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.

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[kahuna-burger.livejournal.com]

I am expereincing as similar smugness, based on having watched a couple of early episodes, heard people talking about it and formed the nigh instant conclusion that there WAS NO big secret, they were making it up as they went along. The closest opposite expereince I can describe would be the Astro City comic series, where even though the early stories were very unconnected, I had a strong sense that the writers knew EVERYTHING about the background, and the hints really were hints at something they had fully plotted out somewhere, even if they never gave it to us all in one story.

Maybe I was wrong on Astro City, but even if I was, that illusion was powerful stuff in the ye olde willing suspension of disbelief process.