Warning! Spoilers ahead. Read at your own risk!
Wow. It’s over. Lost is easily the most compelling TV show in history. I didn’t say best, but probably the most compelling. And now it has ended. First of all, was it better than the finale of Moore’s Battlestar Galactica? After all, that’s the most easily comparable show to me. The short answer is yes, but then again being worse than that finale would be a tough job indeed.
I thought there were three cool moments that, while possibly not actually Star Trek references, certainly were Star Trek-like. The first was when Desmond pulled the stone out of the ground in the cave, bathed in light. It reminded me of the scene Star Trek II where Spock pulls the top off of the warp reactor thingy, light pouring out, so he can save the Enterprise. Jack putting it back at the end was maybe a continuation of that reference. Maybe his doing so helped the plane to escape, much like Spock’s sacrifice helped the Enterprise get away from the Genesis effect.
Another one was the island breaking-up fight scene. Very reminiscent of the fight scene between Kirk and the Klingon on the Genesis planet at the end of Star Trek III right down to Jack kicking him off the cliff.
Finally, the conversation between Christian and Jack at the end was a lot like the conversation between Guinan and Picard in the Nexus in Star Trek: Generations. In fact, that whole alternate reality was a lot like the Nexus. A place where what you wanted actually happened.
Ultimately I didn’t hate the finale, but it left too many important unanswered questions for me to truly happy with it. Here are a few:
What was light at the center of the island? What was its relevance to the rest of the world? How is the smoke monster the personification of all the world’s evil? What’s the evidence of this? What would have been the harm in him leaving the island really? Why/how did the island move? How did the smoke monster know he could make this happen by putting a ship’s wheel in the wall?
I’m sure I’ll have more to write about this topic in the future. What did you think of the finale?
