The End Of LOST & 24, One Jack Dies, One Jack Lives

Sunday night the last LOST episode aired. Monday night the last 24 episode aired. In one the Jack character dies, in the other the Jack character lives to fight another day.

In the Battle of the Finales, for me, 24 was a much better closing act than what LOST came up with.

Now, I enjoyed watching the final LOST.

But.

I thought promises were made that LOST mysteries would be explained. That did not really much happen.

And I thought, way back when, early on with LOST, that the creators clearly said that the explanation was not that they were all already DEAD. Now, I may be somewhat imagination challenged, but isn't that basically what it came down to?

But, dead from the start? Killed in the first plane crash? Or later. Who knows? What about the season ender that had the Oceanic 6 getting off the island? But, then, if you start down the path of asking questions, you've given up on suspending disbelief, which is what you basically agree to do when you start watching an imagination epic like LOST.

Now, with 24, a suspension of disbelief is also required. But, I've always found that easy to do with 24. The thrill ride has always been so entertaining. The ending seemed perfect to me. We sort of had a plotline resolution. President Taylor wised up in the end. Chloe came to Jack's rescue. Again. Convincing Jack not to do a really bad thing, talking him out of assassinating the Russian president.

And once more we see Jack walk off into the sunset, pretty much a fugitive, with Chloe promising to look out for him.

There seemed to be plenty of unresolved plot to give 24: The Movie a good start. Punishing the Russians for their bad behavior. Then there is that peace agreement with Dalia Hassan's IRK, or whatever it is called, country, that still needs to happen.

And. President Logan bungled killing himself? He survives? Will he be a vegetable? Or an even better villain?

I can't remember the last time I went to a movie. I'd be tempted to see 24 on the big screen. If the reviews are good.

LOST: The Final Episode of The Final Season

Saturday night ABC ran the first two episodes of LOST. The DVR recorded it, but I've not watched. I assume the episodes have been re-done with captions to point out various bits of information that were a mystery when first viewed.

Tonight is the End of LOST. It does not seem all that long ago since Oceanic Flight 815 crashed on a tropical island. But that happened on September 22, 2004. Who would have thought when LOST started that it would take viewers to places TV viewers have really not gone before, not courtesy of a single TV show.

LOST sparked debates about philosophy, science vs. faith, numerology, literature, history, love, hate and a whole slew of blogs and on-line discussions full of doctorate level analyzing.

LOST is promising that tonight will be a satisfying ending, with most questions answered and mysteries resolved. Tonight's LOST viewing starts at 7 Eastern Time, 6 Central. The first 2 hours will be a re-cap of the past 119 episodes, followed by the 2 and 1/2 hour finale, title "The End."

I really don't see how LOST can be wrapped up in 2 and 1/2 hours. There is an awful lot of explaining to do.

Jin, Sun & Sayid Lost on LOST

Last night we lost 3 major characters on LOST. The plot is really moving in fast forward to its end, or so it seems.

Sayid, the lovable Iraqi torturer, went out in a heroic submarine blast. Jin and Sun, only recently reunited, also died heroically, in the blasted sinking submarine.

This episode we had a good dose of Bad John Locke, to hate, and Good John Locke, on the mainland, in a wheelchair, to like.

It is a testament to the cleverness of LOST that it pulls off a Bad and Good John Locke and makes sense doing so.

It appears the way the plot is going, that the few remaining survivors are now in a battle with Bad John Locke, aka the Smoke Monster, aka the Man in Black. Who knows how many of Charles Widmore's people survived last night's gunfire.

And we still have Desmond somewhere on the island, likely key to being very helpful in the final battle against Bad John Locke.

My guess for the LOST final ending is that the side story we've been watching all season long, you know, where the plane never crashed and they all made it safely from Australia to the U.S., well, that becomes the final reality.

Which would mean Jin and Sun are not dead. Nor is Sayid.

Then again, this is LOST, I really have no clue how they can possibly end this amazing TV show in a way that makes sense. All I know for sure is we are watching what is certain to become a television cult classic.

LOST: The Final Season Two Part Opener

Well, The first 2 hours of the final season of LOST did not fail to deliver. When LOST delivers that means I'm confused and the plot has gotten more wonderfully convoluted.

LOST opens where it began, only this time the plane does not crash, but continues on to Los Angeles. We swoosh back to LA over and over again throughout the first 2 hours, and, I assume, will be doing so throughout the final season, seeing what happens to the various people if the crash on the island never happened.

So, was it that nuclear blast that ended last season that fixed everything? No. Somehow that nuclear blast managed to bring the people who were stuck back in the 1970s, back to the present.

A present where the evil, or I think it's evil, black smoke monster is now under the control of who or what took over John Locke's body.

Ben killed Jacob upon the orders of the non John Locke. Jacob then appeared, dead, to Hurley, telling Hurley he has to get Sajid to a temple, the whereabouts Jin knows.

But, before that can happen they hear Juliette crying out for help. They realize they are at the remains of the Swan station. Much frantic effort goes into getting to Juliette, who dies in Sawyers's arms, but not before whispering something that Sawyer could not understand, but later learned, via Miles, the Death Whisperer, that Juliette had said, "it worked."

Now, we the viewers knows "it worked" meant they were no longer stuck in the past. But Sawyer does not yet know he is no longer stuck in the past, so "it worked" made no sense to him.

As Sawyer buries Juliette, with the help of Miles, Kate, Hurley, Jack and Jin take Sajid to the Temple, where they are captured by a group of others. Jacob had made clear to Hurley that the fate of all of them depended on Sajid being saved.

After they were captured, by the Others, Hurley reversed their situation by mentioning they were sent by Jacob. The leader of the others then opened the guitar case Jacob had given him, to find a big wooden symbol. The leader broke the wood thing and took out a piece of paper that apparently had the names of our captured heroes on it. And some other dire message that made the leader eager to revive Sajid.

When Sajid, at first ended up dead, and Hurley mentioned that Jacob was also dead, this sent the Others into extreme defensive measures, preparing for the arrival of the Black Smoke Monster.

We see the non-John Locke come out of Jacob's giant foot home to tell those on the beach that he was very disappointed in them, this after he knocked out team leader, Richard.

Hour 2 ends with Locke heading towards the temple and Sajid suddenly back alive, after the Other's leader had demanded to see Jack, after which a scuffle erupted.

So, the main mystery, I guess, is how do they finally manage to reverse their fate and land in LA without incident? And how did the island end up under water, which we saw during a very cool sequence near the beginning, as Jack stared out the plane's window to the ocean below?

Best show on TV.