The End

Warning: Lost spoilers for 18 May episode

I had planned to have a blogpost reviewing the latest episode of Lost, one sharing my nostalgic Lost love, a bit like my Heroes farewell past, and one next week about the finale, but I decided to merge the first two in this post.

But before I get onto the awesomeness that was "What They Died For", allow me to complain for just a second. I read what the title for the finale is, and in my opinion, there is only one word for it: "Lame". Seriously, with all the options out there, this is the one they choose?! Why not "Everything That Rises Must Converge", "Destiny Found", "He Who Will Save Us All", "It Only Ends Once" or "All These Things That I've Done" ? Alright, enough moaning now, I'll just put on my apologetic-ashamed-damon-and-carlton-you're-still-genuises face sit in a corner and wait to be lynched. I think I'm just bitter that we never got an episode called "Our Mutual Friend".

As for "What They Died For", the one word that describes this episode had to be "awesome". After the mixed reaction to last week's "Across The Sea", I am yet to see one single negative remarks about this week's episode. And rightly so! It seems that Desmond is the catalyst in bringing the two realities together, and I just love seeing him being all cunning in his plots to bring all the Oceanic 815 people together! The on-island storyline was just as good, with Jack (altogether unsurprisingly) taking over Jacob's position as protector of the Island. The thing that I am most eager to find out, is what the hell that smoke monster did to Richard! I hope with all my heart that he is not dead, and simply waiting in the bushes to appear at a crucial moment (and perhaps applying some eye-liner). For what it's worth, I'm team Richard Is Alive.

Now for my emotional Lost tribute:

Well, I am by no means a nerd. I am a huge lover of everything pink, fluffy and girly. My friday nights are most happily spent on the town or visiting with friends. The most technological thing I know how to do is tweet. Yet somehow, give me an episode of Lost and i become fan-nerd extraordinaire. I will analyse it, ponder it, you name it, and I'll do it. I'm one of those people who will smile to themselves when they see one of the Numbers, and will smile even more when they meet someone with the same name as a Lost character. I'm one of those people who can tell you the names of all the actors in Lost, and tell you facts about each of them. I can tell you how/when and why they auditioned for Lost, and why they left the show. I'm one of those people who started watching FlashForward, The Vampire Diaries and V all because they had former Lost cast members in them. I am happily obsessed.

But how did all of this start? June 2008, I had just finished my exams, and was on holiday with my family....and a laptop containing the first season of this show called Lost. It had always been something vague in the background that people talked about, but it had never interested me, until one day I was procrastinating, and decided to download the first season. The rest, as they say, is history. I got through the season in just over a week, and rented the first half of the next season from the video shop. As soon as I could, I downloaded all the episodes that were out, which at that time was four seasons worth. Lost was amazing, I loved it. From the very idea of a plane crash on a deserted island, to the mystery, intrigue, and brilliant acting, everything was just perfect. I'll admit to shouting at the screen many, many times, to being traumatised when Boone died, to being in denial when Charlie died, to almost tearing up when the Kwon's died, and to watching the latest episode hours before an exam. Yes, Lost has taken up much of my time in the past two years, and my friends say things like "was that a Lost quote...how did I know? well, because it came out your mouth!" My Lost watching era is about to come full circle, I will watch The End just two weeks short of two years after I watched the Pilot.

And now, this post is much too long, if you actually got to the end....hold on a second, this reminds me of in Lost, when.... wait, I won't do that to you! ;)

*Edit* I found this beautiful edit of the exact photo that I used for this post originally, so I just had to use it instead! (He really does not wear eyeliner though)