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Well, LOST is over. There were many times when I felt like giving up. Unlike many people, I’ve only been watching LOST since summer of 2007. I rented the seasons that were completed and watched them all one jobless summer in my little studio apartment. I continued watching from then on out. What LOST was for me, was people. I liked the story line, the general “WTF is going on?” but for me, it was the characters.
Hurley, Hugo, Reyes, whatever you call him was the true hero for me. He was good, in every sense of the word. He was humble, knew his weaknesses and he was an unrelenting friend. Ben, who has been one of my favorite characters since he was Henry was this very well played villain, in which one could never quite tell who’s side he was on. Overall, he was only on his own side. I always felt that he would come through though, that he would rise about and not be the little rat everyone declared him to be and he did. He’ll one day get off the bench and walk up the steps. He was a good number 2, said by the most honest person on the island. I could talk about the other characters, but I’m not really here to recap. I just felt like saying those things because those two characters had the biggest pull on my little heart.
I am left with questions. While I think the ending allowed everyone to come to their own conclusions and to figure things out for themselves I’m still left with some unanswered (which is OK) questions.
1.) Where did the polar bears come from? Did they happen to get on the island during one of it’s moves?
2.) What about Walt (& Michael, I guess)? They were no where in the finale–I thought they were suppose to show up? What was special about Walt?
3.) Why were only some of the characters in the church at the end?
4.) What was the purpose of the characters going to the island? To find they’re path to Heaven?
5.) All of the characters died at different points? So the airplane ride was more like a trip to purgatory or what was the island really?
6.) What was the purpose of the sideways flash?
7.) What did Hurley and Ben do on the island?
8.) At the end, where did Miles and Richard’s plane go off to?
9.) I guess what I’m really confused about is when everyone died. Did the die before the first plane crash? So when they got off the island (the 6) were they dead or alive? What was the purpose of Jacob and The Man in Black? Did everyone just go to the island because they didn’t appreciate life/love/happiness enough–and by experiencing everything they did on the island they became whole and complete enough for an afterlife?
10.) Do you feel like you need to go to the island?
I hate when a television show ends. I felt very similar to this when Battlestar Galactica ended. I get emotionally drawn in to the humanity of the characters and then I have to let go. It seems silly when it’s not reality, it’s just some show thrown together.
I hate that LOST has ended, but all things come to pass, all things come to an end. Sometimes it’s not the end we want, it may seem incomplete, but sometimes things reach the point where they have to end. I like calm endings. I like happy endings. I like endings that leave you with a philosophy different than your own. Christian Sheperd, said some insightful things toward the end, that I’ll have to paraphrase. It’s not the end. What matters is what we do here, together.
“Let go, move on.”
or as Coldplay sings,
“The hardest part is letting go, not taking part.”
Thank you LOST, for reminding us what’s important and for continually opening our eyes to our own humanity.
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You forgot “remember”. They all had to remember before they could let go and move on.
It all kind of makes sense to me now. The island, the plane crash, all of that really did happen. It wasn’t purgatory, just a crazy little island somewhere that they crashed on. They were brought there by Jacob, and some wanted to leave and some wanted to stay and some died there. The flash sideways timeline was “purgatory”, although I don’t really like to think of it as that. It was just something they all created metaphysically to remember their time on the island and how important and meaningful it was to all of them. Once they did, they could move on into the afterlife. They all died at different times… some on the island, some much later. Some died during the time we saw them on the island, some left the island and died later, and some stayed on the island and died later (i.e. Hurley, Ben).
I liked it, but it was kind of depressing. Definitely melancholy, knowing that all of these characters we grew to be fond of had eventually all died, as well as the reminder that we (and all those we love in life) will someday die as well.
Pretty epic. As far as all the unanswered questions… I don’t think they’re too important. I like still having them out there to discuss and think about. It’s kind of a way to make LOST live on.
But…who is Jacob? Why did he get to decide to bring them?
The DHARMA initiative brought polar bears to the other island (Hydra island; remember the polar bear cages Skate was in), later got out and swam across to the main island. That’s what Darlton said in a Q&A.
Supposedly there’s an extra on the DVD about what happened to Walt.
Some of the main theories so far seem to be that those who had fulfilled their purpose before dying showed up in the Sideways, then they had to remember / let go / connect with each other in order to move on. Michael probably didn’t fulfill his purpose and/or because of what he did was basically trapped on the island as one of the whisperers, thus we didn’t see him in the church.
Ah. OK.
Jacob was a person that arrived on the island the same way the Oceanic 815-ers did. He was probably “brought” there by Mother as her replacement. When he became the protector of the island, he had certain powers, including the ability to bring people to the island.