{"id":1970,"date":"2010-05-24T00:10:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T05:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theackattack.net\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2015-04-07T16:54:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T21:54:20","slug":"spoiler-alert-discussion-post-for-%e2%80%9cthe-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theackattack.net\/?p=1970","title":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT: Discussion Post for “The End”"},"content":{"rendered":"

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING POST CONTAINS SPOILERS FROM THE LATEST EPISODE OF LOST.
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Mini-recap will be up tomorrow! <\/p>\n

After the jump: Let’s freak out about this together, guys.<\/p>\n

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I loved this finale!!! For those of you who are still scratching your heads over that ending, here’s my own personal opinion on what happened:<\/p>\n

The Flight 815 crash and everything after that really did<\/em> happen just as we saw it. Then people died one by one, either on the island (Shannon, Boone, Sayid, etc.) or off; all the people on the plane – Kate, Sawyer, etc. and Hurley, Ben, Desmond all kept living their lives after the moment of Jack’s death, each dying later down the road. Then they all ended up in limbo, and one by one they were able to understand what was happening, and once they all understood, they could move on together. Think of the end of Lord of the Rings, with the hobbits and Gandalf sailing away, or the end of Titanic with Jack and Rose meeting in the ballroom with all the other people from the ship. Since time doesn’t exist in the afterlife, to them, they had all just died, despite the fact that Jack died in 2007 and Hurley died 60 years later. I think Christian Shephard was the one who finally helped Jack “let go” because he was the one Jack trusted most, but I don’t necessarily think Christan was god, it’s just that god\/the higher power\/etc. was using Christian’s face.<\/p>\n

Overall I absolutely loved it, it was funny, moving, crazy, action-packed…basically it was all the things that we have come to expect from Lost. I am totally satisfied! They’re no longer Lost now that they’ve Found one another. Get it? <\/p>\n

Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. How could Desmond go between worlds when one was actually the afterlife?<\/p>\n

2. How did Jack end up on those rocks outside the waterfall?<\/p>\n

3. Was David just Jack’s subconscious wishing he’d had a child?<\/p>\n

4. While we’ll never really understand the magical light in the island, why did the light going out make Smokey vulnerable?<\/p>\n

Thoughts:<\/strong><\/p>\n

So I guess after all, it was Live Together, Die Together!<\/p>\n

So when Juliet was dying after the bomb went off, she was getting glimpses of the afterlife! Edit: I didn’t even realize she said “It worked” about the vending machine trick. Now we know what that meant – it had nothing to do with the bomb!<\/p>\n

On Jimmy Kimmel they showed the first Sideways World scene when we saw the plane’s turbulence, and Rose looked over to Jack and said, “It’s okay, you can let go.” So that’s when it all started! Perhaps that turbulence was the moment Jack died.<\/p>\n

Now we know what Desmond meant last week when he said Ana-Lucia wasn’t “ready!”<\/p>\n

As many of you know, I am all about Sawyer\/Kate, so seeing Jack and Kate make out and proclaim their love for each other was my least favorite part of the finale. Also, Sawyer and Juliet finding each other in the Sideways World was definitely very moving, but again, not what I was hoping for. I’m just going to pretend that Sawyer and Kate got off Lapidus’ plane and went and lived happily ever after together so I’m not completely bitter. :D<\/p>\n

Now we know why Eloise was so hell bent on stopping Desmond – she was “enlightened” and could have moved on, but she wanted to stay with Daniel. I think that’s also why Ben didn’t go into the church – he didn’t want to move on without Alex.<\/p>\n

I’m so happy Hurley was the one to take over the island, and that he was a much kinder and gentler Protector than Jacob ever was! And that Ben was his Number Two! I wondered why Jack couldn’t have just made Ben the Protector and left Hurley out of it haha.<\/p>\n

So Michael and other people who were not in the church are the Whispers on the island – they’re stuck there. I get it now! They can’t get into Sideways World!<\/p>\n

I’m so happy Richard gets to die of old age! And that Frank Lapidus was totally alive!<\/p>\n

The epic way Smokey died was incredible. That was some crazy shit right there.<\/p>\n

Lots of moments made me cry, but the Charlie\/Claire\/Kate\/Aaron scene pretty much broke me. And the Sun and Jin flash.<\/p>\n

I loved seeing Rose and Bernard again, and of course Vincent.<\/p>\n

The very last minute, with Jack laying down in the grass in the same exact place he first woke up, with the plane flying overhead, was fantastic. As was that shot of Jack and Locke looking down the waterfall, which was the same shot as them looking down into the hatch at the end of Season 2!<\/p>\n

I absolutely loved Ben and Locke’s exchange outside the church. Someone finally telling Locke he was special gave me the warm & fuzzies.<\/p>\n

Seeing everyone in the church together was so awesome. And it was great seeing Shannon and Boone again!<\/p>\n

Now Jack’s “appendix scar” and that cut on his neck that wouldn’t stop bleeding all makes sense! PHEW!<\/p>\n

I’m sure we’ll all have more to say over the days to come, but I wanted to get this post up ASAP. WOO!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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