Finally got around to watching the final episode, at last.
I am Jack's disappoint. They made the final episode a clusterfuck of flashbacks to remind people why they liked the series back in the first season(s), turned into a massive feel-good flick. Oh, and they unplugged something so the lights went red and replugged it so all was well and good again.
I liked the series in the beginning. I liked the Richard / Jacob / Darkie origins things too, because they went way back to the roots of the series - describe a character, why they are like they are, their roots, etc. They stopped that somewhere after the third season, iirc.
In fact, I don't feel any connection to the characters at all anymore. In this last season, they had no personality of their own anymore nor development, and were only pawns in the thing.
Am I really the only one that thinks the characters were just following the guy that said 'Yo follow me' all the time, switching around every two or three episodes? Don't they have a mind of their own?
Rose and her dentist really are the only sensible people on that island. The rest is just 'Err, okay, I'll follow you and do what I say!'
I mean, wtf was that with Desmond in the final episode? He gets chucked down the cave, and Jack / Locke go 'Yeah just do whatever, we dunno what'll happen but I'm sure it'll do
something'. What the fuck, imho, completely random in my book.
Someone noted earlier that the writers themselves didn't know what was going on anymore - this is true.
Anyways, going to quote a few people and respond for the heck of it.
Chameleon said:
And that's where we come to why I believe the handling of this episode was deliberately constructed to elicit the disappointment it has in so many fans. As blogger Maureen Ryan noted in her review, the show's creators have often commented that "providing answers can be inherently less interesting than exploring questions."
imho, they'd be better off ending the series with a giant massive 'WTF?', only then not the WTF like they did now, but more like they did at the beginning of the series - a monster in the forest, polar bears, a hatch which, when finally opened after a full season or more, only produced more WTFs. I mean, biggest WTF I can remember is when the room under the hatch went into lock(e)down and there was a map of WTF drawn on that wall. Things like that made the series interesting - not the new-age feel-good bollocks they ended the series with.
The fact they had multiple endings just in case someone talked just proves the point that the writers hadn't have a clue either.
The Man said:
Honestly, anyone who complains about that ending was watching the wrong show.
Fuck you,
.
Dacon said:
Also, fuck picard. Terry O Quinn would make an awesome Xavier if X-Men First Class comes to be.
Fuck yeah orange teeth Xavier,
. Actually, he'd do the job, but I dunno if he'd be all that awesome.
His smug smile's starting to piss me off too. imho, they destroyed his character when they killed him off but had to bring him back as the antagonist.
Man said:
My only real disappointment is that I wish we'd seen Mr Eko in the finale. He was one of my favourite characters.
+1. They should've kept him in the series, imho, at least for somewhat longer. And write off Jack in the pilot like they initially intended him, instead of making him the main guy. His character's main line, in summary, 'I don't understand!1'. Bleh.
I'm glad they didn't include those two fails they killed off by live burial though.
Also, did I just not see Hurley's woman in the side flash thing / churgh or did they not include her?
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Anyways. Overall, good series, probably the best I've ever seen and followed so diligently, but they really should've written out a proper story earlier on instead of shifting back and forth so often. Like I said, little of the reasons why I and other people liked the series remained in the last two or three seasons - character origins and development, mysteries being resolved only with bigger questions, etc. It went downhill when they suddenly had to invent new storylines halfway through, chuck in some characters, that kinda thing.
To the actors: Enjoy your new modeling and acting careers.
To Jack's actor: I don't want to see you ever again.
