The end is the beginning and the beginning is the end… “Wait, so there was a drain plug on the island that kept it from sinking?”
Humor aside, “Lost” has been one of my favorite shows of all time and I think the golden age of television may be over for my generation. There’s nothing to religiously watch anymore. All the good shows have come and gone – Futurama Classic, Arrested Development, Life, Star Trek – all gone.
I think the show ended on a good note which is full of spirituality and holds high entertainment value to its viewers. Critics will call it a “WTF” ending, but because we see the alternate reality as actually a purgatory of sorts, the audience has a glimpse of a happy ending for all their beloved characters. Surely I did predict Hurley would be the new caretaker of the light, and that Jack would die on the island as the show came to a bookend close, but I never would have guessed the events that would have lead us to the end – a misdirection that Jack took as the temp, or the alternate reality ending. I’m just glad it wasn’t Hurley’s dream or one of those other guesses widely spread on the internet.
To say that cast was already dead is also up for interpretation, but to me it seems that the island held more of a Fountain of Youth mythology and that it transcended time and space. We saw what happened in the past, then what happened in the future, and then we saw a place where there was no time, no space, and in a sense the step we all must take to let go: acceptance.
So, what’s next?
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