The finale of “Lost” certainly engendered a lot of debate. (Just check out our comments threads surrounding the end of the series or the voice mails shows from late May).
Now that the sixth season is hitting DVD and Blu-Ray and the series is up for several Emmys this weekend, the finale is being examined and debated again.
This is especially true of the ending and the side flashes that dominated season six.
Actor Matthew Fox has his own view on the season and the ending.
“”There are certain religious beliefs, spiritual ideas, that when you die, you have to remember your own death in the moment of your death, you have to remember all the people that brought you to that, all the people that were most important to you, bringing you to that moment,” he tells Newsweek. “And essentially that’s what the entire Sideways was, I believe, in the sixth season. The moment that Jack was dying he was being reunited with all the people that had brought him to his death so he could move on to whatever was next. I thought it was pretty beautiful. Very spiritual. I’m not necessarily a religious person.”
Sam says
Nice to know that Matt and I are on the same page. If the central figure to the whole series didn’t know what to make of the finale then we would have all been truly lost.
Michael Falkner says
Why does everyone think that everything needs an answer? That’s precisely why I like this genre. It brings up questions for the viewer/reader/consumer to ponder and expand upon… to speculate, if you will.
Demanding that answers be given strikes me as laziness on the part of the speculative fiction consumer.
Perhaps that’s where our genre has landed in this era. If so, it makes me sad.
Kurt says
If you have to keep explaining things then something was wrong in the first place. There’s a difference between having an open ended ending and being hopelessly cryptic.
Sam Sloan says
One of humanity’s basic qualities, and one of those that separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom, is this unquenchable need to know WHY.
Michael Falkner says
I agree with you Sam, but I think that demanding answers to be handed to you instead of thinking, reasoning, and speculating robs humanity of a critical part of that quality: the quest.
I might be alone in this regard, but I like to work for my answers.
That being said, Kurt is right in the fact that there is a difference in being open ended and being hopelessly cryptic. There has to be an answer that logically follows from the clues. I just don’t like having it served up on a platter with garnish.