Note: This contains some heavy spoilers, but honestly, if you clicked over to this post and haven't been keeping up with Lost on a regular basis, you deserve to not only have the final episode spoiled for you, but you should be arrested for being a complete dumbass. Now, with that out the way, let me continue.
I watched half of the finale live as it happened on ABC and the other half I unfortunately had to download off Bit Torrent. It was my fault really, I didn't set it to DVR in my living room and left it on pause for 30 minutes -- which I didn't mind since it gave me the chance to fast forward through commercials. One minor hiccup was that it was temporarily recording and not a scheduled one, so any interruption to it wipes it out and my dumbass ended up pressing "channel up" when I grabbed the remote to skip the commercial break about an hour and 15 minutes in. I quickly turned it back to ABC and couldn't rewind. My girlfriend was sitting on the couch next to me as she witnessed me, honest to God, scream like Carlton off The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
So, about eight hours later after I fully recovered from contemplating suicide since my download finished, I don't know how to feel about the ending of Lost.
"If the island got sunk due to the cast setting off the nuclear bomb in the 70s and Oceanic 815 never crashed onto it due to the changing of the timeline, why isn't everyone dead in the alternate universe?" -- Me, from the post "Lost as Hell," 05.20.10
I shoulda kept my mouth shut, lmfao. Like seriously, they're all DEAD?! The island is purgatory for "lost souls" and the entire sideways universe was a means to get all the characters to move on to heaven together? Get the fuck outta here! I want my six years back, please.
Didn't fans speculate this, like, since the beginning of season two in 2005? The writers shot that theory down in interviews -- sometimes even laughing it off, but I assume since they didn't know what the hell else to do with the plot, they jack some poor guy's fanfic off a message board and call it a day. The finale was emotional, yes -- I cried atleast two times, but as far as resolving major issues, I feel like I wasn't allowed to bust my intellectual nut so to speak. I like being brain fucked, and over the years Lost has been awesome at it (like the end of season three where it's revealed Jack and Kate are off the island, in the future), last night's send off was incredible.... until the ending.
I'm also mad that "The Man in Black" character, who was posing as John Locke, was defeated so easily. Maybe I missed something, but wasn't he just eatin' knifes to chest as if they were bon-bons and absorbing bullets a few episodes ago? I understand how Jack was able to inflict pain onto him since he was the "new Jacob," and everything, but Kate's bullet to his back actually worked? I'm sorry, that ruined it for me. Don't feed me some epic showdown tease (Jack's Superman punch, FTW!) then blow your load on it before anything serious happens!
It feels like the last episode could have benefited from an extra 30 minutes to tie up loose ends, even though I do have to give some kind of props to the writers for not completely going off the rails. They cut off the story well enough to cap off the series and didn't go with a shocking, totally left field ending (like it all was a really bad, bad dream) just to swerve everyone. Thank God Vince Russo didn't write this.. (wrestling reference, if you don't get it that's okay lol)
It wasn't the best finale ever, but certainly wasn't the worst one, either. Unless you were sitting there with a notebook and pen the last half decade to keep track of the plot, you'll forgive and forget the minor things still unexplained in detail.
But if Hurley moved on to heaven with everyone else, that means he's off the island, so who's protecting it -- Ben (he did stay behind afterall)? DUN DUN DUN!
