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Post by fearandloathin on May 23, 2010 20:56:33 GMT -4
the stream I'm watching starts at 2am - so soon for me! Got pizza on the way!
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Post by pflippflop09 on May 23, 2010 21:10:39 GMT -4
Yeah, it's started here in texas and I'm already crying because it's so close to be over  |
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Post by fearandloathin on May 23, 2010 23:31:35 GMT -4
well I thought that was rather disappointing finale |
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Post by bobdoc on May 23, 2010 23:39:00 GMT -4
I hope we can hear ourselves over the mob of people that are going to be arguing, debating, making fun of, and being a little p**sed at that final sequence. But note that Ben's final scene was the last one before that - so maybe the angry fans would prefer to have it all end with him. |
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2010 23:41:26 GMT -4
well I thought that was rather disappointing finale I agree. |
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Post by pflippflop09 on May 23, 2010 23:47:08 GMT -4
Wow... I've never cried so much for any tv show or movie... any time someone had memories of the Island I cried, especially when Aaron was born. I agree with Michael, though: that was the PERFECT ending for Ben! Honestly the ending kind of went over my head but I'm sure it'll make more sense once I read a few blogs I always had a feeling that Hurley would end up as the Island's protector! I fully expected Jack to become the new, maybe nicer, Smoke Monster when he didn't crawl out of the hole after he put the stone back in... I  Ben !!!! I guess I'll write more as the episode sinks in... |
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Post by melissaq9 on May 23, 2010 23:50:50 GMT -4
I began really crying when Jin and Sun remembered their life on the island and Ji-Yeon. After that I had tears in my eyes for the entire episode. When Sawyer and Juliet remembered I lost it. Every instance where someone remembered their island life was completely perfect. Those scene made the finale. I was so impressed with the end to Ben's story in both timelines. On the island he became Hurley's #2 and helped him protect the island, something he had always tried to do. He let go of the power struggle and found himself. I was also really impressed that he didn't "leave" with the rest in the church. He still had some things to work out so he chose to stay and do that. I love the writers even more that they made the flash-sideways a sort of purgatory that the characters had created. They have said since the beginning that the island wasn't purgatory, but they never said that what we thought was the reality wasn't. Funny how the island was the only thing that was real all along. I know many people will be upset that we didn't get all the answers we wanted but I thought this send off was amazing. I feel content with the ending and yep, I'm still crying.  Both happy tears and sad tears. |
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Post by bobdoc on May 23, 2010 23:59:24 GMT -4
The scale of big series finales in the last several years seems to have Six Feet Under at the top, with Battlestar Galactica at the bottom, and the Sopranos somewhere in the middle - since people are still arguing over it all. Even though Lost didn't have a sudden fade to black - rather a fade to white - it will probably end up in the Sopranos part of the scale. But the early Dark UFO episode table ratings for the finale aren't that high, so I fear for the backlash to come.
If I think more about it, I should probably be furious about a lot of things, and maybe I will be. For all the tears wrung over the sideways world, and for how utterly wonderful Ben's fate was, I have a feeling that the final sequence negates a lot of it. And the one thing I'm afraid of is that the sequence will drown out all the wonderful things that did happen tonight - and I don't know whether or not it deserves to yet.
I did competely and utterly love the part of the final sequence that was on the island - but the sideways part....even when I watched it, I knew in my mind a lot of people would be angry.
One controversial sequence shouldn't negate 145 minutes of good/great stuff, or six years of it. That's the attitude I will take for the moment, but I don't know how much of it will change over time.
But the night isn't over yet - now it's time to see Michael and the gang on Kimmel. |
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2010 0:05:09 GMT -4
Well, all in all, it's just another brick in the wall.
Babylon 5 went down badly as well. Only it took a season to watch that. Actually I didn't because it ticked me off. With this, that part only lasted for 15 minutes.
But Jimmy Kimmel looks like it will be our consolation prize. |
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Post by bobdoc on May 24, 2010 0:17:23 GMT -4
Michael and Terry coming on Kimmel together! ;D |
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Post by melissaq9 on May 24, 2010 0:18:10 GMT -4
It makes sense to me that they would all find each other once they died so they could remain together. The entire storyline was about living together and there was such a peace there at the end that I can't picture it ending any other way. Although I am curious to see the 3 alternate endings later tonight. While I don't think it is possible for me to be upset about the conclusion since I've always had such a trust in Damon and Carlton, I understand that there will be a backlash. This is the end and what happened, happened. Nothing is going to change that ending. All we can do is make our peace with it. Lol, I'm feeling very Jacob-y zen right now. |
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2010 0:27:45 GMT -4
I think those endings are spoofs. That was my impression. |
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Post by Edith S. Baker on May 24, 2010 0:45:28 GMT -4
I was a bit disappointed with the end. In fact, in my blog, I did say that I wanted my 6 years back. Well, like Darlton, I lied. I want my 5 years back. I started watching LOST in 2005. I loved the show. It was great, but from the beginning I thought it was about them dying and Darlton still denied it vehemently. There was a point when Darlton recommended a book called An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce, which was about this civil war soldier who just before being hung, escapes, meets his wife, etc., and the book ends with him being hung. So all that he experienced was the last nanoseconds just before death. It was right then and there that I thought that the show was about the last nanoseconds. I had read that book before, so I was aware of the storyline. If you want to read it (it is a short story), here's the link: www.readprint.com/work-75/An-Occurrence-at-Owl-Creek-Bridge-Ambrose-BierceOnce, I read the title of the book, I suspected what LOST might be about. Anyway, I loved the friendships that LOST enabled me to have. I love that I got to see Michael Emerson acting. And I loved the final scene with Jack closing his eyes. |
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Post by bobdoc on May 24, 2010 1:01:49 GMT -4
The entire 6 years was not about them dying- only the flash sideways was. So at the least, the sideways world didn't negate the whole series, and it wasn't the kind of epilogue we thought it might be. Everything on the island happened while they were alive, and it was only a prelude to purgatory - not purgatory itself.
My take is after the final moments on the island, the rest of the surviving survivors lives were still empty and unresolved in a way. Their ultimate separation left baggage that carried all the way over to their afterlife - and only by remembering each other's past lives, and coming together all over again could they let go. I get the concept, but it's the execution and logistics I will still be pondering for months to come.
Kimmel: The alt-endings were sketches, and for some reason, it seems that Michael left before the end, unlike the others. |
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2010 1:13:11 GMT -4
I was good with it all except the church scene. I really didn't care for that. I expected to see James Von Bragh (sp?) officiating at the service. And since most people felt it would end with Jack in the same spot where he started, that was sort of anticlimactic. But with Vincent there with him, just made it really sad. I thought Darlton said Vincent would be OK. Looks to me like he's dead. I missed that Michael had left earlier. He also left the concert thing without saying "Hi" to the fans or signing autographs, posing for pix, I had read. Maybe he's backing away from the TV stuff and trying to slip back into his pre-Lost life. |
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Both happy tears and sad tears.
