LOST Season 6 Review

We all gonna die now! (inside joke)

In A Nutshell:
The hydrogen bomb that went off and it didn't work. Or did it? What it did was create and alternate universe in which Oceanic 815 never crashed and all the passengers lives are different in more ways then one. At the same time, back on the island, the castaways start grouping up as the the Man in Black's begins waging an all out war now that Jacob is out of the way.

The Good:
This is it. This was the final season. It's time to show us just what we've spent the last five years building up too. And it was great.

Flashbacks, flash-forwards, and time travel were all scrapped this season, which I had mixed feelings about; sure, flashbacks and forwards were stale, but I wasn't sick of time travel yet! They're replaced by flash-sideways, aka trips to the AU. At first, I didn't care about them, and found myself fast forwarding a lot. But then we get us a Desmond-centric episode (which is kind of automatically awesome), and we learn, via the appearances of Charlie the charismatic jackass and musician Dan Faraday (oh hell yeah!), that the flash-sideways trips DO matter, and that they're actually really cool. After that point, you not only care, but you love the flash-sideways.

Man in Black was a complex, surprisingly sympathetic villain (even though he was basically evil because he had mommy issues) who you love seeing on screen and was easily one of the highlights of the season, played awesomely by Terry O'Quinn.

I loved pretty much every episode after the season's halfway mark, and quite a few before it, with all of them boasting fantastic writing and all out awesomeness. Twists, tears, and guns, that's how I think of it. Answers arrive for plenty of questions, some of which you'd actually forgotten about, like the whispers.

 And then you've got the series finale, the single most polarizing event in the history of television. I'm on the end that likes it, scratch that, loves it. The episode, titled simply The End, was a masterpiece the resolved things perfectly, and the final scene was one of most beautiful things ever put on screen. People who didn't like it clearly just don't get it (or they're a cretin). And when it finally ended, it left me with a pretty big feeling of "now what do I do?"

The Bad:
Like I said up there, at first, there is every possibility that you will not care about the flash-sideways. Some episodes were also much better then others (looking at you, What Kate Does), some things felt a bit tacked on. The season was also very polarizing, and you know what, I get that. LOST is a polarizing show period, I just happened to be one of the people who liked it as a whole rather then one specific aspect.

Final Rating: 94%