May 29, 2010, at 6:58 pm
I may have not dedicated six whole years to this show but that didn’t make me any less pissed off after watching the four hour finale. Back when the show started, I was a bit of a party girl and unfortunately didn’t watch much TV. When I finally found out about the show a few years later, I was in the sit at home and watch movies and shows online stage and so I caught up on the first 4 seasons in about two weeks. Needless to say, I was hooked.
Four seasons later, I am sitting here and I am still stumped. We were all waiting for this amazing conclusion that will explain everything, including the reason why we’ve all been watching this show for the last six years. The finale didn’t answer any questions, big or small. Some dedicated fans were very upset at the writers of Lost, saying they have been patiently analyzing every single episode and patiently waiting for the answers, only to see an ending that was lazy, empty and completely wrong. I agree. The last season was the imaginary? What? And even if it was, I haven’t waited 6 seasons for them to die and go to heaven. I wanted them to get off the damn island and live a happy life, or stay on the island, I don’t care, but live dammit. In case you are confused, apparently the whole “flash sideways” that shows the characters living the life they would have lived if the plain never crashed , only with a few weird twists like Jack having a son and Sawyer being a cop, was actually the midway before they passed on which they created themselves. They needed to remember the people that were important in their lives and deal with the issues that haunted them through out their lives, so that they can let go and move on in peace.
Even worse was the fact that the scene in the church was like years in the future from the final island scene. Hurley and Ben already ruled the island for Lord knows how long and now they are dead and Ben is going to heaven? HA! Crucial characters of the last few seasons however were no where to be seen. What happened to Lapidus and Miles? When did Penny die? Why was Claire’s baby dead??? I can’t, this is too much. Finale scene aside, I’ve got a few more questions. What made the numbers, “THE numbers”? Where did the Dharma initiative come in to play? What was with all the island rules, like who could heal (Locke and Rose), who can kill who, who can leave the island and who can talk to who. What connection did the island even have with the outside world? Unfortunately all those questions and many more might never be answered.
There is one question however I can answer, according to the Times, an ABC spokesperson said the following about the wreckage images shown at the end of the episode.”The images shown during the end credits of the Lost finale, which included shots of Oceanic 815 on a deserted beach, were not part of the final story but were a visual aid to allow the viewer to decompress before heading into the news. The images were not added by the producers of Lost but by ABC itself.” Wow, thanks for that, I indeed feel decompressed.
I pity the people who did not get the great experience our of the finale, just because everything wasn’t fully explained to them.
Lost was the story of humanity. Can you explain EVERYTHING in your life? No, a lot of it is a mystery, and that’s the point of LOST. JJ Abrams gave a lecture for TED you can look up about mystery, and I suggest you do watch it, because you obviously don’t get it.
You’re right… I don’t get it. Life is definitely all about mystery but that is why we watch shows like lost, to get the satisfaction of having everything explained to us and get closure. If I wanted to be utterly confused, I could just live life without television.
Mrs Smith has it right – why confuse life further, and on another note: I definitely wasted part my life watching this show. The end of LOST didn’t justify the means. Sure, the characters were interesting, but only because I thought we were going somewhere with them, looking for the same answers. Apparently not. Anyone who didn’t want answers suffers from an amazing lack of human curiosity.
I couldn’t believe the finale. It pissed me off so much that I made a page on Facebook. It was supposed to answer everything, but then Shat on us and crushed us because we wasted so many years on that stupid show. They say it was “about the characters.” I watched LOST for 4 years cause I wanted to find out what happened next and how they were going to explain all of their story arcs! http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1090938550#!/pages/The-LOST-finale-was-terrible/119438434758704?ref=ts
Dave, you fool! Yes, I reserve myself the right to call out a fool when they have the arrogance to pity me for “not getting” something that only requires a little analytic mind to see for what it is: Shallow bullshit. That’s what the Lost finale resolution was. You have “us” (people who felt deep, grave disappointment after the final “twist”) completely misunderstood; It wasn’t the lack of answers that fueled the most outrage, it was the introduction of an extremely illogical explanation as an excuse to sweep under the rug all the questions and details that were integral to the series from start to finish, breaking its whole integrity and beautiful, complex metaphysics and universal symbolism down to some cheap, easily digestible feelgood-laalaa for the smallest common denominator that is the assumed average viewer in their demographics. For those people Lost was just an elaborate fantasy soap opera. The rest of us who got their minds more involved in the metaphysical and sci-fi aspects that are the REAL Lost, had the taste (acquired or innate) to recognize the laziness, callousness and dishonesty of the writers that the season 6 finale manifested, and saw the final revelation for what it was: A poor, unimaginative excuse.