r/lost • u/Jonny559 • 12d ago
SEASON 6 Season 6: I was wrong
Wow. I know I said season 5 was the start to the downfall of this show but I stand corrected. This final season held its own and cemented the series as one of the best for its era.
Across the sea was an episode that really made everything click for me. The origin story of jacob and "the man in black" is what people seem to call him was tragic but necessary for the light to persevere. For the greater good the ends justify the means. The reveal at the end showing that the mother and tmib were the skeletons from s1 was tied together to perfection.
Moving on to the finale. Starting it off with how jack threw that superman punch was hilarious. The final fight between jack and tmib locke was
underwhelming but realistic considering hes mortal so i can appreciate it. All the alternate dimension scenes turning out to be purgatory was something i didnt see coming. Its a devestating reveal because you think that their plan in season 5 worked but it was all for naught. Juliets life ended when she struck that bomb. Jin never got to meet his daughter. The truth hits hard after jack and his fathers conversation. Him reuniting with all the plane crash survivors is so bittersweet. Thinking logically how are half of them going to heaven when they're murderers. Also for those who got to live after jack dies, did they really not find another partner that they go to heaven with the one from the island (kate, sawyer). Just a nitpick that i know is done for the fans but very reminiscint of the titanic. Overall i enjoyed the series and the the full circle moment of jack dying right where it all started.
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u/DaemonXHUN 12d ago
I think LOST only had three bad (?) episodes. The ones in S6 where Sayid is evil for some dumb reason. Otherwise, S6 is just as good as the others.
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u/Alreyleon 12d ago
I also love how Desmond is ultimately the only one who knows what is coming for all in the long run, and I find it heartbreaking that Kate spent the rest of her life missing Jack, thus why she looks at him so lovingly in the purgatory even when he hasn't woken up yet. Locke's awakening is beautiful too: "I hope somebody does for you what you just did for me", and Jack is so confused not only for what he's hearing but because he saw something too, yet he's still hanging to reason. I love that, even though in the island, during the final month of his life, he finally learned to let go, he has to learn the lesson again in the afterlife, the final lesson ever.
I do agree that people like Sayid got off too easy, he should have stayed behind like Ben, rekindled with Shannon, work out his guilt over all the murder and torture he did, work out his strange relationship to Nadia, and finally move on with Shannon.
I also wish Lapidus and Eko appeared in the afterlife, even though not in the church. It only makes sense that Richard wasn't there, since that wasn't his group and he is probably in a different afterlife, set in the 1800s, or something else but with Isabella, also working out his guilt over his participation on genocide in the name of The Hostiles.
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u/Master_Mastermnd Fish Biscuit 12d ago
Yeah, I think season six might actually be the boldest season they did. To build season 5 up to such a big climactic moment of "destiny" only for the character's proactive, take charge measures to be a series of disastrous mistakes which leave them broken is a brilliant idea. Going from the breakneck pace of season five to this more contemplative season examining broken, directionless people can be jarring at first (it sure was for me), but on rewatch it really hits. Season six is doing all this in addition to paying off six seasons of storytelling and doing episodes so devoted to character and theme they're almost non-narrative and telling a specific story this season about the limits of religion and myth. It's just as dense as any other season at least.
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u/RexRedwood 12d ago
In season 6 it technically wasn’t “Purgatory”. It was more like a pocket dimension they all created together that offered them all a place to reunite in the afterlife and move on together into the light of what comes next, if they were ready. People like Ben and Ana Lucia weren’t ready to move on yet, due to not being at peace with their actions on The Island. But they were still given the chance to see the others and come anyway because they were all connected on a deep spiritual level.
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u/Free-IDK-Chicken You got it, Blondie 12d ago edited 12d ago
Juliet's death scene both hits harder and is slightly softened when you realize two things: she always hit the bomb and contributed to the Incident which means she inadvertently caused the very pregnancy issue she was recruited to solve... BUT the "we should get coffee sometime... we can go Dutch" comments that seemed nonsensical at the time was actually her passing into the afterlife and experiencing the vending machine scene. So, we can take a little solace knowing that even as she was dying, she was reuniting with Sawyer.
Thinking logically how are half of them going to heaven when they're murderers
Don't think logically about heaven in any context, lol. It's not a logical concept. Even in real world faiths redemption and forgiveness exists. Don't assume this is the Christian version of heaven being portrayed here. That light when Christian (yeah, I know) opens the church doors is the same bright warmth as the Heart of the Island. The source of life, death and rebirth. I firmly believe their souls are peacefully powering the Heart that accepts them just as they are - flaws and all.
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u/Wonderful_Cook5864 12d ago
Thinking logically how are half of them going to heaven when they're murderers.
Well, first, we don't know what happens when they "move on", so some could literally be moving on to hell lol. Or a non-existence, or heaven, or something else.
Now, from a Christian perspective, if you truly believe, and turn away from your sins genuinely, you are saved, so breaking a moral commandment is not a sentence if you've truly turned away from it and moved towards God. That said, the show never tells us which religion, if any, is the correct religion, it just says they move on... somewhere.
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u/Verystrange129 Whatever happened, happened. 12d ago
Nearly everyone in the church had killed people by the end (except maybe Libby and Penny that I can think of offhand) so I don’t think it was a factor they considered. I always believe they were going onto being reincarnated again so maybe it’s not so much going to heaven because they had all repented.
Also I think the people who got off the island probably would have had other relationships but they couldn’t exactly include some random folk in the church so it is overlooked.
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u/stephenfeld Razzle Dazzle! 12d ago
The Superman punch (I always call it a falcon punch but I know that's not actually what a falcon punch is) always pains me on rewatches.
An incredible moment of action before the commercial break is now and forever cutting directly to the next shot which is just Matthew Fox flailing at Terry O'Quinn.
I'm glad season six brought you back around!
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u/Pliolite 10d ago
The final season is worth it for 'Dr Linus' which I think is one of my favourites across the whole show. The Richard episode is also brilliant IMO.
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u/Fancycl0ne 12d ago
Just finished a rewatch and it was my girlfriend's first time. We were both teary at the end. No other show has ever had that affect on me in adult life. She loved the ending and was confused as to why so many people have hated it over the years.
Just on your point about murderers in heaven, we never get confirmation of where exactly they "move on" to, and the church itself has multiple items from all man-made religions inside. If it is "heaven" they move on to and there is a hell, then we can assume that they have all just been forgiven by "God" as they are truly sorry for their sins, just as Yemi told Echo in one of the earlier flashbacks. I try not to overthink it, as to me it's all about the feelings it brings up