Buzz The Bridge

Not leaving. No... moving on.

The Lost series finale aired Sunday night, and for ages I'd said that I wouldn't watch it because "if I don't see it, then it's not over." But needing some closure lately I ended up catching it anyway with Wes and Isaac, and by the end was close to a tear or two. On the inside.

Been watching this show for a long time, man, but it was an absolutely perfect conclusion to the series.

Sure, okay, it didn't come close to answering all of the show's big mysteries, but broadcast very loud and clear the message "It's not the what that matters along the way, but the who." Why did the statue have four toes? Why did that one bird cry "hurley!"? Who cares, really? Did any of those things really matter to our characters?

There were dozens of small, great moments in the episode: Miles and his duct tape faith. Christian still sporting the suit and white sneakers. Jack's Flying Flocke Punch. Jin and Sun "remembering", regaining their English, and mocking Sawyer while grinning. Claire and Charlie remembering. Juliette and Sawyer and the awkwardness of it, wondering if Jack's son is going to walk in and go "MOM?!" Lupidus being alive. "The Ongoing Hijinks of Hurley & Ben".

The final scenes with Jack's father were killer, as Jack realized the truth of what'd happened and why everyone was gathered together in the church. But the thing that will stand out as absolutely perfect in the course of time was the entire five-minute sequence following Jack's waking up outside the cave. We the viewers think he might be the next monster. He stumbles through the bamboo and we realize where he's going. He's dying alone... where's Vincent?... oh, there he is, good boy. The plane flies over to freedom. Jack's eye closes. And Lost ends.

Best moment of the entire series in hindsight? The first scene of this last season, which opens on the plane with Rose turning to Jack and telling him "You can let go now." Knowing what we know now, it seems this happens the moment after Jack closes his eyes in the bamboo, and dies.

Pretty good discussion of the details here for those who want it, but the site's summary puts it the best: 

"This show was fucking awesome."

It's all in the details

Say, for example, you randomly decided to book a one-way flight from Syndey to Los Angeles for September 22, 2010, on popular website Kayak.com.

First click here to go to Kayak.com. Once there, select 9/22/10, one-way, SYD to LAX, then "Search". Then click ahead to page 20 of the flight results (link at the bottom of the page).

Check out the flight that currently costs $4,839. Pretty steep, right? Given the safety record of that particular airline, absolutely.

 

Someone out there was determined enough to make this extremely minor, buried detail happen. Love it.

Misfits

It's a little sad how happy this video makes me in a totally non-ironic way. What the hell did ever happen to Max Wright after Alf left him?

The Adama Maneuver

I'm sorry, but those among ourselves who discredit the new "Battlestar Galactica" as being just another sci-fi, "Stargate"-esque low-budget "Star Trek" clone have no idea how great of a show they're missing. Not that I've ever had a first date go bad for explaining this.

Since the end of Season 2 this thing has been steadily firing on all eight cylinders, and it's a hell of a ride, involving action, romance, loss, heroism, the Old and New Testaments, an examination of Vichy France, the Warsaw Ghettos, modern terrorism, the war in Iraq, the will to live and the nature of what it means to be "alive". Thank you, Ron Moore.

And now in the most recent episode they top it off with probably the single coolest scene I've ever seen on television: a ship larger than our biggest aircraft carrier -- which isn't equipped to fly close to a planet -- deciding to provide fighter cover to its men on the ground.

It also happens to feature the best quote of the entire series, which is awarded to Hot Dog's spectacularly understated delivery of "Well, this oughta be different."

Edit: I love that this one post has generated the most visitation across the site to date, most recently from Kwangju, Korea. The Adama Maneuver is universally awesome.

From Urban Dictionary:

The Adama Maneuver: The act of dropping a Battlestar several times the size of a Nimitz-class carrier into the atmosphere and going into freefall whilst launching fighters. The Battlestar then jumps back out into orbit less than 100 feet from the ground, leaving a flaming silhouette in its place and leaving with an almighty thunderclap.