I’m not sure why you would not have watched but if you didn’t, obviously don’t read this.
Perhaps I should change the name of my blog to Regarding Jacob. Well, the season is over. Lost is officially done until next year. I don’t think we could have asked for a better season finale than that, easily the best they’ve done – and that’s saying something. Lots to talk about so here we go:
“Well, it’s a wonderful foot, Richard, but what’s it got to do with Jacob?” – FTW Moments (where do you even start?)
- First off, YAY Bernard and Rose!!! They aren’t dead! And Vincent!
- The Apollo candy bar in the vending machine in Jack’s hospital. WTF?
- The brief glimpse of the Black Rock pretty much rocked my world.
- Um, the statue!
- Everything having to do with Juliet. I can’t believe I once hated this character. She was brilliant in this episode from the heartbreaking scene where she tells Sawyer that maybe they shouldn’t be together to the heartbreaking “death” scene – I’m gonna cry again just thinking about it – to her big final scene which I’ll get to later. She finally became what this show has always needed: a female character we could really get behind. And then of course she…died?
- Obviously the bomb at the end, more on that below.
- Everything and anything to do with Michael Emerson. “I’m a pisces” HA! Strangers with Candy shout out? Prolly not.
- I think what might have been the coolest scene of the show was that kick ass fight between Jack and Sawyer. I mean, how long have we waited for that to happen? I thought it was hilarious at the end of that scene that we see Jack in the background just roaming off into the jungle. It amused me.
- Again, obviously the enormous and surprising amount of screen time with and information about Jacob. Did not see that coming.
- Locke’s dead body tumbling out of that box.
- Oh yeah, didn’t Ben kinda like, oh I don’t know, go ape shit on Jacob at the end there? Damn.
“I don’t care who I looked at, I’m with you” – Heartbreaking and/or emotional moments
- I’ll give it to Darlton this time. That finale made me realize that I do in fact care more about the characters on the show than the mythology of the show. This episode had little in the way of action but was big on the emotions, motivations, and interactions of the characters we so love and love to hate.
- Ben just about killed me in this one. Talk about lost! “Locke” cut him down to the vulnerable, shafted little boy Ben’s been hiding inside all these years. What I love about it is who knew Ben would be more dangerous with his defenses down? Part of me can’t blame him for (repeatedly) stabbing Jacob after being told that he basically didn’t matter at all.
- Definitely Jack’s face after that bomb didn’t blow.
- Sayid’s last line “Nothing can save me.” Such a Debbie Downer.
- Sun and Jin’s very happy wedding. Made me cry cause I want these two back together so bad. What I can’t figure out is when this wedding took place. I mean, we’ve already seen their wedding haven’t we? And it didn’t look like that. Sun’s showing too much skin for that. Very confusing.
- The one relationship this show has brought about that I can really buy into is the Sawyer/Juliet one. They are a perfect match for each other. She brings out the best of him and he brings out the softness of her. You knew it was doomed. But my goodness did they pull on our heartstrings!
- I was definitely crying during this whole Juliet death scene. It was so plain that she was going to fall down that – very familiar – hole but you wanted Sawyer to hang on so badly! Josh Holloway ripped me apart in that. Wow.
- Of course, we were cheated here a little bit because Juliet didn’t die right then. Nope, she got to make the bomb go off by hitting it with a big rock. The flash of white light was an intense thing to watch.
“What about you?” – Ben and Jacob, BFF
Does this promo picture remind anyone else of Lord of the Rings?
- So the statue group has dead Locke in a box and is taking him to see Jacob at his cabin because Ilana knows Jacob from the real world (???). They get to the cabin and Jacob is gone, the ash circle broken. They find Richard and the Others at the base :::ahem::: in the shadow :::ahem:::: of the statue. Richard spouts of a line of Latin and gets to see that dead Locke is in the box meaning that whoever went into the giant foot with Ben is not John Locke. Dead is dead. All the while, “Locke” is convincing Ben by Ben’s own brand of manipulation that he wants to kill Jacob as an ultimate act of revenge for Ben’s cancer, his daughter dying, blah, blah, blah. Ben finally succumbs to it when Jacob acts all pissy with him and offs the guy in charge of the island, much to “Locke”’s pleasure. Recap over.
- I’m not going to say I told you so cause parts of my theory about Locke were not correct but did I or did I not come damn close?
- Well, I don’t know how you come back from killing Jacob. Ben, my friend, you might be lost to us now.
- My thoughts are all getting jumbled. This whole plot is going to need its own post, should come later today.
“I don’t speak destiny” – That bomb is gonna blow!
- When is Richard not awesome? Hitting Ellie on the head like that was so cool.
- Coulda predicted that either Jack or Sayid would get shot in Dharmaville but it did surprise me that we didn’t see Sayid die. I thought we were gonna get a big death.
- I cheered when Hurley came flying into Dharmaville in the van to save Jack and Sayid.
- Sawyer’s passionate speech in the sub and then his uber passionate tete-a-tete with Jack (before the pummeling) was great. Sawyer all growd up.
- I cannot believe Jack was doing all of this for Kate. It’s touching but come on!
- I loved Miles’ line questioning whether the bomb is the incident and not the electromagnetism thing. A question we’ve all been asking.
- Thematically, it was very satisfying to see our Losties end up working together towards a common goal. They’ve all been so separate that to see them come together and help Jack fulfill his “destiny” was pretty powerful. That it didn’t necessarily work out made the whole thing heartbreaking.
- Oh God, the look on Jack’s face when the bomb didn’t go off coulda killed me. Imagine, he’s so certain this is his path and then he has the dawning realization that not only was he wrong but he probably just killed himself and his friends and then all of a sudden, without warning, great big flash. Gotta love this island.
- When we look back on the series of Lost, I think the centerpiece of the show can be the scene with Bernard and Rose. They found a way to coexist with the island, be at peace with their fates and thus live a happily serene and easy life there on the island. Bernard’s reply “then we die” showed true acceptance. Bravo, very well done scene.
- Again, this whole plot deserves its own post. More on the Jack/Sawyer stuff at least.
“It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress” – Questions, oh the questions.
- Who/what is this?
- The off-island scenes, were they the past? The future in the case of Sun and Jin? An alternate reality? A mix of both?
- Jacob can leave the island?
- Did Jacob bring Locke back to life when Locke fell out of the building?
- Was Jacob prodding these people along to get them to come to the island? Why?
- What is the consequence of Jacob dying?
- Is Jacob good or bad?
- Did that bomb go off or did the island flash in time again?
- Who the hell is going to be on the show next year?
- Better yet, what the hell is the show going to be next year?
I have so much more to say and I’m sure I will in future posts.
ETA: After reading some reaction online, I only have this to say: People, a hydrogen bomb blew up at the Swan. Everyone in that area, including all of our 1977 Losties are dead. Unless that was a time jumping flash instead of a bomb flash, they are dead. Next season is not going to start with Jack waking up next to the Swan site and saying “Oh man, I have a headache but at least I survived that hydrogen bomb.” Come on.
