CURRENT SOUNDTRACK: LOST SEASON 4 SOUNDTRACK, MICHAEL GIACCHINO; The Constant
It's one of those times again when we have to say goodbye to our favourite fictional universes. 2010 seems to be a year of endings- the 10th Doctor, LOST, and 24, not to mention a raft of new shows recently cancelled.
On monday, both myself and a good number of other people were at the Bristol comics convention, in a hotel that didn't have SKY 1. We therefore missed out on the simulcast of the final episode of LOST, entitled The End. In a way I was glad as I wanted to watch it at home, on my 42inch flatscreen, with Julia at my side. She couldn't wait until the repeat on the tuesday however, so had the advantage over me as I sat through the final two and half hours trying to second guess the writers as to what would happen. It's an annoying habit I have, I know.
I was completely wrong of course. I didn't expect the sideways universe to be some form of limbo, a waiting room for them all to remember who they were in the lives before going into the light. What was more odd was that exact same idea had been used in ASHES TO ASHES finale, the previous friday.
I had learnt from the post BSG period, when legions of fans started turning on one another trying to put forward their intepretation of Daybreak as being the correct one, that the same would happen for LOST. After six years of build up, of mystery and questions, there was no way that the writers could satisfy everyone. Nor should they. We are, after all, just visitors in that world- we didn't help create it, we're just tourists who pay for our ticket and marvel at the local architecture. Would I have done it differently? Yes, I probably would, but that is not to dismiss or lessen the impact the finale had.
The best TV shows, the best films, the best literature, captures the reader and draws them in; it makes you care about the characters, it makes you relate to them almost as if they were real people. You become emotionally invested in the story. LOST was one of those shows, which was why it was so successful, so part of the inevitable backlash comes from the fact it's over, and we don't want it to be. We want to see Jack and Kate and Sawyer and Hurley and all the others again tonight but... we won't. It's over. We'll debate and argue the unanswered questions and remember those key moments for years to come. It will occupy several inches of shelf space in my dvd collection like BSG, LIFE ON MARS and ASHES TO ASHES, QUANTUM LEAP and B5, ANGEL and all the other shows whose universes we were able to visit, if only for such a brief time.
But still... UNANSWERED QUESTIONS!!!!
The end of LOST is bad enough, but the end of 24 as well?
DAMMIT!
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