No More Lost
Oh, I wanted to love it. I really did. There were parts I thought were great. Sawyer and Juliet at the vending machine made me cry. "I don't believe in a lot of things, but I do believe in duct tape." It finally hit me: Rose and Bernard are Tom Bombadil. The final image was lovely.
I wish now that I'd made a predictions post. Because I totally called that Hurley would be the new Jacob, but now I have no proof that I did. I suspected it as early as "Lighthouse." When dead Jacob was telling Hurley that for some people you can just show up in their cab and tell them what to do, but for other people you have to take a less direct approach, it occurred to me that that's exactly what he's doing right now. Jacob was preparing Jack to take the job in the way that Jack needed to be prepared, but at exactly the same time he was preparing Hurley to take the job in the way that Hurley needed to be prepared. He was telling him how to do the job, plain and simple. Of course it was Hurley.
The island story was okay, I guess. I liked Jack and Locke lowering Desmond down the waterfall. I liked the visual nod to the season 1 finale cliffhanger. I liked the big cosmic stopper, and the effect that had on the island. The massive earthquakes and storm gave it a good epic feel. I was surprised by how much I cared about the island, by how much I wanted it to be saved. But the big fight between Locke and Jack was too comic-book for me. Is this really going to be decided by who's physically stronger?
I don't know, maybe it'll be better the next time I watch it, but somehow it all seemed a little perfunctory. Yes, we killed Locke. Some of us left the island. Jack died. Ho hum. Somehow I wanted more. I think I wanted more people to be involved. Wasn't Richard supposed to be important? Didn't the big revelation from his dead wife that he was supposed to help defeat the man in black mean anything? And how did Ben appearing to be helping Locke affect anything? I wanted one more bit of Ben trickery, but it didn't go anywhere. Also, how'd he get out from under the tree?
But my bigger problem was with the way the sideways stuff ended. Somehow, it being purgatory or whatever seems to rob those stories of their reality. I'm sorry, it's the friggin' holodeck, or maybe even the Nexus. Nothing that happened there was real, nothing really mattered. The show completely dismissed the science fiction explanation in favor of a more overtly religious one. This universe does not exist because of Jughead. That was a lie. It would have existed anyway. It's just the afterlife. Why is it that the end of every story seems to be about death? And why is it that every TV show finale manages to find a way to sneak in a clip show? (Actually, that sounds like a complaint, but it's not. I liked that stuff a lot. Every time one of the sideways characters got a flash of their island life, I started to tear up.) I mean, I think I sound more angry than I am. There were a lot of good scenes. I liked Ben sitting outside the church, not quite ready to go in. I just didn't like the final choice.
Anyway, my problem is not that they didn't answer enough questions.
I wish now that I'd made a predictions post. Because I totally called that Hurley would be the new Jacob, but now I have no proof that I did. I suspected it as early as "Lighthouse." When dead Jacob was telling Hurley that for some people you can just show up in their cab and tell them what to do, but for other people you have to take a less direct approach, it occurred to me that that's exactly what he's doing right now. Jacob was preparing Jack to take the job in the way that Jack needed to be prepared, but at exactly the same time he was preparing Hurley to take the job in the way that Hurley needed to be prepared. He was telling him how to do the job, plain and simple. Of course it was Hurley.
The island story was okay, I guess. I liked Jack and Locke lowering Desmond down the waterfall. I liked the visual nod to the season 1 finale cliffhanger. I liked the big cosmic stopper, and the effect that had on the island. The massive earthquakes and storm gave it a good epic feel. I was surprised by how much I cared about the island, by how much I wanted it to be saved. But the big fight between Locke and Jack was too comic-book for me. Is this really going to be decided by who's physically stronger?
I don't know, maybe it'll be better the next time I watch it, but somehow it all seemed a little perfunctory. Yes, we killed Locke. Some of us left the island. Jack died. Ho hum. Somehow I wanted more. I think I wanted more people to be involved. Wasn't Richard supposed to be important? Didn't the big revelation from his dead wife that he was supposed to help defeat the man in black mean anything? And how did Ben appearing to be helping Locke affect anything? I wanted one more bit of Ben trickery, but it didn't go anywhere. Also, how'd he get out from under the tree?
But my bigger problem was with the way the sideways stuff ended. Somehow, it being purgatory or whatever seems to rob those stories of their reality. I'm sorry, it's the friggin' holodeck, or maybe even the Nexus. Nothing that happened there was real, nothing really mattered. The show completely dismissed the science fiction explanation in favor of a more overtly religious one. This universe does not exist because of Jughead. That was a lie. It would have existed anyway. It's just the afterlife. Why is it that the end of every story seems to be about death? And why is it that every TV show finale manages to find a way to sneak in a clip show? (Actually, that sounds like a complaint, but it's not. I liked that stuff a lot. Every time one of the sideways characters got a flash of their island life, I started to tear up.) I mean, I think I sound more angry than I am. There were a lot of good scenes. I liked Ben sitting outside the church, not quite ready to go in. I just didn't like the final choice.
Anyway, my problem is not that they didn't answer enough questions.