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Originally Posted by ResAlien
Thanks tips.
It felt like a huge cop out. Why bother with any of the last, oh, 4 seasons then? Oh, everyone is dead, ok. Crap IMO.
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The clear statement that the sideways was the purgatory-like place, the timeless place, the collective conscious-y place, and that everything that happened on the island was real and important, and that in fact they were only in this purgatory-like place together cuz their island lives were so freakin' important, that didn't make it pretty damn clear to you that uh, the sideways was the purgatory-like place and not the island?!
It was big, bombastic, cheesy, sappy, messy, sloppy, derivative-yet-somehow-original, it had some brilliant character moments, some great thematic work, and some really sloppy and obvious and hamfisted crap, it was LOST, it was what this show is all about and always has been all about. It wasn't perfect, but I'll be damned if it wasn't
quintessentially LOST.
That's all I wanted from the finale.
and while the Sideways is now questionable as a narrative choice, if a nice way to say goodbye to the characters, it certainly doesn't nullify anything that happened on the island.
And Jack dying like that, his eye closing just as he sees his friends leaving the island, leaving it for good without the baggage, a close-up on his eye with Vincent there, the eye shuts, the story's over. That's LOST, folks.
It is what it is. An exasperating, soulful, emotional rollercoaster. An alternately intelligent and hammy meditation on The Big Questions. More than anything, a striking character drama.
A beautiful, epic mess.