LOST: The Final Season (Spoilers)

[coyote6]

Jacob clearly wasn't immortal; he didn't age, but he got stabbed to death, though that required some particular (vaguely defined) circumstances for it to happen.

So, actual "never ever die" immortality didn't seem to be involved.

Turning off the lights seemed to nullify the "can't be killed" clause for everyone; Jack got mortally wounded, and Smokey got shot dead. Turning the lights back on was said to be fatal for anyone except maybe Desmond (though who knows if he was right about that), so Jack died anyways (either because the lights were just that dangerous, or because his immortality didn't come back with the lights, or because by choosing to sacrifice himself, he gave up the nigh-immortality).

I would guess that Hurley and Ben got the Jacob-and-Richard abilities after the lights came back on. Eventually, they either got tired of doing the job(s), and stepped down, and then died; or, some other thing happened that bypassed their nigh-immortality, and they were killed. We don't know; that wasn't part of the Lost story.

Though if ABC treats LOST the way most companies treat properties, in a couple of years there will be plenty of books, comics, and other spinoffs that will explain what happened to everyone at all times of their lives, in excruciating detail.

 

[John Crichton]

The reason why I presume immortality is because Richard didn't age because he was touched by Jacob and Jacob was presumably centuries old.

Did you catch the part where he started to age again?

 

[Wycen]

Why couldn't just Cthulhu have risen from the ocean floor and killed 1d6 survivors per scene? That would have explained everything in an insane and incomprehensible way and everybody would have died.

Ding ding ding! We have a winner!

 

[Starman]

I'm still undecided on the finale. True to the series it has given me a lot to think about including whether or not I really liked how it all wrapped up. Still there were a few things I really liked.

• Jack's death scene - Vincent lying beside him, the Ajira plane flying overhead, his eye closing.
• Sawyer and Juliet's reunification.
• Chesty's back!
• The fact that they couldn't go on to heaven (or whatever) until they all came together.
• The music!
• Hurley getting the Island Protector job. He always felt like the right choice.

 

[FoxWander]

Just got thru watching the end and I think I agree with RangerWickett- the ending didn't quite match or explain all the events of the show, which is disappointing, but it was still enjoyable.

And I think I was kind of right about what I thought the flash-sideways were about- it was their way of showing us the happy ending for all the characters. A way to give some kind of resolution to the characters after the events on the island.

It wasn't the actual alternate reality/timeline I thought it was going to be though. But I wish it had been- not just because I would have been "right" though, but I think an ending that reset the timeline and made the flash-sideways alternate reality the actual reality would have felt like a more complete resolution of the show. Not only for the characters but for the plot. At the very least it would have given some meaning to what Juliet said before she died in the hole- and probably several other plot bits. It would have been a classic sci-fi ending that would have altered only the final 10 minutes of what we saw in the actual ending.

I guess I would have preferred an actual happy ending rather than the we're-all-dead-so-now-we-can-pass-on-to-our happy ending. Oh well.

 

[Diamond Cross]

Did you catch the part where he started to age again?

No I didn't, actually.

 

[weem]

No I didn't, actually.

Miles noticed that Richard had a grey hair, and plucked it out for him.

Richard was surprised - when Miles asked him what was up, he said something to the effect of 'I realize I want to live' (I'm not sure it was exactly that, but close).

 

[Sir Brennen]

Miles noticed that Richard had a grey hair, and plucked it out for him.

Richard was surprised - when Miles asked him what was up, he said something to the effect of 'I realize I want to live' (I'm not sure it was exactly that, but close).

Not just surprised, but pleased. I think there's a theme there - only the possibility of death gives life meaning.

 

[coyote6]

Sure, maybe Juliet, dying in the hole, somehow saw into this pocket heaven and decided to quote it to Sawyer before she died, but then why did she say, "It worked," as if in reference to their desired goal of creating an alternate timeline?

Well, she could have been wrong. That's one thing about Lost: the characters were wrong, a lot. How old are those bodies? Who should we trust? Should we keep pressing the button? We have to blow up the plane!

Even down to the final big play -- taking Desmond to the light -- Jack and Smokey thought they knew what the result would be, and that the other would be wrong. In fact, they were both kind of wrong, and kind of right; the island would've been destroyed (but it wasn't instant), and Smokey could then be killed (but it wasn't guaranteed -- good thing Kate saved a bullet).

So, no reason to think Juliet was immune to being wrong.

On the other hand, setting off the nuke did reset the timeline, and put everyone back in the right temporal place. So it did "work", in that it fixed a problem, but Daniel & Jack were just wrong about what exactly it would do.

 

[Sir Brennen]

Another random thought:

I like how the Island made sure that Jack didn't die alone (calling back to his dire warning in Season 1.)