PROBLOGUE: However you felt about the Season Five finale of "Lost," perhaps we can start a discussion with our new comment feature at bottom.
I hate the phrase "spoiler alert" more than anything because it's allowed ESPN and Yahoo! to use it as a headline whenever any sort of underdog wins anything, so if you're a fan of "Lost," and don't want to know about the season finale, you should be turning away...
right...
about...
now.
First, and I have to get into this here, because I read all the comments that we're not allowed to type about anything that isn't sports-related -- Matthew Fox played a coach in "We Are Marshall."
With that out of the way, I can compare my feelings on the season finale of "Lost" to the way the 2005-06 Sabres offseason went down -- I'm not sure what just happened, but they've earned my trust. The extra good news about this rationale is that "Lost" only has one year to make my head explode, but on a relative scale, I guess I could be in trouble. Here's a hard-to-read chart a scientist gave me (EDIT NOTE: If your browser is making this graph remarkably small, email me and I'll pass along a larger version).
Like anyone, I have my theories on the finale and the plot, but I feel like I have to trust the show knows what it's doing, based on what it's given me in the past, specifically this season (Much like the Gratton-for-Briere and Warrener/Reinprecht-for-Drury/Begin trades earned Darcy Regier a nice shelf-life in my trust barn).
I can see how anyone would love or hate the season finale, so here's where we can all agree:
Positive:
On one, pretty-positive hand, the Season Five finale of "Lost" supplied genuine emotive moments and long-awaited "answers." When Juliet is holding onto Sawyer while being electro-magnetically pulled toward certain doom, it is genuine and intense, and pretty-good acting (Anyone who believes Sawyer and Kate's interactions are believable probably would go to a 'Bad Acting Hall of Fame,' and buy every souvenir there).
What the show has done, is allowed almost every single character to be hated, loved or sympathized with for at least, let's say, 10 minutes of five seasons. For example, if you're a fan of:
Jack -- you loved him, McNulty-style, right off the bat as a probable hero without the gumption to get the girl, but for almost two years have had moments where you want to slap him with a giant Foo Fighter hand from the "Everlong" video.
Kate -- kinda stinks. She went from adorable felon to scared little girl. The only reason I care if she's alive is because Jack's interminable suffering has to extend back into the real world.
Sawyer -- has been annoying for almost the entire run, but all of the sudden is an "everyman" hero. He's probably supplied the best acting/character development of anyone.
It goes on this way from the rest of the major characters right on down to Jacob, who we've really only seen for one episode (Here's where the Sci-fi nerds say, "Well, technically, uh, Nick, it was two episodes. One from 9 to 10 p.m., and another from 10:00:01 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.... Minus, of course, the commercials,").
Negative:
On the other, very-negative hand, it's like "Lost" jumped past the "We're a young team"-player-excuse suffering to the "Injuries, not effort, hurt us"-player-excuse suffering. If you want to hate the "Juliet makes the bomb explode/Jacob's on fire" ending, you can argue -- perhaps successfully -- that the show essentially spent five-years developing the major characters of the show. You might even say that they didn't figure out anything about the show's ending until this year... if they even know at all. It's what movies are derided for... making you watch 90 minutes and then introducing who's really pulling the strings, as if "you're not intelligent enough for us to introduce this character earlier."
Seriously, "Lost" has an opportunity to pull a "Prison Break" here, and that's not a good thing. Granted "Prison Break" was only a great television show for, what, 30 percent of its run? At most?
Miscellaneous:
-- In college, I was able to avoid the modern demon that is primetime television. I pretty much only watched sports and re-runs of "The Twilight Zone." Since then, I have at some point been "involved" with the following piles of brain destruction:
1. "Lost"
2. "Prison Break"
3. the most-recent season of "The Biggest Loser"
4. "The Office"
5. "30 Rock"
6. "Sons of Anarchy"
7. "The Wire"
8. "Scrubs"
9. "Gary Unmarried"
10. "Tool Academy"
-- 1977 Eloise Hawking is very attractive.
-- The actor who plays Jacob was also in "Prison Break" for a couple episodes. Yikes. I also couldn't stop thinking that he looks like Landry Clarke (Jesse Plemons) from the TV version of "Friday Night Lights."
-- A high-school friend of mine works in Hollywood, and has worked on "Lost." His IMDb.com page has allowed me to play a very fun game with punctuation. See "IMDb resume":
And now I make him more "street," as Corey Griswold would say:
Don't read this if you haven't watched the finale of
Oh my...
05/14/2009 9:10AM
cool.
i feel about the same as you, nick. i have to trust itll be good to the end though
05/14/2009 9:55AM
mike in depew
They won't screw it up
05/14/2009 10:48AM
LOVE THE GRAPH
GOOD STUFF.
05/14/2009 2:59PM
Dumb show
Watch the history channel
05/14/2009 3:24PM
I hate Lost
I hated that finale. What questions did it answer except for ones raised very recently? The writers have made it too complicated and convoluted to be able to resolve all the questions they've raised.
05/14/2009 8:28PM
seriously
So LOST your bascially telling me that Juliet blew up a Hydrogen Bomb because Jack wants to fix things with Kate, but if the bomb thing works and the the timelime is restored and they never know each other he can never get Kate to begin with and if its meant to be is meant to be...i think my head just exploded...clean up aisle 9
05/14/2009 9:44PM
okay watched it
I thought that besides the Jacob and Mr. X thing we learned more in the two episodes before the finale(s).
05/15/2009 8:30AM
solid
I thought the episode was really good, a lot of things seemed to come together, but they also revealed some new things/questions. I think to fully appreciate this show, you have to really follow it closely. Lostpedia helps a lot. To think that "the incident" Dr. Chang was referring to in the DHARMA orientation videos back in season 2 was something that the main characters would end up doing in the past is pretty cool. I guess now we know why he didn't seem to have use of his left arm in the videos.
05/15/2009 10:34AM
Lost
No smoke answer, no happy me.
05/15/2009 3:46PM
whining cause we don't have a neat little package
"I want answers! I want answers! 'Lost' sucks because it makes my head hurt!" How freakin' childish can people be? People, thinking is not a bad thing. Concentration is not an evil to be avoided. But if the very thought of thought causes you tohold your index fingers in front of you in the sign of a cross, then by all means, don't watch 'Lost.' But at least stop griping about it.
05/15/2009 8:28PM
Mike in Hamburg
Nick about the only thing harder to follow than Lost is this article. It is just like the show because it leaves people saying "what??" The show is lame because the title describes the viewers, not the characters.
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