The Anti Anti-Season 4 Finale Rant

Nice work AC, I had a couple of niggles with the finale but on the whole thought it was pretty good.

Agreed Lojozz. Aside from some minor nits to pick I thought it was pretty good overall.

And I agree AC about the scene with Ben turning the wheel...him almost in tears was a great moment as was Des and Penny finding each other.

And, quite frankly, it wasn't on par with last season's flash forward ending. But it was a different kind of cliff hanger. Last year's finale set up this year's big "who's on the freighter" storyline. We knew there was going to be a confrontation and that it wouldn't be good for the Losties. This year's finale set up plot arcs that are nowhere near as predictable. This was the proverbial hitting of the reset button on the series and many people aren't comfortable with massive changes in "their" show.

Battlestar Galactica went through the same thing after it's third season when the show jumped forward a whole year and most of the people from the fleet were living on a planet. A lot of BSG fans didn't like that but it lead to some of the finest televison ever shown.

People like what they like. But I guarantee that by 2010 everyone who didn't care for the finale will see this show in the context of the WHOLE series and feel a lot differently about it.

I enjoyed the finale...but the frozen wheel was a pretty shabby prop.

I was not disappointed, but I'm gonna play Devil's advocate here for a second...kinda.

I think part of why people were disappointed was this: for as many questions and loose ends that do still remain after that finale, a lot of things were answered. The whole season has been rather cyclical, filling in what led up to all the flash-forwards we've been seeing, then ending up right where we left off in the previous season's finale. I think what's got some people feeling let down is that we're now well over halfway through the entire series, and the show that always leaves you hanging, wondering what the hell just happened, is being forced to close some of the gaps. Yes, there are still loads of things we still want to know, but a lot of those things we wondered have now been revealed. And that's the issue: the excitement a lot of people get from the show is in the mystery - wondering how it's going to play out. Now some of these things are no longer mysteries. The anticipation was what a lot of people were latching onto, and now a lot of it is gone - those scenes we'd played out in our heads and on the boards (The Orchid, The freighter exploding, Penny and Des reuniting, the 6 being rescued, who's in the coffin, etc.) are now set in stone. No more theorizing how those will play out.

Well, you silly people, it had to happen sometime. It might not have happened just the way you'd envisioned, but if it had, the guy next to you would have been disappointed.

Three cheers from me AC!

I thought it was awesome and tbh have never cared about props and special effects - its the acting and the story which I latch onto and I was not disappointed. Hurley's face in the copter made me go all gooey and I wanted to give him a big hug the poor love. And I agree with you about Ben too, wow I would never have thought I would be feeling this way about Ben, but I think he is the hero of Season 4.

I am left feeling like the questions I wanted answered have been answered, and now we have new questions to debate such as how did the island move, when was Charlotte on the island before, what is Sun up to etc etc. This is much more than satisfying.

I am pretty sure that next season will see Ben leading the O6 and trying to get them back to the island, set to the backdrop of assassinations , plots and even more intrigue. I cant wait, I really cant, and that is because of this finale

Bingo AC! With the exception of TTLG (which IMHO will never be topped) this was by far the best finale. I agree with everything you have said.

And I loved the shot at Heroes at the end. I invest 23 hours of my life into Season 1 just to see a guy explode. Gimme a break.

AC, I get the feeling that this rant came after your second watch of the finale. Admittedly I maybe jumped the gun a bit when I said i wasn't totally satisfied with the episodes. When watching the first time, I feel that I was looking towards the end too much for the major cliffhanger which we are normally treated to in the season finales of past years. All season we were treated to a great mindf**k at the end of pretty much each episode, whether it be Ben being Sayid's employer, Aaron being in the custody of Kate, or Locke's infamous 'He said we have to move the Island.' These kind of things are why I love the show, and what keeps me so unflinchingly hooked.
Much like you said in reply to my earlier post, I too wasn't as infatuated with the idea of who was in the coffin. I am more interested in things like Widmore's motivation to capture Ben/get to the Island, who/what Jacob is, and what the 'incident' was. So for the final scene of the finale to be based around who was in the coffin was a bit deflating for me. It wrapped things up a tad too much in what's been a season of mindf**ks. Having said that, on second viewing I can appreciate what your saying, as in terms of being a tv programme i.e acting, pace, musical score the episode was first rate. There was Sawyer's act of heroism, which truly underlined how his character has turned full circle since the beginning of the show. Let's not forget this is the guy who wouldn't supply Shannon with an inhaler in series one even though she was struggling to breathe, and now he's throwing himself out of a helicopter so that the woman he loves can reach safety. Desmond and Penny's reunion was textbook romance, and hat's off to Yunjim Kim for that oscar winning grief scream upon Sun realising that Jin had been blown to pieces.

So i appreciate what your saying in the rant, as maybe us Lost fans have come to expect too much from the writers, but thats just testament to how great a job they've done of it so far.

Gary, he didn't have the inhaler!! But I agree with the rest of your post... and excellent rant rant AC! The finale was soooo good! I have no complaints. We are a picky bunch because we've been spoiled.

i loved the final i thought it was really good, chill out AC you might popo a blood vessel lol

The only thing i didn't like about it was bringing real time travel, and not just desmond mind travel, into the story. It feels like such a lame cop-out. I was expecting something a little more original.

Ummm...who has been saying the finale was disappointing?
No one I know.

Just sayin'...

I for one loved it and was not dissapointed at all, you can always find fault in things you love or you can take it as it comes and enjoy it. I choose to enjoy it. As much as we therorize and hope are therorys are right the writers run the show and we can simply whatch and wonder.

i loved it. I can't wait to see how they get back considering that the O6 and Ben don't know where it went, unless Benthan told them. And Sun, thrilling. What if she has gone all mad because she thinks Jin is dead, aligns herself with the bad guy, and then it turns out Jin is alive and now Widmore knows where the island is? Dun dun dun!! LOL!!

AC, I am so glad you ranted about this. I was in no way disappointed with the finale. I have always been intrigued with the score and the acting keeps getting better. I am not sorry they answered so many questions. It just gives us more complicated things to think about now. Even with so many pieces to the puzzle revealed we still can't really see the whole picture. I love that. Anyway, thanks for standing up for Lost.

Wait a minute, wait. Are you guys seeing what I'm seeing. Did Angelo Comment just use a double negative in a sentence. He's not gonna live this one down.

But seriously these are the types of posts I love to see in lost. Ones that make it seem better. Everyone else has sort of already said what I was going to say.

TheHolyStickman

OK.... I read none of this b/c tonite is MY NIGHT. Husband won't let me watch with out him and we can't do commercials, so we saved the finale for this week when our 3 kids are out of town....total concentration. I am drinking red wine slow slow slow b/c I want to devour every second....will report back with opinion. TTLG killed all finalies. Seems like there is too much to wrap up to have that kinda BANG! Hope I am wrong. Rented Cloverfield for tom. This site rolls lt.com. Glad to be here!!! Forgive spelling due to blondeness!

all i can say is the finale had me going crazy!! i was on the edge of my seat, heart a beaten fast, pulling my hair......

Oh god how do they all get together?!

is he really going to blow up the ship?

jin jin jin!

ok now they are all together, but what about desmond?!

locke?!!!


phew - it had me going. good tv man, good tv. we can nick pick at it as we always do with ALL episodes. poor quality shots here and there, Miles crap line "what do i mean?" - but that doesnt make it a bad episode. LOVED IT LOVED IT....

puchita....I am with you.....It had me at the edge of my seat. Tons of action, enough answers...good tv.