First of all, ***SPOILERS ALERT*** Though honestly, if you haven’t seen it, you might just wanna read this and save yourself 2 1/4 hours of euphoria, and 1/4 hour of pure rage.
SON OF A BITCH! That’s bullshit.
My first response to “The End” episode, the FINALE of a show that has taken quite a bit of time outta my life. I have watched from the first season. I stuck with it through a lot. Everyone else in my household dropped out. They couldn’t do it anymore. They couldn’t take the constant questions. I knew that it was just building toward a glorious end.
Yes, I strayed for a season. Season 5 actually. It was less to do with frustrations from the show and more with the fact that I just didn’t watch TV for a bit. I was coaxed back. For a last hoo-rah, I agreed. The final season. The answers to all of the questions that had been presented. The resolution to characters, conflicts, and questions. The FUCKING END. This would be the season to watch. This would be the chance to go back to all of those nay-sayers and scoff at their lack of faith. “You should have stayed, now you have to depend on DVD.” So I read up on Season 5, watched the Season 6 kick-off show to get re-acquainted, and started with “LA X” the first episode of Season 6. The heroes are on the plane. They don’t crash, they make it! Hoooooray! Meanwhile, the Island is still happening. So you have The Island (Main Story) and you have The “Side Story” going on at the same time. In the Side Story, things are “normal” Jack still lost his father’s body, Locke lost his Knives, Hurley is not unlucky, Charlie almost died on the plane while trying to swallow a baggie of heroin, Kate is in custody, Sawyer is coming back from murdering the man that he believe responsible for his parents murder/suicide, Jin and Sun are not happy and Jin has a lot of money on him that gets confiscated, Sayid is going to find his girl (who turns out to be married to his brother), etc, etc.
I am not going to get into the details of the season, because honestly, if you are reading this, you probably watched it. If you didn’t watch it, you just like to read a man as he falls apart at the seams. So here’s what I am gonna do. I am going to list what I though was happening/was going to happen, and the actual resolution (if available).
The Sideline (aka Alt Reality, Bizarro World):
My Thoughts: This was the reward for resolving the conflict of the island (see below) This was the lives of people who were affected by the island going on as if they never crashed. This is what their lives would have been like. The lives of almost everyone at the beginning of this time were better. Hurley is happy and lucky, using his money to help people (as he likes to do). Jack has a son and is resolving being in his father’s shadow. Claire is going to decide to keep the baby, when she finds out that she has family to help her (Jack). Claire was going to prove herself innocent, as she has always maintained she is. Charlie would get clean and find rock and roll success in America. Locke would learn to walk again with Jack’s help and marry his fiance’. Sayid would resolve that Nadia was happier and maybe meet Shannon and have lil baby terrorists. Sawyer would eventually meet Juliet for coffee, and they would fall in love.
What really happened: The side line was a dream state, like the Matrix, where they all lived until they were ready to move on to the afterlife. That’s right, they’re all dead. ALL OF THEM. They are dead, living in a purgatory-like state that they SOMEHOW CREATED. The Side Line had absolutely nothing to do with the Island time line, it is all a bunch of dream-like bullshit. Yay. Thanks for getting me emotionally involved in a “happy” story only to RIP IT AWAY with thinly veiled Religious mumbo-jumbo.
The Island:
My Thoughts: The Island is an experiment in the inherent good/evil of people. You have a guiding figure for both sides. Jacob is the “good” guys. He is the benevolent, softly smiling, understanding patient “Deity/God/Angel/Spirit/Fairy/Dragon” that believe that good will win out over evil. He is there to keep MIB in check. MIB (Man In Black, no, not Johnny Cash) is the dark side. He’s the bad guy, he’s the Vader/Dr.Doom/Darksied of the equation. He’s the quick to anger, pissed off, scowling, rough-looking ”Deity/God/Demon/Spirit/Fairy/Dragon” he is there to prove that the hearts and souls of men are black as his finely knit shirt. The idea is that they bring a group of people on this island through whatever means possible (boat/plane crash/corporate outing/scouting trip) and pit them against the 2 ideas on the island. MIB is obviously the bad guy, because he is so quick to kill and he radiates fear. He wants your help to get off the island, but this goody-two-shoes Jacob doesn’t want him to leave, he doesn’t want to be proved wrong. No MIB isn’t bad, he’s just misunderstood. Jacob wants you to help keep MIB on the island. Even though doing so may cost you personal relationships, pain, anger, and more you know it’s the right thing to do (very Christ-Like). He wants you to basically be a martyr for the light side, MIB wants you to be an attack dog for the dark side. So where do your loyalties lie? Will you breeze through with plenty of food, companionship, and power but be willing to grape-smash babies heads? Will you suffer loss and pain to “do the right thing” regardless of what you may lose? At the end, one of your side wins, but it is revealed that the golden light is actually a room where all of the people who have “died” on the Island are kept in suspended animation. When the conflict is resolved, you are put on the plane/boat/scouting trip and you never go to the island. Your finish your life and that’s the end. Good job. Way to go. THAT’LL DO PIG!
What It Really Is: WHO KNOWS. That’s right, the one question that seems to be the most important. Why is the Island here, what’s it’s purpose? Well that’s open to your interpretation. What a fuckin COP OUT. To me that means “I’m not sure that we have an answer that won’t piss people off, so we’ll just let them all fill in the blanks. What assholes.
These aren’t all of my questions, but they are the 2 biggest ones. So in the end Jack kills MIB, who was made mortal by Desmond’s removal of the stone plug. Jack dies, Hurley takes over the job of “Island Protector.” Ben stays with Hurley, because he loves the Island so much. Kate, Sawyer, Claire, Enis the Ghost Whisperer, Lapidus, and newly mortal Richard all fly away in a very langolier fashion (crumbling runway, etc). No resolution. Nothing is shown as to what happens to them. We see that they all eventually die, as they meet in the “Church of All and Nothing”. Even Hurley, who by drinking the water, should have been immortal. Maybe this is 100 years down the road, and he names someone else and just jumps his large ass off of a cliff, maybe the one weakness for an immortal is diabetes… who knows? So there ya go, in the end, very few leave the island alive, and many questions remain unanswered, but they ALL GET TO GO TO HEAVEN!!!! YAY FOR JESUS!
Here’s just a run down of my “Unanswered Questions” off the top of my head:
What is the golden light in the cave? Is it the essence of good, hence why it kept the EVIL locked in?
Why doesn’t MIB have a name? Eons and this mother fucker never said, “Seriously, just call me Bob.”
Why is “Church of All and Nothing” Aaron (Claire’s kid, who we knew got to at least the age of 4) still a FUCKIN INFANT? Did this kid never do anything greater in his life. This is as important as he ever was?
Why did Jack imagine he had a son with Juliet? Why was he so easily accepting that he didn’t actually have a son after his flash? He just doesn’t care?
If MIB could only take on the shape of bodies of dead people, why didn’t he ever come back as any of the other dead characters, including JACOB? Wouldn’t that have been easiest? Jacob dies at Ben’s hand and so MIB takes on his shape and leads all of his little sheeple, like Jack, to the hole and tell them they needed to pull the stone plug out?
What was the purpose of Desmond being able to withstand the electro-magnetic flux (Whidmore’s reason for him being brought back)? What did he ever do that had anything to do with this?
Why does everyone left on the Island get resolution except for Desmond? He just wants to be with Penny, but no he gets stuck on the island. When the fuck is his turn, Brotha?
What’s the deal with the inability for fetuses to come to term? All women except for Sun had miscarriages. Why?
Why did Walt show up as a ghost? He was taller, but did this assume he died?
Why wasn’t Walt and Micheal, Ana Lucia, Danielle, Alex, etc at this elitist meeting in the church? In fact, why wasn’t Vincent? Because Disney taught us that ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN.
The purpose of this blog was just for me to get it out of my head. I am sure that some of you will agree with me. Based on the sheer amount of blind love that has been shown to this hunk of shit on other message boards, etc, I am sure someone will stumble across this and flame the fuck outta me. But guess what? With this ending of the show, I too end my obsession. I am done with all things Lost. I put it away. I am over it, and I don’t care anymore.
If you aren’t, just wait, it was released today that if you buy the Season 6 DVD/BluRay Super Awesome edition, it’s gonna have 20+ more minutes of “answers”. Well, I waited for their answers, I wasn’t satisfied. I have re-ran this script in my mind with my changes. I like mine better.
Good night, Losties.
One last time, please James… SON OF A BITCH!!!!
Oh, and this DID make me laugh, by the way.
I just got side-tracked by your touching post after the fact. : )
Love you Sco.