the blogumentary of that magic number

I’ve been processing the finale since last night, loosing a touch of sleep over it and waking up still seething at my unsatisfaction of it. It’s much the way I remember feeling about Pulp Fiction. I hated it and in the weeks after and having the need to watch it a couple more times, it became one of my favorite movies. I’m really hoping that the Lost series finale will have the same fate but only time will tell. At the end of the day, my feelings on the finale don’t matter as we just have to accept it and move on, just as Desmond has been telling us. In the meantime, here are my in

itial reactions/questions. 

Yes, the show has always been about the characters and in that sense, I guess putting them all in a church once they have all died, a church where time doesn’t exist, works. But there are many things that don’t. 

To be clear, I never expected the finale to answer all my questions. I knew they would have to leave things a bit of a mystery. If they answered everything, it wouldn’t be the great show it has been for 6 years. But I did expect more than what I got. As a friend of a friend put it, I felt like I was “M. Night Shyamalan’d.”

* What did Juliet mean when she said “it worked” since the bomb didn’t change anything in the island reality, which was the real world and the flash-sideways world was “purgatory.” She said “it worked” when she was helping Sawyer/James with the candybar when he unplugged the machine. Is that the moment when she “died?” I can only assume so and her consciousness on the island was coinciding with the alt-world. Because, well, the bomb didn’t work as they had intended. 

* What was the imagery of the island of the bottom of the ocean in the beginning of season 6? It never sank. Is that from the alt

-world where the plane never crashed, and never really existed? 

* As most blogs have already wondered, why did Shannon end up w/ Sayid and not Nadia? Guess it wasn’t his true love after all? And Boone…why didn’t we get to see his awakening? Did he not have enough time to film because of his commitment on Vampire Diaries? 

* Where’s Walt?? If the church was where they all go after they die, they can appear in any form so why couldn’t Walt be there as tall as he is now? I get why Michael wasn’t there as he is trapped on the island but where was Mr. Eko? Was there bad blood between him & the producers that prevented him from being in the finale? I mean C’mon! There wasn’t a single reference of him at all. In my head, I’m going to say that Walt returned to the island and took over as the new Jacob or Richard and never dies. That is why he is special. Mr. Eko is whispering sweet nothings into someones ear along with Michael. Either that or purgatory is racist against black people. 

* And yes, I do think it is a cop out that the creators said that the “ISLAND” is not purgatory, but the other world is. 

* Why does Eloise Hawking/Widmore know everything? 

* Is Ben essentially good now? He’s asked forgiveness from Locke been granted such but Ben chooses not to enter the chapel. He’s got things to do? Like what? Go find the daughter he killed? Maybe he doesn’t feel he deserved to be there. But he was a good Number 2. And I am glad that the Real Locke was “back.”

* In this afterlife, where was Richard now that he is mortal. Did the whole uncorking that made FLocke mortal make Richard mortal too? I never expected to have the Source explained but I thought there would be some sort of big bang/colliding of the 2 Universes thing happen. Guess I was wrong. 

I could go on and on…but as you see. I am unsatisfied with this ending and crossing my fingers for all kinds of extras when the series DVD is released in the fall. 

Wait…I see it all now. 

It was just a long con. They just want our money.