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On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:30 PM, marian_changling <md_moor...@yahoo.com>wrote: > I found it completely emotionally satisfying. The gave each character arc > an end. > > I didn't care for the "light" at the end, but given the extended metaphor > used throughout the series, that would have been difficult to avoid. They > tried to keep the show out of the religious bucket, but that is difficult to > do. I had the same problem with the end of Connie Willis' novel "Passages". > It is difficult to be spiritual but not assign a religion. > > In reading reviews after the show, a lot of reviewers did not get it. They > reverted to thinking that the whole thing was a dream or they were all dead. > My quibbles were exactly the ambiguity that would allow people to think > that, even though they explicitly stated that was not the case in the show. > There were a lot of heated arguments on abc.com on and lostipedia on just > that topic. > > *** SPOILER?**** > > > > > > > > Part of the problem is that Jack is ultimately the viewpoint character. It > "looked" like an ensemble show, but the end only works if you understand > that we don't see anything that Jack doesn't know. We don't know what > happened on the island after he dies. Hurley and Ben continue their > stewardship and later die themselves but we see none of that. So it's > initially confusing to see them at the gathering with the others. > > All in all, better than Battlestar for me. I would love to go back and see > every episode now. I wouldn't do that for Battlestar. (I never saw the 1st > two years of BG and still feel no need to see them.) Michael Emerson revealed in an interview we do get a 15 min epilogue with Ben and Hurley afterwards as #1 and #2 :D :D :D Only thing missing from that extreme squee would be Locke. Locke will forever be my fav char. <3
