Lost: The Complete Sixth and Final Season by Author’s Name

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We are presented with a story about an Island, the word and its meaning should be considered within the show’s mythology; an eye land, the land of the eye, the land of perception, the eye of the mind. The series deals heavily with perception; perception and interpretation. What you get out of the series really depends on what you put into (or are prepared to put into) it. Lost poses all the questions worth asking, literally, everything regarding the universe, consciousness and time. The viewer was the unseen character who saw what the Island saw, the writers kept that thread throughout the entire show. Even if you decide, after watching, that you did not enjoy Lost you could at least investigate some of the literary references; Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor, or Island by Aldous Huxley, to name but a few.

Lost was an incredible journey. It was beautifully complex, the ending was symmetrical, reflective and deeply moving on so many levels (emotionally and intellectually) that you need to spend some serious time to consider its meanings. I do not want to give away too much detail but you will (perhaps) find the mirroring of Season Six and the flash sideways particulary intriguing, watch the scenes in the bamboo field and the church very closely. Lost made us think, it made us look at just how deep and complex we are despite the vacuous nature of modern life, it made us think about our perception of time and of consciousness and of our place within both.

Many of the answers were subtle, some were handed out on a plate (some were hated when given) and some require an element of hard work (you have to earn them) and independent thinking. The show is a puzzle and needs to be pieced together but it is all there. I fear many people watched The End and after about three seconds decided it was rubbish (it was really that one scene many people objected to but the church is used as symbolism and as a platform for a moment of transcendance, a moment beyond religion(s), beyond the notions of heaven and time but it was not the first time we were shown this church in Lost…) there is a lot more going on in the flash sideways than mere purgatory. Think of the Light at the heart of the Island, “It is the source; life, death, rebirth.” – What element surrounds and ties all these together and is at the heart of the show? Watch LA X again; we are shown the detonation of the bomb twice, that is for a very specific reason(s) – there are two outcomes, both real, think about it. Lost kept the sci-fi elements all the way through the sixth season and blended them with elements faith but you really need to give it some serious thought. I saw the flash sideways as a real place, another dimension related to quantum physics and multi-reality consciousness, a mirror universe inhabited by metaphysical imprints of the characters created in the flash of the jughead detonation and that is the real beauty of the flash sideways – they are left purposely ambiguous.

Key episodes in this Sixth and Final Season are Ab Aeterno, (one of the best in the entire series) Across The Sea, Happily Ever After and Lighthouse. These episodes are rife with hidden and open meanings. The finale, indeed the whole series is open to interpretation but that is the whole point. Such a literary show needs to be approached on the level(s) it was written.

Everything did indeed happen for a reason, every event led to another, so nothing is rendered ‘meaningless’ as many have claimed of the finale. The crash, the flashbacks – the linear timeline – the flash forwards, (there is the key to the whole show right there; ‘time’ and the perception and the manipulation of time) the time travel, jughead, the flash sideways, they are all related. Everything you need to know about Lost is inside the show but sometimes you have to dig deep and unearth the treasures by yourself. The main mystery of the Island was revealed in ‘Ab Aeterno’ and the nature of the heart of the Island within ‘Across The Sea’ but many people did not like or accept these answers but they were given.

Much of the fabric of Lost is surreal and that is intentional. Certain people were looking for scientific, rational answers to mythological, irrational questions. But the writers were purposely blending reality with the surreal to create that feeling of question and mystery, so one question inevitably led to another and another and another. That is why we watched week after week, season after season, year after year, because we love mystery and they revealed enough without showing everything in glaring, forensic detail, ruining the illusion.

Many of the ‘answers’ are completely open to interpretation because they are suggested rather than stated and that is the beauty of Lost, it is a very different experience for different people and therefore the experience becomes very personal. If you didn’t like the show that is fine but for some of us there is nothing else like it because a rarity came upon us, (along with ‘The Soprano’s’ and ‘Six Feet Under’) a tv series that lifted us out of the everyday and the banal and deep into the inner (eye) realm of imagination and enabled us to make the show what we wanted. To give it our own meaning.

I still think the flash sideways ‘ending’ is a new parallel dimension (not purgatory) created in the white flash, a real place for consciousness and memory to merge from one timeline into another. Like two mirrors slowly folding in on each other. But maybe that’s just me…

Finally, the best piece of Lost is left alone, it surrounds the Island now, it glints along the ripples of the water, in creeping tendrils that float and hang upon the vines and the earth.

Mystery.

La stagione finale di “Lost” affronta la difficile sfida di fornire risposte alle numerose domande sollevate nel corso delle stagioni precedenti e di dare una conclusione soddisfacente alla storia. La trama si spinge oltre i confini dell’isola misteriosa, introducendo nuovi elementi e svelando gradualmente i retroscena dei personaggi principali. Mentre alcuni episodi sono focalizzati sulla risoluzione dei misteri, altri approfondiscono la natura dei personaggi e le loro connessioni.La regia continua a essere di alta qualità, con scene d’azione ben realizzate e una fotografia accattivante. La stagione finale ha diviso gli spettatori per la sua interpretazione simbolica e il modo in cui gestisce gli elementi soprannaturali della trama. Alcuni hanno elogiato la conclusione emozionante e toccante, mentre altri potrebbero aver desiderato risposte più concrete a tutti i misteri presentati.In definitiva, “Lost – The Final Season” rappresenta il capitolo conclusivo di una delle serie televisive più discussi e amate, con il suo mix di avventura, mistero e dramma umano.

The groundbreaking show, that has taken it’s audience into a mystified journey tethered on the turfs of fate and coincidence, good versus evil, love and scorn, life and death, finally came full circle with it’s long awaited two and a half hours series finale, aptly titled “The End”. The ending redefines the essence of television in the 21st century: in which a heavily serialized show abound with complex fabrication manages to entertain, educate and spark enthusiasms in the modern age of blogospheres and the evergrowing like-minded Internet community.

I was brought in for the ride six years ago, not knowing the impact it would have on me. A classical tale about a group of survivors stranded on a mysterious island seems too elaborate and bears little entertainment value. After the pilot aired and when Charlie (the rock-star character who died trying to safe his friends from an impending doom in the third season of the show) asked with a puzzling look on his face: “Guys, where are we?” – the hook was set almost immediately.

LOST is inventive in its own indefinite genre, hallmarked by its shrewd devices in storytelling. It is artful without looking down on its audience and doesn’t, in return, demands anything from them. Instead it did the direct opposite by having the writers to playfully sprinkle the implications of science, religion, philosophy, psychology, literature and history throughout the show, indirectly confounding the audience and consequently brought about an off-the-wall change in regards to the way a TV show is being dissected. Critics have been religiously analyzing, hard-core fans created their own theories, casual fans speculated, tweeted and blogged about their personal views. LOST has gradually amassed a modern and vocal audience unlike any other.

It must be said that to be a LOST viewer, one has to regard oneself as a freak. To miss an episode is like sinking into obscured territories. Mysteries after mysteries started to evolve and answers tend to pratfall and delved into hiding as the series propels. But once it progresses to a definite end date, some of the important answers finally began to reveal itself, often poignantly and at times off the mark, disproving the loyal fan’s speculations. Indeed, no show would be able to please every single viewer, hence the ending eventually brought about two conflicting camps: the ones who were fully satisfied and the others who felt somewhat robbed. I for once believe that the journey is much sweeter than the final destination.

LOST can be seen as a convoluted piece of art, a poetry that disguises itself as an enigma and a tapestry of a magnified question-mark. It fills itself with perceptive contraptions and perplexing materials that breaks away from the one-sided school of narrative exercises. Game-changers and cliffhangers aplenty, it tends to throw audience into all sorts of direction but not dispossessing them. LOST provides a platform for similar genre to flourish, but alas they meet their demises (Heroes and FlashForward for examples). It is one of the earliest shows to truly put forth an international casting, a show not afraid to break all the safe episodic TV rules and even more unafraid to bring in politically-incorrect characters (Republican Guard torturer, anyone?) into the intricate scheme.

When seen from a broader perspective, it is a show that talks about life in its basic entity, about you and me, about the castaways burdened with various issues: parental, personal as well as emotional. Flashbacks on their private lives created windows of opportunity for the viewers to slip into their past and see how these people react to the ongoing island events. The past tends to build the foundation of who these characters are, and their decisions on the present often parallels the story of their past. The beauty (or ugliness) of LOST lies in the anecdotes and development of these troubled characters, and they were done by not resorting to the usually trite soap-opera motives. Even when nonessential episodes like Exposé tend to hinder the show’s momentum, they are good storytelling on its own.

The mythological and scientific parts of LOST are one of the aspects that took TV to a whole new level. Not wanting to back down or conform to the exposition in a common heroes-versus-villains syllabus, the writers gave the setting (in this case the mythical island) it’s own historical storyline, at the same time peppering pseudo-methodical topics that goes way beyond our heads, such as time-travel, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, pregnancy among others. Mixed these into the characters’ interconnectivity beats and you have a contemporary saga flashes before your eyes.

Too much have been said about LOST and many more are bound to surface after the series greets it’s final curtain call. Missing the show is an oversimplification, but yes, there will be no shows (not right away, I guess) that are able to fill the vacuum in this self-named geek who loves mystery-laden parables invigorated with character back-stories and thematic allusions. Like reading a good fiction, the end is bittersweet.

R.a.s