Mmm. [LOST SPOILERS HALLO]
May. 23rd, 2010 11:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
progSo 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.
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.
dude
Date: 2010-05-24 05:36 am (UTC)but, yeah. I was loving the finale up until "it's all fake, they're in heaven" reveal.
Re: dude
Date: 2010-05-24 05:47 am (UTC)Calling a duck a potato doesn't make it not a duck.
Re: dude
Date: 2010-05-24 01:22 pm (UTC)