Oh, the ways I tried to get back there again

[erinwrites]

Just finished watching the season finale of Lost, "Through the Looking Glass". Holy crap!! Who watched it? I cried, multiple times. (stupid TV shows making me cry...)

I'm interested to hear thoughts and theories. I can't believe it'll be next YEAR before there are new episodes!

Comments

[tuto.livejournal.com]

Best episode. Ever!
Frigging fantastic. Charlie is my hero. Yeah, I cried too. The only thing is I wish they hadn't said that Losdt was going to end on 2010. If I didn't know that my reaction to the episode would've been totally different. Man, I can't wait a year. What the heck am I gonna do?!!

[allisona.livejournal.com]

I cried. It hit me pretty hard. Still mourning Charlie... refused to fully believe he was gone 'til I read an interview with the actor today sayin' dead is dead and that's it for Charlie. Sad for Claire and the baby. Sad for Hurley and Desmond. Bet I'm going to cry a lot in the first few episodes of Season 4, too.

Geez, can't believe "Lost" killed off TWO of my favorite characters this year. What with "Heroes" offing favorite characters with abandon, too, it starts to seem like punishment to become attached to these shows! And I get to wait to see J.K. Rowling off a few more of my favs in HP7 later this summer, too. Fun media year...

Good episode, though- intriguing twist at the end. "Lost" has really gotten back its early form. Lookin' forward to Season 4.

Loved Hurley in the mini-bus. Cried when Danielle and Alex were reunited. Was glad to see John Locke back. Fell even more in love with Sayid when he took out one the Others with his feet- Sayid rocks and is so much cooler than Jack :).

[ldwheeler.livejournal.com]

Scattered thoughts:

1. I loved loved loved loved Hurley to the rescue! I suppose it was a bit ridiculous, but I don't care. It's the kind of thing Hurley -- who's known for taking (or attempting) drastic actions when he feels it called for -- would do.

2. Is this effectively the end of the Others as a real threat? (Of course, as long as Ben lives, he's dangerous.) If I understand correctly, the Others only numbered around 30-40 (according to one of the series wrapup episodes they occasionally show), and about a dozen were wiped out in this episode. And they were, as noted, the most dangerous, which is why they were selected for the mission. Plus, they've lost Clugh and Danny and the woman Sun shot and the two (undisclosed) in the underwater hatch and maybe Rasputin, er, Mikhail unless he managed to survive blowing himself up. Which could go either way.

3. Ah, Charlie. Liked him the first season; in the second season, he wore on me considerably to the point where I didn't care if he survived. He just seemed so self-centered and whiny ("why won't you smuggle us peanut butter, I thought we were friends") and codependent (he seemed just as needy about Claire as he was for heroin -- that relationship didn't become a healthy adult relationship until this season) and almost a cipher to be pulled in as a sidekick to others' agendas (Sayid, Sawyer, Eko, etc.). I had some sympathy when he was having his visions (even when he set the fire) and suffered the brutal beatdown by Locke, but even then he lost that sympathy when he attacked Sun as part of Sawyer's con. Basically, in season two, Charlie seemed to be the one character who didn't grow at all. But in season three, he made a significant turn for the better ... perhaps beginning with his helping a man he despised (Locke), continuing through his attempts to come to terms with his possibly impending death, reaching a high point when he confesses to Sun, and finally giving himself up for those he cares for. Charlie found redemption, and became a whole person. Which means that he died just when he'd become a favorite character of mine again. Sigh.

4. The flashforward breaks my brain. Not much substantive to say other than homina homina homina.

5. I was kind of sad to see Tom die -- but the writers took steps to remind us in this episode that, even if he's the most personable of the others, he's still a ruthless killer. (Hence, we get his opining that they should just kill Sayid & co. as they knelt -- and Sawyer reminds us that it was him who took a child out of his father's arms.) (And note: Sawyer shoots Tom to avenge the taking of Walt, not Tom's shooting of Sawyer. As compare to last season, when Sawyer IDs "Zeke" as "the sonofabitch who shot me" rather than "the sonofabitch who took the kid." In one sense, this marks growth for Sawyer. In another sense, it's disturbing that it involves him killing a man who'd laid down his arms.

6. So who sent Naomi and her boat if not Penny? The obvious (maybe too obvious) answer is Penny's malevolent father, whose industry may be linked somehow to Dharma. Who else would send someone with a Desmond/Penny photo and awareness of Desmond? And a subtle clue: How did that prohibitively expensive wine get on Oceanic Flight 815 (to end up in Sawyer's stash o' plunder, er, salvage)?

7. Locke, Locke, Locke. I think it's pretty clear that "Walt" is IslandWalt, like IslandBrother and IslandHorse and IslandDaddy; it -- healing Locke and manipulating him into doing what it wants, which seems to be ending the threat that the boat brings.

8. "I didn't want him to get you pregnant." It actually seems a realistic, honest explanation from Ben about why he isolated Carl. Ben being Ben, he has to go about it in sadistic, manipulative and coercive ways, establishing that he is the Alpha Male.

9. There seems to be a very real undercurrent of mutual respect/regard between Sawyer and Hurley -- even when Sawyer is spurning Hugo's offer of help -- that one wouldn't have seen coming in season one, or even last season ("Red-neck Man!").

10. Sayid killed a man with his legs!
Sayid killed a man with his legs!
Sayid killed a man with his legs!
Nothing intelligent to say about it, just:
Sayid killed a man with his legs!

[erinwrites.livejournal.com]

"I think it's pretty clear that "Walt" is IslandWalt"

Even so, I screamed when I saw him!

[allisona.livejournal.com]

I took one look at Walt and said, "Look, it's Jacob.".

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

I really, really wished that they hadn't altered his voice by pitch-shifting him up, though. I realize it's an issue that the actor is three years older and a teenager with a changing voice now, but... I wish they'd gone some other way with it. They could've made it deeper or added reverb or just about anything else to make it eery and creepy and islandesque. Instead they just made him sound like a chipmunk. Ugh.