Plane crashes on an island.
People survive.
People fight, scheme, love, and bond.
Weird stuff happens.
Eventually, the people all die.
The people meet up after death.
The end.
As sad as I am that it's over, I loved the ending of LOST. There are so many unanswered questions such as "What happened to Walt?" and so on. My reaction to those questions is, "Who cares?"
In the end, the entire series was all about the people and the bonds they formed. All the hurrying around, criss-crossing the island and atom bombs were vehicles for the survivors to get to know each other and for the audience to get to know them.
"What about the Dharma Initiative?" people complain. "Was Charles Widmore good or evil?" Don't care. Unlike Star Wars -- even with Hurley's countless references to the Jedi saga -- Lost wasn't about the epic battle between Good and Evil. When all is said and done, six seasons later, this was all about characters and redemption and about love.
The series was full of characters with father issues, so it is quite appropriate that Jack's father, Christian, is the one who explained it all in the final scene:
Everything that ever happened to you is real.
All those people in the church - they're real too.
Jack asks: They're all - they're all dead?
Everyone dies sometime, kiddo.
Some of them before you, some of them long after you ...
But why are they all here now?
Well, there is no "now" here.
Where are we, Dad?
This is the place you all made together so you could all find one another. The most important part of your life was the time you spent with these people. That's why all of you are here. Nobody does it alone, Jack. You needed all of them and they needed you.
I found it perfect that Jack was the last one to this spiritual "party," the endless fixer, the one who always had to be the leader. His final lesson, even in death, was that he needed others, and that they needed him.
1 comment:
hey R - nice entry on Lost. Rachel and I became hooked on Lost a few years ago..it was Tuesday night date night and a constant for us. We made up a couple of bottles of Dharma Merlot Sunday night (see my fbook status picture that night). But it was merely fun and interesting and a good excuse to clear the evening. I find it kind of amazing how they were able to turn the whole 6 years of forward, backwards and sideways, in the space of the final episode, from entertaining tv to something meaningful. The author of 'Live together, die alone' finally found out it was true. A good story of redemption all around.
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