Watch Together, Judge Alone: What Everyone Else Thought of Lost’s “The End” - Tuned In - TIME.com : I'm not going to be good for much today beyond reading other critics' and bloggers' writeups of Lost, so I can at least be of some use to you and refer you to some of the other opinions I've been reading this morning:


Noel Murray, The AV Club: "Lost brought back the thrill of big stories told in tiny pieces. Like I said, it's too soon to say what Lost's legacy will be, but I have a strong feeling that people will still be watching it years from now, and introducing it to newcomers, and starting arguments all over again. And I think the images of Hurley, hatches, Smoke Monsters and Sawyer will be pop-culture touchstones for a long time to come. These are the new myths. Now it's up to us to misinterpret them." nice.


Jace Lacob, The Daily Beast: "While Cuse and Lindelof denied the purgatory aspect of the island years ago, it turned out to be the ultimate solution here, presented in a context that's meant to be universal: we all die."


Jeff Jensen at EW: “'The End' was an emotionally draining epic that had me crying with almost every single “awakening” and has left me mulling the true significance of the Sideways world, which was revealed to be a Purgatory-like realm created by the souls of the dead castaways themselves. (Purgatory! The irony!)"

yay yay yay yay yay yay Doc Jensen. that's it exactly, a parenthetical exclamation: (the irony!)
yay Jeff Jensen looking at EW issue re Lost finale, too, the sxns by DocJ are always better. always not just conventional polished media summarize review magazine article style. always speaks in an own voice. ! and his is a fun one.




Myles McNutt, Cultural Learnings: "Beautiful and heartwrenching, 'The End' captures more than any other series finale I've watched the sum total of the series' experience, awakening in viewers the same power of recall which pulls together half of the series' narrative." hmm? half of the finale's narrtv y mean? the sideways waking up part? or do you see recall of half of the entire Lost narrative?? [Includes some analysis of how the Sideways resolution does and doesn't put earlier season 6 episodes into context. **that's int, read that.]


Ryan McGee at Zap2It: "Looking at the finale from a perspective of mythology isn't the best way to go about it. I started to jot down "So who put the stone in the devil cave in the first place?" before slapping myself silly. Looking at the finale from a perspective of plot probably isn't the best way, either... But looking at it from an emotional perspective, I thought the finale was a masterpiece." word! been pretty impressed w R McGee as saying things I agree with or am int in.
as with Jms P who for that is my fvr tv critic. though for being a voice, wow writing: Jeff Jensen at EW. and Jacob Clifton at TWOP. most int writers on the world wide web to me.