Lost Finale

[shipperx]

Still digesting.  (Yes, still.  It's going to take me a while).  But did like this review

Especially this part:

There's no getting around it. We are having a mighty tough time writing this review. Like the episode itself, our reactions to it are somewhat hard to quantify. Don't get us wrong; that was a very enjoyable night of television, no doubt about it. We wanted big blubbery scenes and we got them in spades. No complaints on the Kleenex front.

What absolutely floored us, however, were the last 15 minutes, which left us sitting in our chairs for at least an hour after the show ended staring off into the distance and occasionally uttering a surprised "Oh," or "Well...that happened." Despite whatever misgivings we may have about it, that we had that kind of reaction means the ending was an entirely appropriate one for this show. Because when it was at its best, Lost could provoke the most delicious "WTF?!" reactions like nobody else could. OF COURSE Lost would end in a manner that dropped our jaws.

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And now the TWOP recaplet is up and it seems to be garnering an A- in the grading by viewers.

Excerpt:

In short: Wow. @$#(. Hummina. And mostly: glurglesplortz.

I'm not going to fake it. I have no idea how to do this as either a recaplet or an immediate review. I've been ruminating on this show since Wednesday, September 22, 2004. Now I've got to cough up something to tide you over until the recap is done, and yet, I'm out of wine, so this is what I like to think of as a blurt.

This was fan service, but I mean that in the highest sense, rather than in its lowest and common sense. One thing I've always wanted, and one thing I've understood about other fans, is that we came for the mystery, but we stayed for the characters. "The End" was perfectly, wonderfully, unapologetically sentimental...

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[prophecygirrl.livejournal.com]

Yep, I loved that one as well.

[prophecygirrl.livejournal.com]

And now I've read the TWoP review and this made me LOL:

Desmond descends into the glowy light, because if you were an all-powerful island, who would you accept in your nether-regions?

That was worth the price of admission, right there!

Thanks for the link.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Hee! It's funny because it's true!

[the-nites-gurl.livejournal.com]

Are you satisfied? Would you rec the show now that it's over? We quit watching around S2, but we want to watch all the dvd's. I just wonder if it would be worth the time.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I think so. I was really thrown by the final twist. It wasn't what I was expecting... but looking back, I really should have been expecting it. It makes me want to rewatch the final season again, as it places it in a different light than the way I had interpreted it.

And I see and understand those that think they took the easy way out, and in some respects it is. And in others, I think it's the hardest. You get your happy ending and you don't. All at once.

If you're watching for mysteries of the island to be solved and all the little puzzles answered, it won't satisfy. As I stated somewhere this morning, at the end of the day, I think LOST is an allegory. The points it wants to make really aren't about smokemonsters or physics or the Dharma initiative. It's really sort of a meditation on faith (in many forms good, bad, and delusional), redemption (whatever that may or may not be), and love.

It's flawed but at times it's insanely fun with the WTF and ultimately, it's moving. Seriously, I could just bawl over the Jin/Sun, Sawyer/Juliet, Charlie/Claire scenes in the finale. Each one just made me want to blubber.

It's sort of a bittersweet ending.

But, okay, they delivered what I most wanted. Jin and Sun together forever. Sawyer and Juliet reconnecting, etc.

So if you're in it for the mystery, it's iffy. If your in it for the characters, I think they made sure that they signed off that all were loved and had found their own forms of redemption.

[the-nites-gurl.livejournal.com]

thanks :)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I have to confess that at the end of the day with its finale, Lost revealed itself as having a big heart and generously paying off beloved couples and friendships.

[sp23.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. I've been hunting down reviews like Charlie hunting down smack. I particularly loved this:

On the other hand, in the L.A. "timeline," we got one ridiculously emotional scene after another. Of all the tearful reunions, it would be hard for us to pick a favorite okay we're lying it's Juliet and Sawyer. *g*

The more I think about it, the happier I am with the ending, especially in light of the 'it's about the characters. stupid' pov of this review. If, at the end of the show, they can make me not hate Jack and Kate, then the writers have done a very good job indeed.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, I did love the Juliet/Sawyer reunion. "I've got you." *sob*

And, yeah, the more I think about it, the more I rather like it.

[rowanswhimsy.livejournal.com]

I like the fan service observation. The last scene at the church (and the concept behind it) was a like a love letter from the writers to the characters.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

And in some cases fan service is good. :)

Years and years ago some producer said that really what we want out of a finale is to love the characters. Lost accomplished that. So, I'm good.

[rowanswhimsy.livejournal.com]

The more I discuss the finale with other people, the more I like it. I think that's a good sign. :-)

I never loved the characters more than in the finale, so that's a nice way to look at it.