And so it ends.
The next week will, undoubtedly, be spent in intense debate over the meaning of the finale and whether it was satisfactory. On Twitter the debate started raging before the episode ended in the east/central time zone.
For me, the finale came down to what it always comes down on Lost: the characters.
My brief thoughts after the jump. Spoilers abound!
What the finale gave us was a lovely farewell to some of the richest characters ever on television. We got to see the heartwarming and heartbreaking reunions of our favorite couples. For me, once Sawyer and Juliet reunited, I was all good. I was glad that everybody's least favorite love quadrangle ended the way it was supposed to. I love that Ben found some measure of redemption and that Hurley became the unlikely hero. By the end, my mom and I were both sobbing.
The visual parallels, particularly the final scene with Jack in the bamboo forest, were striking. Ultimately, in the end, I didn't care about "the light" or the numbers or any of the 101 other mysteries that weren't spelled out for me. As one of the critics (Alan Sepinwall?) said on Twitter, not sure how the series mythology holds up across the six seasons, but for tonight, it feels like the journey we've gone on with the characters was worth it.
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