Since I live in Ireland I decided to get up for the finale of LOST at around 4.20(it was on at 5am but Lost: The End is Nigh was at a 4.30am) mainly due to me being so fecking excited to see it. I don't know what it was, I'm not a huge Lostie like one of my friends in particular, but I wanted to see the end ASAP. Maybe I thought it was going to be truely epic. And reading about everyone on Lostpedia last night certainly didn't help. I'm in college doing exams atm and don't have another till Wednesday(my final one-woo!) so after roughly 3 hours of sleep I got up and woke my room mate to watch it.
And what can I say? I loved it, everything about it was brilliant - the fight between Jack and Locke was epic(if a bit short lived), it echoed the previous seasons(Jack and Locke looking down the waterfall/hatch) the enticing lead up to what would happen when all the characters would meet up in the flashsides, I was pumped(although that was partly due to the stupid bird that crashed into the window I was sitting beside, not once but twice!)
That was until the final 10 minutes or so, when Jack finally entered the church. Talking to his father it changed everything. I realised this wasn't a story about mysteries or good vs. evil, this is a story about what the show has always been about - people. Darlton were telling us the story of this group of people whose lives were broken and flawed. And how that they weren't going to Live togehter, die alone' as the show implied, instead they were all going to live together and die together, each one waiting till the group was complete again before moving one.
Sure the writers mightn't have answered every question but in the grand scheme of things they didn't really need to. If you want answers you can go and look for them but for me, the show ended perfectly. Bringing the story in a fill circle, from Jack waking up on the island to dieing on it too.
So to end this blog post, I'd just like to say....
thank you LOST for the last 6 years, its been a journey of epic proportions, sure we both may have lost our way in your telling, but in the end you did what you set out to do - tell your story.
And what can I say? I loved it, everything about it was brilliant - the fight between Jack and Locke was epic(if a bit short lived), it echoed the previous seasons(Jack and Locke looking down the waterfall/hatch) the enticing lead up to what would happen when all the characters would meet up in the flashsides, I was pumped(although that was partly due to the stupid bird that crashed into the window I was sitting beside, not once but twice!)
That was until the final 10 minutes or so, when Jack finally entered the church. Talking to his father it changed everything. I realised this wasn't a story about mysteries or good vs. evil, this is a story about what the show has always been about - people. Darlton were telling us the story of this group of people whose lives were broken and flawed. And how that they weren't going to Live togehter, die alone' as the show implied, instead they were all going to live together and die together, each one waiting till the group was complete again before moving one.
Sure the writers mightn't have answered every question but in the grand scheme of things they didn't really need to. If you want answers you can go and look for them but for me, the show ended perfectly. Bringing the story in a fill circle, from Jack waking up on the island to dieing on it too.
So to end this blog post, I'd just like to say....
thank you LOST for the last 6 years, its been a journey of epic proportions, sure we both may have lost our way in your telling, but in the end you did what you set out to do - tell your story.
