So LOST is done...
May. 24th, 2010 01:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carabele...and I have to admit I found the ending very disappointing. Not that it wasn't emotionally moving. Heck, the writers squeezed every poignant moment they could manage with the various couples reuniting all over the place.
But honestly not a single question was answered regarding the island. Okay, so maybe the show's creators wanted to leave it open to interpretation (not something I agree with much after six years of build-up), yet it really left a hollow feeling after the tears were spent from Jack's devastating death.
What the heck was this light and, even more to the point, why was it important? Why did people have to die to protect it? Who the heck was the crazy woman who raised Jacob and the Man in Black? Where did she come from? Why exactly did the Man in Black become a smoke monster? How did Jacob find these people to use as candidates? Did he just wander the earth looking for lonely people? What was the significance of the temple? Who the hell were the Others and where did they come from? Who the hell were the nut-jobs who occupied the temple?
Not a single one of these questions was even remotely answered. And yes I know the whole thing was really an allegory, but again it rang very hollow in conclusion.
The death of Jack was extremely touching, as was his final scene on the island with Kate, but again Jack never learned to stop sacrificing himself. He felt he had a purpose in the end, but that seemed rather empty in retrospect. Who was he saving from what exactly? And Locke in the sideways timeline piece saying "I hope someday someone can do for you what you did for me" after Jack the surgeon had restored his ability to walk (and on the island had killed the smoke monster that had absconded with his physical form) really ended up being unbearably sad since that never happened for Jack. In the end he was in some entry to heaven or nirvana or whatever with all the people from the island, but he was long dead, and he died alone (well, accept for the dog who laid down beside him to keep him final company).
And who... or what... was Desmond supposed to be in the sideways timeline? Someone like Death in DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY? And why could he survive the light and supposedly no one else could? (Though technically Jack did, as it really seemed the stab wound to the gut he got courtesy of pseudo-Locke that finally did him in.) Again, no answers. Desmond just gathered people together for that heavenly send-off. Very unsatisfying.
So to summarize: dozens of people died to no purpose other than to satisfy the whim of a nutty guardian on an island that had no real meaning. Somehow I expected a better explanation.
But honestly not a single question was answered regarding the island. Okay, so maybe the show's creators wanted to leave it open to interpretation (not something I agree with much after six years of build-up), yet it really left a hollow feeling after the tears were spent from Jack's devastating death.
What the heck was this light and, even more to the point, why was it important? Why did people have to die to protect it? Who the heck was the crazy woman who raised Jacob and the Man in Black? Where did she come from? Why exactly did the Man in Black become a smoke monster? How did Jacob find these people to use as candidates? Did he just wander the earth looking for lonely people? What was the significance of the temple? Who the hell were the Others and where did they come from? Who the hell were the nut-jobs who occupied the temple?
Not a single one of these questions was even remotely answered. And yes I know the whole thing was really an allegory, but again it rang very hollow in conclusion.
The death of Jack was extremely touching, as was his final scene on the island with Kate, but again Jack never learned to stop sacrificing himself. He felt he had a purpose in the end, but that seemed rather empty in retrospect. Who was he saving from what exactly? And Locke in the sideways timeline piece saying "I hope someday someone can do for you what you did for me" after Jack the surgeon had restored his ability to walk (and on the island had killed the smoke monster that had absconded with his physical form) really ended up being unbearably sad since that never happened for Jack. In the end he was in some entry to heaven or nirvana or whatever with all the people from the island, but he was long dead, and he died alone (well, accept for the dog who laid down beside him to keep him final company).
And who... or what... was Desmond supposed to be in the sideways timeline? Someone like Death in DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY? And why could he survive the light and supposedly no one else could? (Though technically Jack did, as it really seemed the stab wound to the gut he got courtesy of pseudo-Locke that finally did him in.) Again, no answers. Desmond just gathered people together for that heavenly send-off. Very unsatisfying.
So to summarize: dozens of people died to no purpose other than to satisfy the whim of a nutty guardian on an island that had no real meaning. Somehow I expected a better explanation.
