Now I wish I hadn't watched Lost so quickly *sniffles*

[thistlechaser]

Reminder: Spoilers for Lost! But the show is 10 years old, so not going to cut this. Skip this post if you haven't watched the whole series yet!

I actually have seven minutes left in the "final" episode (there's one after this one, an epilogue, but for some reason Netflix doesn't have it), but I had to pause it so I don't start crying.

Man, this last season might just be better than the first one. I love nearly every single bit about it.

Ironically, the one part that doesn't work for me? Too much information/too many answers. My worry this whole time had been not enough answers, but if they had left out that light/source of the power of the island (world?) thing, I would have liked it a lot more. It's not bad, I just... I just like things a little more open-ended/unexplained. (Again, ironic, I know.)

But that was a minor, minor thing I didn't like (and "didn't like" is really putting it too strongly). I don't usually curse, but: Holy fucking shit, I loved so so so so so much about the ending. I loved early on in this season, when the second timeline started. I loved how when people died in one timeline, we still had them in the other. And most of all, I loved how everyone not just met again, but they remembered everything after touching their loved one. Usually I'd say I hate soulmate storylines, but somehow it 10000000% worked for me here.

For all its sci fi/fantasy/mystery trappings, I think at its heart Lost was a great love story. I can't believe how sniffily I am over this ending.

Tomorrow I get to start reading all the AV Club recap/review of each ep (Edit: Drat, they're only up to the middle of season three! Slackers!). I had been doing it as I watched it, but I had to skip all the spoilers, so I decided to just wait and read it all at the end.

Okay, guess I'm okay to watch the last few minutes now. Don't cry, don't cry... Okay, this might be a lost cause. 30 seconds, had to pause it, crying. That I came to like Jack in the end makes this all the harder. I love how they're handling the life after death stuff (and I sure do wish it were real).

Man, they couldn't have made that ending more aimed at making me cry. That was so perfect. Jack slowly dying, intercut with him in the... 'afterlife waiting room'? Then Vincent laying down next to him as Jack dies. That couldn't have been more wonderfully, awfully, terribly perfect.

I'm so very glad I finally made it through the series. While seasons two, three, and part of four didn't work for me, it was so worth it to stick with it to reach the last two seasons. It also amuses me how I knew a major spoiler ("They're all dead") and it didn't at all matter -- didn't spoil anything. ...wait, or am I not understanding something. Was the second timeline never a real timeline? Were they really dead and they just couldn't "let go" (theme of the whole dying thing)? I need to go read all the spoiler comments I was avoiding all this time!

Icon: Usually I'd eat my keyboard before using an animated icon, but wow, this one is so fitting. I can't resist! It's an old anime icon, the two characters were dying next to each other...

Comments

[teaandfailure.livejournal.com]

HERE WE ARE OPPOSITES, I become hostile if things are too open-ended and yell at the screen that IF I WANTED TO TELL MY OWN STORY I WOULD YOU BUTTHOLES, TELL ME YOURS.

I totally understand ugly weeping at the end of a show though. I pretty much ugly cried through 100% of the last two episodes of Madoka Magica. Like, scaring my cat with the BLUH HUH HUH HUH noises and everything.

I am glad you enjoyed Lost! It is one of my brother's favorites.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

My cat came and sat on my chest while I cried, which was nice but didn't help much. WOULD MY CAT BE IN THE AFTERLIFE WAITING ROOM, WAITING FOR ME SO WE COULD MOVE ON TOGETHER?

Okay, I lied, it helped a little. Such a good kitty.

Your brother has good taste!

[adam-0oo.livejournal.com]

Yayyyy, I am so glad you enjoyed it. I know you were really wanting to know a lot of the answers, and by the end, a lot of them end up being "the island is magic, magic shit happens there". But there is so much emphasis on story and characters and like you said, love, that it is a full show, not a Q&A listicle.

They were not all dead...initially. Lots of them died throughout the show, then in the end, we all die, and we all get to meet up with our friends and loved ones.

But like, Jack is alive the whole time, until he dies in the finale. Most people are alive while on the island, until you see them die.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I've been reading lostpedia (http://lostpedia.wikia.com) on and off today, boy was there a ton I didn't realize! That the Man in Black/unnamed Jacob's Brother was behind them seeing all the dead people!

Now I feel like watching it again, just to try to spot all the clues and stuff I missed the first time through.

then in the end, we all die, and we all get to meet up with our friends and loved ones.

Don't start me sniffling again! ♥

[changeling72.livejournal.com]

I have never watched it, but I think I heard about the all being dead thing.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yep, you heard right. It's still worth watching though, if you ever want to.

[mousewings.livejournal.com]

I cried so much at the ending. I think this is one of the few times a TV show made me cry.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Agreed! I cried so much. It was so bad in a good way. I've been really itching to watch more Lost this weekend, I wish there were another season more! (And another, and another...)