Note: I’m on vacation this week. While I’m gone, I’ve set up a week of discussion posts revisiting the Lost finale in time for the Lost series DVD set, out Aug. 24. In other words, this is a recording; you cannot press 0 to speak to a real live person.
Upon learning that Jack was the Candidate who ended up succeeding Jacob, Locke told him: “You’re sort of the obvious choice, don’t you think?” Funny because it’s true! But only for a brief time, since Jack quickly ended up passing the water bottle to Hurley—in retrospect, maybe the more obvious choice, since he was always the beatific, Buddha-like force of beneficence on Lost. This resolution, at least, seemed like the happiest choice for Hurley and the Island. (Though I feel badly for Hurley’s mom. Why does no one think of the mothers!)
Which brings me to my last rewatch discussion question for Lost’s finale: which characters had the most satisfying, appropriate endings, and which had the least? (Though there may have been a principle behind it that I’m missing, for instance, the characters who ended up escaping the Island on the Ajira plane seemed a bit arbitrary.) Whose story arc was served well by the finale, and who got shafted?
Namaste, and I’ll see you back here next week.