Lost - The End

[pocket1_pita]

I'm very sad to see Lost go, and at the same time I'm very happy to have it end. I thought last night's finale was

disappointing and at the same time very satisfying. there were a lot of things I loved about it, and there were some big glaring unsatisfying holes that pissed me off.  I loved the Island stuff - the loophole, the death of Locke, Kate and Jack on the cliff. I didn't expect to like it, but I was very satisfied by the clip show in the alt-verse of everyone flashing to their Island connections. Some of the questions that remain unresolved are ultimately answerable in a multi-verse universe. I'm OK with that and it matches the Dark Tower understanding of multi-verse which is I think what they were going with. But I needed an answer to the no children born on the Island thing, to why and whether Aaron was Special, to what was up with Walt, to why Jack's own son wasn't part of his salvation.   

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[bellefior.livejournal.com]

I watched it last night and remembered being annoyed at the time that some of my questions weren't answered, like what exactly was the island, what was the light, why was there all those Egyptian artifacts all over the place, you know the more esoteric stuff that drove everyone nuts. I was convinced the island was the Lost Island of Atlantis. I also remember at the end saying WTF, they really are all dead!

But the more I thought about it the more the ending made sense. Because the show never really was about the island, the island was a character in and of itself. What the show was about was how the people had to work out whatever issues they had in their life, grow as a person, find redemption and how all of that had to happen before they could "move on". Might sound cliche but it's also very deep if you think about it that way too.

IMO It also affirmed some of what I thought. I had thought their island was purgatory, and we know the island was not purgatory. We know that they all didn't die in the crash. But the whole purpose of purgatory is sort of to atone for whatever you do wrong in life, to learn your life lessons before you can move on. So if you think of their whole life experience after the crash as learning to find themselves, learning from mistakes and becoming a bigger/better person, confronting and taming their demons in life (no pun intended!), learning their life lesson and making up for the things that happened before the crash, then yes, it was kind of a purgatory, though definitely not in the traditional sense of the word.