I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it. ~Jack Handey
As the week since the finale has progressed I’ve seen many people begin to defend the show and say, “they gave me what I wanted.” That’s all well and good and I would not venture to take away another’s pleasure, but for me they didn’t provide what was promised. The search for meaning and purpose in a chaotic world was brought up as a theme again and again. In the end we are shown Jack finding his purpose, but what was it and why?
Lost, Storytelling, TV
In An Alternate Reality Lost Had Answers: Part III – By the Numbers
In Commentary on June 4, 2010 at 9:28 pmAlmost two weeks past the finale and already the plot begins to fade, like all unresolved issues, from my mind. I’ll finish today with the first mystery. I’m sure I’ve missed some (pipe up and I’ll solve them for you), but the point of these posts was not to plug every hole, but just to show that it could be done. There could have been a solution. There could have been an end. Instead the creators chose to stop dead (pardon the pun). Narrative is about adding meaning to the universe which has enough mystery of it’s own thank you very much.