Lost Finale
May. 25th, 2010 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
botiasAt first, I have to admit that I didn't get it. Then, when I understood, I was just happy that I understood. Now, I'm kinda disgruntled. I thought one of the big questions of Lost is materialism vs. faith. Is the island a magical place or just a really weird one? Is there a greater purpose to obeying Jacob, no greater purpose to obeying Jacob, or is Jacob just a figment of the imagination?
Some of these questions were answered before the finale, I know. Jacob is obviously an entity with a plan and a purpose, for example.
I thought the sideways world was an alternate timeline made possible by the bomb going off, that Jack had succeeded even though he'd believed he'd failed, a timeline in which Jacob/the island had not interfered with their lives at critical moments, not least because the island was 'swimming with the fishes'. The plane did not crash, Sawyer did not pursue revenge, Jin and Sun did not get married, etc. Jacob told all the candidates that he had brought them to the island because they needed it in their lives, that they had been unable to create fulfilling lives without it/him. But, he had played a key role in the way their lives had unfolded.
Now I feel kinda meh that the sideways world was a either:
A) a big yes to: Jacob is your path to heaven and knows what's right for you, and yes, there are souls and there is a heaven, boys and girls, and you get to be with the people you love, and how convenient that the characters had only one romantic 'love' each cuz awkward, yay!
OR
B) completely aside from the big questions of the show, had NOTHING to do with the events of the show, and was just the naturally proceedings from the eventual deaths of the characters, making it a really, really drawn out dream sequence in which the characters worked through their personal issues in their own heads without any real world consequences. And their personal issues apparently stayed the same as the ones we were familiar with even though some of the characters lived long after we were no longer acquainted with them.
*frowns*
But whatever, just the creativity and uniqueness of it made it great entertainment, even if it was not ultimately a work of staggering genius.
Some of these questions were answered before the finale, I know. Jacob is obviously an entity with a plan and a purpose, for example.
I thought the sideways world was an alternate timeline made possible by the bomb going off, that Jack had succeeded even though he'd believed he'd failed, a timeline in which Jacob/the island had not interfered with their lives at critical moments, not least because the island was 'swimming with the fishes'. The plane did not crash, Sawyer did not pursue revenge, Jin and Sun did not get married, etc. Jacob told all the candidates that he had brought them to the island because they needed it in their lives, that they had been unable to create fulfilling lives without it/him. But, he had played a key role in the way their lives had unfolded.
Now I feel kinda meh that the sideways world was a either:
A) a big yes to: Jacob is your path to heaven and knows what's right for you, and yes, there are souls and there is a heaven, boys and girls, and you get to be with the people you love, and how convenient that the characters had only one romantic 'love' each cuz awkward, yay!
OR
B) completely aside from the big questions of the show, had NOTHING to do with the events of the show, and was just the naturally proceedings from the eventual deaths of the characters, making it a really, really drawn out dream sequence in which the characters worked through their personal issues in their own heads without any real world consequences. And their personal issues apparently stayed the same as the ones we were familiar with even though some of the characters lived long after we were no longer acquainted with them.
*frowns*
But whatever, just the creativity and uniqueness of it made it great entertainment, even if it was not ultimately a work of staggering genius.
