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After six seasons, “Lost” has come to an end.
Give us your grade for the series finale and feel free to post comments about the finale below. Be warned there will be SPOILERS in the comments thread!
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Wow. Not quite what I expected, but I liked it. It was a great story.
We should remember that this was a fictional story about fictional characters. The story of the characters on the island can be taken for what it is, regardless of the sideways story and the particular ending.
Its definitely up for any number of interpretations.
Story for the sake of story to generate emotion for the sake of emotion. What a disappointment. Shouldn’t even have bothered to figure out any of the mysteries because in the end they don’t have answers and they didn’t even matter. Fade to white. Fade to Black.
Without going too spoilery, I thought the main storyline was wrapped up just as it should have been. As for the sideways story, while it was a bit less cohesive it was still pretty well done. The writers did a nice job of delivering a coda that was worthy of a show of this caliber in a way that didn’t undermine the main storyline.
Compared to that other famous finale (BSG), overall I thought this ending was superior. Let the debate begin 🙂
I thought it was the other way around. Understood the wrap of the sideways story fine, even if I hated the universalism being stuffed down our throats.
The main story was what disappointed. None of the serious questions were answered. We had the conclusion we expected yes, but don’t think that lead to answers.
Will look forward to the commentary when it’s on DVD.
Would rank it quite low in terms of the series finales I’ve seen. Put it alongside DS9 maybe. But way below BSG, B5 and Blakes 7!
My mother’s exact words….”I spent 6 years watching Lost for THAT ENDING”?
Let me just expand on that, it’s a bit of a cop out to have that ending. The writers just seemed to have got themselves into a hole and they though they would dig their way out of it by digging downwards.
A symbolic and metaphoric closure emphasizing the emotional over the rational; fictional over reality; life over death; in essence it presented the comforting notion of the afterlife with the loving and peaceful release of redemption at its purest.
Great writing and great acting for the characters and the ending had great emotional impact but as far as the actual story is concerned it was kind of a bust. For me the island story played better. Stopping the heart of the island to kill Smokey and then restarting it to protect the island rang pretty true as far as the mythology of the show was concerned. Kinda of a little bit of a downer that so few were left alive on the island though.
The sideways story (while highly emotional) didn’t satisfy me at all. It really answered nothing in an obvious way but then that was probably what they were aiming for…I’m sure people will be discussing it for a while. A+ for character development and emotional impact….C- for actual storyline and satisfying conclusion.
Hmmm. . . remember Dallas? “It was all just a dream”.
What a copout!!
They don’t have to make sense of anything – “It was all just a dream”
You can just ignore missing characters (Echo) – “It was all just a dream”
Not even a theory for why anything happened – “It was all just a dream”
At least the Bob Newhart Show was clever about it when they ended the series
Oh and they were all led “into the light” at the end by “Christian Sheperd”?
Wow, that was heck of a story. No, it was not perfect and the execution wasn’t the greatest. BUT, what it did have was a compelling story, well-rounded and loved character and an “edge of your seat” mystery. I personally LOVED the explanation of the sideways universe. THAT is what I wanted from Lost, not some cop out ending where I get a ‘Dallas’-style send off. Thank you Lost for 6 awesome years of my life.
Mysitcal vs. rational arguments aside… What the heck happened to Jack and Juliet’s son?! Negating the sideways timeline negates his existence, doesn’t it? But if everyone in the sideways timeline is dead… where did he come from in the first place? Poor David. He was a good kid. 🙁
Don’t understand why people say it’s a cop-out ending where everything was just a dream. Clearly everything that happened on the island still happened, right up to the very end. It’s just the “sideways” segment that was a pseudo-reality, and that was effectively an epilogue that was run concurrent with the climax. If anything, by making the “sideways” what it was, they reaffirmed the main story.
Fair enough if you didn’t like it, but there are a lot of people complaining that don’t seem to have been paying attention to what was on the screen…
Cuse and Lindelof basically said in a recent interview (carried here on SoSF) that the show was about characters, NOT mysteries, so suck it up if you don’t like not getting answers.”
We viewers were completely let down by the series wrap-up, and the producers are not being sincere. EVERY episode for 5 seasons ended with the “L O S T” image on our screens, leaving us stunned by the latest mystery and cliffhanger. Every episode, they deliberately added more questions, and in the end, they’ve answered none of the big ones.
I will not watch another serial TV show produced by these two clowns.
It makes me all the more thankful for Fringe.
Mysitcal vs. rational arguments aside… What the heck happened to Jack and Juliet’s son?! Negating the sideways timeline negates his existence, doesn’t it? But if everyone in the sideways timeline is dead… where did he come from in the first place? Poor David. He was a good kid.
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I think the sideways universe was just a state o being that each character had their heart’s desire or what they feel they deserved. So in the case of Jack, he wanted to shke the curse of the rejection he felt from HIS father. Thus, he was able to reconcile that by “ceating” a son that he could break the rejection-curse with. We all know he had daddy issues.
This was magnified by the comment Hurley made to Sayid, “You’ve been told you wer bad so long that you began to believe it.” Thus, for Sayid, he was just that… a man undesrving of hi heart’s desire and soomed to live life alone and in situations he will have to do bad things.
Awesome execution, though not original, concept.
Can only say —- OMG!
What an entirely perfect way to end this one-of-a-kind series. I could get into an endless philosophical, religious and scientific debate about how Abrams, Cuse and Lindeloff literally changed the way all future genre programming should be done.
Looking back over the last 6 years and the way it closed out, for it it was illuminating that there were not separate stories going on here, but one story with the infinite probabilities of possiblities that became inevitablilities with redemption and continued longing left in its wake. It became obvious to me that there were no survivors from the crash but the infinite journey continues – so let’s just open the door and see what it is – not fade to black, but fade to pure white and the continous cycle of renewals — but —
OMG!
For most of the show I thought the characters were all Cylons like the final five waking in new bodies and finally understanding their true nature. Walking into the light might just be transporting them to their new world.
So, basically we never really will know why the island exists just that it does and everything that happened their really did happen, or was it just Jack’s brain death rattle?