Though I'm seriously doubting you managed to get through the day without coming across a spoiler. And if you didn't watch Lost but don't want spoilers because you want to watch it someday and it gets spoiled for you, it's your own fault.
When I first started watching Lost, I was drawn in by the movie scope of the show, the mysteries of the Island, and most of all, the characters. Sayid, Charlie, Claire, Jin, Sun, Hurley, Sawyer, Jack, Kate, Michael, Walt, Locke, Boone, Shannon, and eventually Turniphead - they became part of my, perhaps not everyday, but weekly life. I liked finding out about them little by little. I liked watching them interact. I liked watching them try to figure out how to survive in this crazy place.
Come the second season, they added new characters. I became quite disenchanted with it, due in part to the characters they introduced (though I did like Eko, and had nothing against Bernard), and in part because the episodes were all so similar.
The third season was too focused on the Others. I wanted my Survivors back. I didn't know who the Others were, why they were there, or what they were doing, and they were just plain evil.
Seasons four and five were more focused on the Island. There were more mysteries, more questions, and the search for answers kept me interested. I had to know what was going on. I wanted them to quit leaving me hanging and tell me something for once!
And then came season six. Promising to give me answers, the writers kept me coming back, in spite of the fact that they were frustrating me to no end and making me at times want to give up. It had gotten to be too much. As the finale approached I gave up hope that they would answer everything, and after the third to the last episode (the Jacob one), I gave up hope that they would give me more than a hokey, SyFy-worthy, Black Smoke-filled extravaganza.
But that's not the direction they went. Sure there was some battling on the Island and some 'protect the light' crap. Sure it was predictable enough that I had already figured out who was going to protect the Island in the end and what the last shot would be.
What surprised me was how completely not focused on answering the questions it was. Hardly any of the big questions were answered. And about 3/4 of the way through, I realized I didn't care. They brought my Survivors back.
I liked the way they did it. The flashbacks didn't seem forced, but instead served as a reminder as to why I loved the show in the first place. Charlie and Claire and the peanut butter. Jin and Sun re-falling in love. Kate delivering Aaron. And Hurley and Charlie being best friends. Sadly, they got the Jack/Kate/Sawyer thing wrong, but there was bound to be some major disappointment somewhere.
There was no way the writers were going to please everyone. And from the sound of it they didn't please most people. So I just want to say, that while yes, it could have been better, I'm okay with the way it ended. It ended with what I cared about the most.
2 comments:
Exactly. Over the years, I've loved the episodes where Boone or Charlie (or whomever) would show up in a flashback. I loved seeing how everyone's lives were connected off of the Island.
When all was said and done, I realized I don't care so much about Dharma, or the numbers, or Widmore. What made me happiest in that final episode was seeing my favorites again.
exactly
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