Okay – so I never talk about TV here (which is funny because the number of programs I now watch exceeds what I consider to be reasonable or even healthy)…. But I have a question and I thought I’d put it out there.
I know there are many different views on last night’s Lost finale, and I’m not going to discuss them or say anything requiring a spoiler alert. I just find one specific thing unclear.
I personally loved the end and felt like it answered most of my questions. I thought it was incredibly poignant and beautiful. But I’m completely mystified by what exactly the bomb did. Juliet said that “it worked.” But how? Based on what we come to realize about the “sideways world,” it made me wonder what the bomb had to do with anything (this is based on the premise that it really happened of course).
So if I’m missing something very obvious – please enlighten me.
Where is Christian Shephard when you need him….?
wish i could help… but i´ve never seen it. happy week!
I have no idea.
The finale confused me a little bit. I still loved it though.
OMG, I was so hoping you would do a LOST post. The bomb did do something important. It took them back to the present time on the island. That's how it worked. Without it, they would have stayed in 1977 and would never have been able to live their present lives along with the rest of their group.
OK, more on that….
It also "worked" because it allowed Jack (and others) to accomplish their purpose and reach their destiny. Jack needed to save the island and the only way he could have done that was in the present time on the island where the black smoke was threatening its destruction. Also, as the candidates they all needed to be together in the present. Because the time shifting had stopped, because of Lock's success in the well, there was no other way they could have come back to the present without something cataclysmic like the bomb.
I could talk about this stuff all day. I so enjoyed last night's finale.
I loved the finale too. I had a ton of questions but one was Why was Sayid's constant Shannon? Really, Shannon? Not Nadia, Shannon?
Ok I digress. I agree with Rebecca the bomb brought them all where they needed to be.
Well, you're still ahead of me. I loved the finale. LOVED it. But I'm as confused as ever. I'm not even sure the bomb, the time travel, the others, any of that was even real. Was it? At the very end it showed the wreckage and the fusilage of the plane on the beach, where it first crashed. I took that to mean that nobody survived the actual crash – that everything that happend ON the island was part of this 'journey' to the afterlife. Or whatever.
Huh?
Honestly it lrft mr stumped all around logically…but I did love everyone back together.
What Rebecca said.
I feel like I need to watch it again…knowing more than I did last night after reading more about what people thought was going on.
I realize this is probably a very annoying answer but, I don't think it matters. When it happened, we were left wondering whether the bomb had reset everything, or created this parallel timeline, but I don't think it did. I think the only thing it did was fulfill the storyline where the Dharma people talked of the "incident" that happened in the 70's. Not sure if that makes any sense. I loved the finale too!
I'm going to definitely go with what Rebecca said, too. Jack had a purpose, a job to do that needed to be seen to completion. The bomb helped push that along.
I loved the finale. I don't know what I'm going to do with my Tuesday nights now (or, in reality, and through some careful Internet avoidance so as not to have the show spoiled for me, three to five days after Tuesday night when I can finally sit down long enough to watch LOST) that this show isn't on anymore. Maybe start watching it again from the beginning…wherein I'm sure I'll STILL be confused even though I now know how it will end!
I'm with you on the amount of TV shows I watch. I start way too many sentences with, did you see….
I loved the finale and was still unclear on a couple of things, but I was pretty satisfied with it. Sounds like Rebecca has some good answers.
I like Rebecca's answers too – I was totally confused last night when I finally got a chance to finish watching it!
OK so I found your blog through a comment you left on The EO…Loved your comment over there about BlogHer and since I am going and I am leaving my rhinos at home I thought – dude, here is a chick I should meet. AND I can answer your Lost question too! Bonus!
I was disappointed in the finale because it was too much emotion and not enough answers. I don't need them all, but you know SOME would have been nice. I digress.
"It worked". What was happening was Juliet was crossing over at that moment and having that conversation in the sideways world with Sawyer AT the moment her body was dying in the 70s. Get it? SO she was never actually talking about the bomb. The bomb never went off and they flashed back to the present I am guessing due to the "accident" that was already in progress.
Anyway, hope too meet you in August!