I re-watched the last twenty minutes, and to my mind, it's one of the most beautiful endings of any show I have ever seen. It's stunningly beautiful. Even Jack's death in the bamboo grove is a good death, because we know he will be all right on the other side, with those who love him.
Maybe I'm more affected right now because my FIL died on the 14th, and death -- and what lies beyond -- has been on my mind recently. For me, then, it's a beautiful and glorious ending, and I like to envision my FIL in a similar setting -- for him, on the river, fishing with his favorite uncle and his grandfather.
I'm re-watching the first season and just watched the first episode. I had completely forgotten that Vincent was there when Jack woke up. To have him there when he died just makes me cry all over again.
Everyone looks pretty much the same after six years. For some reason, other than Claire, all the women do look munch younger in the first episode compared to the last.
It's hard to believe how innocent Locke looks in those first few episodes.
I checked on line and the complete season is going to cost well over $200. I think I'll just buy them one at a time. I bought season one as soon as it came out on DVD but didn't buy any of the other seasons. Now I wish I had.
Yeah, but the $200 collection has a bunch of cool extra stuff, in a really cool box! Yes, I'm a total geek like that.
(05-29-2010 06:38 PM)PrairieGirl Wrote: [ -> ]I re-watched the last twenty minutes, and to my mind, it's one of the most beautiful endings of any show I have ever seen. It's stunningly beautiful. Even Jack's death in the bamboo grove is a good death, because we know he will be all right on the other side, with those who love him.
I'm with you on this.
I watched the last few minutes of the finale again this weekend and I cried like a baby. I'm not ready to re-watch the full episode yet. Heck, I have a hard time talking about it - I feel like my thoughts on the show are so personal, it would be like letting the person read my diary.
I'm probably not the only one who started thinking about who my people would be... I'm not sure I've met them yet, although I have a bunch of candidates in mind! ;-)
I can't watch it again yet, I'm not ready to cry that much!
I'm afraid I won't have too many people with me. Moving around makes for many acquaintances but few real friends. Lots of dogs will be there, though. Lots of dogs. I wish Vincent had been in the church with Bernard and Rose, that would have been so nice.
On a related note, I read Jorge Garcia's blog and today he put up an entry telling us that his precious little dog Nunu was struck by a car and died in his arms on Sunday. He and his girlfriend were on their way to the airport to move back to LA when Nunu was killed. She was a tiny and beautiful little thing, he blogged about her often, put up funny photos and videos of her, and I loved reading about her. She even had a quick moment on LOST, in the episode "Everybody Loves Hugo" that aired in April. He was holding her in a photo montage near the beginning when Hurley is being awarded man of the year. I've been deeply upset about it all day, and of course it made me cry. She was a Chihuahua-Dauchshund mix with huge satellite dish ears. I can't imagine how he feels, a 6 year chapter of his life just ended, he's leaving Hawaii, and on his last day, he loses his precious pup suddenly and violently. It's so, so sad.
OK gotta add on here even though I'm late!
I just FINALLY got to catch up. I recorded it all then watched in in like, 4 days hehe.
I think whatever I feel about the ending - sad, mad, confused, glad, moved, it's all because it's OVER. I was watching them on one of the episodes, getting into the sub, closing the door on Not-Locke, and I just thought dang, I could do another 6 seasons of this stuff!
The dog thing, of COURSE got me too! I kept saying I hoped Vincent hung out with Ben and Hurley for the rest of his time. Yeah he should've been there too, at the church, how cool would that be!
Anastasia, I'm the same way. Not too many people. If I had a group they all wouldn't be close or even know each other anyway. But hey maybe there could be new people, I'd be open to that
Maybe I just don't remember if they explained - but one thing I wanted to know more of was the numbers, why THOSE numbers. Maybe just "island magic" ha ha.
Every once in a while, the ending sneaks into my mind some more.
I think it's interesting the way their afterlives worked out -- it's like it's part of what they thought of themselves.
Jack was still a doctor, and so was Juliet. Sawyer was a cop, not a con -- he righted wrongs. Similarly, the guy who sees dead people was no longer a con, and he was an investigator (which is much like what he did with the dead). Hurley was happy and a person of some importance, which is something he was/wanted/ended up being. Locke and Ben were both teachers, which is a form of autonomous leadership with a bit of propheteering in it -- they were listened to with respect and admiration. Alex was an ordinary girl. Danielle was a mother to her child.
Equally interesting were the ones who had "negative" afterlives -- Charlie was still a drugged out rocker, although he DID have the first revelation that "set him free" in a sense. Kate was still on the run, although she kept asserting she wasn't a criminal -- was it mistaken identity in her afterlife? Sayid was still a shadowy agent/spy type of thing, but the actions we see him do are all for a greater good or in self-defense.
Also interesting are the people who weren't there. Christian said that what happened on the island was such a big part of their lives that they created this afterlife place to meet up in, and make the final transition. That they all died at different times and different places. But the pilot Lapidus wasn't there (luuv Jeff Fahey!) -- is he still alive, a very old man, the last of the island's survivors, or was the island NOT as significant a part of his life as it was for the others? In which case, what else happened in his life that was more compelling than the island!!
The biggest question mark for me -- where is Richard? Is he still immortal?
I'm still working it all out. But the more I think of it, the more I think the ending was brilliant.
Oh yeah I totally forgot about Richard! I'd like to know what's up with him. Yeah, Lapidus too. I can only think he had another afterlife or was like Ben, wasn't quite ready yet. Maybe Richard too.
It helps me to read what other people think too - see things I didn't see before.
My sister is on season 2 and she thinks the whole series, every show, is them in purgatory. I argued that with her - she said she was told or read that her theory is true but I was like NO I just saw it! She was arguing with me a bit. Just to be clear - purgatory was ONLY the "flash sideways" right, not the whole 6 seasons? She insists she read otherwise from a reliable source.
My main disappointment is, there's not any more to watch!
I took Richard getting a gray hair as him starting to age again. Maybe Jacob was keeping him immortal and when he died the immortality ended.
Quote:I wish Vincent had been in the church with Bernard and Rose, that would have been so nice.
ITA Anastasia I was really bummed when i did not see Vincent there. He was just as much a part of that island as everyone else was.
I can't rewatch it even if I wanted to, which I don't.
I don't have it anymore. I deleted it as I needed room on my DVR.
But I know it will be on sale on BlueRay DVD real soon
Anyone planning on buying it??
Not me that's for sure. Once was enough for me.
I can't wait for the Blu-Ray to come out in August! I've seen it online and it's designed all cool and it includes neat stuff, like Jacob's rock game.
So last week I was hanging out with a friend and we started talking about LOST, and he told me he hated the ending and it sucked and was worthless...yada yada yada....because, get this, they all really were in purgatory after all and nothing we saw actually happened!!! For fuck's sake!!! I said, "Christian explained everything to Jack at the end. Didn't you hear him?" and he said, "Christian? Who's that?" "Um...Christian Shephard?" I said. "Who's that?" he asked again. Geez. I had to explain the whole damned thing to him, over and over, many times, I had to explain who Christian was, and this was a guy who swore he was a HUGE fan and took apart each episode with his friend from work each week. The problem is his friend from work is a big religious wingnut guy, and the he told my friend from the beginning of the show it was all a Bible allegory and they were all in purgatory, and when the end happened, the religious wingnut guy was all "See? I told you it was purgatory and nothing we saw really happened!" And my friend believed him instead of, I don't know, actually seeing what really happened, listening to what Christian told Jack at the church, being clever enough to hear Hurley and Ben tell each other they were a great #1 and #2. When I brought that up, you should have seen his face. He was like, Huh? Ben and Hurley watched over the island together? Where did you see that?
The thing is this guy is not someone I think of as an idiot, I think of him as a pretty smart person, and he missed everything and now he's furious that he "wasted" his time watching them all do nothing real in purgatory because that's what his idiot religious wingnut co-worker told him it was. You could see him resisting everything I said, not buying into any of it. And his questions like, "So what was the island? What was the light on the island?" didn't have flat out scientific answers, and he said if there's no real scientific definitive explanation of everything then it's no good.
Le sigh.
That's infuriating Anastasia! If he didn't even know who Christian was, then he was definitely not paying attention.
Some people can't follow a show like LOST. They can't be bothered to pay attention and commit and figure things out.
I may not be able to do a lot of commenting or figuring but at least I know who the players are, Like who Christian was etc, LOL
OMG
Anastasia that had to be very frustrating for you indeed.