Lost, the TV series that ran for six seasons and lost many along the way with its multitude of mysteries came to an end and the two of us sobbed like babies through most of it. We’re no strangers to crying through the night, him and me, but unlike those long nights spent in the Cambodian jungle we weren’t able to hold one another tightly till the sun came up this time round.
I loved Lost and for me the finale was a fitting conclusion to what has been one hell of a ride. I haven’t felt this way since I watched Matrix Revolutions for about the fifth time and finally understood it all. It’s a strange feeling this; finally ‘getting it’ but feeling a sense of loss at the same time because it’s only now that you realise the getting there was the best part.
I don’t know about you lot but I like to stimulated when confronted with arty things. I like to read books that you can’t put down, listen to music that stirs the senses and I like movies and TV shows that make you think about them long after you’ve finished watching.
These traditionally are not ‘paint by numbers’ productions. Sure, I like to put the brain on auto pilot occasionally and flop out with my cock out, who doesn’t? But if I had the choice – and it’s TV so I always do – I’d pick shows like Lost over anything that starts and ends predictably in an hour.
This isn’t the case for everyone and I get that, I really do. Lost was not a linear show. Right from the first episode that much was apparent and it wasn’t long before what we all thought was a story about a plane crash started to become so much more.
It was at this point that the Desperate Housewife and Greys Anatomy crowd started to turn off and again, that would be fine, if that was the end of it. But it isn’t. These fuckers were back in droves this week, on any site that would let them post shit, bleating about how stupid Lost was and how its mother dressed it funny.
I’ve decided that people who watched Lost can be categorised into three groups:
1. Those that watched it from beginning to end, got it, enjoyed the journey and were happy with the final episode and the thought provoking questions it left you with
2. Those that watched it from beginning to end, begrudgingly, because they couldn’t really figure it out and were pissed off with the final episode because it wasn’t the A to Z of answers that they had hoped it would be
3. Those that switched off in the first few seasons because they thought they had it figured out and watched the final episode only to find that they were way off all along. Now they’re fucked off because they’re not quite as cool as they thought they were.
For this last group ignorance is bliss because they will never bother to watch the series in full to appreciate it. They’ll continue on with the completely defunct ‘they were all dead the whole time’ theory because it’s far easier to do so and yet, rather ironically, they claim that it’s the Lost writers who lost the plot? I don’t think so braniac.
These are the same people that loved the first Matrix movie because of bullet time. They were disappointed when Reloaded and Revolutions expanded on the underlining story of love, choice and selfless sacrifice because they wanted five more hours of bullet time. Like Lost, they just didn’t get it. Why wasn’t there more bullet time, dammit?!
Lost was not a series about a plane crash. It was about relationships and the importance they play in all our lives and these weren’t candy coated, dreamy back ground music relationships; these were flawed, deceitful, dysfunction relationships. The characters were so well written that we found ourselves in them and the journey of redemption they all took became more than just a watching experience, it became an emotionally entwined one.
Along the way there were mysteries, red herrings and strange happenings that weren’t ever fully explained but you know what? Thats fucken life. You can know someone for thirty years and not know everything about them. Meeting someone and trusting them is a journey, one that changes every time we take it. If we all switched off after just the second series what lonely souls we would be. Sometimes it’s better to teach through the question, than it is by an answer.
And yes, there was a polar bear, but that was explained in Series 3. Maybe you should’ve kept watching, you peenarse.
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