finished LOST last night. bumpy ride for sure — long stretches of the show are a real slog — but the finale worked like gangbusters for me. i was cryin, man.
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I don't follow people who think the big takeaway was "they were dead the whole time" or "and it was all a dream," which the show definitively debunked. you could say the big takeaway is "the real island is the friends we made along the way" which is trite, sure, but what's better than friends?
The whole show is about the holiness of community and communal healing. It's very, very powerful and my love for the ending has grown with every rewatch.
IIRC there was some confusion created by the original broadcast ending on footage of the plane wreck on the beach which some people took to mean they never made it out. But a lot of people also said “they’re obviously in purgatory!” for so long that when the show subverted that idea they got mad.
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Lost = Philae
The Leftovers = Eros
Watchmen = Agape