See Ya Next Year

So, I've been putting off watching the finale of Lost because I was concerned that it was going to require a lot of energy for me to get through it. I've probably procrastinated long enough though, so I've got my sandwich and my beer and I'm sitting down to watch it. I'll be back in a virtual two seconds with my thoughts.

Wow, turns out that virtual two seconds lasted an actual day and a half because I got distracted...but it's done now, so here we go:

4.13 & 4.14 "There's No Place Like Home (Parts 2 & 3)"

So. Due to a mishap with an Entertainment Weekly earlier today, I already knew who was in the coffin. But that didn't really bother me too much.

I...don't know what to say really. It was suspenseful and action packed. Now we understand why certain people are where. I'm cool with the fact that Michael's dead. He always got on my nerves a bit. I'm not sure if it's just stupid hope or not, but I still don't believe that Jin is dead. I'm also wondering about those people in the raft with Daniel. Was all of that territory covered by "Island Space"? Did they all move with the island? It seems like they must have, or they would have already been found and brought back to the real world in the years that the 6 have been back. I'm going to hold out hope that Jin is with them.

Other than how the Oceanic 6 and Ben got off the island, this was one of those raising-more-questions-than-it-answers kind of episodes. But I guess I should have expected that. I was starting to suspect that everything that's been going on since the beginning has been the consequences of some big Widmore/Ben cat and mouse game. The end of this, with Ben and Locke trying to get everyone back to the island makes me think, instead, that the Widmore/Ben thing and the Oceanic 815 thing are two separate, but related, things. Not that that means anything when we still don't know what's going on in either respect.

Probably the most intriguing part of the whole episode, to me, was the Charlotte revelation. Of course, it could just be the way that Miles brought it up. I was skeptical at first, but I really like him.

Oh, also, I like the fact that the "island moving apparatus" looked like part of an old ship. I hope the island is some sort of alien pirate ship. That might explain Ol' Four Toes that I'm so fond of. (Maybe it's a TARDIS. Ben seems like he could be The Master, right?) But this reminds me of something related to time travel that I've been discussing with someone else. When Ben moved the island, why did he end up in Tunisia? Does it relate to him having stayed in a certain point in space while traveling in time and the Earth having rotated under him? I guess that wouldn't account for the Earth's rotation around the Sun, though, or any of the other galactic movement that would have caused any point on Earth to have moved away from whatever point in space Ben might have been at.

And a Pixies song! I checked the lyrics to "Gouge Away" to see if it offered any enlightenment about what's going on. It didn't. Not to me at least.

Okay, well, I have to say that I did pretty much enjoy this season, despite the fact that for some weird reason I was reluctant to watch every single episode, so the whole season was weirdly akin to pulling teeth. That being said, I'm not overly anxious for next season. I feel like I can easily wait until next year for more without even having to think much about the show. Maybe I'll take that back in a few days once I've read the various write ups about this finale and have developed a few more thoughts. Whatever.