It was a hell of an episode, capping off a hell of a season. While I’ve made no secret of my past frustrations with the writers’ unwillingness to move the plot along, and while a significant part of the experience of watching this show is consistent disappointment, last night I enjoyed the two most entertaining hours of television I’ve seen in a very long time. Packed with edge-of-your-seat action, heart-wrenching emotion, crowd-pleasing triumphs, confounding questions, and the usual lack of satisfying answers, the season finale embodied everything we’ve come to know and love about our friends at Lost.
* OxyContin Jack doesn’t look like a fun dude to party with. What a buzzkill.
* Charlie was by far the saddest survivor death yet - I was sort of hoping that, for comic relief, he had written “talk to the hand” on his hand.
* Puberty has rendered Walt creepy and old-looking.
* Sooooo….are Jack and Juliet bonin’ or what? I’m glad the island people finally got around to making the sex this season.
* You know, I’m kind of going to miss Tom the Other.
* This bears repeating: Sayid broke a man’s neck WITH HIS FEET!
* So just how far was that flash forward? Are they right after the imminent rescue, or are those scenes WAY in the future, long after Jack and the gang have more island adventures and finally meet space aliens or time-traveling Vikings or whatever?
* Do you guys have ANY idea how depressed you’d have to be to take a long international flight EVERY WEEK? The magic island may not be purgatory, but a non-stop from LA to Tokyo sure as hell is.
* In the flash forward, why was Kate not in the pokey? Are there statute of limitations laws for getting shipwrecked on magical islands?
* Rose told Bernard that “he’s a dentist, not Rambo”. However, I would respectfully like to point out that Rambo is now probably older than Bernard, and still breaking commie skulls. Just sayin’.
* Hurley saving the day by flattening that Other with the Hurleywagon might be my favorite TV moment ever.
And of course, the biggest surprise twist ending of all: we don’t get to find out anymore until 2008, when the show finally returns. Sigh.
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