Lost – Season Finale – The Incident
As a longtime Lost viewer, last night’s two hour season finale was a bit of a letdown. Yes, there were some questions answered including what happened to Bernard and Rose but wedging “Jacob” into everyone’s past lives felt a bit forced and awkward in a way. and don’t get me started on the the fist-fight between Sawyer & Jack and the shootout at the Dharma camp. Those two scenes (along with some others) simply felt like they were just milking the clock, trying to stretch the story into a two hour special.
here are some random thoughts on last night’s show -
- It still seemed unnatural for Jack to decide to go through with the bombing of the Swan especially now that he revealed it was all because of Kate.
- And Juliet getting sucked down the shaft was sad but her motivation for going along with Jack was also a bit murky and underdeveloped.
- Learning that Jacob is just a man that doesn’t age (like Richard) wasn’t what I was expecting. sort of “meh” for me. I was actually distracted somewhat trying to remember where I’ve seen the actor (playing Jacob) before. It took me a while but Mark Pellegrino is best known as Rita’s ex-husband on Dexter.
- Oh, finding out Locke is actually quite dead was a nice twist. So I guess the living Locke isn’t Locke at all but “Man no. 2″ in the opening scene.
- and it appeared to me that Jacob was aware of Locke’s plan with Ben. So why didn’t Jacob put up a fight before Ben stabbed him? no struggle? for such a mystical figure, Jacob was pretty easy to kill. or can Jacob even be killed? hhmmmm…
- and the biggest downer of all – having to wait til 2010 for the next episode. so frustrating!
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I got lost when they started jumping around in time this season. I missed a couple episodes here and there. I might try to catch the rest of the epis online or something. yup, “frustrating” is pretty typical watching Lost!
oh gosh this is killing me. did the bomb reset the timelines or not? how can they make us wait until next year. darn it.
Molly, my guess is that the explosion didn’t fix it at all. Probably made things worse.
btw, it was great seeing Bernard, Rose and Vincent again.
If I tried to jump back into Lost I’d be so lost. Haven’t watched it since the ending of last season…Or was it two seasons ago….I forget. I do wonder how it’s all unfolding though. Very tempting.