Dex wrote:...I don't care what anyone else says
Let me clear that up - I care what people say, but it won't affect how I feel about it.
I guess I didn't "cry", so to speak, but yeah I welled up too, during Sun & Jin, Charlie & Claire/Kate... all the "reconnection" moments where they remembered everything. That shit hit me like a ton of bricks. A+ acting & A+ music.
The end bothered me at first (spoilers) because my first thought was, "so none of it was real?". It wasn't until I thought & discussed it later that I realized that everything the last 6 seasons was real... the only thing that was "not real" was the "flash sideways", alternate timeline thing that had been going on during season 6. All of those, starting with s6e1 where they are all on the plane that lands successfully in LAX were not alternate universe scenes, but some sort of limbo/purgatory where everyone's soul/spirit was stuck in until they remembered everything.
Jack died on the island after putting the cork back in the underground well. Hurley & Ben lived for several more years on the island with desmond, who knows... another thousand years? In death there is no time. Everyone else died somehow; by accident, old age, disease... they didn't really get into all that. But they were all dead and stuck in that place until they reconnected and remembered the most important people/events of their life.
It was really a genius way to close the spiritual aspect of the show, since it covered almost all the 6 major religions. They never mentioned heaven or hell, or reincarnation or valhalla... they were just all finally at peace and they could "move on".
I knew nothing was gonna be answered, and I'm glad they didn't. I had fun watching for the last 6 years trying to figure things out - it's such a thinking-man's TV show. If they did waste time explaining things, it would probably be boring, and probably upset a lot of people. Just like the Matrix sequels. It's best to leave the really weird shit up to the audience's imagination & interpretation.
Damon & Carlton always said Lost is a show about the characters. Seasons 1 & 2 were about their past. Seasons 3 & 4 were about the future. Seasons 5 & 6 were about life/good and death/evil. I don't care how things worked, or how a smoke monster exists, or how an island jumps though time. This is like the Twilight Zone. Sometimes fucked up shit just happens. It was never about the destination, it was all about the journey.
Time to watch the pilot episode of season 1 again.