Writing those words makes me an emotional wreck. The end was last night. The end of a six year EPIC journey. The end of a committed relationship with an island and its inhabitants. Yes, it is a television show, but it wasn't just any TV show...it was 'LOST'. In my opinion (and I have said it many times), Lost is the single best TV show that has ever graced the screen, and I really don't think anything could ever compare to it.
I hadn't realized how much I would miss the show, didn't realize I would cry. I knew I would be sad, but by the final three minutes I was sobbing like a newborn. The journey that these characters went on was emotional, unbelievable and life changing. I felt like I was on that journey with them through these past years and now that it is over I don't know what to do with myself.
The finale, although many will disagree with me, was amazing. The moments of recognition the characters saw at important moments during their flash sideways was just beyond moving. The acting done by the actors portraying the characters just heart wrenching!
The ultimate moment for me in the finale was the reunion of Sawyer & Juliet in the hospital waiting room with the vending machines. The smiles Juliet gave Sawyer as he tried to get the Apollo bar out from being stuck brought a single tear to my already wet eyes. Then as they touched hands that first time and they remembered bits of their island days and them breaking apart as if a jolt of electricity jolted them broke a tiny piece of my heart. But what really crushed me was the second time they touched hands and they recalled their many moments as a couple, and the terrible sadness of Sawyer as Juliet died in the 'hatch'. The look Elizabeth Mitchell portrayed in that tiny moment, part devestation and sadness, part happiness and joy and then Sawyer's words "I had you. I had you baby." OH. MAN! I lost it.
The finale brought back season one at the very end with a nice close...Jack's eye closing as the last blackout we will ever see, reminiscent of Jack's eye opening in that very first opening we saw. A nice closure, it came full circle. And we did find out what the show is all about. It was about people; their relationship to each other, their immense connections they made with each other, so strong that it transcended into their deaths. Yes, the show was about a crazy island with many secrets, and yes not all questions were answered. But would you really want it that way? I'm glad they didn't answer everything and we were still left with a 'wtf' feeling at the end...a slight confusion, but hey...that's LOST! I wouldn't want it to end all clean and closed. The show is the viewer's own interpretation of events.
Beautifully written and beautifully acted. I could not be more satisfied with how the entire series played out. Thank you Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse for creating such a remarkable piece of work! It will be eternally etched into my life as the best thing I have ever watched. Thank you to the crew for working so hard on this! And thank you to the cast for bringing these wonderfully flawed characters to life and making me and the rest of the 'losties' out there become so emotionally attached to them that we feel so deeply for them that we root for them to succeed or fail (depending on the character :0) ). And just a personal thank you to Elizabeth Mitchell and Josh Holloway (aka Juliet & Sawyer) for being so damn amazing!!!
