As today is an "off" day for me (i.e., "day off"), I've been out and done some chores, and I have also re-watched the "The End" episode of "Lost".
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lama lamalamalamalamala lamalama dkdjkfkj l;kjd. gamal abdul anwar sadat. It's quite a different experience the second time through!! Third time, too!!! Nice to zip past the commercials and stick with the overall drama as it develops. I have some thoughts to share that are a bit different than my response to Mr. Druxman's earlier post. After careful assessment of Jack's meeting with his father, it seems clear that everything that happened when Oceanic 815 crashed was real, after all. Everything that happened on the island was real. This final season's "flash sideways" was, in my opinion, a purgatorial construct "made" by them all until they could be reunited. As Kristian told Jack, all those people in the chapel "made" that place so that they could all come together...some who died before Jack did and some who died long after. And when the time was right, they began "remembering", mostly instigated by Desmond who apparently had first insight into what was going on. I am going to (conveniently??) discount that last, pre-credits scene of the beach with the wreckage of the plane. It was not a part of the story before it ended...before Jack closed his eyes, or before the light enveloped all the cast in the chapel. Each episdoe of "Lost" has always ended with "Lost"in white letters on a black background, and the beach scenes came after that. An oddity about that wreckage is that it was all rusted as though it had been there for years, but the clothing strewn around was all brightly colored...something that would have been impossible in the climate, especially getting drenched in the constant rains and then baking in the brightness and heat of the sun for six years. My discounting it is, possibly, a "convenient" means of making the rest make more sense, but everything Kristian told his son says that what they all experienced on the island was real, that the experiences he had on that island were the most important ones he had in his life and that the people waiting for him in the chapel with the most important people of his life. I didn't find anything "too gooey", but we all have our levels of tolerance for sentimentality, and I do think there was a bit much of it in the chapel at the end. I felt very sorry for John Locke sitting not only unpaired, but alone in the pew on his side of the chapel. I suppose Ben would have sat with him had Ben forgiven himself enough. Boone might also have sat with Locke since they shared the most time together on the island. The scenes of Jack painfully making his way through the bamboo forest were gut-wrenching, especially as he passed a tree with a very weathered tennis shoe caught on it. When he collapsed and lay on his back in the same position he took in the first scene of the first episode, it seemed to me that the entire series was ready to "just let go", just as all the survivors were ready to do in the chapel.
I paid more attention to the scene between Desmond and Mrs. Widmore at the concert. She seemed to know exactly what was going on and was distraught that Desmond might take Daniel with him. But he assured her it wouldn't be him. I suppose Daniel and Charlotte were meant to find a different path to the light.
The scoring of this TV episode was nothing short of magnificent. There have been CD releases of music from each of the previous five seasons, and I'm hoping the sixth season CD will be issued this year. I'd prefer a 2-CD release, with one release a complete soundtrack of the final episode. Xkdklk f lkjafkjl lkjfl;kj;l kjf;jklfdjkla;lkfj kjfjka;lkj jf;lkj adfjad;kfj ;lkjaf;l k Dudeyou'vegotsomeArnztonyou jkldj;lj ;l kj;lkj jka;ldkfj;lkj;lk jadsfl;kj.
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