Season Finale of "Lost"

[fenchurch]

So, um, was anyone else ever so slightly dissatisfied with the Lost finale? I mean, it was nicely suspenseful and it finally felt like they were moving some of the plot along, but we really didn't find out anything of substance. Mysteries are all well and good, but after awhile, I for one like to be given a little bit of a solution.

Veronica Mars succeeded admirably on this score... doling out tantalizing answers throughout the season, while still building up several mysteries. Lost held out some solutions in a box and yanked them away from us while yelling "Psych!!" whenever we got too close. I'm not sure how much longer it's going to be able to keep me dangling before I give up in frustration.

As for the episode, itself... I hate to admit it, but I did a bit of fast forwarding in this one. I started in on the show late tonight, so I had the fast forward option and I took it -- during Hurley's run through the airport (and I *love* Hurley -- they made Hurley-scenes that were boring!), during the Treacherous Walk Through The Jungle With Explosives, during at least one other scene that escapes me now. It just seemed a bit like they were filling time since they didn't want to give away, well, any actual information.

I guessed that the Others were coming after Walt, just as soon as Danielle mentioned that they'd said they were coming for the boy. Mostly because I knew going into the finale that they'd probably be trying to figure out a way to give themselves wiggle room in case Malcolm David Kelley had a sudden growth spurt over the summer, since I doubt they're going to have next season take place several months after the end of this season. Or at least I hope they don't.

I was a little surprised to not see Overly!Friendly!Woman from last week (the one Jack met in the airport). I assumed she was being shown to us so we'd recognize her later. I guess there's always next season.

Am I the only one who thought that Michael was talking about Vincent during his phone call to his mom? If there's one thing I've learned about this show, it's that everything is a matter of perspective and events are rarely how they first appear. I'm going to have to go back and listen again, but I think everything Michael said makes sense if he's actually talking about the dog (especially considering how long he'd been trying to get together with his son). And he'd just barely gotten done talking to Walt about how Vincent was going to be fine in the cargo hold, so it's the sort of thing that would be fresh in his mind, and he also wouldn't want Walt to know that he wasn't sure what to do with the dog.

Count me as one who thinks Charlie may have picked up a statue not because it had drugs, but because he's Catholic. (Not saying he wasn't tempted by the drugs, but I don't think he took them.)

You know, I always thought Daniel Dae Kim was pretty good looking when he played Gavin on AtS... but now that he's let his hair grow out a bit, and it's all curly and wild? Yowza! This show is certainly not short on incredibly hot men.

In other news, it's soooooo nice to be home again!! Just in time to leave tomorrow for the three hour drive down to Portland to see Serenity. I can't wait to meet up with marsterslady again!!

Comments

[typographer.livejournal.com]

Well, I didn't expect to get any significant answers, so I wasn't disappointed. Though the predictability of several bits is beginning to get on my nerves.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

I wasn't expecting to get anything big, but we really got nothing, aside from a name for Claire's baby. Oh, and I guess we did find out that there's a bit long hole under that hatch. It just didn't seem like enough after a season of stringing things along.

Of course, I'm still not entirely sure what they were hoping to accomplish with blowing open the hatch in the first place. Supposedly, they wanted to hide everybody from the Others in what they thought was a big metal container, but they wouldn't have had a way to close the "lid" because they would have blown the thing off to get in in the first place. It made the kind of sense that isn't.

Ah, well... it'll be interesting to see how they handle things next season, though I really don't know how much longer they can string me along, without revealing anything, before I wander off to other shows.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_jems_/]

Lost held out some solutions in a box and yanked them away from us while yelling "Psych!!"
This is exactly the reason I lost faith in JJ. Unless the Alias finale blows me away or SpyMommy returns next season I'm not going to be watching because I know the build-up will never be as good as the reveal. It'll feel tacked-on or grabbed out of thin air or hastily assembled and I can't deal with it anymore. I need to feel like the show's creator has a vision, a plan laid out in his mind that will lead to something.

While I don't think that Rob Thomas had the entire season worked out beforehand (Logan's popularity changed a lot of the plot, I'm sure), I'm quite satisfied that he knew where he was headed and he was willing to change things in order to make the show better.

And that's exactly what I want - the flexibility to change the details while always keeping the final destination in mind. I suspect that JJ is the opposite - no clue where he's going, but always keeping suspension up by having spectacular events occur. Only you're not that interested when you know that the resolutions to these spectacular events are going to be an anticlimactic experience compared to the spectacular event.

Sorry about that long rant, took me a while to figure out what I was trying to say. =)

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

I wasn't disappointed, although I was horribly sorry that Kate wasn't blown up real good (trust Jack to ruin that possibility for me). I don't expect much from the show anymore, so little things tend to please me, like Sawyer and Jin's continuing complexity and humanity (and word about DDK -- who knew?) and Walt and Locke's continuing weirdness. The women on this show are beyond useless (although I do like Sun) so I ignore them completely.

Good call on Michael actually talking about Vincent to his mom, though -- hadn't thought of that.

All in all, an OK finale, and certainly better than the VM finale, which made me want to hurl things at the TV.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Alas, I suspected from Alias that this would be a problem. But I'm not tired of the characters yet, so I'll keep watching for a while.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I noticed that...well... they really didn't answer anything, did they? The closest to an answer we got were that "The Others" were human... but then we had guessed that already.

I enjoyed the finale for the most part but I wasn't exactly shocked or stunned by it.

[ladyforash.livejournal.com]

Hello, this is Carolee...aka ladyforash. Allison's buddy? Well, her train was THREE hours late leaving SF. She's frantic and text messaged me to let you know. She wanted me to email you but I don't have your email address. She wants me to give you her cell phone number. Please email me at cleejh@hotmail.com and I'll email you her cell number.

Hopefully she is not too late because of the movie tonight. She has the tickets.

I'll see you tonight!

[evilbearhunter.livejournal.com]

The women on this show are beyond useless (although I do like Sun) so I ignore them completely.

I agree so much. All the women are defined by their (mostly romantic) relationships to men rather than who they are as people. Shannon and Claire are emotional wrecks. Sun, my only issue is that she reinforces the women-as-defined-by-men thing. Kate is my real problem. Besides being boring, she does everything based on her "love life." Why does she go on a three year crime spree? Her boyfriend. Why does she go on these trips for water and such? She wants to show off for Jack or Sawyer. Why couldn't Locke's character have been a woman?