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[krickets]

You know what? I've been to the other side. Trust me. It's not that great. And the food sucks!



Let me preface this by telling you a[n extremely short] story. Today some friends of ours came over to the house and brought their two daughters, Diana and Soraya. Soraya is five years old and is finishing up kindergarten. It was raining buckets today and she and I went outside and sat on the back deck underneath the awning while it rained. At some point, she randomly said to me, "One day we're all going to get old and die." This of course prompted a serious, but short conversation between me and this adorable and precocious little one. But at the end of the day, who knew she was spoiling the end of lost for me?

Now, don't get me wrong, there was a lot I liked about the finale. There were also things I didn't like. A lot of people have said, "it's not perfect." And I'll concur with that, but I think I may have to re-watch in order to appreciate the complexities of the whole she-bang. This reaction primarily deals with the last fifteen minutes of the show and nothing more than that.

I was thrilled that they finally merged the sideshow and the island timeline. That was something I was hoping for and something I knew that we would get. But as I told slybrunette, I wasn't particularly happy with the place that thought-submarine eventually docked.

Sideshow, for me, now means that they're all, including Aaron and probably Ji Yeon, dead. Whoever survived -- those who did or did not make it off the island -- they lived full lives and then eventually died, as people are prone to do. So now, the sideshow is after they are all dead and have met up in their "special place with all the glowy white light" aka heaven.

I don't know, it just felt heavy-handed and too overt and well, plain. Juliet was wrong. It didn't work. [Unless you're talking heavenly candy bars.] Not even in some "wait, we can still make this work, kind-of" sort of way. I was hoping the sideshow would end up being something fantastical, some actual chance for these characters to start over.

But it isn't magic at all. It's simply the afterlife. And that makes me sad in a way that isn't cathartic at all.

It is simply these last few moments of the show that have me wishing it ended differently. So I will have to go back and watch it again to properly digest how I feel about the finale as a whole.

Comments

[cynthia-arrow.livejournal.com]

Valid reactions, definitely. Don't read below if you don't want to read a nice but contrary opinion. I won't blame you. ♥

I guess I just saw the sideways 'verse as their chance not to start over, but at least to get some closure. It actually makes it better for me, because the show is admitting that they did die, that people die all the time whether it's fair or not. Heavy-handed, certainly, but I liked the idea that they needed each other to move on -- because their experience on the island (alive) meant something.

Not that I know what in holy hell all that mystical island bullshit meant, because it certainly didn't seem to have a direct connection to the sideways 'verse. That's where I'm actually rather annoyed with the show.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I guess it's nice to see the characters get closure and it sure is more than I hoped for, but the way they've done it just doesn't sit right with me. Like I said I'll have to go back and re-watch and see how I feel then. Right now I'm just kind of disappointed.