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Hehe....That was a shot of all the main characters (from season 1), barring Desmond, Penny and Juliet, in the afterlife....On other forums, ppl are calling it Purgatory or Limbo, but I'll just call it the afterlife....Saying they were in Purgatory or in Limbo would mean that they were going to Heaven, which shows a Christian bias, when in fact it was never stated on the show itself that they were going to Heaven and they even showed symbols of all the major religions on a tainted window in a scene just before the final scene, which sorta means that they left it up to the viewers to decide exactly where these characters went to when the shiny white light came through.....Basically, they all died, some died on the island and some off the island....They all made a place where they could reconnect with each other in the afterlife.....The time spent together on the island were the most important in their lives so they created an idyllic scenario in the afterlife where they could resolve their issues and meet each other once more.....That scene offered an opportunity to bring all the characters together again for one last time before the end w/o actually bringing them back from the dead technically....That scene in the church was being juxtaposed with the present time scenario of Jack's actual death.....Jack died by stopping the Smoke Monster from leaving the island... He basically risked his life to save the island and to make sure his friends get off the island safely.....Jack's purpose was to stop the Smoke Monster from leaving the island and also to stop the creature from destroying it.....The Smoke Monster, as it turned out, was a kind of nuclear manifestation of a man who became evil due to the fact that he had been betrayed by everybody close to him and was forced to remain on the island for a lonnnnng time.....If he/it had left the island, it was implied that the world would be in danger and it was also suggested that the only way it could actually leave the island was to destroy it......By this time, Jack had become a man of Faith from a man of Science (as he was in the early seasons), which was one of the reasons that he neither wanted to see the island being destroyed nor did he want to leave it (much like Locke in season 1; remember their debates on logic and belief?), so he chose to stay and risk his life stopping the SM from spreading out into the world all the while finally finding purpose in his life to do something good on a grand scale (as opposed to saving lives, or failing to as a doctor on a daily basis)......Now that I think about it, his was the character that went through the most significant amount of development.....Hope that made sense, lol.....
Yeah, I know what you mean....In that sense I do agree that simplicity is harder to maintain than complexity in some ways....I would've been totally happy with Lost had polar bears, the Hatch, the Dharma Initiative, Jacob/MiB never existed......I was kinda intrigued by that stuff to be honest and in some ways the addition of those aspects enriched my experience of viewing the show, but that was never the reason I started watching in the first place......I watched for the characters and their relationships with each other and so I'm glad it ended with them only.....To be fair on the Lost writers though, I do believe that despite some entirely outlandish actions committed by some of the characters (Micheal, for example, going on a shooting spree was completely OOC), they maintained a relatively consistent track when it came to characterization....And even though plot became heavily convoluted after a point, I felt the characters were more or less done justice to.....Given the pressurized, extreme, almost barbaric conditions of being stuck on a mysterious island with hardly any hope of rescue, the characters were bound to react to situations a little more drastically than the average person going through a crisis in real life would.....But even so, the characters were still pretty consistently written - none of them were saints by any means, but almost all of them had major heroic and redemptive moments all throughout the series...... My real gripe with seasons 4, 5 and 6 was that not enough focus was given to the characters....By that time, the show put farrr too much emphasis on the poorly constructed sci-fi stuff and the characters were used only as plot-device as per the writer's convenience....oh well....
My feelings for the show are quite bi-polar, lol....In many ways I love it, but I also feel disappointment for the kind of show it COULD have been vs. the kind of show it turned out to be.....While I was satisfied with the events in the finale, at least on an emotional level, there was a time when I thought it could've been more than that....It was both a rewarding as well as a frustrating experience.....Idk, it's hard to explain.....
Anyways, it was nice talking to you again, Anu......Good night! :-)
EDIT: Yep, Heroes had a finale as well apparently....Have no idea how that went....don't care too much honestly 😆
Yeah, I know what you mean....In that sense I do agree that simplicity is harder to maintain than complexity in some ways....I would've been totally happy with Lost had polar bears, the Hatch, the Dharma Initiative, Jacob/MiB never existed......I was kinda intrigued by that stuff to be honest and in some ways the addition of those aspects enriched my experience of viewing the show, but that was never the reason I started watching in the first place......I watched for the characters and their relationships with each other and so I'm glad it ended with them only.....To be fair on the Lost writers though, I do believe that despite some entirely outlandish actions committed by some of the characters (Micheal, for example, going on a shooting spree was completely OOC), they maintained a relatively consistent track when it came to characterization....And even though plot became heavily convoluted after a point, I felt the characters were more or less done justice to.....Given the pressurized, extreme, almost barbaric conditions of being stuck on a mysterious island with hardly any hope of rescue, the characters were bound to react to situations a little more drastically than the average person going through a crisis in real life would.....But even so, the characters were still pretty consistently written - none of them were saints by any means, but almost all of them had major heroic and redemptive moments all throughout the series...... My real gripe with seasons 4, 5 and 6 was that not enough focus was given to the characters....By that time, the show put farrr too much emphasis on the poorly constructed sci-fi stuff and the characters were used only as plot-device as per the writer's convenience....oh well....
My feelings for the show are quite bi-polar, lol....In many ways I love it, but I also feel disappointment for the kind of show it COULD have been vs. the kind of show it turned out to be.....While I was satisfied with the events in the finale, at least on an emotional level, there was a time when I thought it could've been more than that....It was both a rewarding as well as a frustrating experience.....Idk, it's hard to explain.....
Anyways, it was nice talking to you again, Anu......Good night! :-)
EDIT: Yep, Heroes had a finale as well apparently....Have no idea how that went....don't care too much honestly 😆
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