"Lost Season 6" reviews
“The show of studying his heart and soul, a character. We have been as a narrator of what makes people the way they are fascinated. “Said the” Lost “co-creator Damon Lindelof.
The finale was two hours and a half years 9/8c, local news can go a half hour, followed by post-final already announced special am Jimmy Kimmel Live: Lost in Aloha, at 12:05
Since the beginning of the trip to Lost producer ABC from top to bottom the show was never like characters in an afterlife, as explained under oath purgatory stuck. With the track’s final season they broke their promise and made a fine line not to break it.
Unanswered Questions: The show’s executive producers stated that the series finale wouldn’t tie everything up in a nice bow and it didn’t. There were still a few things left unanswered like, where does the island come from? What was the light cave? What did the numbers mean? Why was Penny in the church but her brother Daniel wasn’t? What was Jacob? What was the Man in Black’s name? If these things were answered at some point let me know and I’ll stand corrected.
Is that the sentiment we’re supposed to take from this finale? That through the extraordinary experience they all shared, they were able to tear a hole in reality where they could be together forever? Interesting. It was definitely an emotional ending and one that will have people talking but I’m not sure if I’m OK with all the plot holes they left open. I’m all for leaving a little mystery but for a show like “Lost,” you can’t finish its run by basically saying, “In the end they all died (at some point).” That just seems a little….light.
Well, the final episode has everything I had on the sixth season of Lost, since it runs from the time the plane crashed and then when Jack and Kate went to the funeral of the father of Jack , who died in that plane crash. It was beyond that described in great detail in the final of Lost as when she met Jack Christian of his death he said that when a person dies and enters a light, which you can call as each person has to die once, and enter into the light.
This, I was worried about. Lost has always flirted with religious imagery, though never quite so blatantly as the finale did. It seems the series took a leaf out of the Evangelion/Battlestar Galactica book: if all else fails, go for the divine metaphor. As great as it was to see all the characters together, and as much fun as it was watching their "reawakening" in the other universe, the payoff was simply not what it should have been. It seems like religious mythology has fast become the shorthand "important ending" for genre TV. At this point, I'm half-expecting 24 to end with Jack Bauer shooting his way into Hell and kicking the Devil square in the balls.
But again, it's not the revelations that matter, but the characters. And this is where my single big problem with the finale lies. For a lot of the characters, the ending simply wasn't enough of an ending. Desmond's story isn't finished. There's nothing to stop Kate wanting to come back to see if Jack made it. What will happen to Richard? Or Miles? I'm not sure "they die and go to Heaven" is a particularly good answer, and Kate telling Jack she missed him, and Hurley and Ben congratulating one another isn't really enough. More in-joke than payoff.
I will concede to Mr. Knize that this was the weakest season of Lost, but I do applaud how it wrapped up the overall plot in its own unique way. Just about every character got an ending to his or her particular arc, for better or for worse, which is no small feat for such a large cast of characters. Subsequent viewings of this season on DVD will determine how well this final season fits with the previous five seasons, and frankly I can’t wait to start the show over again from Season One and relive this crazy trip. Overall, I’m amazed that such a deep, multilayered, genre-spanning show was so consistently popular with a general audience for six years, which is a testament to the amazing talents that have worked on this show, from the writers and directors to the amazing cast and the fantastic score by Michael Giacchino. For one of the most unique and surprising series finales in TV history, “The End” gets 4.5 out of 5 Climactic Showdowns, the season as a whole gets 4 out of 5 Inflated Expectations, and the series as a whole earns 5 out of 5 Eyeline Closeups.
The finale was two hours and a half years 9/8c, local news can go a half hour, followed by post-final already announced special am Jimmy Kimmel Live: Lost in Aloha, at 12:05
Since the beginning of the trip to Lost producer ABC from top to bottom the show was never like characters in an afterlife, as explained under oath purgatory stuck. With the track’s final season they broke their promise and made a fine line not to break it.
Unanswered Questions: The show’s executive producers stated that the series finale wouldn’t tie everything up in a nice bow and it didn’t. There were still a few things left unanswered like, where does the island come from? What was the light cave? What did the numbers mean? Why was Penny in the church but her brother Daniel wasn’t? What was Jacob? What was the Man in Black’s name? If these things were answered at some point let me know and I’ll stand corrected.Is that the sentiment we’re supposed to take from this finale? That through the extraordinary experience they all shared, they were able to tear a hole in reality where they could be together forever? Interesting. It was definitely an emotional ending and one that will have people talking but I’m not sure if I’m OK with all the plot holes they left open. I’m all for leaving a little mystery but for a show like “Lost,” you can’t finish its run by basically saying, “In the end they all died (at some point).” That just seems a little….light.
Well, the final episode has everything I had on the sixth season of Lost, since it runs from the time the plane crashed and then when Jack and Kate went to the funeral of the father of Jack , who died in that plane crash. It was beyond that described in great detail in the final of Lost as when she met Jack Christian of his death he said that when a person dies and enters a light, which you can call as each person has to die once, and enter into the light.
This, I was worried about. Lost has always flirted with religious imagery, though never quite so blatantly as the finale did. It seems the series took a leaf out of the Evangelion/Battlestar Galactica book: if all else fails, go for the divine metaphor. As great as it was to see all the characters together, and as much fun as it was watching their "reawakening" in the other universe, the payoff was simply not what it should have been. It seems like religious mythology has fast become the shorthand "important ending" for genre TV. At this point, I'm half-expecting 24 to end with Jack Bauer shooting his way into Hell and kicking the Devil square in the balls.
But again, it's not the revelations that matter, but the characters. And this is where my single big problem with the finale lies. For a lot of the characters, the ending simply wasn't enough of an ending. Desmond's story isn't finished. There's nothing to stop Kate wanting to come back to see if Jack made it. What will happen to Richard? Or Miles? I'm not sure "they die and go to Heaven" is a particularly good answer, and Kate telling Jack she missed him, and Hurley and Ben congratulating one another isn't really enough. More in-joke than payoff.
I will concede to Mr. Knize that this was the weakest season of Lost, but I do applaud how it wrapped up the overall plot in its own unique way. Just about every character got an ending to his or her particular arc, for better or for worse, which is no small feat for such a large cast of characters. Subsequent viewings of this season on DVD will determine how well this final season fits with the previous five seasons, and frankly I can’t wait to start the show over again from Season One and relive this crazy trip. Overall, I’m amazed that such a deep, multilayered, genre-spanning show was so consistently popular with a general audience for six years, which is a testament to the amazing talents that have worked on this show, from the writers and directors to the amazing cast and the fantastic score by Michael Giacchino. For one of the most unique and surprising series finales in TV history, “The End” gets 4.5 out of 5 Climactic Showdowns, the season as a whole gets 4 out of 5 Inflated Expectations, and the series as a whole earns 5 out of 5 Eyeline Closeups.
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