The Lost Finale

[tzikeh]

A WORLDWIDE CULTURAL PHENOMENON JUST ENDED WITH "ROCKS FALL, EVERYONE DIES."

CANNOT. STOP. LAUGHING.


(Punsters could make a case for "Locke's fall; everyone dies," I suppose.)

Comments

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of a recurring theme in the old Harvard Lampoon: "Suddenly everyone is hit by a bus. The end."

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

ahahahah "Buy this magazine or we'll cancel your favorite show." ;)

[silveraspen]

I left off watching the show somewhere in the start of S2, and now I am just reading all the reactions and laughing helplessly. Amazing.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I quit mid-S2 as well. I don't mean to mock the fans - lord knows, all fans end up in this position at one point or another - but... ROCKS FALL, EVERYONE DIES!!

[klia.livejournal.com]

Wait... SERIOUSLY??

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Dude. The island falls apart, and in the... sideways? world? everyone gathers at a church and they're all dead and go to heaven.

Basically.

Rocks fall, everyone dies.

[tjonesy.livejournal.com]

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

[ahab99.livejournal.com]

Well, the island didn't actually fall apart, though there was a while where it seemed like it might. And while not everyone died here in the *now* of the show, it's almost worse because no matter when they all died they all came back to the now in the sideways world to when *Jack* died - because it had to all be centered around the straight while male hero, I guess.

On the other hand? They went for something that felt emotionally satisfying even while the plot was an absolute mess. I feel way better about it now, for example, than I did about BSG the day after that finale happened.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

there was a while where it seemed like it might

Yes, hence the "rocks fall."

no matter when they all died they all came back to the now in the sideways world to when *Jack* died

hence the "everyone dies."

BSG's finale was a huge disappointment. That doesn't mean that Everyone Goes To Judeo-Christian Heaven is any less of a disappointment--just in a different way.

[ahab99.livejournal.com]

I mean, I understood what you were saying, I was just clarifying the lack of causation between the two phrases that is usually implied in its use. No one actually died from the island falling apart, and it was actually a fairly unimportant part of the plot of the whole episode. That's all I was pointing out.

The thing about this ending is that I sort of feel that it is probably the best we could have hoped for. It's not a show that's ever given us straight answers, and it's always been a show that's been heavily invested in Christian and other kinds of religious imagery. I'm much happier with something that felt like emotional closure than an attempt to provide an explanation that failed *and* wasn't emotionally connected to the arc the characters had been on.

Apparently much of fandom is unhappy, but I haven't read up on many other responses yet...

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

It is pretty funny.

[lorelaisquared.livejournal.com]

LOLOLOL Yes, that's pretty much the gist of it... only it's more "Rocks Fall, Everyone dies, and then the light engulfs them and they all go to heaven"

[surreal-44.livejournal.com]

I think they all go back to the island. So that way they can make a movie.

[lorelaisquared.livejournal.com]

LOL well maybe that bright light at the end of the church was really the light on the island that Hurley has to protect.

[surreal-44.livejournal.com]

I LOVED the ending. It had me in tears. I laughed, and danced, and then I cried a little more because it was soooooooo long.

"Lost" is FINALLY over! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!

Although I am disappointed. I got so close to my wish for the island to blow up or sink into the ocean. So close, but alas, they spared it for unknown reasons (so they can make a movie).

So like....was the alternate world just a place for their dead souls to sort everything out? And if so, did Kate and uh...everyone else die after Jack? What did Dead!Jack do until they all arrived?

Not that I'll lose any sleep over this, because I don't care much about this. I'm just confused and I wondered if I missed something somewhere that explains what the hell is going on.

No?

Figures. >

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

So like....was the alternate world just a place for their dead souls to sort everything out? And if so, did Kate and uh...everyone else die after Jack? What did Dead!Jack do until they all arrived?

Some people died way before Jack did, some died after. His father says that. They all go to Sideways World to hang out until all of them get there (looking, of course, as they did when they met one another), so that they could all *go to heaven together.*

To which I say - WHATEVS, BITCHES. ROCKS FALL; EVERYONE DIES.

Movie or no movie, the island has to survive because the island is, you know, where shit happens forever. Or something.

[surreal-44.livejournal.com]

Sideways land confuzzles me. Maybe you have to be drunk or high or...I dunno. Something else in order to appreciate the end of Lost.

I'm just glad that it's over. Should have ended a looooong time ago.

[frakup.livejournal.com]

OMG you're right! Awesome.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

The best ending!

[ramblinsuze.livejournal.com]

Heh. I was too busy bawling to make the connection. LOL

Did you see the "alternate endings" that aired on Jimmy Kimmel's show? AWESOME.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Nope - I'm sure they're on youtube. I'll find them later - thanks for the heads-up!

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the writers have been watching a little too much Blackadder...

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

No no - you're not understanding. Not like those endings.

Rocks ACTUALLY fell. Trees and rocks and cliff-faces and the island all having earthquakes and falling apart..

Everyone ACTUALLY died. As in, all of their dead souls gathered together in a church and ascended to heaven.

ROCKS FALL EVERYONE DIES THE END

[carla-scribbles.livejournal.com]

I watched the finales of two time-travel shows this weekend.

One of them was brilliant, heartrending, imaginative, strangely joyful, and all around one of the better pieces of television I've seen in quite some time.

The other one was Lost.

[very-improbable.livejournal.com]

I loved the finale past all telling, but I made this for you because, inexplicably, nobody else had already done so.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

YAY! I think you should spread this far and wide!!