...died. The real father should have lived with the kid and that other woman.
I didn't like the 'step-dad'.
Jack was a humourless idiot. I think the ending revealed there were many communities out there where people led normal lives and the planet wasn't all snow.
Jack won't even do the decent thing and tell the Lu who her real father was. And he ended up with a nice young woman.
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me neither , the step dad was a real idiot , I wanted him to die as soon as he let the dog die !!
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shareTotally. When he did not shoot that thing right away and let it attack the guy and kill the dog I told my dad that every child would now hate him for the rest of his miserable life. I know I would, it was just as bad as when he said he'd shoot the dog himself before.
shareI did not like Jack either. Patrick though lost his sanity when he chopped off Emma's arm and started to drink heavily which lead to her death. Jack lost his sanity in a way too with the death of Emma and felt the need to protect the child. His hatred for Patrick was never more apparent when he wanted the zombie to kill Jack.
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He died in amends for his years of alcoholism. Perhaps you haven't noticed, but there's a sort of morality in films. Patrick's redemption was in his sacrifice for Lu and Jack.
Bored now.
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I agree with you about Patrick's redemption, but Jack was no angel. His character was highly annoying. He was self-righteous about all that transpired in the past....yet there were hints that he and Emma had an affair behind Patrick's back. We don't know if that happened but maybe it did. Hell Lu might even be his kid and not Patrick's, maybe that's part of the reason he took her away. And it seems that after Patrick cut off Emma's arm he was traumatized and turned even more to drink. This indirectly led to Emma's death...but wasn't Emma Patrick's wife and not Jack's? What the hell is Jack all bent out of shape for, Emma was not his wife. Sure he can be pissed about what happened, but to behave the way he did for the next nine years, in the situation they were in, was ridiculous. To the point where he sees a zombie eating Patrick alive, and he stands there and watches? What a major league a**hole. When Patrick found himself in the same situation, he was the better man.
shareI knew redemption by death was an inevitable part of Patrick's journey from the moment we learned what happened to Emma but what exactly did Jack do to earn his happy ending? It was even implied that the sad f*ck was at least partially responsible for Patrick's descent into madness in the first place; he selfishly keep Lu in the shadows regarding her own history, threatened the dog his adopted daughter loved and then callously let him die RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER just so he can get his revenge on her lover's husband (which also led to Lu getting hurt later on), and was ready to shoot said daughter dead a la The Mist instead of risking his neck out there.
Patrick, on the other hand, not only didn't hold Jack responsible for not coming to his aid after he went out of their way to warn them of the danger nor for what happened to Dog (I know I would), but refrained from telling Lu the truth at a time when he could have easily taken advantage of the growing distance between her and Jack to get her back and ultimately give his own life to ensure she survived. It makes sense from a narrative standpoint for him to die, fine, but why don't have them both die and let the pregnant woman take care of Lu? It would have been a stronger ending, IMHO.
"what exactly did Jack do to earn his happy ending?"
Raised, protected, and loved his daughter her entire life? He was her father and her dear friend. Educated her, played with her, and would have died to protect her. Not sure why you people hate him so much. Jack was a flawed, but good man.
Seriously Jack pissed me off. As if Matthew Fox's character hadn't suffered enough for his crimes. And Lu grows up not even knowing the truth.
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