The Lost Finale - An Important Point About Jack Shepard
The Lost Finale - An Important Point About Jack Shepard
But I have not heard many people bring up this important point about Jack Shepard: He saved the world.
We are lead to believe that without the light shining on the island that the entire world is doomed so when Jack sacrifices his life at the end it is, essentially, to save the world!
I find this to be an extremely important point, especially to those who are saying things like the ending was a "cop-out" or that it was "all just purgatory." These complaints are actually completely off the mark!
The point was that John Locke was right. What happened on the island was important and what Jack did really did save the world. It really was their destiny to be on that island together. In this particular story "faith" was the winner.
I'm actually more like the skeptical Jack of the early seasons myself, I'm someone who places reason far ahead of faith in my own life. But that doesn't mean I can't appreciate the direction of the show or where it went. I think it was good story telling.
And there's another message in the show that's also very important (besides faith and destiny) and one that I can get on board with completely and that's the importance of human connection. It seems like that was the major point of the "flash sideways" story arc. The time these people spent together was extremely important, to the point where they had to get together again in this "post life" reality to remember it together.
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