I have no idea how some people can watch the finale of a show like Lost—an emotional episode, and also very controversial—and immediately start writing about it. I admire those people. All I could do yesterday, after watching the episode at 6 a.m., was wait for the evening and watch it again. I decided to focus on the good stuff, and tweeted extensively about it, possibly without giving anything away to those who haven’t seen it yet. That comes way before any analytic effort on my part.
So, here it is—my list of favorite things about the Lost series finale:
- When Juliet comes in.
- “Easy, Bigfoot.”.
- Season-one–style music.
- The reference to the last shot of the season-one finale.
- Drive Shaft not playing “You All Everybody.”
- Kate saving him a bullet.
- Jin’s smirk and Sawyer not having a clue.
- The Apollo bar.
- Hugo drinking very questionable water out of an Oceanic Airlines bottle.
- Michael Emerson being just the best.
- The symmetry.
