LOST Series Finale: The End

Wow. That's all I can say about last night's riveting series finale for LOST, the show that captivated not only my heart, but everyone's. People, including myself, were devoted to the show in ways people couldn't imagine. Last night's episode was a great closure to a great story. A lot of people went to work, or hit their blogs this morning and wrote how much the finale angered them with little mythology. But really, while LOST is chalked full of mythology, and without it wouldn't be LOST, it's not what LOST is about. Yeah, of course I loved the mythology; the four toed statue, the The Dharma Initiative, Walt, and everything else that wasn't answered in the finale. But at the core, LOST was about the people that were on this rock, how they got their, and how it changed their lives forever. Enough about the overarching series as a whole, lets talk about "The End". While the episode seemed like a feature film at two and a half hours, it seemed rushed. Everything needed to be wrapped up, but there wasn't enough time to do that. With that said, the writers handled it really well. The episode, to me, was all about Jack, and how far he has went as a person. This once science, suicidal man now is confident, knows what he is doing and is a man of faith. He knows how to defeat the man in black, even if it seemed like his plan was failing. In the epic battle scene between Jack and Flocke, which seemed like it had been boiling forever, Jack kills Flocke, but Flocke injures Jack to a point of no return. Jack sacrifices himself to the island, as that is his destiny, only after Hurley accepts the new role of island protector. Now to talk about what EVERYONE is talking about. The final ten minutes of LOST. I, like most of America, was completely lost for most of the final scenes. I was thinking, "What the hell. They're all dead?! That's bullshit!" That was before I really thought about the ending, and re watched what Christian Shepard had to say about the "alt" world (which was really not an alt at all). This world that we were looking at, where everyone that was on the island are now back together, was created by those same people. Their struggles and sacrifices to the island earned this place of afterlife. Now, after they finally realized what they had done in their past lives, and tied up other lose ends that needed to be done (like Jack's father/son issues which was manifested in David, Jack's son that was not actually real), they can leave this world and go on to a new and better one. To achieve this, they had to all be together, because these people spent the most important part of their lives together. In the end, these people were all "special" and play vital roles in protecting the Island, and they were rewarded by this purgatory world that would lead them to the afterlife; the light. In the end, the last scene (on Island) of Jack dying in the exact spot where he woke up from the crash, was so emotional. What made it even more of a tear jerker was Vincent paying his respects to Jack by laying beside him as he left this world. Vincent stood by Jack's motto of "Live Together, Die Alone". LOST was a great ride, and for me, no television show will ever be make me cry, laugh, gasp, wonder, imagine, and any other emotion you can think of, like LOST has. It has been an absolute pleasure being apart of the phenomenon that is, and always will be, LOST.