The series finale of Lost, entitled The End, was an awful, half-ass attempt by Mr. Lindelof and Cuse to provide an exhilarating, action-packed, and most of all, “deep,” ending to one of television’s best shows of all time. The Lost finale was encumbered by an obscene amount of commercials, disappointing reveals, and an overall lack of balls. Lindelof, Cuse, and ABC tried to play it safe, and in doing so, basically ruined what was otherwise a near perfect television series in Lost. Click below to read more about why the Lost Series finale, The End, sucked so much.
Let’s be real. I knew I would be disappointed by Lost’s series finale. The show had set such a high standard that I knew it would be nearly impossible for the show’s creators to meet my unreal expectations. But I never expected them to provide such a tacky, misleading, and uninspiring episode such as The End. All along, throughout the series, Lindelof, Cuse, and even J.J. Abrams, all stated that the show was not about religion, heaven/hell, and that they were not in purgatory. To a degree, they were correct. Basically, this whole flash-sideways effect was a gimmick that had nothing to do really with the island. Everything that is/was important was based around the island, and this season and finale, was not. I cared about what happened on the island. Basically all we got in the series finale involving the island was a fight between a spinal surgeon and a geriatric in the rain (similar to Mr. Smith and Neo’s fight in Matrix Revolutions (sarcasm)), and some cheesy cgi of Jack placing a cork back into a whole to stop the island from self destructing.
Desmond, who I thought to be the key to the island, truly was meaningless. He went down to uncork the cork, which started to destroy the island. It was pretty anti-climatic. Then, the creators of Lost wanted you to think that Desmond had some sort of understanding/connection between the island life and the flash-sideways. You wanted to believe that somehow what Desmond was doing in the flash-sideways would change things in the past and or on the island. Well I guess we were all wrong.
The whole last scene was awfully cheesy and ridiculous. When Jack asked Christian if everyone in the Church died, Christian responded with something like “they all died sometime, some a while go, and some recently.” So let’s say, hypothetically, they died 50 years later, why did we need to see this now. Why do we care. The writers for Lost didn’t have enough time on their hands to focus on island issues as it was, why did they need to create a flash-sideways/purgatory universe on top of things.
I truly believe that this whole season was a cop-out. The show’s writers were afraid of pissing off too many of their loyal fans, and thought that this neutered episode would be the safest route. I’ve read many positive reviews of the episode, but they’re written mostly by phony fans. Most true Lost fans are going to be disgusted at what they just witnessed. Way to go Lindelof and Cuse. NOT.
Written By: The Sherwinator
P.S. WTF was the deal with all of the commercials. I know they were able to make $900,000/30 second spot but come on, Bad Robot couldn’t have sold out more. They ruined whatever flow the episode already had by inserting an obscene amount of commercials. I am convinced that the “extra 30 minutes” that we were given were all in the form of commercials.
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An obscene 48 minutes of commercials were placed in the show.
I still don’t understand how some supposed LOST fans liked this whole ending. A lot of people got caught up with this whole flash sideways crap that they entirely forgot what made this show so great were all the mysteries from Seasons 1-5. This ending basically rendered the first 5 seasons meaningless. If I wanted drama and an emotional ending, I would go watch Grey’s Anatomy instead.
My understanding was that the island was a real place. The flash sideways to the alternate universe was them in purgatory after the island, so not actually a side flash but a future flash. Once they all died later in their lives they went to “purgatory” having found their “soul mate” and being a more complete person. Once they all finished living their natural lives they rejoined as a group and went to the final afterlife together.
Yet ….Sawyer and Miles worked together for years and Jack and Juliet had a son together and at no point did that jar a memory of the island nor Charlotte and Sawyer having sex or Ben and Alex talking daily. All the other people in the flash sideways must have been dead too or not real. Also even though they all died at different times they all end up on the same plane together as if it never crashed. Kate was still wanted by the law, Clare was pregnent with Aaron again and all them have perfect memory of their lives up to the point of the crash but nothing after that. Why is that? In other words you could tell the writers made it up as they went along. If you liked the ending yu were caught up in emotions and never really followed nor understood the plot anyway.
Totally agree, what a waste of 2.5 hours. Then again this is what we have come to expect. Every episode has left us with more questions then answers so why should the finale be any different. This show had so much potential in season 1 then slowly began to degrade into the mess that was season 6. It seems that ABC should have gotten better writers for the show and just let Cuse and Lindoff just add some ideas into it. I think that this is also the reason that so many people are upset with it. The show started with so much promise too bad it could not do anything with it. It had the possibility of being a great show. Now it will always be remembered as the biggest waste of time.
I was hoping the dog would lift a leg and give Jack a deserved sendoff. It also would have been a proper farewell from the writers; a fitting show of contempt to those who actually thought there might be something behind the smoke, mirrors, shiny objects, and supposedly profound references. “Lost” had potential but never anything else. Good riddance.
The END SUCKED!!!! The least they could do is keep the series going for one more series or add another hour ono to the end that shows what happens on the plane and if it even gets to where its supposed to be and how there life is after they leave….they could’ve showed what happens next to the people still on the island…instead of Jack dying they should’ve showed the people that owned the dog come out and help Jack. The people on the island could have gotten a boat and tried to sail to land for a few days…after that they should all meet eachother again and reunite…Jack could get married and live happily ever after
they could even go back to the island and start a new life and build there with alot more people…like they would want to do that 
Booorrring!!! Are you serious? You think your ending is better than what the actually writers came up with? Your ending was so banal (yes, you will have to look that word up) that I fell asleep just reading it. Of course you would think of some Hollywood happy ending. That type of ending would never work for this show. If you want that type of ending go watch a chick flick. This show was way over your head and I have no idea why you were watching it in the first place.
What a jerk off. Go back to your mom’s basement and play dungeons and dragons.
the finale is obviously for religious nutjobs(like you), and not for smart intelligent people
i kind of hoped that would happen as well. but i didn’t think the ending was that bad. but it could hav been better
what a spectacular finale. Lost will go down, along with BSG and Twin Peaks, as the best television shows of the last 25 years. For those who are complaining, what more could you want?
Yeah, that chick drama ending really sucked. Perfect ending would be Jack and Sawyer stuck togheter in the island just like Jacob and his brother, and begginning everything again.
Yes there were many commercials. Someone has to pay the bills right?
That is why “fast forward” was developed. Didn’t bother me at all.
I have been wanting this show to end for a long time now BUT….now that it is ended,I want more. Go figure.
And when that dog came to Jack just before he died,I have to admit…I lost it but strangely enough,that will be the only scene out of the whole last episode that I will remember 10 years down the road.
The ending of Lost made me super flaccid.
The writers threw stuff out for 5 years to make you think “what was that how does it fit?” Like the giant statuse that Jacob lived in or the numbers that were used in the hatch and attached to each lost member. In reality none of tied together and the writers never really had a plan. It should have ended at season 5. The flash sideways or future flash made ZERO sense. Why if they all died at different times were they all on the plane again with perfect memories of everything pre plane crash? Why was Kate wanted by the law and Clare pregnent again etc…Jack had a son with Juliet but on not really they were all dead he never had a son. LAME LAME LAME. Lets randomly throw out refferences to philosophers, scientists and different religious text through out to make people think but never really have ANY meaning behind it. It would have been fantastic writing if it all came together but alas it didn’t showing the writers gave no answers because they had none. Clearly it was made up from show to show and never intended to answer anything.
i think you a bit confused they wer not dead all along. the island life was all real. anyway i do believe the side flashes was a bit pointless but the forward flash all made sence. it described everything that would happen to the people after they left the island and they did so they dont hav to show it after they leave so when they leave the island the audience understands and realise that the forward flash was what happened when they left. If you havn’t watched lost from the beginning it will not make sence.
I agree with you completely except for the part about Lost ending at the 5th episode. It should have never been a series at all. It should have been a 2 hour movie if anything. Or cancelled. The way it was written makes me think the writers were drunk the whole time or choosing the weekly plot (if we can even grace it with having one) by pulling slips of paper randomly out of a hat with different situations/characters written on them. Another possibility is that the writers frequented patients for their ideas at the largest mental asylum in the country, right down the road from them, the Twin Towers connected to the county jail in downtown LA. I also thought that it seemed very possible that the writers were using MadLibs to write their stories. It’s making the most sense at this point. MadLibs are short one page stories where you fill in the blanks with adjectives, verbs, nouns, places, etc…without knowing what the story is about. They have 100′s of themes. We would take the MadLibs books camping with us. I’ve done a lot of MadLibs in my life and most of them made way more sense than that damn show Lost.
If anyone doesn’t know what MadLibs are, go here for some online examples:
http://www.wordlibs.com/
http://www.rinkworks.com/crazylibs/
http://www.madlibs.org/
I have to admit one thing made sense. The name. Lost. The cast was lost, the plot was lost, the writers were lost! Did they forget what they wrote from week to week? Did they lose their memories? Our time was lost watching it and we the viewers were lost. Personally, I lost my mind for a while there trying to figure it all out.Thinking there would be a mystery solved or any type of closure became a lost cause. Brrrf. Makes me feel like a loser.
:/
Im so dissapointed in the end. Basically seasons 2 to 5 were a complete waste of time as none of it even mattered.
Very poorly written indeed. When Jack and Locke had the fight after coming out of the cave Locke hit jack in the face with a rock, then stood up and walked away while jack was injured on the floor. Why didnt he just pick up a bigger rock and finish Jack off there and then.
Massive waste of time and i wont be reccomending the box set to anyone.
I agree with most of your comments. I legitimately feel ripped off for wasting the last 6 years of my time thinking about this show. Oh well….
you’re all expected way too much..
You are all a bunch of whiny idiots who never understood what lost was really about. It wasn’t about the man in blacks name, or what was really going on, or the fucking polar bear. It was always about the characters. The reason I loved this show was because I got to know jack and kate and everyone better than some people I know in real life. I could give two shits that ill never know every answer to every little fucking mystery the show presented. use your fucking brains people, do you really need every answer spoon fed to you because you’re too stupid/lazy to figure something out on your own? You’re all fucking hopeless
Hey Matt the Jackass, if you’re so interested in just knowing about the characters, why don’t you just go watch Desperate Housewives or Gossip Girl instead. Fucking douchebag.
I guess only the deep and intelligent people that watched the show were interested in watching the characters grow. All the rest of us dumbasses watched the show because of the cool mysteries and crazy plot lines that went on. I’ll admit though, I did start tiring from all these unanswered questions and what seemed to be new plotlines that would fizzle into nothing. I do remember a couple years ago when there was a huge backlash from the fans saying there were to many mysteries and seemingly dead end plot lines. Fans thought that writers were just writing this show as they went along. LOST started losing viewership. The creators of Lost came out and said “don’t worry all your questions will be answered. the show is following a well thought out storyline, right to the end.” and then you know what happened? The creators came out….again!…and said!..”oh no this show has always been about the characters and how they’ve grown and blah blah blah!!! That in my mind was a blatent-lie-reversal-woopity-bang-bang! so instead of answering questions and such for season 6 they began this meaningless sideways/purgatory universe so they can suck all the emotional/intelligent people along and end it with a stupid “you’re dead and you dont know it” plot (that has been done to death BTW – sixth sense, jacobs ladder, passenger…). I like it when stories are played out for me. I hate “left to interpretation” crap! I never get closure on that kinda shit! And i’m sure by majority of theses commenters they hate it too!
The reason you don’t like “left to interpretation” shows is because you’re too stupid and simple to know what’s going on. You even say you like stories played out for you i.e. every little detail has to be explained to you because you can’t get it on your own. You just admitted that your stupid. Quit your whining and go watch Sesame Street (although that might be over your head too.)
We’re talking about sloppy-ass writing here, with the authors themselves lacking any sense of direction or perspective of the plot.
There’s nothing to “figure out on your own” here – I’m afraid your attempt to appear intelligent really fired backward
Lostie Dude,
I couldn’t have said it better.
Matt, I think what you are saying is pretty much what makes the point for most of us that found the “emotional only” ending to be a little too vacuous. Yes, the finale was an emotional ending, but intellectually it was horrific.
“The reason I loved this show was because I got to know jack and kate and everyone better than some people I know in real life.” (YOUR WORDS).
I don’t look to TV to be my friend. I know some people do and that is why there are day time soap operas and Greys Anatomy in the evening. It’s spicy drama that fabricates emotion to scratch people’s itch that they are apparently lacking in real life. This show, when it was brand new, wasn’t that AT ALL. No one ever tuned into the pilot and subsequent first season of Lost because they wondered about who Jack really was and was he going to fall in love with that pretty girl that stitched him up. We all tuned in to see what the hell is going on with that island. Why can’t they get off? Why did someone fake a plane crash at the bottom of the sea so that they would never be found? What were these other people on the island and why were they trying to seemingly kill them? What is the deal with this numbers? THAT is why everyone started watching Lost.
All the supernatural occurrences and apparent immortality is what made Lost a Sci Fi drama. Why have subliminal and overt references throughout the show to philosophers and religions, if they didn’t really have anything to do with a main plot? In the end, it’s all about people who really liked each other and wanted to subsequently “cross over” together. Really? That’s why you tuned in for 6 plus years? I’m not sure I’d call any of us hopeless if that is all it takes to get the wheels in YOUR head turning. But, then again, Bachelorette and Dancing with the Stars are some of the highest watched shows in America so I shouldn’t be surprised that you found this ending to be sufficient.
Are u all stupid they wer not in purgatory!!! u just didn’t understand the ending. The side flashes was a bit like purgatory but the island life was all real!! Christian said that everything that ever happened to you was real and he also said the some die before and some die much after which means they all eventually die and eventually move on!
Yeah, my feelings exaclty. wanted answers to the many mysteries about the island–I at least thought that they would answer the question of what exactly the island was and why it was so magical. Instead I got cheesy religious bullshit. I guess if you believe in an afterlife it would mean something, but I don’t–so the whole ending was just silly to me. I feel cheated and lied to by the creators who promised me closure and gave me bullshit religion mumbo-jumbo instead.
The only people appeased by that shit ending are idiots who believe in god and an afterlife and feel that the show somehow justified their sad delusions about ‘heaven’. It’s a sad comment on people’ reliance on religion in an age where most people should be smart enough to know there is no god.
i don’t think the writers knew how to end the show, thats why the ending was sooo awful. The ending would have been better if the characters had of merged with their alternate lives but had memories of being on the island ie: “Not Dead” then the island would have seemed really magical and left the viewers feeling better.. very dissapointed
Come on. Its been said here many times already, but I’m getting very annoyed with the whole it was all about the charactors bull shit. Yes, it was, but thats not how they sold the show, thats not how they kept it going. When people grew tired of it, they set an end date and promised us answers. They didn’t deliver. No, it wasn’t about the charactors; it was about some people who crashed on some crazy island.
I knew something was off from the from the very 1st episode. Mainly I knew the whole damn thing was going to suck. Just like Twin Peaks years ago that ended up having an equally absurd and disappointing ending which created more questions rather than tying up loose ends.
after the ending, l thought ok.. thats a good way to put an end to the story, but some time later l came to a different conclusion. Seriously you cant make a show for 6 years, and then just kill all the characters. The show wasnt “about the characters”, The main reason of the show, for me, was the damn island. I wanted to know wtf with it, why desmond was so important. lm sorry but the emotional crap its not enough for me. I think the creators really gave us the middle finger. In fact what they are saying is that we watched a show for 6 years, just to know that there is life after dead, and the island was just a “special place”.. l want those 6 years back thought..
This ending was really bad, all those ppl saying to us viewers who disliked the ending that “it was all about the characters” and that were idiots, well mayb YOU didn’t understand the show. Firstly when i watched the first episode i wasn’t at all interested in getting to know the future and pasts of jack and kate and everyone else, my first question was “wtf is this Island’ most of the seasons delt with mysteries about the island and used the characters as a side plot trying to explain their lives. The writers kept insisting that they weren’t going to end it with them being dead, and that they were going to answer most our questions about the Island but we didn’t get any answers to the questions going back to the first season which they never answered! they left us hanging not explaining where the island was, who made it so important , what the numbers were all about…instead they ended it with , ohhh you lived on the island it was allll realll but then you waited til you all died to move on, please. That’s the most stupid, pointless ending ever…as if most people didnt think from season 1 they were dead, Yes i know they weren’t dead on the island but it still ended with them being dead. I think the writers just ended it this way because they couldn’t think of a way to answer all the questions us viewers had. Overall i think that the first season was Great after that it really went downhill and i feel seasons 2-5 were a complete waste of time. Why make a show revolve around the island only to make it about the characters in the end. Plus why would all the characters wait for eachother to die then meet up again and then move on..some of them didn’t even know eachother very well, it all was pointless to me when i think back now.
The ending sucked donkey dong and people who says that this show was about the characters can suck a donkey dong too. And really nice that smokey dies in that cheesy way where he’s about to kill jack and then gets shot in the back and oh my god there is kate behind him saying some cheesy line. And how could Kate kill him all of a sudden, how did he become mortal? After all we’ve seen of smokey and his struggle to get off the island and he dies like that? And the whole time they’ve made us believe that desmond has some kind of special ability and then when it comes down to it he is completely useless. No answers or explanations to ANY of the mysteries whatsoever just some lame attempt to make people cry. The ending pissed me off so bad and i can’t believe that i really watched this shit.
i am sorry to say but these fucking douchebagg american cuntproducers wasted 6 years of all of our lives we should all come together with our LAWYERS AND Sue abc for letting this crapp final season and expspecially the last 2 episodes come on air..and we should also sue the cuntproducers for misleading us for all this time !!!!! and whenever you see one of the producers or even the staractors u should spit in there face and beat the crap out of them!!!!!!!!!
I agree. I feel completely taken advantage of, only to be shat on by them
First off, I don’t think it’s worthy of attacking others’ intelligence because they did or did not like the ending.
With that said, my personal opinion is that the ending felt very forced and was a big cop-out.
The direction I was anticipating with the flash-sideways was that with the destruction of the island, the island’s influence on the characters had been removed. Jacobs interference and guidance in each characters’ life had been removed and yet somehow they had still been brought together by other circumstances to that flight and to each other.
Desmond, with his particular gifts, wakes up and begins waking up the other characters. At this point I thought maybe the story would bring the characters back to the island or the two story lines would merge. Instead we ended up with the ending of the Titanic…
Personally, I’d feel better if the writers said “Yeah just kidding. That sucked. Let’s try again. Hmmm your Dad was lying Jack! You really just ended up back at the island. Surprise! Now here’s what really happened.” And then proceed to give the series an ending that does it justice.
That’s just wishful thinking though.
Could somebody tell me how jacob’s brother turned in black smoke? If it happens when he went inside the light, what about desmond and jack?
The Lost Finale Sucks!!!
i dont know how jacobs brother turned into smoke but i know why jack and desmond didn’t. Desmond can handle a large amount of electro magnetism and so the light didn’t effect him. Jack by the way didn’t go into the centre of the light. And it is up to the island to decide who will become the smoke. Jack was just about to die anyway.
Lost was good but they should have focused on 1 question at a time. Instead of confusing the viewers and leaving them with wtf. I do really want answers. The characters made the show better but the island is what kept you hanging on. I need answers here! I still do like lost but they could have extended lost atleast 2 more years to give us some damn answers. Even if those years are shit we get answers! Maybe lost was trying to make u lost and leave it like that. I accept the part about moving on but not all those un answered questions. Some people are getting way too emotional with the ending. It is just a fake TV show. You chose to watch this show and you wasted your time watching it. They didn’t force you on the seat! They did waste our time but if you think about we enjoyed it until the end. Thinking you have been taken advantage of. But really they made a show different to others and you watched it. All your fault they didn’t do anything to you.
sooo emotionally lost fanatic intellectuals tell me this: when christian says ” there is no time here, everyone here died either before or after you.. you know, the part after the writers got you emotionally entangled in pointless reunitements. how could he go on to say they all waited for you so you can move on together, how the F**k can they wait if there’s no time to begin with.. I have more stupid moments I can say but just know this if you throw up the your stupid shield your just as naive and lost as most world religions we have today in “REAL LIFE”
all i can say is that the ending was purposely left vague and open to interpretation, especially the whole time phenomenon/paradox. it makes no sense and perfect sense at the same time and that is what will keep everyone thinking about it. which is also why these comments have been going on for so long! and i agree that i want answers. unfortunately we will never get them at this point.
Exactly what i am trying to explain!
This review is the only review that is worth reading. All the over reviews I have read have been nothing but praise for the whole series. I am baffled by the fact that people actually liked the finale at all. Honestly I thought seasons 1-3 were amazing , after that it all went down hill starting with season 4. Nothing makes sense and I think that the entire season 6 was just loads and loads of filler and bulls**t to make up a season and then end what could have possibly been the best television series ever with a cop out…I am truly disgusted and disappointed. I wish I never started watching lost..nothing that good lasts.
I agree with the above post. This review is about the only honest one I can find. I can seriously not get over how angry I am at the way Lost ended. The part that bothers me most was that those who didn’t like the ending are being labeled as non fans. I literally spent the last six years not missing a single episode. I hung in there when many other viewers were flaking off despite the fact that the show was going off in some wild directions. I tried to have faith that there was a grander scheme than I was able to imagine. But no… they literally threw in an ending that had nothing to do with the ENTIRE rest of the show. I mean, in one episode they pretty much rendered every other episode completely meaningless and without point. I am angry that they cheaped out on those who watched the show with dedication.
what pisses me of most about the show is how it seems so many people one the internet were satisfied with it and say; oh yeah “it was purgatory” , yeah purgatory blablabla uh purgatory, that makes sense oh yeah and “now they re moving on”.
i mean this whole purgatory concept had nothing to do with the show in the first place and even less with the believes of some people who watched the show. in my opinion you can still make some kind of interpretaion on how the story worked out, but with alot of gaps and basically not an ending.
but the way how the producers manipulated the media, and use the momentum of an emotional only satisfing on first sight ending pisses me of.
it’s not even that the last episodes were that much worse in themselfes. it s just , that the whole show eventually didnt work out. it was plain to see beforehand, that resolving mysteries was becoming less and less propable at very least during the last season.(for example this whole pirates in a temple subplot lol)
the show had been going downhill a while ago with endless revolving repetitions of character studies and character dynamics and pacing that would only help market lost in terms of getting media hype by making action-laden season finales and seasons that would have flash something mysterys, that people could superficially enough talk about, so that the media can repeat it.
but hopeing that it would make sense eventually we kept on going.
i m not saying that the characters were bad but after all there was no story. just a good idea for the beginning that was taken from the computer game myst and mixed with some other stuff.
seriously i hope i never meet these douchebags jj cuse. btw. now that i seen what they did to lost i think the new star trek also screwed up the franchise. all these f**kers do is trying to appeal to our lower instincts of liking explosions and “emotional closure” and giving us stuff to superfically talk about but no substance.
this had so much potential. someone should make a rip-off that works out or maybe a bad parody would be more appropriate.
Hey. Watch “how lost was supposed to end” on youtube to get the whole circle-story idea which is making much more sense than the actual ending. also make sure you watch my sawyer and jack videos too, you can find them searching for “duphe” and then looking into the vids in my profile on youtube. I really think they planned to make it that way for 5 seasons but for some reason dropped it or were too afraid to do it and instead came up with that sideway-bullshit for a whole season which was meant to close the circle instead.
Fucking load of crap shit crqp shit crap shit,worst writers EVER JJ IS ABSOLUTELY CRAP AT WRITING he should be beaten badly
and the other two needs their heads smashing together,absolute filth of a tv money making show
senseless garbage crap
They had no idea where they were going EVER lying ball-less bastards
JJ said once people love a mystery but they don’t like to know how it ends,WRONG JJ that is just so lazy arse writers like you don’t actually have to think how to write a story and can just make a shitload of money from writing garbage twaddle for brain dead dickheads
JJ start with an ending and work backwards in future,you might just make a sentence make a bit of sene someday and actually know you did some yes very very small but some actually thinking
Was it just me, or in the last scene were there the foul implications that
only 1 person in Heaven is black, and
there are no gay persons (much less gay couples) in Heaven?
(Also,
“no one goes to Heaven that didn’t agree to star in the final episode”?)
Also, if I were given the choice between being in a Heaven with these one-dimensional airhead breeder couples, or not, I’d say NO! As someone said, & I know I’m quoting it wrong, “If there are no dogs in Heaven, I don’t wanna go there; I wanna go where dogs end up after they die.” That’s what I was thinking about, re “The Afterlife”, with the church congregation scene vs. spending an afterlife with the show’s dog.
My god, what a freaking ripoff this show was. To (after flirting with it with Dharma & Smokey) go DEEP into amazing science-fiction in season 5, with the time-travel & magnetism & wormholes & ancient statues & atomic-power & “mythic superhuman figures” and all-else; but then the creepy thing with the paid-torturer being made into a Savior Figure (!) with his “resurrection” (ick); then the fun-again mythology (which almost made up for the weird Savior Figure blunder) about brothers Jacob & “Black-Haired Guy”. (Despite the irritating “sideways” things the last season that made no sense, and in retrospect were nothing but “fillers” just like the 48 minutes of commercials in the “2-1/2 hour finale” were fillers.) Only for the good things to got FLUSHED DOWN THE COMMODE by the final show…. (Just like they flushed Ben’s character, which was the reason I got HOOKED on the show, and turned him into a “nice guy” & reverted him from the star of the show to basically an extra….)
As you may surmise, I too feel betrayed by the HORRIBLE ending. (For 5 years they lied, “No, no, it’s not about Purgatory.” Then the last episode shows that, something (island life? real life? sideways life? what?????) was actually, wait for it: Purgatory.)
The writers actually made us viewers go to Purgatory, TOO: they made us sinfully devour the (in my opinion) tasty way the show was developing; then, at the last second, they pulled the rug out, saying, “Ha ha, we were just fooling; now, suffer in Purgatory because of your sins. Shame on you for believing we were actually going anywhere with this!” Maybe that’s the REAL ending of the show; this “bird”?
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This was posted a while ago, but I just had to say something.
The ending to lost ruined the whole show for me. So we find out that they were all actually dead and none of it actually happened in real life and we are just supposed to go along with it? That basically renders the other seasons pointless! And I was incredibly disappointed with Sayid and Shannon reuniting and being happy again. What about Nadia, hm? Did Sa
yid just suddenly think, ‘Oh, you know what? Even though I have been searching for the woman that I love with all my heart for years, I’m just going to forget about her and run off with Shannon.’? And what about the other people that didn’t find anyone? Boone, for example? And there was no chemistry between Jack and Kate what so ever! Also, I was incredibly sad and irratated when Annie [some of you may not remember her but she was Ben's childhood friend/sweetheart] suddenly disappeared. Yes, she was evacuated from the island, but I really would have loved to see her and Ben end up together instead of the writers hinting at Ben and Danielle. Anyway, terrible ending to a series that was beyond amazing. Truly terrible.
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The ending was very religious indeed. I suppose the ones talking about it being one of the best shows in TV history etc. are happy with religious fairy tales explaining everything but throwing in purgatory, heaven and so on. They should have said it was a religious show in the beginning and I wouldn’t have wasted lots of time watching it. I would be MUCH happier with an ending that gave the characters a second chance at life, away from the Island (not purgatory) where they remembered their life on the Island and that they had died. That would have been so cool.
I’m so glad you all hated the ending as much as me, the buzz after season 6 made me want to vomit – all that “it’s about the characters bullshit.” no, you morons, it was about the time traveling island, the dharma project, the mysterious numbers, good vs evil, faith, the Egyptian statues and temples, the black rock, smokey… No one with a brain gave a fuck at all of jack and Kate lived happily ever after – much less what they all did after death.
Flash side ways= TOTAL COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME.
Lost was my favorite show ever, I was obsessed. Now I remember it as the most disappointing show ever. Thanks you writer fucks.
All… I’ve been reading a few of these posts, and am a huge fan of the series. I’ve ready many outside books about the series, and watched most episodes twice. A lot of people on here still have a lot of questions, and I’m going to try to answer some, or at least give my opinion, as most, if not all of MY questions were answered.
Firstly, the show’s main character (although there are several primary characters, in Kate, Sawyer, Hurley, Sayed, Locke, Ben, etc.), is Jack Shepherd. He is the MAIN character. Watch the first scene of the first episode and the last scene of the last episode. Jack arriving on the island, looking up at the sneaker in the tree. Jack dying, same place, bamboo field, looking up, watching Al Ajira 316 (or whatever it was) fly off to safety w/ Sawyer, Lapidus, Kate, etc.). So, the reason for the purgatory/flash sideways is because the story, while told from many different angles, is being told from the perspective of the main character. Hence “Jack’s perspective” of the purgatory flash sideways w/ his father.
Desmond’s special-ness (For lack of a better term) was his resistance to electromagnetism. Charles Widmore knew this (Desmond was the fail-safe, like the key he used in the hatch), for the island. He was the only person who could safely be around electromagnetism, and not get sick/die. So, Widmore knew, that seeing the island was essentially a humongous storage area of electromagnetism, that he would need someone resistant to it in order to defeat the smoke monster. Widmore, who lived on the island for decades, knew how the island could be protected and destroyed. Des was that person. That’s why, Desmond pulled off the cork, was able to leave and live. And Jack, who wasn’t resistant, but had to give his life to save the island and save the world, died.
Walt was a kid and afraid of the island, as he was kidnapped and forced into room 23. So, that’s why he didn’t want to come back. If you watch the epilogue (which I don’t think is needed, but was clamored for), it was clear to me (after Jack then Hurley were made protector) that the Others had been testing to see if Walt would have protector potential (Jacob’s doing, or Ben’s? we don’t know).
I’ll read more and try to post more answers.
The ending was down the middle from a religious standpoint… 6 religions were in the stained glass, and the themes and teachings from all were prevalent throughout the series (see Lost Encylopedia and Pearson Moore (LOST Humanity, LOST Identity). And not much in the way of different religions of the Losties was discussed, but if you were to guess, I would guess that all 6 would be covered by the main characters.
The question about Sayed and Nadia vs Shannon, was that Shannon was his constant. He needed to find his constant. Like Jack and KAte needed to find each other. Sawyer and Juliet. Locke and the Island. Boone and the Island (the sacrifice the island demanded). The island was a character itself. Alive. That’s what people miss. It was Shangri-La.