A Final "LOST Untangled" and Some Parting Thoughts

I really am going to stop looking up articles, reviews and reactions to the LOST finale soon, and just let it be. Starting tomorrow. But I'm glad I googled around a bit more today, because I found a couple of really great links to share.

First up is this Lost Finale analysis found at latimes.com. I am sure part of the reason I like this article is because I agree with just about every word the author wrote. If you hated the ending of the show, you'll probably find lots to disagree with here. But he captured how I'm feeling three days after the finale: A little depressed it's all over, and still occassionally rolling the last half hour of it around my brain to decide exactly how I feel about it. And I've got the music firmly stuck in my head, which is not helping.

I'm sure you may already have seen the "One-Hundred Unanswered LOST Questions..." video, but if you haven't then click to watch it. Pretty funny. The fact is, though, they included a bunch of island mysteries that actually were addressed. For me this link, while amusing, exemplifies why some were so disappointed on Sunday. They are the fans who were all about getting answers to every question, which was never going to happen. I'm just as glad, because whenever the writers got too deeply into answering those questions it just led to a deflated, disappointed feeling for me. And frankly, the co-creators said definitively and more than once that they would not be telling anyone exactly what the island was- because that would truly just strip away the magic entirely. When it comes to LOST, I was always in it more for the characters and the constant twists and turns in the plot line than for a game of 50,000 answers.

If anything has surprised me about the fan reaction, it's the number of people who (mistakenly) took the finale to mean the characters had all died in the crash of Oceanic 815. I thought the writers went out of their way to make it clear (though Christian Shephard's words to Jack) that this wasn't the case. He even said that the reason the key Losties constructed their Flashsideways existences the way they did was in order to find each other again. The most important years of their lives were the ones they spent together, and so they couldn't move on until they reconciled their own issues and then found each other again. This article does a great job of setting that out, and though I don't agree with every word in the analysis, I think it's a good link to share with those still confused on that point.

I re-watched "The End" last night, and found it more enjoyable but even more emotionally draining the second time around. And if it left me with any regrets about season six, they weren't about the ending, but about how some of the characters were handled (or not handled) this year- namely Kate, Sayid, Jin and Sun. Less Temple, more about the core Losties would have been nice. I almost wonder if that might be what the hardcore fans key in on and play with next: Reconstruct season six the way you think it would have played out better. The rules are you can't change the ending, and you can't change the fact that the Flashsideways was an afterlife. To quote MIB, my game, my rules. When you come up with your own game, you can make the rules. :)

We have a bunch of photos from the finale for you here. And below are some clips released by ABC.com, and the very last ever "LOST Untangled".

I hope you've enjoyed the blog. We at WABC enjoyed getting it to you every week.

Namaste - and good luck!

Comments

[Scott]

You posted the link to the 100 unanswered questions twice - I think the second one was supposed to go elsewhere?

[NamasteAndGoodLuck]

Thanks, Scott, for the heads up. The last of the links in the post is fixed now.