One for Sorrow

I'm going to try to put down some complicated rumination on the finales of SUPERNATURAL and LOST here--with spoilers for both. Watching the The End finale last night it reminded me of Swan Song. In the end I feel like Swan Song was more successful as a narrative in delivering what it promised.

I apologize for how long this is. It was probably a bad idea to try to talk about two such important finales in one post, but they seemed really ripe for comparison.

( Spoilers for The End (LOST) and Swan Song (SPN) )

Okay, I've kept thinking about that episode of Lost since last night because it was bugging me I couldn't get a handle on it. Obviously this is about a pattern Charlie has in his life that he's got to confront or fix or break out of, but I couldn't figure out what it was *about* exactly. But this morning I had some ideas in the shower that made the ep a lot more interesting, ( especially with regards to Eko and Locke. )

I liked the episode overall, but I was thinking about something that bothered me in it, which made me think about a couple of characters involved. ( Major spoilers for LOST last night--anybody who's really avoiding spoilers and gets the episodes late, this is a major spoiler. )

So I was watching Lost last night and something struck me about the show’s female characters (Kate, Shannon, Sun and Claire). ( Spoilers for 11/12 episode within. )

Happy birthday to unknownwisdom--and to froda_baggins and jewelsong tomorrow!

And of course, happy birthday to Frodo and Bilbo. The two most excellent hobbits. ::sigh:: I got myself presents for their birthday, because I know they would have wanted it that way.

First is this:

sistermagpie

Yay!

And more important, I got the shoes. Yes, the shoes. The one's I've been looking at in the store window everyday for a month to and from my office building. I have a really hard time finding shoes that are comfortable. In my mind the only girl-shoes I want are the type of things the heroine of a 40's movie would wear at her secretary job (no damn pointy shoes!). Finally I found some--they are comfy and don't have pointed toes (which I can't stand) and I seem to actually be able to walk in the heels, which maybe look higher than they are. They are a mauve-suede color and black, but I may get a second pair in black.
Well, there's just no telling what will come from this.

More importantly for hobbit-kind, I just watched Lost! ( Spoilers inside with my thoughts. )