{"id":1929,"date":"2013-02-07T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2013-02-07T08:48:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T16:48:57","slug":"mark-re-watches-lost-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2013\/02\/mark-re-watches-lost-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Re-Watches &#8216;LOST&#8217;: The End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my god, I did not expect that this finale would affect me so much. I hadn&#8217;t seen it since the summer of 2010, and I assumed that all my ~epic feels~ would have gone away by then. NOPE.\u00c2\u00a0<em>NOPE<\/em>. So y&#8217;all can blame Stef for making me cry on camera like six times.\u00c2\u00a0<em>It&#8217;s all your fault<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Videos first!<\/p>\n<p>Part 1<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/59115834\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Part 2<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/59115836\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">This is another one of those things that I don&#8217;t defend, nor do I feel the need to defend it. I get why people don&#8217;t like it, and I also think season six is largely a hot mess. That being said, I do\u00c2\u00a0<em>love<\/em> this finale, and I love the emotional closure it brought me. I always find that to be more important for me than plot closure, so that&#8217;s just my own personal taste.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>I watched this finale in Burbank at my friend Liz&#8217;s apartment with nearly 20 other people. It is something I&#8217;ll always remember because I&#8217;d\u00c2\u00a0<em>never<\/em> done that with any other show in my life. It was a blast, and we were all yelling\u00c2\u00a0<em>MST3K<\/em>-style the entire time, up until about the last 20 minutes. Then everyone got super, super, super quiet, a few people teared up, then it ended and we all just sat there for like 60 seconds not saying anything at all. THEN THERE WERE A TON OF QUESTIONS, but generally, we were all kind of shocked that it was over.<\/li>\n<li>It wasn&#8217;t until I saw the finale a second time about six days later that it hit me super hard, maybe even harder than it did in these videos. I had a rough first half of 2010. My second relationship had imploded terribly, my work was a nightmare, I was at this pinnacle of depression, self-hate, and body image issues, and I hadn&#8217;t figured out what I wanted to do with my life. Watching &#8220;The End&#8221; a second time really solidified the fact that it was over\u00c2\u00a0<em>forever<\/em>, and as each character &#8220;woke up,&#8221; it destroyed me. I didn&#8217;t want it to be over.<\/li>\n<li>Season six really\u00c2\u00a0<em>is<\/em> super weird. I think it&#8217;s hard to find a way to end a show like this, and I don&#8217;t envy the task. That doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m not above criticizing it. So much of the stuff in the Temple is nonsensical and pointless. I hate Claire&#8217;s arc in this season. The pacing is pretty bad. When Jack smashed everything in &#8220;The Lighthouse,&#8221; I just wanted to punch him in the face. But the good moments more than make up for that. I\u00c2\u00a0<em>adore<\/em> &#8220;Ab Aeterno,&#8221; &#8220;Across The Sea,&#8221; and &#8220;The Candidate.&#8221; &#8220;Everybody Loves Hugo&#8221; is fantastic. And there are countless things in this finale that really make me love how this show went out.<\/li>\n<li>BERNARD AND ROSE ARE THE BEST. Hahaha, seriously. The thing with watching\u00c2\u00a0<em>LOST<\/em> is that as the show went on, the writers kind of\u00c2\u00a0<em>had<\/em> to address things that people were bringing up in the fandom. I hadn&#8217;t experienced this sort of thing since\u00c2\u00a0<em>The X-Files<\/em>, so that element was fun for me. Bernard and Rose also act as a way to turn a critical eye on the relentless ~drama~ so many of these characters act out.<\/li>\n<li>As you&#8217;ll see in the video, I absolutely cannot deal with cute animals and death, so the final scene of &#8220;The End&#8221; is like setting off a bomb of tears.<\/li>\n<li>I love that Hugo and Ben are left to run the island. It&#8217;s a massive character moment for both of them. The writers acknowledge Hugo&#8217;s caring, empathetic personality. Hugo then turns to Ben and offers him a job in a way that respects him, and that&#8217;s something Ben has been searching for his whole life. He wants that sort of validation, and he gets it in the end.\u00c2\u00a0<em>help my heart<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Kate shooting Locke rules.<\/li>\n<li>The video game entrance of Jack&#8217;s punch is so brilliantly awful that I will love it forever.<\/li>\n<li>And I like that the heart of the island is\u00c2\u00a0<em>literally<\/em> a plug and a drain. It reminded me of the giant wheel that Ben turned at the end of season four. Like, the whole time you expected some super complicated nonsense, and it was a goddamn\u00c2\u00a0<em>wheel<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>So, the flash sideways things. I love &#8217;em. I&#8217;m not religious in the slightest, and I still love them. To me, this show was more about how these people were figuratively &#8220;lost&#8221; in their lives, and after their death, these people got the chance to work through those issues and problems that plagued them for so long. I believe that Christian&#8217;s expository dialogue at the end basically confirms that it was by saving the island that these people were able to create that limbo world. Everything they did\u00c2\u00a0<em>mattered<\/em>, so even if that&#8217;s not the &#8220;official&#8221; interpretation, it works really well in my head. It&#8217;s like the island gave them this reward for what they did.<\/li>\n<li>Are there problems here? Yes. Not re-uniting Penny and Desmond was a bad emotional choice. Whether they intended to create mysteries or not, the finale left a whole lot unanswered, though bonus material helped bridge most of the gaps. Still, I can&#8217;t help but love this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Discuss!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my god, I did not expect that this finale would affect me so much. I hadn&#8217;t seen it since the summer of 2010, and I assumed that all my ~epic feels~ would have gone away by then. NOPE.\u00c2\u00a0NOPE. 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