Sorry, but I posted this elsewhere... Was confused about how unmentioned it was. Have at it:
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Sooooo...
Are they all dead then? Is that church heaven? I noticed the poly-religious stained glass window in the background so as not to offend anyone's delicate sensibilities, but is that what we're supposed to gather? They're all dead?
And where was everyone else?
And why didn't Ben come inside? Is he still in purgatory?
Oh, and WTF happened to the people on the PLANE? The one that left? Did they go on in the original timeline? Kate was on the plane AND in the church. Lapedus wasn't. Claire was. Miles wasn't.
Was the flash sideways, with which we were absolutely inundated throughout the entire last season, simply some sort of allegorical purgatory in which they all lived (or sleep-walked) until they met their "significant other" and merged into some sort of afterlife?
I absolutely loved the reunion scene with Claire and Charlie. The Sawyer/Juliet one was good too.
Aside from that... Terribly disappointed.
Oh, and FFS, if this whole thing has been about Jacob v. MiB, then who the hell is the "mother" and where did she come from? And the people who were already there when the junior Jacob/MiB discovered them...? Where were they from?
Is the concept that the entire island is some sort of purgatory proving ground and the "alt" reality is the "real" reality and when you die, you go to the island to figure out whether you get to "move on"?
"Everything else is just progress..."
Toward WHAT? Death? The afterlife?
Gratuitous inclusion of the two douchers from season one: Fail. Extra-gratuitous scene where Jack hugs Blake(? honestly forgot that doucher's name): Extra-fail.
What happened to our favorite rocket scientist-turned-musician? What about the parents? Shouldn't Widmore and Co. have been invited to the church? I mean, Barbara Bush sat next to Desmond discussing whether or not this entire thing should/could have been allowed to occur!
What was the Dharma Initiative? How did anyone ever discover this pocket of magnetic energy? What occurred with that energy before there was ever a "button" to keep it in check? Why did it ever need to be kept in check since it seems that everything was hunky-dory before AND after there was ever a "hatch"?
What was Widmore's agenda? Seriously... Why couldn't Ben kill him? What "rules"?!?!?!
I suppose my biggest gripe is about the "rules"... Apparently, pulling the plug out of the drain makes the rules null and void so you can kill MiB (who NEVER got a f**king name!), but shoving your brother down the drain so he can turn into some sort of dead-person-mimicing Doppelganger/smoke monster doesn't break the rules.
Again, to placate my malcontents, I loved the reunion scenes in the final episode. Unfortunately, they just utterly and completely defied any sort of logical terminus that this 6-year-long voyage could have undergone.
J***s Harold C***t on a popsicle stick, this was an absolutely HORRID EPICLY EPIC FAIL!!!
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Now I'm gonna take my nerdrage and go home. Screw you guys.
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