LOST: The Final Season (Spoilers)

[stonegod]

Another thought, if Michael is stuck on the island as is all the other souls who died there, how does Jack get to go to the afterlife?

I don't think its "all" folks, only some are doomed to that existence.

 

[jaerdaph]

I don't think its "all" folks, only some are doomed to that existence.

That's the impression I got as well. Something similar was mentioned on Jimmy Kimmel afterwords too when the actor who played Michael was interviewed.

I also think it was interesting that the last scene was the plane wreckage washing up on the beach and no survivors. Maybe the whole show took place in some sort of Limbo, and all the passengers had to come together and resolve their former lives while in that state to "move on".

So many interpretations...

 

[Starman]

Another thought, if Michael is stuck on the island as is all the other souls who died there, how does Jack get to go to the afterlife?

Michael was stuck there because of his "sins." See his Lostpedia entry for more info.

 

[John Crichton]

Well, obviously YMMV. I don't deny there was a Hindu dimension to a lot of the material (not so much Buddhist, at least not obviously), but I think that the explicit direction of the plot, and a great deal of the symbolism, was emphatically accessing Christian tropes: Battle of good vs. evil, redemption, guilt, sin, saviors, etc. Plus, again, I think that when you're being ushered into the afterlife (from a putative purgatorial state) by a guy named "Christian Shepherd" it's hard to ignore the Chrisitan subtext to the whole thing.

From my limited understanding, those themes are in no way unique to Christianity. In short, I disagree and very much think that the ending in the church wasn't representative of any religion but possibly all of them.

 

[Viking Bastard]

I really liked the finale right up to the revelation of the sideway-verse. But I'm warming up to it.

I really liked the little touch of Ben staying behind in the "purgatory/pocket heaven" when the others left. He had some more soul searching to do—he wasn't ready to move on.

 

[weem]

I really liked the little touch of Ben staying behind in the "purgatory/pocket heaven" when the others left. He had some more soul searching to do—he wasn't ready to move on.

Yes!

He was by far my favorite character on the show, and that was a great moment as well as Hurley telling him he was a great #2, and the "you were a great #1" response.

When Hurley asked for his help earlier (when jack went down the hole) I said outloud to my wife, "what an odd pairing... I like it"... so when they said that and you realized they could have been paired up for a long time, that was REALLY cool.

They were polar opposites - it was so fitting.

 

[Fast Learner]

My projected hope is that Hurley learned bravery from from Ben, but that more than anything Ben learned love from Hurley.

 

[John Crichton]

I think it's going to take me a while longer to decide how I really feel about the last 15 minutes. The rest of it was damn good with a few little glitches here and there. As a finale it succeeded.

 

[stonegod]

They were polar opposites - it was so fitting.

Ben is my favorite (as my status shows). We also wanted Ben as protector, but also knew Hurley would be involved (telegraphed last ep). Works well.

I think Ben, like Eloise, did not want to leave the sideways because they had what they didn't in life. Alex or Faraday.

 

[Mallus]

For most of the finale was a briskly-paced combination of grace notes and fan service which kept me thoroughly entertained, even though I'm hardly the biggest Lost fan. Then there's the end (of The End)... where Theme, and his sidekick Tone, finally ganged up on Plot, beat the living Hell out of him, and left him for dead (in a bamboo field).

Having nowhere else to go, I can't really blame them for ending up there. It was sweet, and more importantly, sorta right, given the overall trajectory of the show, but inevitably a bit disappointing.