I'm serious with that title. I think J. J. Abrams (and company) have created a magnificent viewing experience with this show. The season five finale on Wednesday night proved that once again. That ending? What the hell is gonna happen next season? And what the hell is up with Locke? The black lettering on white background (rather than the opposite as we viewers are used to) was such a simple way to end it, but it was ingenious!
I know two people that read this blog watch Lost...feel free to go spoiler-crazy in the comments...
The Wire, dawg. I'll talk to you about it at work.
ReplyDeletePshaw...The Wire...
ReplyDeleteOkay what I'm worried about season 6:
ReplyDeleteThat if they really did prevent the incident, and prevent the crash the entire season is going to literally be a 'where are they now' season. And it would also mean half of the finale's storyline was completely pointless, due to the fact that Locke's corpse never would have come back to the island.
And if they didn't prevent the incident... What is going to happen to the 1977 people... I freakin' hope they don't get launched into the timewarps that happened earlier in this season somehow. It's a weak exposition tool; instead of having characters that are up-front about what they know they have to warp through time to get any back story for the island. I think that's what holds Lost back as the best show ever. Characters who are all terrible human beings that seem to think no one can know what they know.
That was a rant.
I did love this episode though.
The opening especially. The simplicity of it and how it showed the faces of two things everyone has been wondering about. Jacob and the statue.
I loved how it gave Richard a back story without drawing to attention that it was actually giving him a back story. Such as the spanish name Miss Box carrier calls him, implying he was on the Black Rock. And how the reason he's never aged is because of Jacob.
I'm kind of angry about Juliett though. Not the fact that she fell down the pit to death, but the fact that she was still alive after that...
I really hope this doesn't turn into a deathmatch between what seems to be god(jacob) and the devil(dark locke)... Oy.
I'm also calling it right now, the last shot of the series is going to be Jack's eye opening, just like the first shot of the series.
I didn't proofread that so it may make no sense.
ReplyDeleteAlso I really think you should give the Wire a second chance... And I have no one using my dvds if you want it. You should at least watch a season. It's only 13 episodes.
I don't know about the last shot of the series being Jack's eye opening, but the first shot of season six...maybe.
ReplyDeleteI still loved that Juliet scene...I can deal with her surviving the fall (hell, if I'm dealing with them traveling through time, I can certainly deal with her falling and not dying immediately).
The dark Locke is super-intriguing.
Possibly more response later...it's late and I'm unable to write things that make sense to me...
As far as The Wire...maybe after my vacation...
Matthew Fox is apparently the only cast member to know the end of the series.
ReplyDeleteThat's the only reason i have to make up that theory. :)
But i have a feeling they are going to try and go with a 'all time is cyclical' theme, and that last shot would help.
I just thought her still being alive took just a little emotional umph away from it.
I think Juliet being alive after the fall is in the same vein as her being "the variable" in the whole situation. while it doesn't explain how she could survive the fall (which she very well could have. i like to believe she landed on her feet and broke her legs, the best way to survive a fall), the fact that she was the only one to have a discernible effect on the outcome that was not touched by Jacob must play a part. It seems to me like Jacob was, in a way, making the ones he touched constants. And Juliet's flashback had to have more significance than to simply provide the line she said to Sawyer.
ReplyDeletewe just have no idea what the result of her variable action or those "constants" will have on the LOST universe.
hmm, i'm not quite articulating this the way i want. but the general idea is there. maybe i'll give it a shot again later.
I got what you were going for, and I actually mentioned something to that degree to Jeff, pointing out that Jacob wasn't in her flashback, kind of making it seem like she wasn't a 'chosen one'
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