I found myself almost bored, anxious to get everyone enlightened so we could get to the show's overarching resolution. evil? Where would the characters go from there? Those were the questions on my mind during the finale, all of which were tackled in the final few minutes - but all of which also made the preceding two hours and twenty minutes feel anticlimactic.
What would this mean in the battle of good vs.
The past few weeks were building to that. Almost as obviously, they'd all be awoken to their experiences on the island. But Sideways Desmond was around, enlightening folks left and right, causing on-island events to lack a sense of urgency.Ĭlearly, everyone was not going to die, no matter what MIB threatened or did. MIB wanted to destroy the island, and we were told this was bad. But this sort of focus was missing from this finale (heck, from the season) because Lost purposely kept us in the dark about the Sideways World. In the past, each season's end game was clear: get into the hatch. We understand Jack is a man of faith now, but it wasn't clear what viewers were supposed to be waiting for as all this went down. Rose and Bernard pulled Desmond to safety?!? Jack and Locke met in a field, and the new Jacob had no actual plan? He was on board with simply hoisting Desmond down a cave and seeing what his actions produced? However, "The End" sacrificed logical, suspenseful storytelling in the name of delayed character development/resolution.Įvery development on the island felt arbitrary, something cooked up by the writers as an after-thought just to get individuals in place for the series-concluding revelation. We've been on board with this assessment. Producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have spent season six telling us the show is about characters, not jaw-dropping answers. But let's start with events on the island during these two-and-a-half hours - because they were a major clusterf%$k!
The final message of Lost is an interesting one, a profound one and the mythology surrounding it will be debated among viewers for as long as the series ran. See you in another life, brutha? How right Desmond has been all along.