owlmoose: (lost - hurley dude)
KJ ([personal profile] owlmoose) wrote in [personal profile] rionaleonhart 2023-04-23 08:17 pm (UTC)

Jumping in here a few days late because I've not really been reading along; I decided it was time for a rewatch of Lost but I'm going much more slowly (I'm a couple of episodes into Season 4 now), and I've forgotten enough of the details that it's hard to say much in most cases. However, I do remember the ending, vividly, and although I won't say I loved it, I did appreciate it, and I will defend it vigorously because I think most of the haters misunderstood it. I heard a lot of people saying that they were mad at the ending because "they were dead the whole time". But Christian quite plainly said that they were not, and the events of the show did in fact all really happen. Maybe it was too subtle, but I suspect one reason many people missed it was because they were so worried that the "dead all along" ending would turn out to be real, and so as soon as they heard "purgatory", they tuned out the rest in their rage. (This isn't just pure theory because this actually happened to the friend I watched the finale with. He still didn't love the ending after I clarified, but he was more at peace with it.)


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