Marc Urrutia
5/24/2010
All about the Orgasm.
--------You know what happens when you make sex all about the Orgasm? It kind of sucks. Sure the orgasm is nice but you probably got there too fast, you didn’t pay attention to the scenic journey along the way, it’s kind of like masturbating with a warm partner. This is better than masturbating for sure but it probably won’t get you many repeat performances.
--------The finale of lost is sort of all about the orgasm and by orgasm I mean Characters. Yes they are cool. Sawyer is dreamy, Kate is hot, Hurley is funny, Ben is a monster yadda yadda yadda. And you have 2.5 hours of characters. Character flashbacks, character awakenings, character deaths, rebirths, redeaths, rerebirths. You got a lot of characters doing a lot of things none of which is germane to the ongoing plots, mysteries and stories.
--------Plots mysteries and stories?
--------Yes they made mention of them once. Like if the Smoke Monster got off the island it would be bad for all mankind. Really? How? There was nothing to tell of the consequences of him reaching humanity. Would he just smokify everyone to death? Was it a lie from Jacob? Was it part of their argument? Two sides, light and dark etc? Locke’s love of Backgammon and what was once seen as a metaphor for the conflict of the island completely disregarded.
--------What is the smoke monster? Unimportant. Apparently if you throw some dead guy down the well he comes out as a smoke monster, or somehow releases the smoke monster. Whatever. It makes no sense.
--------Why did Whidmore leave? What was the deal with Faraday’s mother? Why did they have to go back? None of this has any bearing on the outcome of the show or the final episode.
--------Now there will be those who say, “The end was about the characters which is what the show was always about.” And this is true however the characters were interesting because they had the backdrop of the mysterious island. We grew with the characters, learned with them as they uncovered the mystery and suddenly and abruptly, the mysteries no longer mattered.
--------Riddle me this Batman…if you took all those characters and say put them in the backdrop of Suburbia, say something like Parenthood…remove the island, the Dharma, the smoke monster just make them all living in tract housing doing their daily thing do you think anyone would have obsessed about the show the way they did? Of course not. The mysteries of the Island empowered the characters and our imaginations but in the end became a muddled directionless mess, one which they could not write themselves out of.
--------This
doesn’t make the series bad, I still love it, I always will but
it does leave me somewhat unhappy in that what was most interesting…the
island is never really explained. Perhaps there is no satisfactory way
to explain it all. Perhaps this was the best the staff could some up
with. I can accept that but when I hear the phrase all about the characters,
I think, All about the Orgasm and it doesn’t make for very good
sex.