Hello Fellow Lost Fans,
I thought I would take a break from the serious and post something on Lost.
Below are a few links to some articles that I found this morning on the web. The first one is Jeff (Doc) Jensen’s recap of Lost which is always great!
I really liked the finale and the more I think about it the more I like it. There are some unanswered questions for sure. The mysteries of the Island will for the most part stay a mystery but perhaps that is for each person to ponder. Like each of the castaways we will never fully know what the island is and what it is to each person is personal. I think the island is just a mythic or spiritual place existing in real time that has all sorts of powers that have all different effects on the people who come in contact with it. For a while it might have even been a place to keep evil at bay. You could say Jacob made a horrible mistake by pushing his brother into the cavern of light and thus creating MIB and for the rest of Jacob’s time on the island it remained important that this creation of evil never left. You could also say that the island needed to be protected only because of its uniqueness in the world and that alone was reason enough to sacrifice so much to keep it safe. Or perhaps it really is a center spot on earth that balances good and evil. Obviously the island has had many protectors over time. Hurly will just be the next person in what is sure to be a long linage of guardians. And Ben as his second in command truly represents a whole circle completed. Ben wanted only to stay on the island, the love of his life and Hurly the lovable Stars Wars quoting big guy reluctantly accepted his fate but the two of them combined equal a whole. Ben the darker persona and Hurly the good natured and kind persona and together they represent a new balance to watch over the island. Ben even foreshadows this idea by saying that Hurley didn’t need to do things the same way that Jacob did, i.e. he has a choice in how things are to go.
As for the sideways world it was of course touching to see each person awaken and find their soul mates or in the case of John and others like Boone reconnect with their castaway family before moving on. I think that the fate of each of these people were so intertwined that it made a nice allegory that they could not move on to the next world until they all came together in death. Their most profound experiences in life happened together on the island and so they needed each other to move on to the next place. Their experiences in those few months or years transcended everything else in their lives, their souls were bonded beyond what was physical or corporeal.
I think if you believed in and cared about these characters and their lives then the ending was satisfying, you could say that for all they suffered in the end they were rewarded and united. If you cared more about the island and wanted definitive answers then this might have left you with an empty feeling. I think I care less about having every island question answered and I am more satisfied knowing what happened to each of these characters. Also, what did everyone thing of the airplane wreckage and the significance, if any, of it being shown at the end? What did all of you think? I am so curious to know?
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20313460_20387946,00.html
EW Recap part I, part II comes tomorrow
http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/24/final-lost-one-for-the-ages/?hpt=Sbin
http://tv.yahoo.com/lost/show/36617/news/tv-news.en.ap.org/tv-news.en.ap.org-20100524-us_tv_lost_finale
http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/05/23/lost-finale-recap-spoilers/
This review is good just to see people’s comments and thoughts. They start at the end of the article.
