"...we've been waiting for you..."

Okay. So I have been rather slack in respect to the ol' blog of late. I had meant to post after every episode of Lost, for example, but events seemed to overtake me. So, I never got to say how moving I felt the sideways Ben episode was, how great it was to see Sawyer as a cop, the brilliance of the Richard episode, and how moving the Libby & Hurley scenes were, and how it was great to see Charles on the island, and the sense of dread that pemeated through episodes 12-14, and how shocking the events on the sub were, and how flat the Jacob episode was (could have been done in half the time), how I shed a tear at a scene of two people talking in a kitchen, and how Charles was so offhandedly killed... and... so many things.

But, in The End...

First of all, I would like to stake my colours to the post right from the off; I loved the final episode of Lost to bits. It wasn't what I expected from the show at all, but it gave a resolution to all that really mattered in the show. Yes, there were questions remaining unanswered, but that really doesn't matter. I have seen so many posts just whinging that a minor plot point from an episode in Season 2 (or whatever) has been left hanging. I've even seen people complaining that things that had already been answered hadn't been. And there were also many questions that, although not directly answered, can be answered if the brain is put together and you actually think about the show. Does everything need to be spoon fed? Strewth. Get a grip. I've seen people say that if a pseudo-scientific explanation was given for, say, the light, or for how the island moves that would have improved things. I mean, would it really matter if, in all solemnity, if Jacob had said to the Candidates that this was due to the transperambulation of pseudo cosmic antimatter, or something...??? I mean, really? Damon and Carlton had said in interviews during the season they didn't want to get all "midi-chlorian" with answers, as sometimes if you know too much about something, it lessens it. Does the midi-chlorian explanation enhance understanding of the Force, or does it diminish it. I suggest the latter...

Anyway; what is needed from a resolution is that it is true to the programme, and true to the characters, and what we got most definitely was. I tell you; for about the last 10-15 minutes, when it was becoming obvious what was going on with the sideways world, and the significance of the location of the light (behind the bamboo grove), I started to blub. It had such an impact on me, so by the time Vincent lays down next to the almost dead Jack, I was in floods. All I cared was that the finale was a fitting end, and that when that last "Lost" pinged on screen it felt like a complete whole. And that's exactly what it did.

I also loved that Hurley ended up as the islands latest protector, with Ben as his "number 2". I was so glad Ben made it to the end, as I had long feared he would end up dead by the end (when the tree fell on him, I thought that was it and was shouting "noooo!" at the screen). But, no. He lives. It was good also to see Rose & Bernard living their idyllic island lives.

Also a suprise was those who made it off the island in the plane... the "Ajira 6", if you will... Sawyer, I was sure, was going to make some noble sacrifice (probably to save Freckles, and without his shirt) , but he made it off.

You do have to hand it to the producers, though, for the spectacular misdirection they used for the sideways world; all along the theory was that this was a timeline, created by the bomb going boom at the Swan site, that had time changed completely from 1977 on... right from the Comic-Con videos of Hurley, Kate, and the Oceanic Ad, that was always what it was; an alternate time line... In hindsight, given that all signs pointed to that interpretation, it should have been obviously an incorrect assumption. The eventual, afterlife, explanation was far more satisfying than any other alternative. It harks back to the idea that in each life we find ourselves with the same people.

I just love it. The perfect end to what, to my mind, has been the best TV show ever.