The 'Through the Looking Glass' Award- Best Action Episode

Named For: 'Through the Looking Glass' Episode 322 of Lost
Awarded To: The best episode in an action series from
June 1, 2009 - May 31, 2010
Last Year's Winner: no award

Place. Episode (Show) Points (My Vote)

5. 'No More Good Days' (Flash Forward) 7 points

4. 'Chuck vs. the American Hero' (Chuck) 7 points (2nd)

3. 'The Culling' (Sons of Anarchy) 8 points

Runner-Up
2. 'One Minute' (Breaking Bad) 8 points (3rd)

and the Poolie goes to...
1. 'The End' (Lost) 23 points (1st)

Here are some thoughts on 'The End' by non-Poolie voter Cluchey...

LOST was beautiful because it was about an island exactly like mine. Everyone dies, and one day I’ll die, like you, not knowing what this has all meant. We can ask the question (and Charlie put it best: “guys, where are we?”) all we want, but our existence is special because the earth is incomprehensible and magical, and no amount of faith and no amount of science will ever truly enlighten us. If you thought LOST was weird, well, it’s certainly no weirder than life. You think a sentient cloud of electric smoke is over the top? I think the fact that a screen in my apartment is currently showing me a live baseball game being played in Florida is, in a vacuum, no less incredible. Science fiction is relative: if you had never heard of the internet, or giraffes, or rainbows, you’d think those were science fiction too. Of course LOST was strange in its details, but those characters’ fears and moments of wonder were in many ways just like our own.

I love the way LOST ended. It resolved all questions the way they are resolved in our own lives. Dead is dead. Whatever happened, happened. Some things are irreversible, and you can’t fix the past. My favorite moment of the entire series came at the end, in the space between life and death, when Ben and Hugo told each other what a great job the other did as #1 and #2. Like Jacob and Richard, they must have protected the island for wonderful centuries together—and we never got to see it. And we never got to see it because we’re Jack. And the question we always wondered—the question we always will wonder—remained. What is this place, and why were we here? And they answered that too, in the most beautiful way imaginable: you don’t get to find out.

You don’t get to find out. There is fear, and death is a monster, and life is a monster, and there will always be others out there in the woods. But there is love, and we have friends, and as long as we are here we can believe whatever we like and make our choices and find the things that we can. But hail mystery! Some things can’t be found, because the most important things are lost. What is life? The reason we’re here? The thing we fight over, the thing we protect? What is death, and what happens after The End? You don’t get to find out.

So you can let go now, Jack.

by Dan Cluchey