Mmm. [LOST SPOILERS HALLO]

[prog]

So Lost ended, and firstly let me say that I liked the note that the "real world" thread ended on, finding it a perfectly fine and even touching closure. They even gave ol' Vincent a rationale for being there. This was good and I appreciated it. I will even fondly remember it.

I can't say I felt that way about the other business. That the show pulled a fast one on us about the context of the side-stories wasn't itself objectionable -- indeed, the reveal in 2007 that that season's flashbacks were actually flash-forwards remains a series high point. But the "the 'alternate timeline' was actually Heaven" thing... eeugh. What does that have to do with anything that came before? It felt like the show stapled a made-up-at-the-last-minute cosmology onto the end, totally divorced of anything the characters or DHARMA or any other element of the drama, and then dumped us all into it.

I can also add that propping a carefully panreligious stained-glass window into the final side-scene doesn't make it anything other than a distinctly bubblegum-Christian depiction of the afterlife, but I am sure that wiser critics will do a better job sighing at that than I. Oh well. I don't regret watching it, nor do I regret taking a pass from watching the previous several episodes.

The rest of you may all commence making fun of me for grousing about this but still liking Battlestar Galactica.

Comments

Re: It was great until Jack talked to his father.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Christian(!)'s explanation was that they were all gathered in a point outside of time, and so Sawyer and Kate et al were present because they had expired due to one reason or another after the events of the main LOST narrative were over, perhaps after leading long lives of their own.

I just think of what a crap deal this was for Aaron, though. He might have lived out his entire life to ripe old age, might have been president of the united federation of planets or something, but reverts to a pre-sentient baby in the afterlife because that's how all these other goofballs think of him? Bummer.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

If I were to try to rationalize it at all, I might say that this particular afterlife scene was solely Jack's POV. From Aaron's POV it would be totally different, and probably would have a completely different set of people. Or whatever.