01-12-2011, 02:15 AM
Before I get into how well "The End" wrapped up Lost, let me talk a little about the episode itself. "The End" was mostly excellent, but not where it counted. Lost DVD There were so many little moments that reaffirmed why I love this show. Cold Case DVD Really, there were. Half of my notes that I took while watching were simply names and exclamations (Vincent! Rose and Bernard! Juliet! FRANK!), and there were moments where I genuinely teared up. When Jin and Sun remembered their "past" I just about lost it. I loved that Hugo became the new protector, Criminal Minds DVD mainly because it made sense in the context of the show's six seasons. It was one of the only things that did, though. The End was grueling, at two and a half hours, but it didn't waste a moment. Until the end. "The End" would be fitting and wonderful, if I could just ignore the last half hour or so. The beginning of "The End" was appropriate enough, full of the symbolism Lost writers love so much—the empty wheelchair, the shattered mirror, Jack's baptism—but it ultimately didn't mean much.The main problem with "The End" is that it didn't tell the whole story. Entourage DVD I'm not one of those Lost fans who wanted or needed every question answered clearly in black and white. I'm content to fill in blanks where I can. But, it seemed cheap to me that the finale centered on something (which, incidentally, still doesn't mean much at all to me. We never did get to understand the scale of the island's glowy light power.) True Blood DVD that was introduced just two weeks ago. It felt rushed. It felt like we could have easily skipped a few seasons and ended up in the same exact place, story-wise.
