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Lost Rewatch: "The End"
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The artist who made the posters that we use for these blogs is going to be featured in the next Pearson Moore book, and some of the posters are featured.
http://darkufo.blogspot.com/2012/02/graphic-artist-gideon-slife-featured-in.html
They're famous!
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Congratulations to them!
And it's nice that the poster image and the sectionbox image were the same for this last episode. I'm pretty sure we had "open this door" as a regularly recurring phrase before we deleted it for being thematically insignificant. Shows how much we knew...
Yeah, the series ended with opening a door. Paralleling the back of the aircraft getting ripped off in the crash. And be had that door Locke was struggling to open too... and that one emitted a light as well.
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And who can forget Jack opening the door and getting slammed by water in the Hydra?
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Just out of curiosity, to those in the UK - who got up to watch the finale on Sky1 live with the US when they did it? That was 5am, live with the West Coast broadcast. I got up at 4am to watch it, on a Monday morning. Usually the day I don't want to get out of bed and start the week, especially not sooner than I need to. I started work at 8, so I had less than an hour to digest the events of the finale before going in. It's one of the best things I ever did. I'd have been so distracted all day thinking about watching it when I get home. It was a refreshing experience, because I knew how it all ended and didn't have to worry about anyone else spoiling me before I watched it. The best part was being able to start discussing it, editing this site and all the other things involved with a new episode as soon as I got home. Sure, I might have been super tired the rest of the week, (mostly due to also going to bed late because I was glued to the computer screen picking apart the epic two and a half hour episode) but it was worth it.
There isn't going to be another TV show that I do that for (if given the chance) for some time.
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We had no trouble connecting Locke's awakening with that other "Jack footsie scene," with Sarah. But if the page's article means anything, none of us connected the scene with that other hospital scene with Locke? The other time Locke awoke from surgery, wanted to leave but was told to "relax," and he ended up in tears?
Then again, by my count, Locke wound up in a hospital bed in six episodes for six different injuries over the course of the series, averaging out to once a season, so it's hard to say if that was an intentional allusion...
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Could you elaborate? I can only get 3 or 4.
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- Locke went to the hospital right after he was born. In the next scene, we saw him in an incubator.
- Locke underwent a kidney transplant. He awoke in a hospital bed, his father missing.
- Locke broke his spine. A scene opens with him lying in the hospital, detectives questioning him.
- Locke got into a car accident. He awoke in a hospital bed, to Jack's face, and spoke to him again about the Island.
- Locke got struck by a hit-and-run driver. Two episodes later, the first scene showed him waking up in Jack's hospital after surgery.
- Locke underwent surgery to fix his spine. He awoke in a hospital bed, and this time, he really awoke.
And I forgot about him waking in Tunisia with Widmore!
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When you put it like that, Locke's luck seems even worse than you realise.
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Thanks, Balk.
I forgot about 4, still don't remember 6, and didn't even think of 1, but I did think of Tunisia!
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By number 6, I meant the scene in this episode itself.
Aw, why am I fighting it. Of course I have to put all these scenes in a video.
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Where to begin with this one? Perhaps... with the beginning?
"Cycling, slowly through each of the characters against dramatic music to set up the finale" is the sort of thing that should be a cliche. It should be, because it's just the right thing to do. Yet I can't think of any other example of it happening.
The closest I can think of is the beginning of the last Harry Potter movie — or rather the beginning of the first part of the last two movies. There was this opening with no dialog that just went through the main characters. But when I tried playing "Parallelocam" against that scene (because that's what I do), I found that it was much shorter than "The End"'s opening. Even though the movie had a longer running time and even more years of audience involvement to deal with, it couldn't indulge with anywhere as long an opening.
At the end of Lost's, was here anyone, anywhere watching who could honestly say it wasn't "about the characters"?
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You are absolutely right. I couldn't say that it wasn't about the characters at all. For years I didn't know what it was about Lost that kept me coming back for more. I always liked getting answers and solving the mysteries of, and finding out more about the Island. I really enjoyed the mythology of the show. But, when a lot of people were frustrated, or annoyed, by the lack of answers or the fact that more questions had been introduced without answering much, especially in the last season...I wasn't. I took the attitude of "if we find out, we find out". I can't say the lack of explanation for Walt, or things like the Outrigger scene didn't annoy me at all, because it did. But in the long run knowing those answers aren't something I consider important for me to enjoy the show, partly because (in the case of Walt) I've not known the answers for so long that I've just gotten used to it.
No, what I think brought me back to the show every season was seeing the characters again. How will they deal with the events of the previous finale? What will happen to them next? Will they ever get off the Island alive? The finale proved the show was about the characters by not holding a key reveal that made the whole show make sense. The flash-sideways reveal didn't answer any major questions, just told us that the show has been about the characters and their journeys.
On the subject of the opening scene though, for starters the music is awesome. One of the best themes of the series. The thing I love most about it is the characters are preparing to set off on one last journey. The music really delivers that message too. It's used in the Oceanic 815 landing sequence first, in which all the characters step off the plane and in a sense, begin a new journey through the afterlife.
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And I can think of no other show where I considered the characters so much as... as people. Yeah, I loved Terry O'Quinn's portrayal of Locke, but most of the time, I just loved Locke. I like what Matthew Fox did in the finale, but more than that, I love Jack. Except for when I hated Jack - and when I did, I wasn't criticizing Matthew Fox or the writers, I just plain hated Jack.
There's some great acting elsewhere on TV right now, but when I watch a great scene on, say, Boardwalk Empire, I think "wow, hand that actor an Emmy!" When I rewatch a great scene in Lost, I think "Wow, Sun and Jin really love each other" or "wow, Ben's really broken up about leaving the Island."
And about that piece again - I didn't recognize it at first, but some reviewers immediately pegged it as combination of the life and death and home themes. Shouldn't that have given away LA X's secret right off?
