it's over. I'm still kind of in shock.
I don't know how I feel about the ending. I LOVED the mythology throughout the show, particularly the Dharma stuff, and I'm kind of sad that in the end none of it really mattered. At the same time, I get why it didn't matter and I can appreciate it. I'm just bummed that the last few minutes of the show cancelled out all the particulars in the previous seasons that I found to be so much fun.
My disappointments:
- Annie. I wanted to know what her deal was and what kind of relationship she had with Ben past his flashback.
- Finding out a little more about the physical nature of the smoke monster/ the science behind it.
- No big Smokey vs. Widmore (or someone) fight. I was really hoping for one last epic Smokey-gets-angry-and-breaks-everything scene. I felt like his death was a little anti-climactic.
- Crapping out with the Walt and Aaron being "special" thing. They were building both characters up to be something more.
- The plug in the cave, I wish it'd been explained better.
- Ben not joining the others at the end. I understand why they did it, but I still wish he had.
- Cutting Widmore's story short. So much of this season had focused on Widmore coming to the island, and it'd seemed like it was going in a particular direction.
There was one other thing I can't remember off the top of my head. It may have been about the numbers. I think at some point after watching it crossed my mind that a lot of people didn't understand what the numbers were about and some of the particulars with Dharma unless they'd participated in some of the viral games and watched the videos from that time during the show.
I'm bothered by the fact that the last couple of episodes were about Smokey destroying the island, the main characters protecting the island, the island being important, etc.... and it wound up not being important in the context of the very end of the episode.
I was also griping a little about the fact that when The X Files' final episode aired, there was not nearly this kind of fanfare. I guess I'm jealous that LOST has such an active and widespread fanbase. :P
I love Ben. He was LOST's Cigarette Smoking Man, except a bit more varied in personality and a lot more redeemable as a person. For a while I really thought of him purely as a villain, and one thing I'm really glad the show did was to expand on him and make him more real, to give him motivations for the things he did, and to make him seem genuinely sorry at the end.
One thing this show has always done that's amazed me is to layer information on each season, putting the previous season's events into a different context and warranting a rewatch. I think I've watched the show through three times and each time I've picked up on something new.
I guess when all is said and done, it's a character show, which is why it ended the way it did. I'm kind of wishing I hadn't gotten as attached to the show as I have, because I hate that it's over. Fringe, don't fail me now.