LOST Recap: "The End"

Wow, 6 years 115 episodes, and it is finally over. Whether you liked the finale or not you have to agree this is the most interesting show of all time. To be honest I have no idea how I am going to write about all this, but I'll do my best. I was going to break it up between on and off island again, but that doesn't seem fitting for this one, so this is just going to be all together.

The show opens with cut scenes of our main characters while Christians Shepard's coffin being unloaded from a plane. The coffin is dropped off by some hippy guy with a pony tail, and Desmond is there to pick it up. Kate is with Desmond, and she asks him why he has taken her, and why is she here.

"No one can tell you why you're here, Kate. Certainly not me."

Oh Desmond is your creepy ways. I had no idea what that meant until the end, but it certainly makes sense now.

We cut back to the island where Jack is still chilling by the water where Jacob turned him into the new protector of the island. Jack explains to Kate, Hurley, and Sawyer that he must protect the light. Sawyer obviously has no fucking idea what is going on...

Jack: "Jacob didn't say anything to me about Desmond."
Sawyer: "Doesn't sound like he said anything about anything."
Hurley: "That's kinda true, dude. He's worse than Yoda."

Hahaha, got to love Star Wars references. Anyways, we got back off island where Hurley and Sayid are going to a hotel to find Charlie. Sayid still has not been awakened, and Hurley does everything he can to get him going. They are at the same hotel where Locke used to meet up with his dad, which ended up with Locke losing his wife.

Hurley gets to the room where Charlie is, and even though Charlie has no idea who Hurley is it is an emotional scene. Charlie's death on the island really hit Hurley hard, and you could watch it melt away when he saw him. Charlie refuses to go with him, so Hurley shoots him with a tranquilizer dart and loads him in the back of the fan. Pretty funny to see Hurley doing that instead of Sayid.

The show takes us back to the island where Kate is asking Jack why he accepted the responsibility from Jacob. As he explained to her that the island was all that he had left, and the only that he hadn't managed to ruin.

Sawyer decides to go spy on Flocke, which doesn't last long as he was hiding behind a very small shrub. Sawyer reveals to Flocke that they were no longer candidates, which implies that a new protector had been chosen to replace Jacob. Kind of an odd scene, because Flocke should've just kill him since he was expendable, but whatever.

During Sawyer's and Flocke's back and forth it is revealed that Flocke just wants to destroy the island. This obviously doesn't sit well with Ben, since Flocke promised him on the island if he helped him.

We then finally learn who let Desmond out of the well. Flocke sees dog tracks, which leads him to Bernard and Rose's camp. They broke their rule by getting involved with Desmond. They tell him he must go once he eats, but before he can Flocke shows up. Flocke tells Desmond that if he doesn't come with him he will kill Bernard and Rose right in front of him and will "make it hurt". Desmond obviously goes with Flocke, and Bernard and Rose are once again out of the story. Great beard though, Bernard...well done.

On the outskirts of the Dharma barracks, Miles reported to Ben (via walkie) that he had found Richard alive. When we last saw Richard, he was being thrown into the jungle by the Smoke Monster, and when we last saw Miles, he was reportedly running through the jungle to get away from Flocke (smartest guy on the show).

We then travel back off-island where Sun is recovering from her gunshot wound. A doctor comes into the room and it is none other then Juliet. She goes through the whole ultrasound thing, and Jin and Sun suddenly become aware. With this "awareness" they also remember English, so that's always good.

Back on the island Sawyer has gotten away from Flocke, and he meets back up with Jack and his gang. Jack says it doesn't matter if Flocke has Desmond...

Jack: "It doesn't matter if we find Desmond or he does, James. We're going to the same place."
Sawyer: "Then what?"
Jack "Then it ends."

This feel important if you remember back to the conversation MIB and Jacob has back on the beach, "it only ends once", so this must be it.

We cut back to Jack and Locke off island in the hospital, as Locke gets ready for surgery. Basically Jack is very confident that it will work, and so on.

As we make out way back to the island we see Richard grabbing a boat with Miles to get to the plane. Miles suddenly stops and pulls out a gray hair from Richard's head. I guess living forever ends when Jacob dies. They grab the boat, and suddenly they hear someone yelling in the water. It's Frank, and honestly WTF? How is he alive...still not very happy about that.

Team Flocke and Team Jack finally meet up. Kate snaps grabs a gun and unloads on Flocke, which does nothing. Way to go Kate, you're the worst. Flocke just walks past her, and tells her to save her bullets. Then, Jack and Flocke came face-to-face in their inevitable standoff, and after Flocke declared that Jack was "the obvious choice", they have this little conversation...

Jack: "You think you're gonna destroy the Island."
Flocke: "I think?"
Jack: "But that's not what's gonna happen."
Flocke: "Well, what's gonna happen, Jack?
Jack: "I'm going to kill you."
Flocke: "How do you plan to do that?"
Jack: "That's a surprise."
Flocke: "OK, let's get on with it."

Fucking awesome...that's all I can say about that.

Off the island we find out that Jack and Juliet used to be married. I really wasn't shocked by this, but it was just another amazing way they writers tied in everything.

Back on the island Team Jack and Team Flocke make their way to the cave of light. Eventually they have everyone stay behind except Flocke, Desmond, and Jack. Right before they lower Desmond into the Cave, Jack and Desmond have this little back and forth...

"This doesn't matter, you know? Him destroying the Island, you destroying him. It doesn't matter. You're going to lower me into that light, and I'm going to go somewhere else. A place where we can be with the ones that we love. And not ever have to think about this damn Island again. And you know the best part, Jack? You're in this place."

Jack responds with: "There are no do-overs. What happened, happened. All of this matters."

As they lower Desmond down Flocke says something to the affect of "remind you of anything", which is obviously a refense to when they found the hatch. Jack gets instantly pissed turn to him and says "You're not John Locke. You disrespect his memory by wearing his face, but you're nothing like him. Turns out he was right about most everything. I just wish I could have told him that while he was still alive."

Flocke says that he is wrong and that this is all for nothing. Once Desmond is at the bottom of the cave, he sees skeletons, and a pool with channels heading outward. As he enters the pool to pull 'the cork', we see his unique resistance to electromagnetism in full effect as he fights off the effects. As the light goes out and the cave goes dark, the Island rumbles, Flocke proudly proclaims his victory to Jack, "It looks like you were wrong."

But as Flocke leaves the cave, he is attacked from behind by Jack, and as we see Flocke realize that he is bleeding (awesome scene), Jack throws his words right back in his face, "Looks like you were wrong too." Clearly Jack's plan was to let Desmond extinguish the light since that would be the only way to physically kill Flocke. This seems like a great plan until Flocke grabs a rock and knocks out Jack.

We cut to Team Lapidus who run into crazy Claire. As they were communicating with Kate via the walkie. Kate listened through the walkie as shots were fired into the sand on the beach, presumably killing her allies, just as Jack listened on the walkie as shots were fired on the beach in the same situation in Through The Looking Glass.

We cut now back off island where everyone is ending up at this concert. Drive Shaft is playing, Claire, Desmond, Kate, are all sitting at the same table. As the concert start Charlie sees Claire, and he is now "aware". Suddenly Claire start to have her baby. Kate ends up having to deliver it, and now they are all "aware".

Side not: How good did Kate look in that little black dress. Best in awhile for her.

Back to the island where Jack finds Flocke making his way to the boat, which is near the cliffs. The final battle begins with Jack doing a flying punch. You have to admitt you laughed a little bit. Flocke ends up getting the upper hand and stabs Jack. He is going for the kill with a good throat stab (why Jack was bleeding off island), but Kate saves the day, because she actually didn't use all her bullets (bet Flocke wished he kept his mouth shut). Jack then kicks Flocke off the side of the cliff, just as Flocke kicked Jacob into the fire. Flocke is finally dead.

Back off island Locke is waking up from surgery, and he wiggles his toes. This makes him "aware", since it is just like when they crashed. Sawyer was in the hospital as well, and after being told by Jin and Sun that they would "see him there", he ran into Juliet at the vending machine. She does talk about getting coffee and what not, so this must have been what she saw in the first episode from this season. They both now are "aware".

Back on the island, things still aren't going well. The island is going under water, and Jack decides he must go and fix what Desmond did. He knows he won't live, but he doesn't care. Hurley and Ben go with them as Kate and Sawyer head for the plane. Kate pleads with him to leave it and let the Island destroy itself, but he insists he has to finish it. As he convinces her to leave on the plane and take Claire home to Aaron, she says to him "Tell me I'll see you again"...nothing but silence.

We are back at the end of the concert where Jack has just arrived. He meets up with Kate. Jack is confused and knows he knows her from somewhere. Kate says if he comes with her it will all make sense.

Back on the island Jack, Ben, and Hurley are back at the "cave of light". Jack makes Hurley the new Jacob, further proving Jack is not making it out of this episode, and he heads down the the caves. When he gets down there he sees Desmond. He wakes him up and gets him out of there. He then puts the stone back, and laughs creepily while the island goes back to normal.

During all this Kate convinces Claire to come with them. They get on the plane and take off.

Jack and Kate arrive at the church off-island. Kate goes inside, and Jack heads to his father's casket. When he touches it he becomes aware. He opens the casket, but there is no one in there. Then he turns are and there is his father. His father explains that they are all dead, but everything that happened on the island did actually happen. They just all wanted to meet up before they "let go" on their way to heaven. My theory is basically this was purgatory, and they were waiting for eachother.

Back to the island where Jack wakes up in the jungle. He stumbles for awhile before falling in a similar spot to where the opening scene of the pilot episode started. Before he dies he sees the plane overhead, and Vincent comes up next to him. The camera zooms up to his eye and it closes.


LOST.

I really liked the ending. There are things they never really explained, like why Walt was important. Who built the statue, ect, but I'm fine with that. I thought they did the best they could, and it is the best show of all-time.