Wow.

 

That is all I can say right now. I have to get ready for school!

Wow that was really beautiful. Not just the ending - although that was epically beautiful :cry: - but also all the moments where everyone remembered each other - that was perfect. :wacky: Of course, there's no way everyone's going to be 100% satisfied with the ending cos i'm sure everyone will have had their own ideas about how it should end, but i think they did a pretty damn good job.

 

I can't believe it's finally all over. :'(

 

EDITING TO ADD:

Maybe it's cos i've been up since 4.15am and wasn't fully awake, but am i the only one feeling a bit stupid right now, cos

i kinda get the ending and the idea of them all having to find each other cos they were all kind of "lost" themselves when they came to the island, and the moving on part, but what i don't get is were they all dead as soon as the plane crashed in the pilot?:\ Please someone reply.:embarrassed:

 

...So why do I feel like my cat died, now?

Everyone dies sometime, kiddo ;)

 

I don't think the plane crash killed them. the plane crash was them entering purgatory so they could get to know each other afresh and erase any bad things from their lives by their actions on the island.

 

anyone else think of kate winslet at the end of titanic when Jack entered the church?

 

i agree it was a beautiful episode.

 

lots of religious overtones throughout. can't believe I didn't notice the christian shepherd thing until kate? commented! 6 seasons :lol: so christian becomes the god figure.

jacob giving jack the water in the river - john the baptist baptising jesus

the whole going into the light thing

if smokies not the devil then he's a fallen angel. the fact that he was potentially the keeper of the light would suggest as much

jacob & smokie are twins, and the events of their episode leads me to the conclusion that his name would be esau. but that then conflicts with the fallen angel theory

 

 

 

this bit also contains a narnia spoiler

 

i still think it had parallels to Narnia. Jack was the donkey who couldn't see what was happening. the oceanic survivors are the pevensies who didn't realise they were dead until just before they entered the light. they even have the church doors mirroring the barn door

 

 

 

this bit has an ashes to ashes spoiler

 

 

I can't believe its virtually the same ending as ashes to ashes :shocked2:

 

Daily Telegraph review contains lots of spoilers

 

 

 

 

Lost, the final episode: review

 

TV drama Lost has ended six seasons of plot twists in a completely thrilling, but not entirely logical finale, says Michael Deacon.

 

Well, thank goodness for that.

 

Throughout the 120 hours, spread across six years, that I’ve been watching Lost, I’ve been more than a little worried that the ending, when it finally came, would make me think, “Oh. What a monumental waste of time that was.”

 

I would hereby like to pledge eternal thanks to God, or at any rate Lost’s executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, for ensuring that that didn’t happen. The final episode, all two and a quarter hours of it, for which, being in Britain, I had to get up at five o’clock this morning, was terrifically exciting. Desmond switching the Light off (whatever the Light is – all that portentous nonsense in the episode the week before last about how “It’s the Light that exists in all men’s souls” made me wriggle with embarrassment). Jack and Kate killing Locke, or at any rate the Man in Black, or the Smoke Monster (he never did get a proper name, did he? Poor chap). Jack appointing Hurley to protect the Island. All gripping and grand and endearingly ridiculous in the way only Lost can be.

 

That’s not to say, though, that I completely understood it. I’m writing this immediately after the episode’s end, so haven’t yet had time to puzzle it all out. But here are the questions I feel certain I’ll be muttering to myself until I’m arrested for causing a public disturbance.

 

* In episode one of the final series, when Jack and co were on the non-crashing Flight 815 in the Flash Sideways Timeline (FST), we saw that the Island had been destroyed and was lying at the bottom of the ocean. In the Original Timeline, as we’ve just seen in the finale, Jack, Desmond et al prevented the Island’s destruction from taking place. So how did the Island sink in the FST?

 

* In the FST, what did Locke mean when he said to Jack, “You don’t have a son”? What about that floppy-haired little chap who plays the piano – is he somebody else’s?

 

* What was the light that Jack’s father walked into at the end? Please don’t say Heaven. Even if his absurd name (Christian Shepherd) does make the whole thing sound like an incoherent parable.

 

* Speaking of incoherent parables – did the writers really have to let Locke get out of his wheelchair at the end and walk? I’m no medical expert but, even if the spinal operation Jack gave him were believable, my guess is that, after all that time in the wheelchair, Locke’s muscles would have atrophied. DON’T TELL ME THAT JACK IS JESUS. THAT’S NOT WHAT I WANT TO HEAR.

 

* Kate, Sawyer, Miles, Lapidis and Ben flew off on the plane. Where will it go? When they land on the US mainland, won’t they just meet themselves, seeing as they all live there in the FST? And let’s not forget that the FST is actually set in 2004, whereas the OT, correct me if I’m wrong, is set in 2007. Or do the characters live quite separately in the independent timelines? Is the FST merely some kind of afterlife? I suspect I’m not alone in not entirely comprehending Christian’s speech about how “There is no now here."

 

This is going to take quite a lot of frenzied and possibly futile thought. And no doubt a second viewing all the way through of the entire six series.

 

On the other hand, I could just take a tip from Jack (when as a doctor in the FST he was urging Locke to undergo spinal surgery). In other words: for heaven’s sake, man, just let go.

 

So there we are, then. It wasn’t completely clear. It wasn’t completely logical. But it was completely thrilling.

 

More thoughts later on my blog. But for now, if you have any suggestions or explanations, please do post them below.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/7758309/Lost-the-final-episode-review.html

 

 

 

more spoiler articles

 

 

 

‘Lost’ Watch: Embracing the White Light

 

By MIKE HALE

 

Well, it was better than the “Life on Mars” finale.

 

But you have to think that the gauzy, vaguely religious, more than a little mawkish ending of ‘Lost’ – “Touched by a Desmond” — will not sit well with a lot of the show’s fans. Many of them will have thought that things were going pretty well for the first two and a quarter hours of the final episode, as the producers treated them to a series of montaged moments in the sideways reality world, in which the main characters regained their memories of the island. But then came the ending, in which most of the main cast members gathered at a church for the big reveal: they were all dead.

 

And they knew it now, though Jack, as always, took the longest to catch on. (Or maybe just Jack was dead, and this was his funeral?) His father told him: “This is the place that you all made together so that you could find one another. The most important part of your life was the time that you spent with these people. That’s why all of you are here.” With that, white light flooded the church and they all went … well, who knows.

 

Meanwhile, back on the island, Jack, having saved the world and then passed stewardship of the place along to Hurley, staggered into the bamboo field where the series started with Jack’s eye opening after the crash of Oceanic 815. Stabbed by the Man in Black, he lay down to die next to Vincent (who had been kept by Rose and Bernard all these years). As the Ajira plane passed overhead, carrying Frank, Richard, Miles, Kate, Sawyer and Claire to safety — or were they already dead? — we saw a close-up of Jack’s eye closing, taking “Lost” full circle.

 

The best moments of the finale were the ones when memories flooded back to Sun and Jin (who got their English back one last time), to Sayid and Shannon, and to Sawyer and Juliet, who recoiled as if they’d each touched a live wire. The island scenes, in which Desmond put out the golden light, Jack killed the Man in Black before he could flee, and then Jack turned the light back on, were wan and rushed, as the island narrative has been throughout Season 6. But there was some funny byplay primarily involving Hurley, Ben and Miles, and fans of Michael Emerson who like to see Ben’s good-soldier side were rewarded.

 

So what was the island? Those who have been voting for purgatory all along can make a case, though it seems highly unlikely that the creators had anything so specific in mind. Fans and commentators will go through all sorts of twists and turns to make sense of the ending. From here, it seems that if everyone is dead, the only thing that makes sense — if that’s a requirement — is that everyone was dead at the beginning.

 

The finale will be compared, in its effect if not its form, to that of the “Sopranos.” The “Sopranos” finale was ambiguous and a bit of a shrug, but not puzzling; to me the “Lost” finale, in the immediate aftermath, felt forced and, well, a bit of a cop-out.

 

I’ll expand on (and possibly revise) these thoughts in a notebook you can find on nytimes.com/arts Monday morning or in Tuesday’s newspaper. In the meantime, please let us know how you felt about the finale and how you’re interpreting it.

 

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/24/lost-watch-embracing-the-white-light/

 

 

 

I like this one alot. I like his theory about Hurley & the flash-sideways, and his comments on what Ben said to Hurley about doing things differently.

 

 

'Lost': If you come with me, I'll show you what I mean

 

One of my favorite books of all time is "Watership Down." In that story, the main action of the book ends with around 20 pages left. (It's here that I'll warn you there are spoilers for "Watership Down" ahead, but the book is almost 40 years old. C'mon.) The rabbits who have come to Watership Down to make their home have survived an incursion by the borderline fascist General Woundwort, and everyone is safe for a little while. It's a lovely scene, but it's made even more moving by the short epilogue, set in an undetermined future. The book's hero, leader Hazel, has grown old and is enjoying one last summer among all of those for whom he built a world worth living in. Which is when El-Ahrairah, something like the rabbits' folk hero and/or god, arrives to take Hazel away to what's after, not a rabbit Heaven, not exactly, but definitely a place where there will be less pain and less worry. The final sentences are elliptical, suggesting more than showing, creating something that is and always will be while staying just ahead of us. We are not yet ready to see what is next. We can only catch pieces. Hazel worries about those who will go after him, but El-Ahrairah insists he needn't worry. "They'll be all right," he says, "and thousands like them. If you come with me, I'll show you what I mean."

 

So when Sawyer was reading "Watership Down" back in season one of "Lost," I thought it was just a tip of the hat from the producers to a book I loved. I didn't know it was the answer to the whole series.

 

On Tuesday, I talked a lot about the letting go, about the process of readying yourself to let someone or something slip away from you and become a part of something else. It can be as simple as letting a friend move cross country, or it can be as profound as putting a family member in the ground and hoping you might see them again someday. The final season of "Lost" has been about having the kind of faith needed to accept that things will make a kind of sense, even when they don't, about realizing the world is sometimes a tragic one where bad things happen and sometimes a beautiful one where people can create things larger than themselves by the mere process of coming together and building something. I've talked here about how I love things that are about community, about the ways that people can work together toward something else. And in the end, that was what "Lost" was about as well. It just showed its cards awfully late.

 

I can already see on the various Internet haunts I frequent that the episode didn't work for everyone. It continued the series' hard left turn into outright mysticism, and some are frightened that the end of the show suggests that everyone has been dead all this time. While I can see where some are coming up with that theory from (or its far more cynical variant that this is a hallucination that Jack is having on his way to his final resting place), I don't think that is what we're seeing here. This flash-sideways universe is one final gift from the last protector of the Island that we see -- Hurley -- to everyone he ever knew or loved. It is a chance for him to do what he does best, as Ben says. He is taking care of people, giving them both what they wanted and what they needed. The structure here is meant to be elusive, to always run just ahead of us while we chase along behind. At some point in the "Lost" world, all of these people die. And then they end up in the sideways world, where they're able to have what they wanted (perhaps thanks to Hurley). And then Desmond becomes their spiritual counselor, in a way, helping them to let go.

 

So much of the finale of "Lost" is about bringing things to a sort of holistic closure, about tying things together. Much of the series has been about duality, about things that are split between two halves or two forces that act in opposition, but the finale is largely about solving dualities. I mean, on one (really obvious and kinda Freudian) level, it's about putting a big rock back in a magic hole. But it's also about the character who's probably been responsible for the most good in the world of "Lost" and a character who has been responsible for a lot of bad looking to find another way to do business than the way that the Monster and Jacob did it. There doesn't need to be judgment followed by execution. There doesn't need to be a moratorium on people leaving the Island. And there doesn't need to be the constant struggle between light and dark. Rose and Bernard had it right after all. The best way forward is to opt out, is to just do the right thing by those you love. In this way, Jacob was "right" or at least on the side of what the series thinks is "good." He was more about sacrifice than selfishness, and the finale's latter passages are about what it means to embrace that ethos, about what it means that Desmond probably could put the stone back in the hole, but Jack is the one to do it because Desmond still has someone back home to live for.

 

"The End" chose not to tie up loose ends or make the mythology entirely make sense. It decided not to make more specific just why the Monster couldn't leave the Island or why the Island had to exist for the rest of the world to go on as it is (at least, that's how I'm interpreting the idea that the Island's heart going out would mean the end of everything). It probably figured that vague notions in these regards were all we needed. The plot of the episode, as it were, is pretty much about people running between various points in an attempt to get certain tasks accomplished. Richard and Miles need to get the plane in the sky (with some help from -- hooray! -- Lapidus). Jack needs to kill the Monster. The Monster needs to destroy the Island. Very little of the actual plot is, really, all that thrilling. But it works and it becomes thrilling because it provides character payoffs we've been waiting for. Locke and Jack finally have a titanic battle in the rain. Kate and Jack finally come together. Sawyer finally gets to leave the Island. The flash-sideways world is one, long series of buttons on character storylines that allows the episode to be the classic series finale clip show without ever making it one, not quite. (Though I don't know that I was so invested in the Shannon and Sayid story as to think it was the best way to wake Sayid up.)

 

Was this the right call? For me, absolutely. Big, giant answers about what the Island was or its place in the world's cosmology or why it had Egyptian stuff all over it or anything like that were probably bound to be disappointing, as most of the answers dispensed this season were, only even more so. Saying what the Island is is like saying what the meaning of life is; it's a question you can ask but never receive a really satisfying answer to. Really, what would you have liked? It was a crashed spaceship that somehow ended up in the ocean and had life grow upon it? It was a long-lost, fabled isle like Avalon or the Garden of Eden? It was Purgatory? The answer, here, I suppose was that some just wanted the show to say that the Island was SOMEthing, to put a definitive button on the show's biggest questions. But, for me, buttons are always less interesting than the things they're meant to plug. Put another way, were you more interested in the rock plugging the hole, or the hole itself, with all that glowy light inside of it?

 

One of the reasons I think "Lost" worked was that it was always more interested in the box and the person holding the box than what was in the box. A closed box is almost always a mystery, really, until you open it and see what's inside (which is how so many parents misdirect their kids on Christmas morning). All of the imitators of the show that have come along have focused far, far more on the contents of that box. They wanna shake it and hear if it rattles. They wanna pull back the wrapping paper and take a peek. "Lost" has always been satisfied to dump a package in your lap and think that's enough. Is it? Again, for me, absolutely. But if not for you, does the fact that you opened the box and didn't find what you wanted ruin the whole experience of the show, all of the fun you had along the way? It's not wrong to feel that way, not at all. But it probably does speak to the different kinds of people we are, and the different ways we react to art.

 

Me, I prize ambition above absolute coherence. The producers of "Lost" have talked about just how much they love the work of Stephen King, and King's novels tend to get less interesting the more he expresses just what's going on. What I think makes "The End" work on a plot level, ultimately, is the fact that the characters are only doing what they need to do to come to the end they want to come to. Jack pushes Kate away so she can live the life he knows he won't. Sawyer finally gets to leave. Ben joins the side of good in the end. The characters pass by some of the biggest mysteries on the show, but they only give them glances. The ultimate meanings and associations are there for us to draw conclusions about and argue about for years to come, and I'm sure we will. The important thing, as my wife put it after the episode ended, is not answers. It's resolution. And "Lost" provided that in spades. It was an attempt to put us in a place where we were ready to let the show and the characters go, to release them to whatever was waiting for them beyond those church doors, in that blinding white light (perhaps the light that Juliet released when she blew up the bomb at the end of last season -- it worked, indeed).

 

One of the things that's made the last six seasons of this show so fun is the way that it's kind of a Rorschach test for who you are. Your answers to the questions the show presented were as important to the experience of watching the show as anything else. I might fixate on the way the show suggests the destruction of the Island means the end of the world (since I do love my post-apocalyptic fiction so). You might fixate on the meaning of the Egyptian hieroglyphics. Someone else might be very interested in the way the show expresses the philosophies of Nietzsche or Kierkegaard. What matters to me doesn't matter to you. "Lost's" genius is that it stirs up a whole bunch of what matters to a lot of people, then never takes sides on what's most important. Like science fiction? Here's a full season of time travel. Like philosophy? Here are a bunch of characters named after philosophers and an occasional episode that expresses their precepts. It's a big, pulp stew of everything the producers think matters, a stew where you pick out what's important to you and maybe don't have quite as much of that little piece over there.

 

What makes "The End" disorienting for many of us, I think, is the fact that it's ever so gently letting us know what the producers think is most important here, which pieces of the stew they've been most interested from the start. What I'm intrigued by is how the episode works with "Across the Sea" and "What They Died For." The first is a suggestion of how this entire bloody mess got started, of how this place tends to take men and turn them into monsters (sometimes literally). The second episode (and this one) are suggestions of new ways to go forward, of a way to give people a choice in their own destinies and, finally, a way to create a kind of peace for all of the people who died needlessly because of the events of "Across the Sea." These episodes matter even more than they did in the initial telling now, because we've seen there's a better way, a new way.

 

But at the same time, "The End" doesn't take the show away from us entirely. The producers are skillful enough to leave us more room for debate, a place left for us to interpret, questions left to answer on our own. I saw this episode in a room full of other "Lost" fans, critics and aficionados. And as my colleague Dan Fienberg wrote on Twitter afterward, what was most important wasn't necessarily the ending of the episode, but the fact that the episode made us talk. We all could agree that the episode's opening acts were skillfully done (as "Lost" always does these big, exciting action payoffs well) and that the emotional payoffs in the flash-sideways universe were mostly well-handled. But it was that last act and the meaning of everything that happens -- is Ben still in Purgatory? where were Michael and Walt? and even if the stained glass windows in the "Lost" church were so multicultural, what about the atheists? -- that really set us to talking. And by leaving us with that (as well as some of the bigger questions of the show's mythology), Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse may have completed their greatest act yet.

 

I don't know where I'd rank "The End" against all other "Lost" episodes. There were some jokes that fell flat, and an overreliance on sentimentality that could be a little grating at times. I thought the ending was lovely, while still finding myself jarred out of it by Christian telling Jack that he was dead. (Indeed, I suspect this moment will have more resonance for me a second time through, when I'm able to accept that this doesn't mean everyone on the Island has been dead the whole time. I was really worried there for a while!) I liked the way it reinforced the final season's decision to reorient all of this in characters, to, say, tell us the story of Richard's great romance instead of the story of his whole life on the Island or to turn Smokey and Jacob from enigmatic figures into eminently human ones locked in a kind of twisted sibling rivalry. It's a fantastic piece of television; I'm just not sure if it's a fantastic ending to "Lost." Not just yet.

 

But I loved it all the same. After it was over, I had occasion to stand outside and gaze up at what stars can be seen in the Los Angeles night sky, to smell the flowers all around me, to feel the cool of the night breeze on my skin. What I most love about "The End," what I suspect will bring me around to loving it completely in due time and in the end, is the fact that it suggests that all of this is part of a continuum, that we will live again, not in a place where all is transformed by deeply felt religious faith or by being a better person than someone else, but in a place very much like this one, surrounded by people we loved and cherished. There will be stars in the sky and people we love and things still to see and learn and become. No matter if you believe in an afterlife or not, if you believe in a God or not, that, I think, suggests that the producers want us, at least, to believe in some capacity for people to do good, to come together and build a better world that lies just beyond those open church doors. There are two things that are important, "The End" says: that we care for each other, and that we keep the conversation going.

 

Some other thoughts:

 

 

* This is not the end of "Lost" talk here at Show Tracker. Not even close. Don't forget that there's a live chat with Nestor Carbonell tomorrow, and I'll be back Tuesday, in place of my usual episode review, with thoughts on the discussion surrounding the finale and further thoughts on what I thought after a second time through the episode. Then, we'll have one last "Lost" 10, and that will be it for the show ... forever. Sniff.

Hey ... where WAS Walt? We were promised Walt! I'm going to start a protest.

* A number of you have asked where I'd rank this show against every other episode. Probably in the top 30. But I could see it eventually landing in my top 10 given enough time to settle. It's an unusually ambitious piece of television, and I tend to really enjoy those in the end.

* As far as final images go, the lyrical visual poetry of Jack stumbling to his death in that bamboo forest, Vincent lying down beside him to help usher him into the next life, his eye finally closing, even if that last shot was predicted by a good many people, it was really quite something, no?

* Another question I've been getting a lot: Where would you rank this against all other TV finales? I'd put it just a notch below what I consider the best two dramatic finales ever, those of "The Sopranos" and "The Shield." It wasn't as daring, nor as tough on its characters as those shows were, but it wasn't that kind of show at the same time. It's definitely on the same level as the finale of "Battlestar Galactica" (which, and don't stone me, I loved) for me.

* There was a lot of funny stuff here, but Sawyer saying that he'd put his last dollar in the vending machine when he and Juliet were going to go get coffee made me laugh the most.

* I also like the idea that the afterlife isn't some sort of linear progression, that people just pop up there at the same time, regardless of when they died, and that Juliet perhaps saw what was happening there when she died back in "LA X." There is no "now," no flashbacks, no flash-forwards, no flash-sideways. Only a place that is everything and nothing all at once.

* I will hopefully have a lot more to say about this episode when I write about it on Tuesday (still downloading), and that piece may well end up being far longer than this one -- which is already over 3,000 words! -- but I want to say that it has been an absolute honor to write about this for you guys. It's a show I've really loved, and getting to talk to all of you as we move through this final season has forced me to sharpen my arguments in its defense (and against it when I wasn't feeling it). You're some of the best "Lost"-heads around, and I hope we all meet again, on some other blog for some other show. As always (and one last time), my e-mail and Twitter are open for business.

 

--Todd VanDerWerff (follow me on Twitter at @tvoti)

 

Photos: Above: The cast of "Lost," both living and dead, gets together one last time to move on to other things. Below: Christian (John Terry) opens the door to another life, brotha. (Credit: ABC)

 

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/05/lost-if-you-come-with-me-ill-show-you-what-i-mean.html

 

 

 

and this is a great quote

 

What matters to me doesn't matter to you. "Lost's" genius is that it stirs up a whole bunch of what matters to a lot of people, then never takes sides on what's most important. Like science fiction? Here's a full season of time travel. Like philosophy? Here are a bunch of characters named after philosophers and an occasional episode that expresses their precepts. It's a big, pulp stew of everything the producers think matters, a stew where you pick out what's important to you and maybe don't have quite as much of that little piece over there.

someone mind telling me the stars q&a bit. my sound is knackered :(

 

http://uk.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b182484_losts_big_bosses_answer_stars.html

more:

 

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2010/05/lost-finale.html

 

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/finality-not-lost-on-tv-fans-20100524-w79m.html

 

oooo channel 7 is a bit slow isn't it? how many viewers will they lose by not showing the finale til wed?

 

That was the end of ‘Lost’?! Are you kidding us?

 

http://news.google.co.uk/news/story?pz=1&cf=all&ned=uk&hl=en&q=lost&ncl=dplNNQimQJ4flBMWDNVAGo3mJP_lM

one word: EPIC

 

it was extremely beautiful. The closing shot was just perfect. Jack closed his eyes. Breathtaking

 

It was so nice to see everyone again

this pretty much sums it up:

"That was nothing like I imagined, but everything I hoped for" well...at least for me (:

 

I already miss lost. I can't believe that it is over. I just can't.

The feel good reunion at the end was nice good to see both Charlie and Claire together. Was surprised to see Lapidus floating around in the water.

 

I guess it was really appropriate when Jack said to Des "'I'll see u in another life Brotha!"

 

Anybody notice Kate was wearing a black dress throughout the night but at the final scene she was in a green top.

 

 

Never knew Marilyn Manson was a fan.

I didn't like it much. I want something more! there are lots of questions yet! LOTS OF!!!

I like that not all questions were answered. Keeps the mistery :)

Man! I loved the episode...on reflection.

To be honest, after first watching, I was dissapointed. I wanted something more. But then I thought about everything about the show and all the characters and how everything makes sense.

The ending was beautiful.

Man! I loved the episode...on reflection.

To be honest, after first watching, I was dissapointed. I wanted something more. But then I thought about everything about the show and all the characters and how everything makes sense.

The ending was beautiful.

 

I totally agree.

 

after watching it at first I was a bit disappointed, and as your wanted more, but reflecting on the show I don't think there could've been a better way to end it.

Wow that was really beautiful. Not just the ending - although that was epically beautiful :cry: - but also all the moments where everyone remembered each other - that was perfect. :wacky: Of course, there's no way everyone's going to be 100% satisfied with the ending cos i'm sure everyone will have had their own ideas about how it should end, but i think they did a pretty damn good job.

 

I can't believe it's finally all over. :'(

 

EDITING TO ADD:

Maybe it's cos i've been up since 4.15am and wasn't fully awake, but am i the only one feeling a bit stupid right now, cos

i kinda get the ending and the idea of them all having to find each other cos they were all kind of "lost" themselves when they came to the island, and the moving on part, but what i don't get is were they all dead as soon as the plane crashed in the pilot?:\ Please someone reply.:embarrassed:

 

It can certainly be interpreted in lots of different ways, but my understanding was...

 

 

that the church at the end was a place they somehow created to find each other whenever they each died. As Christian said to Jack, some died before him, some died long after. I think the island timeline was 100% the actual timeline, and that everything that happened there actually happened. The "church" was kind of like purgatory, in that they were waiting there to find each other.

 

So, I believe that in the island timeline, Kate, Sawyer, Claire, Lapidus, Miles and Richard escaped on the plane and lived on; Ben, Hurley and Des (and Rose and Bernard) remained alive on the island; and Jack died. :( Christian made a point of telling Jack that there was no "now" where they were, so that allowed them all to be in the same place at the same time, even though some had died long ago (Shannon, Boone, etc) and others presumably died much later (Hurley, Kate, etc).

 

All in all, I think it was an absolutely beautiful way to end the show. I cried through basically the entire thing, but found the Charlie/Claire reunion and Jin/Sun awakening to be sob-inducing. Still many questions, but as Mike said, clearly what was most important was the characters and their relationships, not the island and all its quirks. loved it. Oh, and Jack was AWESOME in this ep. The perfect way for his character arc to end.

 

 

 

It can certainly be interpreted in lots of different ways, but my understanding was...

 

 

that the church at the end was a place they somehow created to find each other whenever they each died. As Christian said to Jack, some died before him, some died long after. I think the island timeline was 100% the actual timeline, and that everything that happened there actually happened. The "church" was kind of like purgatory, in that they were waiting there to find each other.

 

So, I believe that in the island timeline, Kate, Sawyer, Claire, Lapidus, Miles and Richard escaped on the plane and lived on; Ben, Hurley and Des (and Rose and Bernard) remained alive on the island; and Jack died. :( Christian made a point of telling Jack that there was no "now" where they were, so that allowed them all to be in the same place at the same time, even though some had died long ago (Shannon, Boone, etc) and others presumably died much later (Hurley, Kate, etc).

 

All in all, I think it was an absolutely beautiful way to end the show. I cried through basically the entire thing, but found the Charlie/Claire reunion and Jin/Sun awakening to be sob-inducing. Still many questions, but as Mike said, clearly what was most important was the characters and their relationships, not the island and all its quirks. loved it. Oh, and Jack was AWESOME in this ep. The perfect way for his character arc to end.

 

 

 

The Charlie/Claire reunion really got me going too, esp since Charlie was always one of my favourite characters.

 

It really was a beautiful ending, and i thought the way the very last image we saw was Jack's eye closing was very fitting, seeing as Jack's eye opening was the very first thing we saw so long ago in the pilot. :nice:

 

I still can't get over the fact that it's finally ended, i miss it already. :cry: I'm gonna start watching the entire thing again from the pilot. :wacky:

NNAAAAARGHH!! I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!!! :bigcry:

 

 

Did anyone catch the interview thing with Jimmy Kimmel? Is it worth watching?

I loved the ending.

 

 

 

When Vincent ran over to Jack...

When Richard found a gray hair...

The Ben/Hurley scenes...

 

 

 

Oh man, I'm tearing up again. :cry:

 

NNAAAAARGHH!! I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!!! :bigcry:

 

 

Did anyone catch the interview thing with Jimmy Kimmel? Is it worth watching?

 

I saw it...I loved the alternate endings. ;)

And Nestor shares a story about his eyelashes, which is always great. See it!

The alternative endings are hilarious, just watched them on youtube. :lol:

 

Gonna find the rest of the thing now. :escaping:

Some interesting stuff here.. (darkUFO :heart:)

 

Did you guys know that Smokeys name was

Samuel

 

I though that was gonna be revealed in the episode.. :thinking:

 

Complete collection:

38 discs, looks awesome. :wacky:

 

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[/ame]This one is way better than the alternative endings! :lol:

 

Episode ratings according to darkUFO's visitors (from season 3 on)

 

The End didn't do that well.

 

 

Lost-themed Simpsons intro!

^How do you know this? :wacko:

 

Mmmh I really don't know what to think about the end, I need to think a bit cause I didn't understand everything...

I was in tears for the last scene with Jack and Vincent, that was just so beautiful! (then my little sister made fun of me and said the ending was shit, that the producers screwed up the end >.<)

I'm really sad the show is over :sad:

 

 

It can certainly be interpreted in lots of different ways, but my understanding was...

 

 

that the church at the end was a place they somehow created to find each other whenever they each died. As Christian said to Jack, some died before him, some died long after. I think the island timeline was 100% the actual timeline, and that everything that happened there actually happened. The "church" was kind of like purgatory, in that they were waiting there to find each other.

 

So, I believe that in the island timeline, Kate, Sawyer, Claire, Lapidus, Miles and Richard escaped on the plane and lived on; Ben, Hurley and Des (and Rose and Bernard) remained alive on the island; and Jack died. :( Christian made a point of telling Jack that there was no "now" where they were, so that allowed them all to be in the same place at the same time, even though some had died long ago (Shannon, Boone, etc) and others presumably died much later (Hurley, Kate, etc).

 

All in all, I think it was an absolutely beautiful way to end the show. I cried through basically the entire thing, but found the Charlie/Claire reunion and Jin/Sun awakening to be sob-inducing. Still many questions, but as Mike said, clearly what was most important was the characters and their relationships, not the island and all its quirks. loved it. Oh, and Jack was AWESOME in this ep. The perfect way for his character arc to end.

 

 

I think I understood the same, yay! ^^

But what I don't get is the part when they left the island for the first time, was that real?

^How do you know this? :wacko:

darkUFO has been the best LOST source for years. I've followed his blogs since 2006 or something, but stayed away during season 6 because he always has major, major spoilers. I'm finally catching up (and sharing :P) now. :nice:

 

But what I don't get is the part when they left the island for the first time, was that real?

As I understand it, island timeline is real (everything of it), alt timeline is some sort of made up fantasy world.

Oh I mean how do you know that smokey's real name is actually Samuel? :D

 

So they never left/went back on the island? That's so confusing^^