Writing a review about Lost; what better place than an airplane. Yes, I am writing this in a plane!! For people who know Lost only from the previews, it is a series about a plane crash; survival on an island, flashback’s blah blah; and honestly this is the same reaction I get from most of my friends who know the name of the series but have not go beyond the previews.
What if the Island has a story to tell? What if the survivors were about to discover things way beyond human sanity. Now this is really what Lost is all about. The script here is the lead actor in the entire series. This may sound a bit awkward for all lost-o-maniacs but the entire six seasons have you glued to the television only because of the nature of the script; actors are just fitting the blocks into the puzzle. Every character, every sub plot and every disaster is of epic proportions. While you are watching the series, you keep thinking about life, soul, relations and most importantly God and His existence.
All six seasons of Lost were enjoyable, but I was disappointed with the series finale. Many people have not liked the series finale but the reasons are different. Most of the lost-o-maniacs did not like the way the series has made people use their brain to think whether all the Oecanic airline passengers are really dead and if they are moving in a parallel universe or else …where the fuck are they really?? My questions are a bit different. Lost talks about flash-back, flash-forwards as well as flash-sideways. Having made use of such great concepts, the writers have not been able to give answers to simple questions. What about the Dharma Initiative? How could the serial not have answered questions about such an important aspect of the serial? To me this is what the finale conveys “Man you have a lot of questions; yes we have introduced many characters and theories that most of the times contradict one another; but now the series is ending…it is just time to move on”
But no need to be disappointed by this bit; I understand with great series like Lost, the expectations are even higher.
Hats off to Jeffrey Lieber, J. J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof for creating a Television spectacle. Great story told the way it should have been.
loved the series.. watched each and every episode... yaa the finale is a bit disappointing.. you just want to see more of them.. I have read the comment of the director/producer of the series somewhere they have already predicted that the viewers might not be very excited about the finale... it happens.. I guess :)
ReplyDeleteI liked the ending because most of the mysteries were unresolved in the series
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