But I had forgotten how instrumental Desmond, for one, had been in making much of it happen, even going so far as to have a great cocktail dress handy for fugitive Kate. Yes, they occasionally worked really hard to get characters from Point A to Point B (if I heard one more person yell at Charlie about getting to the concert….). The scene between Hurley and Ben, where the former asks the latter to be his “helper,” is a really sweet character moment elevated by Jorge Garcia and Michael Emerson’s performances.Īs for the flashes-sideways…. Anything inside the glowy cave (aka the Heart of the Island) still is what it is - a lot to take, especially when characters are laboring to lift the heavy stone bathtub stopper. With the season finally done moving characters around like chess pieces, the stage was set for tightly wound action sequences, and the Jack/”Locke” cliffside fight is still visually thrilling.
And my favorable opinion of it, especially when compared to others’ (not the Others), is unchanged. The two-hour finale itself, titled “The End,” played out almost exactly as I remembered. In doing so, it teased the island’s “cork” nature, established the “rules” the two brothers lived (or were constrained) by, and also answered the question of who the “Adam and Eve” skeletons were.
♦ Similarly but to taken to the nth degree, Episode 15 of 18, “Across the Sea,” featured virtually no series regulars as it told the lonnnng-ago origin story of Jacob and the Man in Black. ♦ There was an episode set almost entirely in the 1800s, in which we learned how hirsute Ricardo from the Canary Islands came to be the immortal, seemingly eyeliner-wearing ( but not) Richard Alpert. ♦ Sun had almost nothing to do for the first half of the season, except occasionally worry aloud where Jin was. ♦ Oh, the green screen when Jack was inside the lighthouse was bad. And ditto all the above with the submarine. ♦ Similarly, one had to keep track of who in any given episode was out to use the Ajira plane versus blow it up. ♦ It was practically a part-time occupation just keeping track of which characters were where on the islands, geographically, with whom, and why - because the answer to that changed as frequently as alliances and agendas did. Giving these 18 episodes a fresh viewing, I remembered things I had forgotten, realized or appreciated anew, such as: (If this was “what might have been,” as one early theory went, why was Sawyer a lawman? With “Enos” as his partner? Why was Jack married to Juliet?) But then again, it did the same when it very first premiered, setting up as it did a “flash-sideways” world that, the more and more you saw of it, never quite made total sense as it first unfolded. It admittedly got off to a rough start, because going into that final season premiere relatively cold invited confusion.
Not one to ever really “binge-watch” full seasons of anything - The Job is better spent toggling between individual episodes of a variety of shows - this quarantine freed up the time I had been seeking to give Season 6 a full rewatch, in weekend chunks of four to six episodes. On May 23, 2010, ABC’s Lost ended its six-season run with a two-hour finale that drew nearly 14 million viewers and about as many critical think pieces. Lost EP 'Curious' About Inevitable Revival Lost Quiz: How Well Do You Remember the Series' Premiere?