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My first response to the finale was that it was go...

2010-06-09T16:04:49.074-05:00

My first response to the finale was that it was good, then, discussing it with friends and fellow Losties, I began to get frustrated with the lack of answers.I have spent the last few weeks re thinking my opinion about the finale. I think it was good, but then I really wanted more of the sci-fi parts explained. Anyway, I think my final thoughts are along these lines- it reminded me of the Chronicles of Narnia, especially The Last Battle. I just finished reading that volume to my 10 year old, and now I am seeing several parallels. In the last book of Narnia, the characters are again transported to the land of Narnia (returning to the island). Only the younger ones are able to return (Ana Lucia and some others not being ready for the trip yet). Fighting the last battle against evil (Jack and Flocke on the cliffs). At the end, the characters are trapped in a building and it seems like the end is near, but Aslan appears and they discover they have died and this is Heaven (The gang gathering at the Church and walking into the Light). Also Eloise called the Dharma station in the church basement "the lamp post" (the lamp post is a major landmark in Narnia) This helps me make peace with the fact that I didn't get all the answers that I wanted, but I felt satisfied with the ending. Sorry if this is long, I have been pondering this for awhile. : )
I am going to miss Lost, but I hope I don't get hooked on another show for awhile. 6 years is a long time to wait!

Also- what do you think, Maggie?

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I second the request for Maggie's final though...

2010-06-03T16:47:06.598-05:00

I second the request for Maggie's final thoughts!

i'm a little behind...but as far as the finale...

2010-06-02T21:45:42.224-05:00

i'm a little behind...but as far as the finale goes...i'm not sure it ended the way i would have ended it, but i have to accept that it wasn't my call and that doesn't mean i didn't like it.

i think the sentiment was perfect, regardless of whether or not i agree with the route the writers took to get there....the idea of being "granted" mortality is really interesting and could it be more true that it is not what happens to you in life but how you react to what happens to you that defines your character? thanks LOST, for that reminder and thanks maggie & chuck for your embracing this blog and making it such a fun thing to be a part of. it's no secret how much i loved it!

Maggie, I would like to hear your final thoughts o...

2010-06-01T07:09:25.566-05:00

Maggie, I would like to hear your final thoughts on the series. thanks for all your hard work.

You guys are awesome! Thank you for all the help d...

2010-05-28T22:06:48.412-05:00

You guys are awesome! Thank you for all the help deciphering this show, and for the excellent, awesome writing. As much fun to read as the show was to watch. And I'm not just saying that because I'm your sister.

Maggie, I remember when this was just a friendly m...

2010-05-26T09:43:42.436-05:00

Maggie, I remember when this was just a friendly morning after recap sent out to all of our @senate.gov accounts ... more than anything the end of LOST makes me reflect on where WE were, who we were all those years ago. All those years ago ... GOOD memories. Thanks Maggie and Charlie for making this show so much more fun than it was on its own! I mean, LOST is a good show, one of the best qualities about this program was that it - in my opinion - could not be fully enjoyed and appreciated without community. Thanks for being that for us all.

Congrats on your final post Charlie. You and Maggi...

2010-05-26T00:30:05.358-05:00

Congrats on your final post Charlie. You and Maggie did a great job with this blog and most definitely enhanced my LOST experience.

All in all I liked the ending, altho I think I was one of many fans who called something along these lines when Charlie showed up to Hurley back in season 4(?). I just loved the way they put the reunions together! They were all great but I completely girled out and watched the Sawyer/Juliet one twice. And I laughed out loud when Jack rocked the "300" vengeance leap on Locke during the cliff fight. That was a riot.

I'll miss the show - I'm glad they bowed out gracefully.

If Jack actually dies on the plane (right when Ros...

2010-05-25T23:56:55.775-05:00

If Jack actually dies on the plane (right when Rose tells him to "let go,"), then how can everything on the island be real?

This may seem funny, but the part where each chara...

2010-05-25T20:46:09.688-05:00

This may seem funny, but the part where each character began to "remember" reminded me of the Christopher Walken SNL skit "Ed Glosser: Trivial Psychic" for some reason. I see someone else posted the collegehumor.com video.

Thanks Charlie and Maggie for giving me something to add fuel to my addiction.

First, thank you guys for writing this blog. You h...

2010-05-25T20:22:00.537-05:00

First, thank you guys for writing this blog. You have kept me entertained and sane at times when all I could think was WTF after watching an episode.

I am not upset that questions were left unanswered. I mean, of course they left questions unanswered - this IS LOST after all. I am upset that after 6 years of originality and awesome groundbreaking TV the ending was just blah. I expected more from the writers - I did not expect a blatant rip-off of the Sixth Sense. It seems like Darlton spent the last six years reading the blogs and the theories and they thought "well, since everyone thinks it's purgatory - we might as well give them what they want since we can't think of anything else." Sorry, just venting - i just feel robbed :(

Alright. I personally did not have the same view o...

2010-05-25T17:00:05.102-05:00

Alright. I personally did not have the same view of the ending as everyone else. Actually I didn't even think of the purgatory thing at all until I read this. It makes sense though, and I understand how people would see that, but it's just not what I thought.
I think the Jughead explosion simultaneously worked and didn't work. But since whatever happened happened, the alternate time line people were able to remember the things they had done. Everyone remembered before Jack did, and they all met up at the church in order to help him move on. By "move on", I do not mean go into the after life, which is what everyone else thinks. What I think is that they wanted him to "move on" as in forgive people (namely his father) and let go, as in stop trying to fix everything and stop trying to figure everything out.
I think the people who were upset about the finale are all people who decided that the alternate time line was purgatory. With my interpretation, you get a satisfying ending without the need to discover all the answers. Telling Jack to "let it go" was the writer's way of telling the viewers to "let it go" and just live your life by doing what is good for you and all people, and you don't need to know and understand everything in order to be happy and satisfied, and you don't need to believe in God in order to have faith.
I feel like I don't need to search out for all the answers to all my questions. I like the way it ended. It was emotional and beautiful and philosophical. Great show, great blog, great life that I should get to instead of watching 120 hours of more TV.
This is only my interpretation. I think everyone is right no matter what as long as they take away a meaningful message from it.

Great show. Great blog. Great finale. Great memori...

2010-05-25T15:23:36.040-05:00

Great show. Great blog. Great finale. Great memories. Our generation's Star Wars.

Thanks for your great work.

Dudeson/Chris Beutler/Paul

A very funny video on the unanswered questions: ht...

2010-05-25T14:59:45.730-05:00

A very funny video on the unanswered questions:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1936291

Charlie and Maggie, thank you so much for writing ...

2010-05-25T14:06:21.442-05:00

Charlie and Maggie, thank you so much for writing your thoughts, prompting discussions, and providing a number of laugh out loud moments around every episode of Lost. I have so enjoyed reading this blog the past few years.

I'm going to miss the show, and I'm equally going to miss the Dharma blog. In a way, this blog has mirrored and exemplified exactly what you said the show emphasized: the context is the storyline, but it's really about relationships.

And thanks, LJLA, for posting the link to the video.

Peace,
Bret

Such a great show and what a wonderful blog accomp...

2010-05-25T14:05:57.217-05:00

Such a great show and what a wonderful blog accompaniment! Thanks guys, for the heartfelt and intelligent harmony. This was by no means an intellectually easy show to digest and in particular I really appreciated the tone that you two applied here: open arms. It would have been easy to be condescending and arrogant with your reviews/previews and even more so with the plethora of questions that were fielded. Not so, however. Grace and tact were all over this mother. Thank you for that!

This last season of LOST was a joy and I loved the final episode. Rose and Bernard? Hello! Even Vincent! Shannon? Meh. Still, I loved the beautifully choreographed flashbacks as the AA characters "remembered" each other. It was a perfect tool that harkened back to season one flashbacks. I loved the final image of Jack closing his eye. There was nothing I didn't love. That's just me though. It was a beautiful story. And I'm glad it was told.

My wife made the comment that this show really seemed to hit it's stride with "our" generation. The twenties and thirties crowd. I don't know about that, but I bet it was very serious and potent fodder for some amazing artists yet to be. Maybe I'm being dramatic, but you won't see surprise on my face ten years from now when the high society artists, directors, actors, musicians of that time are asked about their artistic genesis and they include that old "LOST" show as key inspiration.

Present company included.

Thanks again Charlie and Maggie! Namaste!

I think that's where Electromagnetism is the o...

2010-05-25T13:27:52.784-05:00

I think that's where Electromagnetism is the overall answer to everything.

Why did the island time travel? Electomagnetism
Why did the plane fall?
Electromagenetism and Jacob's manipulation of people handling the Electromagnetism
Why was the island so hard to find?
It's magnets messes up navigational systems

Jessie - I totally respect that, and I would'v...

2010-05-25T13:23:37.592-05:00

Jessie - I totally respect that, and I would've loved a big meta-explanation of all the sci-fi stuff. But rethinking about it in terms of what that sci-fi stuff taught our characters, I'm at peace with the lack of technical explanation.

"If I had to choose between hearing about how...

2010-05-25T13:16:16.844-05:00

"If I had to choose between hearing about how people deal with deep philosophical questions or hearing about how time travel could possibly work, I’d pick the former over the latter, a hundred times in a row." I couldn't disagree with that line more, haha! But I'm very left brained and am NOT a philosophy/psychology kind of person. Oh well, I still liked the show though. My only beef is if all of the sci fi stuff essentially didn't matter, why even have it in the script in the first place? The producers had to have known that that was a big thing keeping a lot of people interested (more so than the characters for me). That's a big reason why I felt it was a cop out and was disappointed. Oh well, I really enjoyed reading this blog through the years. Thanks Maggie and Charlie!

Laura, yes, I believe Jughead was ineffective. Ess...

2010-05-25T12:25:13.799-05:00

Laura, yes, I believe Jughead was ineffective. Essentially, Faraday was wrong. And Jughead was one big red herring. Which kind of disappoints me, but oh well.

Unless you look at it from the standpoint of what the Jughead ordeal forced our LOSTies to deal with before they could die. Sawyer learned to cope with tragic loss, Jack realized the consequences of his fixing obsession, etc.

Des said to Jack that none of it (the Island) mattered. Jack replied that it all mattered. I think you could apply that back-and-forth to Jughead. It didn't matter in terms of what it physically created (or didn't), but it's aftermath deeply affected our characters.

I have one final question. does this mean that the...

2010-05-25T12:22:43.420-05:00

I have one final question. does this mean that the jughead bomb explosion at the end of season 6 didn't work?
We know the AA was independent of all of this, and that everything that happened did indeed happen.

(now makes sense that Juliet asked Sawyer if they could go for coffee)

Thanks Charlie and Maggie for the insight. It made...

2010-05-25T12:18:42.454-05:00

Thanks Charlie and Maggie for the insight. It made a really incredible TV show even better.

Charlie,

I'm just sad I didn't have the opportunity to pop over during food day this season and waste a good 15 minutes delving deeper into the show with you.

Namaste

Thanks Charlie and Maggie, loved reading each week...

2010-05-25T12:10:03.739-05:00

Thanks Charlie and Maggie, loved reading each week!

TITLES IN YOUR FACE! They are all Lost themed. Th...

2010-05-25T11:28:54.702-05:00

TITLES IN YOUR FACE!

They are all Lost themed. The End.

Also, enjoy this:

http://www.klkntv.com/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?ClipID1=4810436&h1=LOST%20Fanatics%20Talk%20About%20Finale&vt1=v&at1=News&d1=136500&LaunchPageAdTag=Homepage&activePane=info&rnd=36150310

Good catch Laura. I've also heard that the six...

2010-05-25T11:18:53.812-05:00

Good catch Laura. I've also heard that the six-paned glass was somehow a metaphor for the six seasons of LOST, that each one corresponded somehow with a season. Which makes me wonder if each season was a meditation on a different faith. That'd be an interesting thing to research!