Any thoughts on Lost ?
May. 26th, 2007 03:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaniI've just watched the 2 hour finale of Lost. Wow!
I enjoyed the two episodes and ok they did surprise me this time!
I didn't expect the final twist at all. I suspected that something didn't fit when we saw Jack's ex-wife all pregnant but I couldn't have guessed why! Changing the writing formula like that was brilliant. The flashbacks routine about the characters' background was getting old. It was a daring move. The the island stuff has become the flashbacks while the off-island stuff was set in the future. I wonder if it's going to be the rule next season. Maybe we won't see beared messed-up Jack at all until the show is over.
But first off the stuff I loved.
I loved how Rose left Bernard (I'm a dentist not Rambo!) and the way Jin and Sun parted.
I loved that Sawyer decided to go back to the beach. I knew he wouldn't leave his Jin behind! *g* And of course I loved how Hugo saved the day using Roger's car. Great connection with the previous episodes. The Sawyer/Hurley/Jin male bonding moments have been one of the highlights of this season, add Sayid in the mix and it's terrific.
When Sawyer killed Tom in cold blood it reminded me of Juliet killing that guy on the beach to allow Sawyer, Kate and Karl to leave. I don't think it was a coincidence. The scenes mirror each other. Also Sayid snapping the last other's neck with his legs recalled Jack's threat about snapping Ben's neck. Jack is all talk but Sayid is action man even when his hands are tied up.
Looks like almost all the major characters have killed someone so far. They all have blood in their hands.
I loved that Desmond had to dive in, helped Charlie and how they kept giving hints at Ulyss' Myth when Mickail showed up and Charlie called him a Cyclop while Desmond/Odysseus was hiding inthe cave station. And of course Penny introduced herself as Penelope in case it wasn't enough...
I loved how Charlie calmly explained to the two "amazons" that he would drown if the station were flooded. I loved that only a musician could compose the code by typing The Beach Boys ' "Good Vibrations". It was such a poetic yet funny touch. Charlie was meant to go off while being on stage! I loved how Charlie died. I even cried and I think it's because of Desmond's presence. I knew Charlie was going to die, it was so obvious, so I was prepared for him to drown but I lost it when Desmond was running, saw Penelope's face on the screen, called her and Charlie locked the door to protect him from the flood and wrote the "No Penny's boat" note for Desmond to see as he was facing death. Damn that was intense!
I don't necessarily want happy endings but I want one for David Desmond Hume. He really deserves it.
The stuff I enjoyed.
I was relieved to see Locke open his gorgeous green eyes, finding himself on his back again, thinking he was paralyzed again. His attempt of suicide recalled Jack on the bridge. I didn't expect Walt to show up but it makes sense and echoed previous apparitions of Walt. And it was connected to what Sawyer told Tom.
Locke showing up eventually wasn't very surprising but it's always good to see him being resilient, on his feet. His killing Naomi was "lessened" by the fact we knew she'd lied thanks to Charlie's message. What Jack did was a mistake, we know it from the post-island stuff we got to see. He screwed up and paid the price after all. Does it redeem Ben as well? I don't think so.
I liked the fact that Locke couldn't kill Jack though.
Also I didn't like Moses!Jack but I enjoyed screwed-up Jack. I liked how everything was tied in. I liked that the theme of whether going back or not had echoes in the Jack-flashes. I liked that Jack was becoming his father Christian too while the young surgeon was playing his former role. By the way I wonder if the moment in which he told him to get his father to see who was the drunkest one was significant or not. The doctor didn't reply. We know that Christian is supposed to be dead. Was it just a way to show how much Jack had lost it while keeping the audience in the dark about the final twist? Given his comment we could believe that were seeing flashbacks as usual.
I'm pretty sure that many fans have frozzen the shot on the newspaper obituary and already know whose funeral it was. It's probably nobody we know, and there's a whole season ahead that is going to explain why Jack thought that Kate might show up at the funeral but I like to think it was another poetic touch that echoed Charlie's death.
As for Jack on the bridge, wanting to fall off, wanting his flights to crash, wanting to go back to the island, I can't help thinking that the writers have been inspired by the finale of Life On Mars!
By the way, if Jack believes that taking any flight and hoping for it to crash would bring him back to the island, it seems a huge clue about what the island might be.
Stuff I didn't like much.
Kate and Jack.
Obviously the writers insist in wanting that pairing to be the romantic core of the show. They made it clear when Jack told her his love in the flashbacks and making them leave the island together even though they are not together (by the way I think the "he" Kate hinted at might be her husband, Captain Tightpants!). But it doesn't work for me. They just don't write Jate right at all, it's never moving, it's predictable, boring and formulaic beyond the telling of it.
I didn't expect the final twist at all. I suspected that something didn't fit when we saw Jack's ex-wife all pregnant but I couldn't have guessed why! Changing the writing formula like that was brilliant. The flashbacks routine about the characters' background was getting old. It was a daring move. The the island stuff has become the flashbacks while the off-island stuff was set in the future. I wonder if it's going to be the rule next season. Maybe we won't see beared messed-up Jack at all until the show is over.
But first off the stuff I loved.
I loved how Rose left Bernard (I'm a dentist not Rambo!) and the way Jin and Sun parted.
I loved that Sawyer decided to go back to the beach. I knew he wouldn't leave his Jin behind! *g* And of course I loved how Hugo saved the day using Roger's car. Great connection with the previous episodes. The Sawyer/Hurley/Jin male bonding moments have been one of the highlights of this season, add Sayid in the mix and it's terrific.
When Sawyer killed Tom in cold blood it reminded me of Juliet killing that guy on the beach to allow Sawyer, Kate and Karl to leave. I don't think it was a coincidence. The scenes mirror each other. Also Sayid snapping the last other's neck with his legs recalled Jack's threat about snapping Ben's neck. Jack is all talk but Sayid is action man even when his hands are tied up.
Looks like almost all the major characters have killed someone so far. They all have blood in their hands.
I loved that Desmond had to dive in, helped Charlie and how they kept giving hints at Ulyss' Myth when Mickail showed up and Charlie called him a Cyclop while Desmond/Odysseus was hiding in
I loved how Charlie calmly explained to the two "amazons" that he would drown if the station were flooded. I loved that only a musician could compose the code by typing The Beach Boys ' "Good Vibrations". It was such a poetic yet funny touch. Charlie was meant to go off while being on stage! I loved how Charlie died. I even cried and I think it's because of Desmond's presence. I knew Charlie was going to die, it was so obvious, so I was prepared for him to drown but I lost it when Desmond was running, saw Penelope's face on the screen, called her and Charlie locked the door to protect him from the flood and wrote the "No Penny's boat" note for Desmond to see as he was facing death. Damn that was intense!
I don't necessarily want happy endings but I want one for David Desmond Hume. He really deserves it.
The stuff I enjoyed.
I was relieved to see Locke open his gorgeous green eyes, finding himself on his back again, thinking he was paralyzed again. His attempt of suicide recalled Jack on the bridge. I didn't expect Walt to show up but it makes sense and echoed previous apparitions of Walt. And it was connected to what Sawyer told Tom.
Locke showing up eventually wasn't very surprising but it's always good to see him being resilient, on his feet. His killing Naomi was "lessened" by the fact we knew she'd lied thanks to Charlie's message. What Jack did was a mistake, we know it from the post-island stuff we got to see. He screwed up and paid the price after all. Does it redeem Ben as well? I don't think so.
I liked the fact that Locke couldn't kill Jack though.
Also I didn't like Moses!Jack but I enjoyed screwed-up Jack. I liked how everything was tied in. I liked that the theme of whether going back or not had echoes in the Jack-flashes. I liked that Jack was becoming his father Christian too while the young surgeon was playing his former role. By the way I wonder if the moment in which he told him to get his father to see who was the drunkest one was significant or not. The doctor didn't reply. We know that Christian is supposed to be dead. Was it just a way to show how much Jack had lost it while keeping the audience in the dark about the final twist? Given his comment we could believe that were seeing flashbacks as usual.
I'm pretty sure that many fans have frozzen the shot on the newspaper obituary and already know whose funeral it was. It's probably nobody we know, and there's a whole season ahead that is going to explain why Jack thought that Kate might show up at the funeral but I like to think it was another poetic touch that echoed Charlie's death.
As for Jack on the bridge, wanting to fall off, wanting his flights to crash, wanting to go back to the island, I can't help thinking that the writers have been inspired by the finale of Life On Mars!
By the way, if Jack believes that taking any flight and hoping for it to crash would bring him back to the island, it seems a huge clue about what the island might be.
Stuff I didn't like much.
Kate and Jack.
Obviously the writers insist in wanting that pairing to be the romantic core of the show. They made it clear when Jack told her his love in the flashbacks and making them leave the island together even though they are not together (by the way I think the "he" Kate hinted at might be her husband, Captain Tightpants!). But it doesn't work for me. They just don't write Jate right at all, it's never moving, it's predictable, boring and formulaic beyond the telling of it.