Lost: Finale Part III – Jears in Heaven


By Ack | | 12:00 pm | 18 Comments
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“Hey Doc, you know where I could get some grub and/or make out with your ex-wife around here?”

Sawyer’s Apollo Bar gets stuck in the vending machine, and it’s only a matter of moments before a certain Leggy Blond we know comes to swap sarcastic comments with him!

Juliet: You know, if you unplug the vending machine the candy will just drop the to bottom.

Sawyer: Is that so? Or do you just want to get me in the dark?

So he unplugs the thing, and the candy falls down, and as soon as they touch they both flash!!!

Ack: They both remembered those 5 scenes they were in together last year that apparently was enough to convince half the audience that they were a happy couple and that all those years of character development between them and Kate and Jack was over in a matter of one episode!

Audience: Hey! Stop being so bitter!

Ack: I CAN’T HELP IT, I’M SORRY. ;_;

Conveniently they didn’t have enough scenes together to have any bad stuff to remember, except that time Juliet fell to her death, although she wasn’t a bad guy.

And even though I hate Sawyer and Juliet together almost as much as Jack and Kate together, that moment when they both remembered Juliet falling and they both stepped back a bit was really sad!

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You know what guys, let’s all just be happy that they are happy, no matter who it is that is making them happy, okay? Okay. So they made their plans to get coffee and go Dutch and everything was hunky dory.

***

Back in the Sideways World, Jack finally shows up to the concert way after it’s over. Kate comes strolling up to him in porn star heels that only a man would have bought for a woman (nice, Desmond), and she wants to chat.

Jack: Do I know you?

Kate: You mean, like, in the biblical sense?

Jack: Did you steal my pen?

Kate: Is that a euphemism?

Jack: You mean like getting caught in a net?

Even though Kate grabbed his noggin and he started to have island flashes again, Jack repressed them AGAIN! Kate knew that the only way she’d get him to understand was to bring it all back to the beginning. Jack had to go see his daddy.

Grab your life jackets, people. The Jearstorm’s coming, and I can already see it starting to Jearizzle.

***

Hurley: You going down there is suicide, dude! The island needs you!

Jack: No, the island needs you, Hurley! I was only a temp hired to finish this project, you’re obviously the permanent Island Team Player!

Jack managed to convince Hurley to drink the magical potion and become the island guardian, even though Hurley’s puppy dog face made it super hard. Good thing Jack had just done this like 12 hours ago, he remembered exactly what to do!

Of course Ben is standing there, mumbling something about how he could have been a contender, but he gives Jack the dirty bottle to fill with dirty water to give Hurley magical powers and/or dysentery.

Even I’ll admit Jack was being really brave, although it’s too bad those tears of his didn’t have healing powers ala a phoenix because he’d have been in ship shape in no time!

Anyway, Ben and Hurley lower Jack into the bottom of Mount Doom (I mean, one does not simply walk into Mordor), and he finds Desmond laying there, screaming about how he’s not even supposed to BE here today!

Then in some kind of crazy hat-trick Jack does 3 likable things all at once! He tells Desmond to go home and be with his wife and son, he makes a funny about finally be right for once, and then he says, “I’ll see you in another life, brother,” which sounds really lame, but at this point we all just want to hug the guy!

***

And then Sawyer and Kate finally get to the other island, and they can hear the plane montage coming to an end, but this crazy bitch Claire is still sitting there being all pouty and wigging out!

Claire: I don’t know how to be a mother! Jack finally stopped whining, so as his sister I have to take up that duty!

Kate: Claire! For chrissakes! Your coochie is my Constant, will you please just get your tiny ass in gear!? Build yourself a bridge and get the fuck over it!

Claire: Oh, alright!

So FINALLY, they all start running for the plane, and luckily Frank, Richard, and Miles had all just faded out of the montage with enough time to notice these tiny little specs running towards them!

And thanks to that runway Kate and Sawyer helped the Others build, the plane took off, the music swelled, and the happy violins of freedom played our Losties off this goddamn island once and for all!!!!!!!

*slow clap*

***

Jack’s apparently built like a brick shithouse because despite having his head bashed in with a rock, being stabbed in the side, and falling down the waterfall, he still has it in him to stick the rock back into the fiendish thingy!!!!

And after a dramatic pause, all his Jears started filling up the pool again, and Jack made the most hilarious face of all time, and we were all like, “CONGRATUWELLDONE, JACK. YOU FINALLY GOT TO BE THE HERO YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO BE!”

*continuing the slow clap*

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Desmond got hauled back up to the top, and even though we were all happy our sexy Scot made it through this ordeal, Hurley and Ben wanted to know what the hell happened to Jack!

And so did we, come to think of it – the last time a guy fell into that light he become a pissed off pillar of smoke! Would Jack just become one giant floating Jear cloud or what!?

***

So back at the church where even Jesus is like “OMGWTF!?” it seems like people are gathering!

Locke: Hello, Benjamin.

Ben: Hello, John.

Locke: Are you coming inside?

Ben: I think I have some more things I need to work out first.

Locke: So you killed me, so what? I forgive you.

Ben: So what? Sew buttons! I don’t deserve what lies inside those doors yet, friend.

Locke: Well I guess fate has a “You broke it, you bought it” kind of policy.

And that’s when Locke is healed-ah by the power-ah of the Lord-ah. Or something like that.

Although he wouldn’t have even tried to walk without our little Benry, so it looks like he is getting better after all.

***

“So if I’m the new island Santa Clause, do you want to be my Head Elf? I know Jacob was kind of a douche to you, but I could use someone with experience.”

Ben: It would be an honor, o captain my captain. How about we start by helping Desmond go home?

Hurley: But no one can leave the island, how can we do that?

Ben: Oh, that’s just how Jacob ran things. Like you said, he was kind of a douche. You can run this chocolate factory however you want, Charlie, Hugo.

Remember that time Hurley and Ben shared a candy bar by the cabin? Well now they’re gonna share the island in an equally adorable way.

So Hurley became the best guardian the island ever had. I’d like to think he helped Desmond get home, flew Carmen and Cheech there for luaus, let the surviving Losties come and go over the years whenever they’d like, and helped all those trapped ghosts move on.

I mean, if anyone deserves to live a few thousand years and help people, I think it’s Hugo. <3

***

Hurley: You coming in, dude?

Ben: No, I don’t think so. Not yet.

Hurley: Okay. You know…you were a real good #2.

Audience: lolz

Ben: And you were a great #1, Hugo.

Audience: …lolz.

“This is where I was going to have my father’s funeral. Why are we here?”

“I’ll be waiting inside once you’re ready to leave. You’ll find your black sweat suit, purple shroud, and Nikes right inside the door. I’m sure the Kool-Aid is mixed up by now. See ya.”

And so while Jack sat there trying to make sense out of things, Kate went inside to change into something a little more comfortable less slutty.

***

Jack woke up in the same exact spot Jacob found Smokey’s body, but instead of turning into a cloud, Jack was still human! And alive! Barely!

Most people would have probably just stayed there and died, but Jack Shephard is apparently 2 Legit 2 Quit!

***

He goes into the back room of the church where his father’s body is, and we’re all kind of wondering, “WTF kind of hippie church is this, with the crosses and Stars of David and the Yin and Yang and – is that a frozen donkey wheel!?”

As this is like, the CULMINATION OF EVERYTHING, and since Daddy Jearbucks is involved, Jack performs the patented Shephard Head Squeeze®!

So he puts his hand down on the coffin and FINALLY FINALLY JACK REMEMBERS!!!!!!!

He remembers crashing on the island and saving the shit out of people all the time! He remembers Kate and saving even more people! The Lost producers must have had a really hard time trying to find that many clips of Jack actually smiling!

Conveniently Jack doesn’t remember making every huge mistake known to man, or becoming a bearded drug addict, or being a self righteous, bossy, whiny, arrogant ass to 95% of the people he came into contact with, but IT DOESN’T MATTER! You know why?

Because – BRACE YOURSELVES – JACK HAS REDEEMED HIMSELF. Shock! Horror! Etc! I mean, dude saved the world you guys. Cut him a break. ;D

SO ANYWAY, Jack finally opens the coffin and – GASP! There is no one inside! OMGWTFPOLARBEAR!?!?!?! A’S;LFK’A;SLDKF’;LKADSL;’AFKDLS;

Christian: Hey, kiddo.

Jack: DAD?

Audience: CHRISTIAN!?

Jack: I don’t understand…you DIED!

Audience: YEAH, YOU DIED!!!!!

Jack: How are you here?

Christian: How are you here?

“Uh….because…the Force is strong in my family. My father has it…I have it…and my sister has it.”

“Well…close enough. I’m dead, but you’re dead too, Jack. We all are.”

JEARSIUS MAXIMUS!!!!!! ;___________________;

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Jack: Are you real?

Christian: Of course I’m real! Everything that’s happened to you is real!

Jack: They’re all dead too?

Christian: Everybody dies sometime, some before you and some waaaay after you!

Christian explains that there is no “now” where they are – they all made this place together so they could find one another. The time they spent on that island was the most important part of their lives!

And that’s when the audience started freaking out as hard as Jack! It turns out none of them could “move on” without one another because they needed each other to remember! Because no one does it alone!

JEARS IN HEAVEN ;_;

“Wunderbar! Now quit acting like a pussy and go say hi to all your little friends out there.”

So Jack finally steps out into the sanctuary and he finds all his Oceanic 815 buddies there! This is either Heaven or the most attractive AA meeting ever!

Sayid doesn’t care that Nadia’s not there, and Boone’s not mad that Shannon’s looking longingly into Sayid’s eyes!

Locke’s girlfriend Helen is nowhere to be found, but he doesn’t mind because he could totally break dance his way into heaven now that his legs are fixed!

But in case you thought that JUST MAYBE Damon and Carlton would leave us with a Super Mega Happy Ending, you were WRONG! Because Lost has always been about good AND bad, the happy AND the sad, black AND white, and of course life AND death.

What better way to end the series than one of those magical music montages in which you remember just how much you love the show?

WE WILL MISS YOU, DESMOND AND PENNEH! :(

WE WILL MISS YOU, CHARLIE AND AARON AND SHANNON AND CLAIRE AND SUN! :(

WE WILL MISS YOU, JIN, AND LIBBY, AND HURLEY! :(

…and meanwhile Jack is making his way back to the beginning…

WE WILL REALLY MISS YOU, SAWYER!!!!!! ;_;

WE WILL MISS YOU, KATE! :(

…to have the story end where the story began…

And then everyone sat down together with their significant others on the pews except for Locke and Boone but whatever…

And even though they’re all really happy to finally be together again, and to be moving on with the people that meant so much to them, we can’t help but get all Jearsy about it ;_____;

And as if we weren’t already crying hard enough, VINCENT HAS TO COME AND LAY DOWN NEXT TO JACK because Vincent was there the moment Jack woke up after the crash…

And Christian Shephard finally lives up to his ridiculously ~*symbolic*~ name by opening the doors and letting in that magic sparkly light that lives inside every one of us and also in the island’s hoo-ha…

AND THEY’RE ALL SO HAPPY BECAUSE THEY’RE FINALLY TOGETHER, EVEN THOUGH WE’RE ALL SO SAD… D:

AND JACK IS LAYING THERE ON THE GROUND WITH VINCENT, HERE AT THE END OF ALL THINGS, AND WE’RE ALL LIKE, “THAT’LL DO, PIG. THAT’LL DO…”

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AND AS IF THAT WEREN’T BAD ENOUGH THE FRIGGING PLANE FLIES OVERHEAD JUST LIKE IN THE PILOT BUT IN ONE PIECE, SO WE KNOW FRANK WILL GET THEM HOME SAFE AND SOUND…

AND JACK REALIZES THAT HE ACTUALLY WAS RIGHT THIS TIME…

AND THE BRIGHT LIGHT FILLS THE CHURCH AND WE KNOW ALL OUR LOSTIES WILL REST IN PEACE…

…and Jack closes his eye and dies, the final shot of the entire series one final Jear quivering on the edge of his lashes.

Super Crazy Lost Fans: SO SIDEWAYS WORLD WAS PURGATORY!!!!!!! AGHHHH!!!!!;LA’;LSKDF;’LAKSDF;LASD

Your Everyday Lost Fans: So the Sideways World was purgatory! Neat!

The n00b Lost fans: OMG I WAS RIGHT, THE ISLAND WAS PURGATORY, YOU GUYS!!!!!

Super Crazy Lost Fans: *head desk*

THE END!!!!!!!!!

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18 Comments

  1. 1
    Nikki
    Posted June 1, 2010 at 1:00 pm

    DAMMMMIT, This is the 5th time I’ve read about this and I’ve seen it twice, and I STILL got all teary eyed when I saw/read about Vincent laying down next to Jack.
    booooo hooooo. I have GOT to move on!! sniff…

  2. 2
    georgiababe
    Posted June 1, 2010 at 1:37 pm

    You know, I have been a Skater all along, but after the finale, I don’t even care how it turned out. I actually like Juliet and I think that Juliet and Sawyer make a cute couple and I mean, in the REAL world, Jack and Juliet are dead, so maybe Kate and Sawyer still ended up together.

  3. 3
    Kimberly
    Posted June 1, 2010 at 2:05 pm

    Ack…I love you. From the time I discovered TVGasm, I looked forward to your Lost recaps. I laughed hysterically at them, and occasionally quote them at people. At this point, I’m not sure what I will miss more, the show, or your brilliant, scathing but affectionate recaps! I’ll miss you.

    Oh, and since Sawyer and Miles both lived, please let them have both become cops and tell me we’ll be seeing a spinoff featuring them, with Kate (and maybe crazy Claire) as the occasional special guest?

  4. 4
    Clair Clair
    Posted June 1, 2010 at 3:39 pm

    Loved, loved, loved all your recaps, Ack. You always notice things that I don’t catch – like “crosses and Stars of David and the Yin and Yang and – is that a frozen donkey wheel!?”

    My interpretation of Sideways World was that it contained the events that everyone should have experienced had Jacob not interfered with their lives.

  5. 5
    Renoblondee
    Posted June 1, 2010 at 4:32 pm

    I put off reading all the Lost recaps until today because I knew it would really be “The End” when I read the last page there would be no more “new” Lost and I couldn’t take it. I cried like a baby at the end too……..I will so miss Lost and will miss you too, Ack! You are one of my happiest finds of all time! Best. Recaps. Ever.

  6. 6
    hollagirl2
    Posted June 1, 2010 at 5:37 pm

    My interpretation of the sideways world was that it was purgatory and they were all working on hanging issues that needed to be resolved before moving forward. I.E. in real life Jack didn’t have a son, but in Sideways World he did because of his own Daddy issues… and so on. Thanks Ack for all the great recaps!!

  7. 7
    dani2526
    Posted June 1, 2010 at 5:43 pm

    testing…

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    Lizbot
    Posted June 1, 2010 at 5:53 pm

    Ack, I’m sure you’re soooooo tired of hearing this but

    You are just crazy funny and brilliant! (not crazy — crazy-funny, lol)

    This line really got me: So back at the church where even Jesus is like “OMGWTF!?” it seems like people are gathering!

    Perfect!

    Oh, and sorry you lost out on your Skater finale, but the Juliet-Sawyer reunion was the best moment of the show for me. I think it’s due to the calibre of the actors playing Juliet and Sawyer that they were able to make me and so many others believe in one episode — no, in one scene — that they had been a couple for 3 years and were meant to be together forever.

    I had mixed feelings about the finale itself. I was a bit dissappointed in how they seemed to gloss over certain things, particualrly Ben’s transition and redemption. So was he playing Smokey or not? And if he wasn’t, I’d like to have seen a little more development when he finally accepts that Hurley will be the One and not him.

    But anyway, your final recap is the real mark of the end for me. Thank you so much!

  9. 9
    David
    Posted June 1, 2010 at 8:55 pm

    Oh Ack I think i will miss you most of all! your recaps never failed to leave me howling while also giving some great insights to this show. You’ve done an awesome job!

  10. 10
    sanen85
    Posted June 1, 2010 at 9:45 pm

    I will truly miss these recaps more than the show, you’re hilarious.

    “I’ll be waiting inside once you’re ready to leave. You’ll find your black sweat suit, purple shroud, and Nikes right inside the door. I’m sure the Kool-Aid is mixed up by now. See ya.”

    I’m so glad to see this connection somewhere else. I was severely disappointed by the finale (despite all the tears I cried from the reunions, especially Juliet/Sawyer and Claire/Charlie), and really feel like I watched a mass suicide, but I’m the only one who noticed.

  11. 11
    mvelis
    Posted June 2, 2010 at 6:20 am

    I just got teary eyed reading the end. God I am going to miss this show.

    Actually, since I am still not over it, I was watching season 2 last night and when Jack and Desmond meet on the stairs Desmond says to him after their chat “Well, see you in anotha life brotah” and I was all OMG! lol.

  12. 12
    anamaria
    Posted June 2, 2010 at 6:22 am

    …This was outstandingly funny and poignant! all the ways you used “jears”, like “jears in heaven” and “jearsius maximus” hahahahaha, oh, and that even “Jesus is like OMGWTF?!”…I’ll miss Lost, and your recaps; I mean, who else can use to such good efect Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings references?…

  13. 13
    Posted June 2, 2010 at 6:25 am

    I just got teary eyed reading the end. God I am going to miss this show.

    Actually, since I am still not over it, I was watching season 2 last night and when Jack and Desmond meet on the stairs Desmond says to him after their chat “Well, see you in anotha life brotah” and I was all OMG, he said that at the end!

  14. 14
    here4beer
    Posted June 2, 2010 at 6:25 am

    ack– I don’t know what I’ll miss more: this show, or your hilarious recaps. Thanks for keeping us all entertained and helping to keep me sane while I tried to figure out WTF was going on in this crazy/ brilliant show.

    See you in another life, sistah!!

  15. 15
    fire@will
    Posted June 2, 2010 at 6:32 am

    I didn’t have time to watch after the writer’s strike, and the finale was my first look since. I regret that I didnt at least keep up with your brilliant recaps! (What a great project this must have been to be a part of!) Sawyer in a cop series, for sure…

  16. 16
    Karen
    Posted June 2, 2010 at 11:57 am

    Oh man that was brutal! It was like watching the finale all over again….I’m sitting here in my little cubicle all sniffly and teary-eyed. Ack, you and Lost were a perfect fit and I am going to miss your recaps just as much as the actual show! I’m going to have to read the recaps for whatever show you do next, even if I don’t watch it, because I need the laughs!

    The “Jesus is like OMGWTF?!” was my spit-Coke-on-the-monitor moment. :)

  17. 17
    Posted June 2, 2010 at 2:01 pm

    Thank you all so much for your comments!!! Honestly when Flipit approached me about posting my recaps here I was a little terrified, especially since I knew a lot of you loved the Lost recapper I replaced. But two years later I see I had nothing to worry about.

    Thank you all again! If anyone wants to grieve with me over the end of our beloved show I’ll still be making a few posts here and there at my own site: http://www.theackattack.com

  18. 18
    pappy44
    Posted June 2, 2010 at 2:02 pm

    first of all, i love you ack…there, i said it…

    second, i lost it again reading that last page…perfect way to end the series…

    thanks for the great recaps…you are amazing…

    and nikki, if that is actually you, you have amazing eyes…

    and btw, i totally knew it was purgatory…

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