Lost finale..

[partly]

I stopped watching Lost somewhere around season two, but I did turn in for the finale.

What I learned from Lost:

Plot doesn't matter. Why things happen doesn't matter. How things started doesn't matter. Free will doesn't matter, because you always en up doing what you were meant to do. Because in the end, the why's, how's and because's don't matter. All that matters is, once your dead, you will get to live in heaven with your true love. If you don't have a true love, you still get to go to heaven and be with other people who are with their true loves.

And if you don't get to heaven right away, don't worry, you get to live a completely fake life until you slowly remember you old life. The best part: anything you do in this fake life, doesn't matter either. You end up with the soulmate from your original life.

I was really hoping for more plot than "everyone dies and goes to heaven"

Comments

[lostonbroadway.livejournal.com]

Wow.
I stopped watching in season 2 as well and I can say that with that type of (non)pay-off I'm kind of glad I didn't stick around to be disappointed.

[partly.livejournal.com]

I stopped watching the show because it never explained anything, there were never reasons for anything. The ending was just like the show. They were great at character moments, but there wasn't any reasons behind those moments.

I really wanted these characters actions -- loves, lives, sacrifices -- to mean something, but in the end, they didn't. All these sacrifices to save the Island, but you're never given a reason why the Island needed to be saved.

I need to stop thinking about this now.

[lostonbroadway.livejournal.com]

Exactly!! Halfway into season 2 I didn't feel I was getting anything at all. Throwing out tons of interesting ideas and mysteries and only answering them with more. It only made me think that they had no idea where they were going.

I think a lot of this depends on also when you began watching. I find a lot of the people I know started out on DVD having a few seasons to catch up on. I think it's much harder to tell just how long you are being yanked around if you have 3 season's worth to watch in a row.

Generally speaking I can forgive plot and inconsistencies in a show if the characters and their actions are ultimately rewarding and it sounds like that wasn't the case. It's too bad. I should probably watch it at some point to make an actual informed opinion, but for now I'll just bitch :-p

[partly.livejournal.com]

Hee. My husband loved the finale and is somewhat disappointed that I did not. The non-answers don't bother him, he just enjoyed the ride. I try my best to see it from his point of view, but I have issues.

I also think that if I could watch it all the way through, it may be better. I think I could do that if I go in knowing there are no answers.