Lost: There’s No Place Like Home (2&3/3) [season finale]
By fred | May 30, 2008
(S04E13-E14) This show is so fucking awesome! Alright, so here I am, after having finally watched those two last hours that concluded this fourth season of Lost, and I think there’s only one obvious conclusion to which any one of us will come now : this show is so fucking awesome.
I’ll be honest, I don’t think this was a mind-blowing episode. In fact, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t, because there was no real mind-blowing moments, moments during which you would not believe what just happened, not quite get what just happened, moments that would bring the show into a brand new light, moments that would change everything we’ve come to know about the show so far, moments during which the rules would be changed, moments that would literally blow your minds and have your jaw dropped to the floor…
But that’s completely okay. It really is, it’s more than okay, because those episodes were everything they were supposed to be, they were everything they could be, and what that is is some freaking awesome episodes, and a great season finale to the best season of Lost so far, nothing less.
There are many reasons those two hours weren’t some mind-blowing hours as say last season’s finale was. Reasons we knew before heading in to those episodes : we already knew what would happen. Ever since this season started, basically, we’ve known what would eventually happened, we knew that people would leave the Island, we knew the six names of the people from Flight 815 who would made it, and we knew others would stay behind, alive, on the Island.
But this season finale was the perfect ending to the season, and with it you need to look at the bigger picture. Because I am convinced that once the show’s final episode will have aired, when we’ll look back at everything, this season will stand apart from every other seasons. Because this season was a pivotal moment for the show, this season as a whole was your mind-blowing moment, the moment when everything changed.
I’m pretty happy what my predictions about what I thought would happen during this finale, and I think I was – and still am – right about the future of the show. A while back, there was this Island, it was a special place where miracles happen. On this Island were people trying to do something, following some mystical figure referred to as “Jacob”. They had something to do, while at the same time in the “outside world” a man named Charles Widmore was after the Island.
But then, on September 22, 2004 something happened : Oceanic Flight 815 crashed on their Island, and many people survived that crash. As it turned out, this probably wasn’t just random, people had been brought together, on that plane first, and on the Island eventually. Probably by Jacob, or the Island’s will, if those two differ.
That event changed everything, now Ben and the Others had to take care of the Losties, those people completely unaware of the bigger picture and what was really going on there, and who only wished to leave the Island and go back to their lives, outside into the world. This is when we started to watch things, so for us this was the norm, this was the “standard” way things go. But in reality, it wasn’t, and now, finally, things are going back to “normal”.
Not exactly as they were before the crash, but now that the Island moved (dude!) and a few people left the Island, we can go (back) to the bigger picture. Of course it won’t be as simple, but this season was still nevertheless a pivotal moment in Lost, a jaw-dropping, mind-blowing, tremendous moment during which almost everything, including “the rules” were changed. Seasons to come will look nothing like seasons past, because of this moment, this season and what happened then. I’m not sure what the future holds for the show, but I can’t wait to find out !!
about what jack said to kate .
it actually make sense to me .
and im ashamed to say but im reading this before even seeing the episode ( i know its a spoiler but i just cant wait and im in europe and some streaming sites like abc only let american users watch their episodes ) anyway when jack sais :
But he’s not here, is he? No, no he made his choice, he chose to stay. I’m the one who came back, I’m the one who’s here, I’m the one who saved you !
what if he simply meant, that he was the one that came back from the island while saving katefrom the island and bringing her home like he said he would.
Of course that doesnt make it a choice for sawyer.
exept it is a choice but to choose to sacrifice yourself… but as you said he really wasnt aware of everyting.
well to keep short i just wanted to say this about jack. coming back , could also simply mean on the main land, and saving her from the island.
I know you posted this idea before as the episode something back home came, and i did agree with you at the time that coming back didnt simply mean to the mainland.
but overcomplicating things and trying to see weird message in everywhere like we are used too in lost can mess up with are thoughts no ?
by the way thinking about sun didnt jin gravestone say : i wish you were here ?
actually meaning that jin could has survived but simply is still on the island ?
Too many thoughts. Must collect them…
hmm… okay Tink, you know what, this is wrong. ;) I know it’s hard to wait, but I think it’s better to suffer the wait and enjoy a spoiler-free viewing of the episode. Of course that’s me, I just don’t get the appeal of spoilers… Anyways, I know it’s really hard to have to wait while knowing the rest of the world as seen the episode, I feel your pain.
I think you might be right, when Jack said he “came back” it probably meant he came back from the Island, nothing else. I think I was still stuck with my first interpretation of those words, true. But still, Jack’s choice of words wasn’t really what you’d except given what actually happen. I mean, okay he “came back” from the Island into the world, and he’s convinced he is the one who saved everyone – or, the O6 at least – but it remains an odd choice.
And again, I might have to watch the episode again (and I will) but I don’t think any of them knew what Sawyer’s sacrifice really meant at the time, and whether they did or not, Sawyer never chose to stay, but to let everyone leave.
Clearly Jack’s jealous of Sawyer’s heroic behavior. He was obsessed about getting people out of the Island, as he said he would, and now he wants to convince everyone, starting with himself, that he is the hero who saved everyone. But he knows he wasn’t alone there, and I think he knows his motives weren’t as altruist as he’d like them to be, whereas Sawyer on the other hand had greatly evolved from the selfish bastard who wouldn’t give anyone what he had collected from the plane wreckage, starting with guns or medicines, to running in a sea of bullets to save Claire, or jumping off to ensure everyone’s safety.
About the “I wish you were here” though, I don’t think it means anything. I mean it could be that he’s dead and she wishes he wasn’t, but was here with her and their child. There’s of course a possibility Jin’s not dead, especially here on Lost, but I don’t think we have any real clue as to whether he died or not. I’m thinking he’s dead, but who knows. (Plus, even if he is, that doesn’t mean we won’t see him again…)
hehe… typical post-Lost syndrome ;)
I don’t have as much of a problem with that statement as you guys do. Jack saying that he saved her makes sense in multiple ways. Jack did explicitly save Kate when she was locked up by the others, with his surgery blackmailing scheme. It could also be argued that his initial leadership actions when they landed did save the entire group, since a big chunk of them just wanted to wait around for rescue. But most importantly, his strategy with the freighter people did lead to Kate getting off the island (even though he was wrong on so many fronts), while Locke’s (and indirectly Sawyer’s) did not.
As for the choosing part of the statement, Sawyer chose to follow Locke who explicitly said he planned to stay on the island. I think his choice to follow Locke is pretty close to saying that he “chose to stay.”
I agree that it makes little sense to say it has something to do with choosing to jump out of the helicopter.