[Movie] L O S T [possible spoilers]

Juliet's send-off was brilliant... Until they kept her alive TWICE.

Seriously, when she fell down that shaft... Sorry, when she was PULLED down that mine shaft, I completely lost it. I haven't bawled like that watching a show since the Six Feet Under finale. But then when they cut back to her being alive... Ugh, it just ruined it for me. Completely. And then they made it even worse in the season 6 opening when she's STILL alive after detonating the bomb (maybe? who knows, this hasn't been addressed yet), and the shaft is only like 10 feet deep.

They took a beautiful and heartbreaking death scene and pissed on it twice if you ask me.

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The only thing I feel right now is supreme letdown. Rarely have I felt so cheated by a movie/tv show. I expected that even if I didn't like the finale, I would still love to revisit the show, but after that ending I don't even want to do that. If I knew going into this show that the ultimate message would be "all you need is love" I would have given up years ago. Everything we saw on the island, all the mystery, all the sci-fi... It's all useless. Worthless. Meaningless. None of it matters. Anybody who invested into this show because of the sci-fi elements and not the characters got fucked supremely tonight. Myself included.

What a massive disappointment. More thoughts to come.

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Originally Posted by LeHah

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Why in God's name would you watch a show or read a book or sit in front of a movie if you don't watch it for the characters?

"Hey, I'm going to read Watership Down, but I'm going to avoid *all the scenes with animals*."

What I meant was, anybody who was sucked in initially because of the sci-fi elements. Anyone who watched the pilot episode, heard the roar in the forest, and knew something was amiss and couldn't wait to find out more. I didn't tune into the pilot and say "damn I can't wait to see what happens to all these white people and that black kid," I said "damn how the hell are they gonna get outta this and what exactly is 'this'?"

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Originally Posted by VitaminZinc

They could have just dumbed it all down for us and given us all the answers and washed their hands of it completely, but I like the fact there's still some stuff left to discuss--whether it be intentional, or just sloppy writing.

See, what I like about the ending is that it itself is open to interpretation. I always dig that, and I especially dig what Lost tried to do. My favorite theories that have been passed around are:

1. Yes, it's pretty much exactly as Christian Shepherd said.
2. No, everyone died on the plane crash, hence that last shot with the credits.
3. Ben said to Hurley that he could do things differently. Maybe he did, and the light that Christian reveals when he opens the big church doors is the island light again. Or something.

What I don't like, and what irked me so much about the ending was that it did almost completely ignore the mythology in favor of a big blanket answer that essentially said "who cares WHAT happened, what matters is that it DID happen." I don't like that. The mythology and the mysteries ARE important, at least, they certainly went to great lengths to make them seem important right up until the last episode. I wholeheartedly disagree that they are simply MacGuffins, as LeHah said. I know that the characters were the center of the show, but you don't put compelling characters in compelling situations just to say fuck all the situations later. They were a less important factor as the series went on, but they were still a large part of what people liked about the show (especially when it first started out), and I was hoping that since it was a SERIES finale and not just a finale to season 6, they would have addressed some of these things.

The show itself evolved the way Jack did. What was first a show of science slowly evolved into a show of faith. I just wish the writing would have taken a neutral standpoint and instead let the audience figure that out for themselves instead of dildoing us with it like in the church scene with all the religious symbols and the light and the crappy dialogue. Ugh, such pandering.

It's fascinating seeing how the hive mind of the show has changed over the years. I would be willing to bet that 80% of the people who are saying "the show was never about the mysteries" were singing a different tune back in 2004 when the mysteries were literally all the show had until they started getting in depth with the characters. Ah well, c'est la vie. At least I still have Breaking Bad.

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