More Than 23 Questions About The Lost Series Finale, Answered!
Where's Walt? Didn't Carltamon Dacuse promise us Walt would be in the finale?
We like to think that Walt's spirit assumed the form of Vincent the dog, Smokey-style, as he comforted Jack in the moments before The Final Eye-Closing. That way we don't have to feel like we were lied to about getting a last WAAAALLLLLLT moment.
What are the six major world religions represented on the Stained Glass Window of Spiritual Inclusion in the Church Of Going Toward the Nondenominational Afterlife Light?
Clockwise, from upper left: Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Seventh Day Donkeywheelism, Hinduism.
How is Shannon Sayid's true love, and not Nadia, the soulmate he's been chasing across time/space for six seasons?
Scheduling conflict?
Why did Kate change out of her slinky cocktail dress for the funeral/wake/purgatorial going-away party?
A sexy look wasn't appropriate for the occasion of celebrating your boyfriend's dramatic realization and acceptance of his own death.
So here we go: After much executive producer protestation that the island was not, in fact, a Purgatory -- the first guess most people made about the big mystery early on in season one -- the Flash Sideways turns out to be a Purgatory, and, just to rub some salt in your stigmata, it had no effect on what happened on the island?
It is what it is. You're either down with the Flash Sideways as a place where our beloved characters connected for the last time before their posthumous Wake-Ups allowed them to move on to the Very Well-Lit Next Place together, or you feel betrayed by a spiritual non-answer of a final answer. Or perhaps you feel both of these things, or neither. There's some very complicated emotional sh*t happening within all of us right now, okay, as we stare into a television set that now deprives us of a mythology-heavy serial that we can endlessly debate on the internet.
OK, yeah, great, but wasn't the island under water in the Flash Sideways?
Ssssh!
Why bother with that if nothing there was "real"?"
Enough. Purgatory!
Why no Walt and Michael at the party?
[Plugs ears.]
What was up with that final-final shot of the seemingly undisturbed Oceanic crash site over the end credits?
It was just a pretty picture!
Was that inserted so that we could could think, if we reall
y wanted an alternate mindf*cky ending, that maybe no one survived the initial crash, and the whole show was afterlife?
No. No!
Then why was it there?! They already showed Jack closing his eye in the "final image"!
We hate you so much right now.
These questions could go on forever, couldn't they?
Endings are really, really hard.
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Comments
While I enjoyed the season end I must admit that I miss the days of supernatural when they were just plain hunting ghosts rather than the long drawn out storylines.
how come there are hidden messages when you forward on the part of when it shows LOST in white letters you can see another picture with a word one of them reads desaparecidos.
This touching and quirky Australian short is about the things that just don't fit. The imagination and animation, especially in the finale, are dazzling.
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