Wow. Phew. Huh? Really?
Good ending. Deep, nuanced, intentionally ambiguous. Frustrating as hell.
a few thoughts:
1. Sideways = purgatory, but the pictures of random wreckage on the island makes you wonder...did they survive the wreck at all? OR, did they retroactively go straight to heaven?
2. You have to listen closely to what Christian said. He said the crash surivors made it so they could find each other in sideways world because they realized you and the time on the Island were the most important connections in your life.
3. No walt? no problem. Walt wasn't there because he got off the Island and lived a long full life with people that became more important to him than his time on the Island.
4. MIB turned into smokey when he hit the source because he was just a guy. Desmond didn't get turned because he is "special." Jack was able to go into the source because he was the island protector.
5. Or maybe we are being too judeo-christian and need to get a little more eastern. Maybe the point of the show was that souls travel together in different dimensions. Your "life" is really the continuing development of your soul as it travels through these dimensions. They all died in the plane crash. Their souls went to a different dimension (what we watched for six seasons). At some point in that dimension, everyone died somehow, and all reunited in the Sideways world dimension. At the end, they are all going to a new dimension for a new existence and new development. They may not remember their past lives in that dimension. Or some may. But their souls will continue to grow. It isn't "purgatory" with a final destination "heaven"- rather, it's just another existence in a dimension for some souls. Or, perhaps I'm totally wrong.
6. Jack = jesus. Died for the salvation of the island. stabbed in the side- pretty clear.
7. In retrospect, it seems that they forecasted/telgraphed this when Juliet said "it worked" and then died. her consciousness went to the group...
8. I need to go back and see who was or was not in the church..i didn't see Miles, I didn't see Michael, I didnt see walt....i think Michael was stuck on the island.
9. Rose's comment - it's ok, you can let go now- to Jack on the plane...she was already aware.
10. Alpert got to do it backwards- the island wasn't his purgatory... he was already dead. that's why he didnt age?
Whether you love or hate this ending, the show has brought me amazing joy. To those who read me, thank you for giving me a way to share my thoughts.
-Drew
Monday, May 24, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
One Guy's Down the Home Stretch
Staying with the now popular bullet/list form.
1. The wound on Jack's neck is likely a knife wound from... Smokey?
2. So Hurley, Sayid, Kate, Des, Sawyer, Miles, Widmore, Faraday, Charlotte, and Ellie will all be at the concert together. Ben is island aware. Does Locke become island aware when he can walk? How Does Jack intend to do that surgery in adequate time? Or is Jack really supposed to kill him on the surgical table instead?
3. "It's just a chalk line." Really Jacob? Did you say that to Kate just so she didnt think she was worthless? Or was it emblematic of those who find a purpose that is bigger than the island to them not being likely to take the reins? I vote 49/51.
4. Is Ben really that greedy and worthless? I say no. His redemptive arc in sideways land is too fruitful (getting with Rousseau!?!?!) for him to be totally diverging from it in island land- I think he's playing Smokey. Whether he is able to pull off whatever he's doing or not is a separate issue- here he's situated to get his wish- he can finally be a legitimate steward of the island. Jack will talk to him. Yay. But..will Jack really transfer the power to Ben? Perhaps Jack's tenure is to be brief. Ben truly does want to run the island, so maybe he is the guy for the job but....he's really an (amazingly acted) offensively evil character. TBD.
5. Did anyone else find the Jacob interaction with Kate/Jack/Hurley/Sawyer to be hilarious in that weird Lost Funny way? Awkward...
6. "Now you are like me." What the heck does that mean? Can Jack now grant unending life? It seems that he can find the source of the Light....and what else does "like me" mean? Can he make rules? What is the extent of the rulemaking power?
7. Did Jack really have a choice, or was Jack compelled? I could talk or write about this for a day...or 2.
8. Again, great nuanced acting by Ben. I enjoyed how he conceeded that the Smoke Monster was playing him "it was actually summoning me" while he was running the others and living in the Dharma burbs. Did Dharma know this too? Kinda puts them at cross-purposes- they have him gated out but can summon him? I can't really reconcile this.... There's more to be discussed here. Still, glad to see Ben & Locke back together, even if the dynamic is again, flipped on its ear.
9. Kinda an inauspicious end to Alpert, huh? Think he's dead? I say no.
10. I kinda thought Zoe was pretty pointless too. Was that more than a wink/nod from the writers? Perhaps there is something to the "you have to talk to Locke" for him to wield his power over you. Was this a hint? Will one of our characters be deafened and thus impervious to Locke?
11. What's Widmore whispering? How does Des serve as a failsafe? Maybe he is to be an anti- smokemonster by entering the Light/Source or maybe he is going to the Orchid to destroy the Island... Either seems plausible.
12. If Sayid said that Des was left in a well that they'd never seen before and sent Jack & Crew to find him, who threw him the rope that would allow his escape?
That's all for now...
-D
1. The wound on Jack's neck is likely a knife wound from... Smokey?
2. So Hurley, Sayid, Kate, Des, Sawyer, Miles, Widmore, Faraday, Charlotte, and Ellie will all be at the concert together. Ben is island aware. Does Locke become island aware when he can walk? How Does Jack intend to do that surgery in adequate time? Or is Jack really supposed to kill him on the surgical table instead?
3. "It's just a chalk line." Really Jacob? Did you say that to Kate just so she didnt think she was worthless? Or was it emblematic of those who find a purpose that is bigger than the island to them not being likely to take the reins? I vote 49/51.
4. Is Ben really that greedy and worthless? I say no. His redemptive arc in sideways land is too fruitful (getting with Rousseau!?!?!) for him to be totally diverging from it in island land- I think he's playing Smokey. Whether he is able to pull off whatever he's doing or not is a separate issue- here he's situated to get his wish- he can finally be a legitimate steward of the island. Jack will talk to him. Yay. But..will Jack really transfer the power to Ben? Perhaps Jack's tenure is to be brief. Ben truly does want to run the island, so maybe he is the guy for the job but....he's really an (amazingly acted) offensively evil character. TBD.
5. Did anyone else find the Jacob interaction with Kate/Jack/Hurley/Sawyer to be hilarious in that weird Lost Funny way? Awkward...
6. "Now you are like me." What the heck does that mean? Can Jack now grant unending life? It seems that he can find the source of the Light....and what else does "like me" mean? Can he make rules? What is the extent of the rulemaking power?
7. Did Jack really have a choice, or was Jack compelled? I could talk or write about this for a day...or 2.
8. Again, great nuanced acting by Ben. I enjoyed how he conceeded that the Smoke Monster was playing him "it was actually summoning me" while he was running the others and living in the Dharma burbs. Did Dharma know this too? Kinda puts them at cross-purposes- they have him gated out but can summon him? I can't really reconcile this.... There's more to be discussed here. Still, glad to see Ben & Locke back together, even if the dynamic is again, flipped on its ear.
9. Kinda an inauspicious end to Alpert, huh? Think he's dead? I say no.
10. I kinda thought Zoe was pretty pointless too. Was that more than a wink/nod from the writers? Perhaps there is something to the "you have to talk to Locke" for him to wield his power over you. Was this a hint? Will one of our characters be deafened and thus impervious to Locke?
11. What's Widmore whispering? How does Des serve as a failsafe? Maybe he is to be an anti- smokemonster by entering the Light/Source or maybe he is going to the Orchid to destroy the Island... Either seems plausible.
12. If Sayid said that Des was left in a well that they'd never seen before and sent Jack & Crew to find him, who threw him the rope that would allow his escape?
That's all for now...
-D
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
One Guy's Gone Across the Sea: Quick Hits
1. Desmond is going into the source. Whether he comes out a smoke monster or destroys the source of power in the island- open question.
2. Mom was a smokemonster too.
3. Smokey built the donkey wheel but wasn't "man" enough to turn it to get off the island. Now that he's human, he needs to get off the island- he'll do so by the Orchid Station. Ignore the talk of the sub and the airplane- that's all manipulation to kill the candidates.
4. Claudia and evil Mom were speaking latin- that places Claudia's shipwreck before 500AD. So...jacob's been there a while.
5. Jacob and Smokey come off as tragic characters. Irony that Smokey was the favorite of Mom, while Jacob was the weaker, submissive child. Smokey did end up giving Mom what she wanted- a way out of her duties to the Island.
6. I know this hearkens back to last week but...Sideways John Locke is a Pilot? Who else sees Sideways world merging with on-island world and Locke flying everyone off the island on the Ajira plane?
7. I thought the acting was pretty wretched.
8. A lot of people have complained that the waterfall with the golden light was hokey, and that the donkey wheel explanation didnt make any sense. If they said it was G-d in there does it make more sense? If they said it was ancient alien nanotech, does it make more sense? I think the reality is we are dealing with mythology. So go with it. It is what it is. A source of power with the capacity to grant/end/modify life, to move through time and space. Why? How? What's the schematic? Who cares. We know it's electromagnetic energy. That's enough for me.
9. So, Smokey can kill mom with a dagger- mom is still human. Ben can kill Jacob with a dagger. Jacob is still human. Smokey and Jacob can't kill eachother while they are on the island because their mom made it so- similar to how Jacob could grant Alper everlasting life. Smokey can't be killed with a dagger because- he's a disembodied soul inhabiting an astral projection of a dead body. See? This show is logical and does make sense. Kinda.
2. Mom was a smokemonster too.
3. Smokey built the donkey wheel but wasn't "man" enough to turn it to get off the island. Now that he's human, he needs to get off the island- he'll do so by the Orchid Station. Ignore the talk of the sub and the airplane- that's all manipulation to kill the candidates.
4. Claudia and evil Mom were speaking latin- that places Claudia's shipwreck before 500AD. So...jacob's been there a while.
5. Jacob and Smokey come off as tragic characters. Irony that Smokey was the favorite of Mom, while Jacob was the weaker, submissive child. Smokey did end up giving Mom what she wanted- a way out of her duties to the Island.
6. I know this hearkens back to last week but...Sideways John Locke is a Pilot? Who else sees Sideways world merging with on-island world and Locke flying everyone off the island on the Ajira plane?
7. I thought the acting was pretty wretched.
8. A lot of people have complained that the waterfall with the golden light was hokey, and that the donkey wheel explanation didnt make any sense. If they said it was G-d in there does it make more sense? If they said it was ancient alien nanotech, does it make more sense? I think the reality is we are dealing with mythology. So go with it. It is what it is. A source of power with the capacity to grant/end/modify life, to move through time and space. Why? How? What's the schematic? Who cares. We know it's electromagnetic energy. That's enough for me.
9. So, Smokey can kill mom with a dagger- mom is still human. Ben can kill Jacob with a dagger. Jacob is still human. Smokey and Jacob can't kill eachother while they are on the island because their mom made it so- similar to how Jacob could grant Alper everlasting life. Smokey can't be killed with a dagger because- he's a disembodied soul inhabiting an astral projection of a dead body. See? This show is logical and does make sense. Kinda.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
One Guy Listened to Juliet- Why the Sideways World is (probably) the Future and Smokey Must Die!
Juliet told us everything we needed to know when she died. The nuke worked. Smokey will die- so will Jacob and the rest of our heroes. The 815 crew, however, are already reborn in Sideways world- but a different Sideways world than we see now. How? Why? stay tuned.... One Guy returns from his hiatus to explain...later today.
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