jencat | You call that a finale...?

Ack. What the hell was up with the Lost finale?! This season has been so good on so many levels, but that was a whole new range of wtfuckery right there.

Honestly? That last shot of Juliet dying somewhere down a freakin' mineshaft as she sets the bomb off... well hell I really didn't need to see that. Didn't want to see that. This wasn't anywhere near as satisfying as last year's, quite frankly - there wasn't one character apart from Miles (and PapaMiles) whose actions made the slightest bit of sense, and it just getting silly by the end. I have absolutely no investment in Jacob's little friend/fake!Locke -- and now apparently I have no investment in Locke or Jacob either. And Ben?! Rediscover your fucking backbone Linus!

What I wanted to see was more of the Ellie storyline, which got choked off pretty damn quick by Richard being.. chivalric? There was some seriously strange tension in her whole quest to do something about the fact she just killed Dan, while apparently not wanting to take any precautions to protect the very same unborn baby (I'm guessing pregnancy and plutonium don't mix fabulously, as a rule). And Richard conking her on the head was strangely adorable, and more than a little creepy...

And Jack. Seriously. He wants to set the bomb off because of Kate?! Oh hell no. That's the weakest character motivation in the world, ever.
The Sawyer/Juliet thing I could have coped with, except it suddenly took a strange veer to the left and inserted a lot of meaningless crap to make the ending happen... Why on earth did Sawyer look at Kate? Not even in a WTF sense, but honestly, they were together all of a week several years ago. Not the stuff lifetimes are made of. And Juliet's little random flashback to 'explain' her completely random behaviour - why even have a flashback in there that didn't involve Jacob? It broke the theme up (which had been working pretty well - dude, that guy speaks so many languages!) and it wasn't even subtle or clever; just bog standard and as obvious as a ton of bricks.
There was a teeny weeny suggestion of Jules being pregnant, which would have helped sell the irrational behaviour a little more (and nice parallel with Ellie) but that of course will be totally wasted now, assuming that.. gawd, you can't assume anything really now, not at this point.

Setting the bomb off would have worked if Dan had done it. Dan I can buy as being a little crazy already; he's genuinely lost Charlotte (take note Jack!) and he's just spent the past three years going a little demented in Ann Arbor by the look of things... and he did save baby Char already, so it's done. It's worth a shot, from where he's standing.
But Jack... he had to sink to a whole new level of crazy to pull that one off, and it mostly just made him obnoxious. Kate contributed absolutely sod-all; Sawyer managed to screw everything up, yet again; Sayid got himself practically killed (ah, but we saw Nadia's death, finally. And did Jacob contribute to it, exactly? Could Sayid have done anything to save her, or would he have been hit too?). Juliet was being batshit crazy but still managed to be most sympathetic character out of the bunch. Let me spell it out - that girl better survive, cos I'm finding it harder and harder to root for anyone out of the bunch left alive by this point, and after the whole Charaday massacre... *sob*

I loved the flashbacks, though - baby Kate bore an uncanny resemblance to Evangeline Lilley - and the circular storytelling is gorgeous. But they chucked a lot of continuity out the window with this ep, and it just plain didn't work.

Gah. Need sleep. But I'm not happy.