A Polar(bear?)izing Finale: LOST pt2

I agree...I think this finale worked. Emotionally, it was supercharged. I think Darlton gave plenty of warning a few weeks ago when they said they wanted to create a sendoff that would make their mothers cry. Mission accomplished!

It was clear this season was taking a religious bent early on. Hints as to the real destination of the series were present years ago as well. For example, Penny's letter in Live Together Die Alone was a huge clue: 

Dearest Des,

I am writing this letter to

you as you leave for prison. And I've

hidden it in the one place you would

turn to in a moment of great desperation.

I know you go away with

the weight of what happened on your

shoulders. And I know the only

person who can ever take it off is

you. Sorry to be so dramatic, but

these are dramatic times, are they not?

Please don't give up, Des. Because

all we really need to survive is one

person who truly loves us.

and you have her. I will wait for

you. Always.

I love you, Pen

If you remember, in that episode, they repeated the letter twice. Once when Desmond found it in Our Mutual Friend and again when he turned the key on the hatch. I guess it could have read, "all we really need to get to heaven is one person who truly loves us."

A lot of the anger comes from the sci-fi ers and they have a good point. This ending is very loosely associated with everything that went before it. You could have taped this onto the end of any ensemble drama and it might have worked. The impact comes from witnessing six years of struggling and suffering of these characters - you wanted them to have happy endings.

All this being said - what about the mysteries?

The Egyptian statue of fertility?

The women losing the ability to give birth on the island some time after Ethan was born?

Justin's bird....

Who was in the cabin? Smokey? But we saw him wandering the island as himself when the bearded ghost asked Lock for help...

Where did Jacob's lists come from? Was Smokey giving them to Ben? Were they part of the long con?

Who thought Nikki and Paulo would be a good idea?

What caused Satan's hot tub to turn black? It wasn't the death of Jacob because Ben turned a little evil years ago when Richard threw him in.

When Desmond was traveling through time and tried to buy the ring and got talked out of it by Mrs. Featherbottom was that really purgatory? Was that the first glimpse of the Sideways world?

Did Sawyer really eat the fish biscuits?

Oh well, I guess we'll never know...but maybe that's not a bad thing. Anybody else think some of the explanations this season were lame? The whispers are lost souls...really? Sometimes, too much 'splainin is not a good thing. Right Lucy?

-tom-