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Spoiler-free LOST finale afterthoughts
May. 24th, 2010 02:03 amLet me tell you... going from sobbing my eyes out at LOST to laughing my ass off in BOONDOCKS, all within the space of three minutes? Yeah, I think we can call that emotional whiplash.
An hour later...
ME: (skimming through Twitter, Facebook, and LJ) Unsurprisingly, a lot of people hate the ending of LOST.
MOM: Well, they're pussies, what can I say?
Over the next few days (years?), I look forward to reading the complaints about that finale, giving them my full attention and consideration. For now, I'm gonna continue to think that that ending was almost as perfect as that show could possibly have, against all fears and expectations to the contrary.
I'm betting that some of you are sick and tired of hearing the mere mention of LOST, and I'm just adding to the problem. Frankly, as someone who got into this show very late in the game, having to spent every Thursday (or was it Wednesday?) mornings wading through all the geekgasms and spoilers from people raving about the previous night's episode... yeah, believe me: I feel your pain. I was never a LOST fanatic.
After being disappointed and frustrated too many times by where the characters did or didn't go, I was watching it pretty much purely to see what happened next. I never had the investment that others did, considering that I watched the first five seasons on DVD, without having to wait week to week, season to season, theorizing and geeking out with fans. Not until this season did I finally understand that fun, on what was considered by many to be the worst season ever. Now, I want to find everyone who complained about the Sideways Universe being "pointless," and I just wanna go "FUCK YOUUUUUU."
Maybe it was the Johnny Go martini that I made at the show's start. And/or maybe it was the Dark 'N Stormy I made at the halfway point. Or maybe it's the fact that I'm soft and sappy from being in a relationship with Henchgirl, to the point that--even though she was exhausted and napping upstairs--there were four separate occasions (guess which!) where I wanted to wake her up and kiss her for reasons she wouldn't understand.
With a couple minor exceptions, I feel like this ending made me love the show as a whole in ways I never could before. And unsurprisingly, many of the hardcore fans who DID love it all these years... many of them seem to outright loathe this ending. Or at least, they're left cold. Unsatisfied, perhaps deeply.
Right now, I don't care. I'm still feeling very tender, very sappy, and incredibly grateful that I didn't watch it at a party, or with hardcore LOST fans. I watched it with my Mom, with whom I've followed the entire series. An hour later, we still couldn't talk about it without blubbering. It hit personal notes that I think completely bypassed many other people, and I'm grateful to have shared it with someone else who felt that way, even if we aren't both big fans of the show.
So again, speaking as someone who is *not* a major fan of LOST... I absolutely fucking loved that ending, and I think it was perfect. It proved once and for all that this show is about character over mythology, and no resolution or any unanswered question would have been half so fulfilling and satisfactory for me as what this finale did.
But if you did hate it, I'm genuinely curious: how should it have ended? You don't have to answer it now, as I expect this will be debated for years and years to come.
An hour later...
ME: (skimming through Twitter, Facebook, and LJ) Unsurprisingly, a lot of people hate the ending of LOST.
MOM: Well, they're pussies, what can I say?
Over the next few days (years?), I look forward to reading the complaints about that finale, giving them my full attention and consideration. For now, I'm gonna continue to think that that ending was almost as perfect as that show could possibly have, against all fears and expectations to the contrary.
I'm betting that some of you are sick and tired of hearing the mere mention of LOST, and I'm just adding to the problem. Frankly, as someone who got into this show very late in the game, having to spent every Thursday (or was it Wednesday?) mornings wading through all the geekgasms and spoilers from people raving about the previous night's episode... yeah, believe me: I feel your pain. I was never a LOST fanatic.
After being disappointed and frustrated too many times by where the characters did or didn't go, I was watching it pretty much purely to see what happened next. I never had the investment that others did, considering that I watched the first five seasons on DVD, without having to wait week to week, season to season, theorizing and geeking out with fans. Not until this season did I finally understand that fun, on what was considered by many to be the worst season ever. Now, I want to find everyone who complained about the Sideways Universe being "pointless," and I just wanna go "FUCK YOUUUUUU."
Maybe it was the Johnny Go martini that I made at the show's start. And/or maybe it was the Dark 'N Stormy I made at the halfway point. Or maybe it's the fact that I'm soft and sappy from being in a relationship with Henchgirl, to the point that--even though she was exhausted and napping upstairs--there were four separate occasions (guess which!) where I wanted to wake her up and kiss her for reasons she wouldn't understand.
With a couple minor exceptions, I feel like this ending made me love the show as a whole in ways I never could before. And unsurprisingly, many of the hardcore fans who DID love it all these years... many of them seem to outright loathe this ending. Or at least, they're left cold. Unsatisfied, perhaps deeply.
Right now, I don't care. I'm still feeling very tender, very sappy, and incredibly grateful that I didn't watch it at a party, or with hardcore LOST fans. I watched it with my Mom, with whom I've followed the entire series. An hour later, we still couldn't talk about it without blubbering. It hit personal notes that I think completely bypassed many other people, and I'm grateful to have shared it with someone else who felt that way, even if we aren't both big fans of the show.
So again, speaking as someone who is *not* a major fan of LOST... I absolutely fucking loved that ending, and I think it was perfect. It proved once and for all that this show is about character over mythology, and no resolution or any unanswered question would have been half so fulfilling and satisfactory for me as what this finale did.
But if you did hate it, I'm genuinely curious: how should it have ended? You don't have to answer it now, as I expect this will be debated for years and years to come.
