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ETA: Alaina, aka

maeybenot, says everything I think way better. Her kinda spoilery post is here

Seriously? All Jacob needed to do to get rid of Smokey was to cycle power on the freakin' island?

Geez.

Okay, that said, I thought the finale was the best show of this season by, oh, a landslide. (Har dee har har. Pun really wasn't intended. Honest.) All the "awakenings" were awesome, especially Sun and Jin's. That one seriously choked me up. So did Sawyer and Juliette's. I loved theirs. *sobs*

There were other awesome moments (like the almost-wire-fighting scene on the cliffside. I so wanted that to be a wire-fighting scene!) I could have done without the last five minutes of the show, however. Maybe it was because it was overtly spiritual in such a mundane way, or maybe it's just because I still don't like Jack. He's... Well, he's Jack. I also thought the reunion scene was overly mushy. It's funny - I've been on the edge of tears for a couple weeks now, not in a sad depressed way (I don't think), but in an overload-of-repressed-emotion-needs-a-release way. So I was choked up and teary for a lot of the show. Last five minutes? Dry, rolling eyes. It was almost as bad as the last fifteen minutes of A.I. (though that actually ruined the whole movie for me, whereas LOST was just ending on a dumbed-down note. Sad, but not ruinous).

I think my favorite moment was Hurley bringing Charlie to the Hummer, and Sayid looking completely bewildered. Hurley asking for Ben's help was pretty awesome, too.

Least favorite thing? NO WALT! Grrrrrrrr. (And because they couldn't bring back Walt, they couldn't bring back the polar bears or even an explanation of the polar bears, beyond Dharma testing.)

Like JKR and Harry Potter, I think Lost, er, lost its way along the way. I haven't rewatched all the previous seasons, but my guess is that it was about fourth season that they got the idea and then messed around with plotting, while still filming, until they came up with this ending about the end of fourth season. There are a lot of plot holes. There are a lot of contradictory situations/characterizations and such (like why didn't Desmond or Jack become a new Smokey?).

This last season especially was off in timing. Things were seriously rushed and the flow of information did not fit with the build-up of mystery of the previous seasons.

I did like it (I watched all six seasons, didn't I?), but I wish they had come up with the completed story arc at or near the very beginning. The idea was so very cool, it deserved more time and attention. I know that's not how Hollywood works, but, well, it would have been better that way.

Oh, and upon waking this morning, the last five minutes weren't as bad as they were last night. Makes me wonder when, but, well, that is a point in favor of the end, because that was a good deal of the suspense of the previous two seasons, wasn't it?