LOST: The End & JMW Turner
JMW Turner Regulus 91 x 124 cm. oil on canvas 1828-29, finished 1837 Tate Gallery, London © Tate "I saw that the sun was a lump of white standing out like the boss of a shield." -Sir John Gilbert (after watching Turner paint on Varnishing Day) Last night the final episode of Lost was broadcast on ABC. After a six year run the series ends almost as it began with a close up of Jack's face. Six years ago, Jack opened an eye to the strange new world of the island. Last night his eye closed to the mystery. Satisfyingly, the mystery remains for us. The intersection of quantum physics and myth that seemed to engender the island remains tantalizingly out of reach. Jack's father may have walked offscreen into a heavenly light in the slide sideways/ slide metaphysical finale but on the island the tangible wreckage of a plane remains in the final shot before the credits roll. At the start of this season, Chad W Post on the WSJ's Speakeasy wrote,"So if Lost wraps up ...