Lost will be my constant
Yes I will ramble and probably make no sense, but hey, this is Lost we're talking about :)
Lost finale spoilers inside here so don't read if you haven't seen it yet. You have been warned!
The plane clears frame, finally free of the island
Jack Shephard has done what he came to this place to do
He has found his purpose
He has found love
And been loved
He has finally found a way to love himself
The bamboo sways across the blue sky
And Jack Shephard’s eye closes one final time
He is gone
The End
When I think about how much time I’ve invested in Lost, it almost makes me as scared as thinking about how much money I’ve invested in touring! As it is with touring though, it is with Lost… I don’t regret a thing.
For every time my head has hurt from pondering the many mysteries of Lost, I have been rewarded with witty one liners from the characters I love (namely Ben), epic fights, stories of love and obviously hours and hours of phone conversations with some of my closest friends.
Ultimately though, when it comes down to it, I guess the question I’ve been asked the most since the finale is if I thought it was worth the wait for the final answers. To that question, I answer with a resounding YES! It truly was worth every minute of head scratching, heartbreak and lolz.
I know that there are people who really didn’t like the finale and in once sense I can understand why. Some of you wanted answers to every question ever posed by the show. For me though, I think I would’ve been disappointed if Darlton had wrapped everything up in shiny paper and put a big red bow on the top. It just wouldn’t have been Lost. The beauty of the show was that it left you thinking and I believe that this show will leave us all thinking for years to come.
Knowing now that the flash sideways world was after they had all died suddenly makes so much sense. The first episode of season 6 was called LA X. The reasoning behind the spacing of the letters now becomes clear. LA in the X timeline. A place where time doesn’t exist. Somewhere our Losties created so that they could find each other before they moved on to the next place.
When Christian opened that door at the end, I didn’t care where they were going. There were religious symbols from pretty much every religion I can think of in that church. All I cared about was that they were going together. It could’ve been Heaven; it could’ve been to start life all over again… Hell that light could’ve just been Edward Cullen having a little dazzle on the other side. As long as they went together and Christian still had his little white shoes on, it was okay with me. :)
Everyone will take their own truth from Lost, which in my mind is the beauty of a show like this. Everybody can have a theory or opinion for the questions left unanswered and nobody is wrong. I still have questions about some of the mysteries posed to us, but in truth there is nothing really that I think is a big enough question to worry about. I don’t care anymore about polar bears, I don’t care if Aaron and Walt were special or not. I don’t care that Michael and Walt weren’t in the church. For one thing, Walt is now about 8 feet tall and obviously couldn’t be cast in the final scene and I don’t think Michael should’ve been there anyway. Michael is probably still trapped on the island as one of the whispers, serving his time to atone for the things he did. When it’s his time to move on, he will.
The ending that had always been in place started at the moment Jack touched the coffin in the church. It’s the ending J.J wrote before season 1 ever aired and it’s the ending I think was right. I’m glad they kept it exactly the way it was meant to be. So for all of the haters that thought Lost was written on a whim and a prayer, stick that in your pipes and smoke it!!!!
I won’t lie to you, I cried like a baby the first (and second and third) time I watched the finale. Half of me was so happy that they were together and the other half was really struggling to watch Jack stumble through the bamboo about to die. When he finally fell to the ground and Vincent came to lie with him, I thought I would actually choke on the lump in my throat. I can’t remember the last time I cried that hard. (In fact I received a text the other night from someone who had gone to bed, thought about the scene and had themselves a little sob in bed. You know who you are!) I was happy to see that they’d remembered to hang the white shoes back up on the tree. That scene wouldn’t have been right without them.
I always thought that Jack would die at some point the same way I thought it of Dumbledore. With Jack there, people would always have someone to stand behind when things got tough. I know there are a lot of Jack haters, but I’ve always loved Jack. Right or wrong, he’s always tried to save everybody. Everyone wanted him as the leader and then hated him for leading them. God love him, sometimes he just couldn’t win.
His job in the end was to make sure the light didn’t go out, because as Jacob’s “mother” told us “every man has a little of the light inside him and once it goes out, it will go out everywhere forever.” Knowing that was enough of an answer of what the island actually was. In my mind it was a source of life that needed to be preserved. It kept the world in balance between good and evil. Without it, the world as we know it would no longer exist.
Another point I want to touch on was Jack having a son. I’ve seen a lot of people commenting on Lost sites who are pretty angry about who David was. I think David was simply a vehicle that Jack needed to rectify his own relationship with his father. When we first met David, he clearly didn’t have a good relationship with Jack. When they finally settled their differences and began to understand each other, I think it gave Jack some much needed closure on the complex relationship he had with his own father and allowed him to make peace with it. I don’t think ultimately it matters what happened to David because I don’t think he truly existed.
I also think that it took Jack the longest to remember everything because he was always the man of science rather than the man of faith. Jack needed rhyme and reason for everything he did and everything that happened around him. We’d seen him see flashes of things and reject them because he wasn’t ready to see them. I guess it’s like everything else in life… When you’re ready, you’ll see the truth.
I loved all of the scenes where the characters remembered each other. Sawyer and Juliet made me pretty happy. I’ve been waiting for that for a while. Sayid and Shannon was also another one I was happy to see. I know some people think that Sayid should’ve been with Nadia but I think that if nothing else, the sideways world showed that Nadia wasn’t Sayid’s soul mate at all. She was married to his brother for one thing. If this is the place they created for themselves, then if Nadia was meant to be his soul mate, she would’ve been. At the end of the day I believe that island love trumps everything else.
One of my other favourite moments was Hurley grinning at Charlie. That surely warmed the cockles of everyone’s hearts. I couldn’t stop grinning back at him. Of course it was just made even more funny when he pulled out the dart gun and shot Charlie with it. I do <3 Hurley. He makes me laugh and cry more than most other characters. I can’t deal with Hurley crying at all. It makes me want to die inside and of course give him a cuddle.
I also can’t tell you how great my little squee was when we saw that Richard Buffpert (take off your shirt and tell us Richard!) and Frank were still okay. I’m so glad they got off the island with Miles (<3) and the others and probably lived long lives as the Ajira 6.
OMG the cliff scene with Jack and Flocke! It was pretty sodding epic if you ask me. I had a full on Matrix moment when Jack jumped down that cliff. I thought it was excellent. Plus add to that, the fact that Flocke had that knife at Jack’s neck. (OH! So that’s why you keep bleeding Jack) I was truly on the edge of my seat the whole time. I found out too that Terry O’Quinn forgot to swap the knife when they shot the scene and was using a real knife. Had it not been for Foxy having some padding on under his shirt, we could well have had the end of Lost play out for real!
So the 6 year roller coaster ride is finally over and I can honestly say that I’ve enjoyed every twist and turn, every loop and every drop. In fact, I’m ready to strap myself back in and go for another ride. Lost has been my favourite show for the last 6 years and I can’t see that changing in the foreseeable future. It was nice to finally see a show that credited it’s audience with some level of intelligence. I’ve waited years for some answers and I’m sure I can wait years more thinking about the rest of them, although I know we’ll be getting more on the box set when it comes out, including a Hurley and Ben epilogue. :)
With that in mind, I shall leave you with some of my favourite quotes from the finale and suggest that we all put up our feet, listen to some of the amazing music from the show by Michael Giacchino and have a nice long drink. I think we’ve earned it.
Until then… I’ll see you in another life, brother.
“I don’t believe in a lot of things, but I do believe in duct tape." - Miles
"You're not John Locke. You disrespect his memory by wearing his face." - Jack
“I saved you a bullet!" - Kate
"I'm fine. Just get me some thread and I'll count to five." - Jack
Lost finale spoilers inside here so don't read if you haven't seen it yet. You have been warned!
The plane clears frame, finally free of the island
Jack Shephard has done what he came to this place to do
He has found his purpose
He has found love
And been loved
He has finally found a way to love himself
The bamboo sways across the blue sky
And Jack Shephard’s eye closes one final time
He is gone
The End
When I think about how much time I’ve invested in Lost, it almost makes me as scared as thinking about how much money I’ve invested in touring! As it is with touring though, it is with Lost… I don’t regret a thing.
For every time my head has hurt from pondering the many mysteries of Lost, I have been rewarded with witty one liners from the characters I love (namely Ben), epic fights, stories of love and obviously hours and hours of phone conversations with some of my closest friends.
Ultimately though, when it comes down to it, I guess the question I’ve been asked the most since the finale is if I thought it was worth the wait for the final answers. To that question, I answer with a resounding YES! It truly was worth every minute of head scratching, heartbreak and lolz.
I know that there are people who really didn’t like the finale and in once sense I can understand why. Some of you wanted answers to every question ever posed by the show. For me though, I think I would’ve been disappointed if Darlton had wrapped everything up in shiny paper and put a big red bow on the top. It just wouldn’t have been Lost. The beauty of the show was that it left you thinking and I believe that this show will leave us all thinking for years to come.
Knowing now that the flash sideways world was after they had all died suddenly makes so much sense. The first episode of season 6 was called LA X. The reasoning behind the spacing of the letters now becomes clear. LA in the X timeline. A place where time doesn’t exist. Somewhere our Losties created so that they could find each other before they moved on to the next place.
When Christian opened that door at the end, I didn’t care where they were going. There were religious symbols from pretty much every religion I can think of in that church. All I cared about was that they were going together. It could’ve been Heaven; it could’ve been to start life all over again… Hell that light could’ve just been Edward Cullen having a little dazzle on the other side. As long as they went together and Christian still had his little white shoes on, it was okay with me. :)
Everyone will take their own truth from Lost, which in my mind is the beauty of a show like this. Everybody can have a theory or opinion for the questions left unanswered and nobody is wrong. I still have questions about some of the mysteries posed to us, but in truth there is nothing really that I think is a big enough question to worry about. I don’t care anymore about polar bears, I don’t care if Aaron and Walt were special or not. I don’t care that Michael and Walt weren’t in the church. For one thing, Walt is now about 8 feet tall and obviously couldn’t be cast in the final scene and I don’t think Michael should’ve been there anyway. Michael is probably still trapped on the island as one of the whispers, serving his time to atone for the things he did. When it’s his time to move on, he will.
The ending that had always been in place started at the moment Jack touched the coffin in the church. It’s the ending J.J wrote before season 1 ever aired and it’s the ending I think was right. I’m glad they kept it exactly the way it was meant to be. So for all of the haters that thought Lost was written on a whim and a prayer, stick that in your pipes and smoke it!!!!
I won’t lie to you, I cried like a baby the first (and second and third) time I watched the finale. Half of me was so happy that they were together and the other half was really struggling to watch Jack stumble through the bamboo about to die. When he finally fell to the ground and Vincent came to lie with him, I thought I would actually choke on the lump in my throat. I can’t remember the last time I cried that hard. (In fact I received a text the other night from someone who had gone to bed, thought about the scene and had themselves a little sob in bed. You know who you are!) I was happy to see that they’d remembered to hang the white shoes back up on the tree. That scene wouldn’t have been right without them.
I always thought that Jack would die at some point the same way I thought it of Dumbledore. With Jack there, people would always have someone to stand behind when things got tough. I know there are a lot of Jack haters, but I’ve always loved Jack. Right or wrong, he’s always tried to save everybody. Everyone wanted him as the leader and then hated him for leading them. God love him, sometimes he just couldn’t win.
His job in the end was to make sure the light didn’t go out, because as Jacob’s “mother” told us “every man has a little of the light inside him and once it goes out, it will go out everywhere forever.” Knowing that was enough of an answer of what the island actually was. In my mind it was a source of life that needed to be preserved. It kept the world in balance between good and evil. Without it, the world as we know it would no longer exist.
Another point I want to touch on was Jack having a son. I’ve seen a lot of people commenting on Lost sites who are pretty angry about who David was. I think David was simply a vehicle that Jack needed to rectify his own relationship with his father. When we first met David, he clearly didn’t have a good relationship with Jack. When they finally settled their differences and began to understand each other, I think it gave Jack some much needed closure on the complex relationship he had with his own father and allowed him to make peace with it. I don’t think ultimately it matters what happened to David because I don’t think he truly existed.
I also think that it took Jack the longest to remember everything because he was always the man of science rather than the man of faith. Jack needed rhyme and reason for everything he did and everything that happened around him. We’d seen him see flashes of things and reject them because he wasn’t ready to see them. I guess it’s like everything else in life… When you’re ready, you’ll see the truth.
I loved all of the scenes where the characters remembered each other. Sawyer and Juliet made me pretty happy. I’ve been waiting for that for a while. Sayid and Shannon was also another one I was happy to see. I know some people think that Sayid should’ve been with Nadia but I think that if nothing else, the sideways world showed that Nadia wasn’t Sayid’s soul mate at all. She was married to his brother for one thing. If this is the place they created for themselves, then if Nadia was meant to be his soul mate, she would’ve been. At the end of the day I believe that island love trumps everything else.
One of my other favourite moments was Hurley grinning at Charlie. That surely warmed the cockles of everyone’s hearts. I couldn’t stop grinning back at him. Of course it was just made even more funny when he pulled out the dart gun and shot Charlie with it. I do <3 Hurley. He makes me laugh and cry more than most other characters. I can’t deal with Hurley crying at all. It makes me want to die inside and of course give him a cuddle.
I also can’t tell you how great my little squee was when we saw that Richard Buffpert (take off your shirt and tell us Richard!) and Frank were still okay. I’m so glad they got off the island with Miles (<3) and the others and probably lived long lives as the Ajira 6.
OMG the cliff scene with Jack and Flocke! It was pretty sodding epic if you ask me. I had a full on Matrix moment when Jack jumped down that cliff. I thought it was excellent. Plus add to that, the fact that Flocke had that knife at Jack’s neck. (OH! So that’s why you keep bleeding Jack) I was truly on the edge of my seat the whole time. I found out too that Terry O’Quinn forgot to swap the knife when they shot the scene and was using a real knife. Had it not been for Foxy having some padding on under his shirt, we could well have had the end of Lost play out for real!
So the 6 year roller coaster ride is finally over and I can honestly say that I’ve enjoyed every twist and turn, every loop and every drop. In fact, I’m ready to strap myself back in and go for another ride. Lost has been my favourite show for the last 6 years and I can’t see that changing in the foreseeable future. It was nice to finally see a show that credited it’s audience with some level of intelligence. I’ve waited years for some answers and I’m sure I can wait years more thinking about the rest of them, although I know we’ll be getting more on the box set when it comes out, including a Hurley and Ben epilogue. :)
With that in mind, I shall leave you with some of my favourite quotes from the finale and suggest that we all put up our feet, listen to some of the amazing music from the show by Michael Giacchino and have a nice long drink. I think we’ve earned it.
Until then… I’ll see you in another life, brother.
“I don’t believe in a lot of things, but I do believe in duct tape." - Miles
"You're not John Locke. You disrespect his memory by wearing his face." - Jack
“I saved you a bullet!" - Kate
"I'm fine. Just get me some thread and I'll count to five." - Jack