6ix Passions

24 Season 8

I think the 8th season was the worst season of all. I wonder how I kept watching it up to the end. All this let me remember of the nine seasons of X-Files. At the end it was almost unbearable to watch, but most of us kept watching because we have invest so many times already and had enjoy the originality of the series in its beginning.

Fox and the 24 producers including Kiefer Sutherland are still in discussion if a 9th season of 24 would be aired next year. I can only salute the producers of Lost of having discuss with ABC to end the show after a certain number of episodes. For the sake of the story at some point you need to rap this up before you simply ruined everything. I guess 24 is already beyond this.

Please just kill this series and move on with something original.

Lost, The Final

Like most of us I was puzzled about the end of Lost. It kind of lefts us with more questions than answers. So I went to read the comments on the recap page of the last episode of the series and found that one from jsgl80:

The finale was beautiful and unexpected. In my opinion they all had died (some in the island, as we could see, and others off it, which we did not see but were told by Christian: some died long after jack) and were reborn to the side-life (remember Hurley was another guardian of the island assisted by Ben). As the mother of Jacob and Adam said: the light was life-death-and rebirth. The side-line story was in many ways different: before they even got on the plane Jack had married and had a son, Sawyer was a policeman, Ben was a teacher, etc. So for me, the whole thing had to do with the search for perfection and something like trying to reach the Nirvana ,going through as many life spans as necessary (remember Jacob saying ‘everything ends just once, but the things before that end are just progress’). Most of them got what they needed: love, company, redemption, resignation, etc., and so were allowed to a new level of existence, provided they realized of it and wanted it. The exception was Ben, who had not experienced love as the others did and still ‘had to work out some things’. That is why he decided to stay. It also underscores the relevance of one’s time or generation (a sense of family as the people we spend our time with), for they were important for one another at that time. In sum, their time in the island had happened a long time ago.

I like the explanation of jsgl80. Now I can rest and let the series go. Thank you for 6 years of a great show. Even if most of the time I didn’t know where all this was going. Anyway like George Lucas wrote in a letter to Lost creators, even him didn’t know shit about where Star Wars was going at the time.