** I’m going to go ahead and tell you not to read this if you don’t want to read spoilers for the entire series of LOST. **
So, last night was an epic moment in television. I haven’t watched the Jimmy Kimmel show yet, but I wanted to talk about the show, how I feel about the finale, and questions I still have.
There were some things I had figured out from the beginning… like I figured out the Christian Shepard name deal. I’m actually quite surprised that people missed that, but then again, I spent a lot of time in biblical theories so the name wasn’t surprising to me, as wasn’t David Shepard.
I knew that Desmond was the key to disabling the island, but I honestly wasn’t expecting the ending. I truly thought they would all meet up and somehow be a key to going back to the present day island and stopping Smokey.
That being said, the ending was perfect for what it was meant to be, however, I am still left with many questions. I wanted more closure about the island and a lot of the mysteries. The after-life deal is great and did provide some closure and happiness about the characters, but I just want more closure about the other mysteries.
My theory wasn’t quite off the wall, Desmond did his thing and the alternate reality was not truly an alternate reality. I never thought they were dead, but I did notice they were all happy, yet missing something. It wasn’t until the meet-up that they were all ready to move on because the missing pieces were back in their “lives.”
I still want to know more about the island, including what happened with Hurley and Ben after Jack died, but I think that the LOST people will probably put some extra on that nice boxed DVD set and I can’t wait for August! I wish we would have been told more about the history of the island, but it wasn’t the main purpose of the show.
I think it’s truly hard to be satisfied with the endings of these kind of shows, especially when you’ve built up theories for so long. Last year’s ending of Harper’s Island left questions with me and the director was kind enough to answer a lot of them on twitter, maybe the writers of LOST will do the same?
All I know is that answers or not, this was one of the best written television shows I’ve ever seen and if you haven’t watched it, you really should because I think we all need something like this in our lives.
I will be spending the next week reading forums to help me better understand some parts of the finale and then it’s time to move on, which oddly enough feels right.
