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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

[comingintoland.livejournal.com]

I'm just taking the "moving on" stuff as more open ended, in order not to start screaming. I'm taking it as now they get to move on to the lives they're supposed to lead, the ones where they get the stuff that makes them happy, like each other. If i think about it as them moving on to heaven I'll have break my computer screen or something because that shit's so no okay right now. I'm also kind of upset about not knowing what happened to the people on the plane. There's speculation that the crash shown in the credits was the Ajira plane, but i don't like that either.

Oh well, at least I can look forward to fanfic (hopefully). I'm expecting some Sawyer/Claire after the Ajira plane lands (safely), with Kate raising Ji-Yeon, and as far as sideways verse goes, I really want some Jack/Kate and Sawyer/Juliet where they're one weird, dysfunctional family with David in the middle of it. Because I like David and think he should be real. At least, these are the fics I would write if I could be that creative/motivated.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I think by the time the credits started to roll around I was still reeling [in the bad way] from the whole heaven thing that I could have cared less about what the crash in the credits meant. [This has all happened before and it will all happen again?]

Regarding fic, well for me that's just gonna be the polar opposite of all those adorable canon pairings that reunited in this we-swear-it's-not-purgatory place.