‘Lost’ Finale Fails to Deliver Answers, Disappoints

I don't see what there's to be disappointed in. Sure, they never explained why Walt was special or why Hurley could see ghosts, but the main conflict was solved.

I have a feeling a lot of idiots are going to get their facts wrong and think that the finale was hinting that it was all just the afterlife, which we know was not the case as Christian Shephard clearly indicated that the events of the prior 5 seasons really did happen.

Those that were disappointed have not thought enough about the show, or are too caught up on superfluous details that don't matter.

It's a TV show people.

You are wrong. They ended the series quite nicely. It's about the character resolutions... not the answers to every little thing.

For 6 seasons Lost was special because it was an adventure. We were there with the survivors of this plane that crashed on this mysterious island. As the journey went on we learned why there were polar bears on the island, why this smoke would come through and kill people, etc. That's the reason a large chunk of us watched. We were told throughout the show that we would one day understand the laws and mysteries of LOST. Last night we learned that we were lied to. None of the questions we so badly wanted answered were ever answered. This is why we are mad.
I think the problem with the show was that they already let them off the island. For 3 or 4 seasons, the one thing that everybody wanted (Cast and viewers) was to get off the island. Once the Oceanic 6 got off there was no where for the show to go.
Now a lot of the people that liked the ending feel that the show was more about the characters and not the mystery, but for most of us this is just not true. The characters were one sided at best. They had cheesy lines, and bad effects, but we would get answers in the end. They strung us along so well. They gave us just enough answers to bring us back again. SO WHERE ARE OUR ANSWERS!!

Why did MIB turn into the smoke monster, when he went down the well, and Jack had nothing happen. What happened to “A fate worse then death for people who go down to the light? Why can’t people have kids on the island? Etc…
I’m pissed that I wasted 6 years watching a show that was full of lies.

Every little thing huh? No, the problem is people expected answers to the mysteries created by the writers and promised answers by the writers. You dismiss it as every little thing but it is real the main thing. Otherwise Lost is just soap opera disguised as a scifi mystery. Sorry bright light and we all go to heaven is a big easy cop out.

Anyone who doesn't have a problem with this finale is either an employee of the network or so brain-dead that I'm actually embarassed to be in their company.

I'm half-irritated at the stupid writers and half at myself for buying into this show. The actors were well cast, but the show was fundamentally a sci-fi mixed with tropical castaway plot, and none of that was really explained, despite it being used and abused as the basis of the series for most of its seasons. Sorry, but the H-bomb and the button and the Dharma initiative and the magnetism of the island were NOT cogently explained, and, now, turn out to be utterly irrelevant since the island is some sort of heaven on earth. Even that's not really explained. What was with the plug to hell or heaven and Desmond pulling it but Jack restoring it. Umm, why?

As far as LA and the plane actually landing being purgatory, well, if they were ALL DEAD, then why were they alive on the island? Why did they come back to a NEWS CONFERENCE in PURGATORY? HUH?
Who cares about raising AARON if Kate and Claire are dead. Of course, Aaron never got born. Or he did in purgatory.
But Kate raised him in purgatory before returning to the island to collect the people who were alive to come to purgatory in LA to become dead? Wow, thanks guys, for setting us up to fly off the island and join you in death.
Sorry, the bottom line is this is trash, and I will never ever watch anything with Cuse's or Lindelof's name on it again, period. ABC should be embarassed for airing it, and I will ding their network as well. They aren't a serious provider of proper entertainment.

I completely agree with Esol Esek's comments as well, I had written a long comment on the CNN Lost Finale blog but it was apparently cecensored out for offending the pathetic religious, luckily I saved a draft, here it is :
THE LOST ENDING SUCKED !!!! What a cop -out . All you "Lost" lovers are a bunch of pathetic apologists for what was an intellectually bankrupt ending that pretty much negated the entire series and all it's mysteries. Once again, for the millionth time, we are served up a bunch of pathetic BS Christian mythology as the answer. So everyone basically called this show correctly from the beginning, they are all dead and the island is just some pseudo-purgatory, an explanation that the creators SWORE to us wasn't going to be the case. Fact is , I think the writers had no clue where they were going with all this , virtually everything you were shown for 6 yrs. were a bunch of red herrings leading nowhere....all to be wrapped up by the most cliche' , unimaginative explanation of all. Sorry, the writers aren't brilliant. nor do they deserve Emmy's, they are hacks that took the easy way out by explaining it all away with pathetic religious mythology.
The ending was sad alright, but not for the reasons most believe, it is sad that in the year 2010 we are still a society of superstitious, pathetic cowards that need to cling to the idea of an afterlife because most lack both the courage and the intellect to accept their own mortality and finality of their own existence, and that their only "redemption" is here on earth by leading a good life with the ONLY life you have, not in "make believe" land in the sky.
That was the least satisfying series finale since they destroyed the ending of "Prison Break". As far as I'm concerned , Lost was a 6 year "long con" and we were all the dupes, some of us just have the brains to know we were duped, while the rest are on here as cheerleaders for their con-artists.

Your first line speaks loud enough. I'm not gonna even talk about show. All I can say I'm not gonna watch anything that team involved from now on. After 6 years this end is not disappointing but insulting millions.

Wow, I didn't honestly think anyone would be dumb enough to miss the point this much. They're not all dead, and they haven't been dead all along. Jack is dead, Sun/Jin/Sayid are dead, everyone else who died on the island is dead. Those who got off the island, got off the island and presumably lived happily.

The "alternate timeline" was their life after death, as seen from Jack's point of view.

In answer to Esol:

They are NOT always dead on the island. The flash-side alternate reality takes places AFTER everyone has lived their lives off and on the island(remember people have died on the island) These scenes after they die are to bring all the people back together, to unite them.

The were alive on the island.

To those people that are saying every loose end didn't need to be tied up and evey little plot twist doesn't need to be explained, isn't that what a good story is supposed to do? Isn't that what any story is supposed to do?

What about walt and his dad? Alive? Dead? Why weren't they there? Who told desmond to push the button? Why could people see the dead if they were all already dead? Why did the wheel change time? Why did the island travel through time, disappear, be unfindable, then be found, then be easy to visit and leave.

I just can't believe the writers went for the 'and it was all a dream' approach. I remember people saying to me in the first season 'they're all dead'. I dismissed that as ridiculously bad story telling as usually a writer wouldn't have the audacity to do that to any audience. I was wrong. They should be fired and they should never be allowed to air a show again until they've shown a complete and decent script.

I totally agree with Esol Esek's comments!

I would just like to add that I cannot believe I was stupid enough to waste 6 years on this show. Shame on me!
I guess we have to stick to shows like American Idol and Survivor since they take no thinking ability.

Braindead Lol!

You are so far off the mark that I am actually wondering if we watched the same program, Seriously if you are going to be calling people names then try not to go on a make a long comment that makes no sense. News conference in purgatory - rofl.

If you were expecting the answers to be delivered in a envelope wrapped in a little bow and written in large easy to read letters, tough. I for one am happy that I was not treated like an idiot by the writers.

Brother, you have it wrong, sorry. The job of a good writer is to tell a great story, but the story has to be intellectually cogent--it has to hang together. In others it needs to make (some) sense. This story made almost no sense. While it was thrilling rolling coaster if you just want a drug trip, it was epileptic. It left not just a few, but too many important questions unanswered. To leave so many to the viewers is simply a major cop out, unfair and cruel. The writers have a "job" to write well. And they failed.

The whole church stuff was superfluous- a sell-out. The nature of "Lost" is to keep us guessing and intellectually stimulated not give us a sugar-coated foolish resolution. It should have ended with Jack in the bamboo grove closing his eyes for the last time.

Hi... Ok so ive been watchin Lost frm the start n still completely confused... If they was not dead on the Island then when did they die?? It just doesn't make sense that they all meet and then im guessing they go onto the afterlife... BUT it still doesn't explain when why or how they died! Asif they lived seperate lives then all of a sudden they start to remember one by one then just leave.... It just doesn't make sense to me so if it does to anyone else id be really happy if u could explain.

The point is this... The writers deliberately made as many unsolved issues as they could possibly get away with. They even introduce more at the end.. What is the plug? Which plane did Jack see fly over? What was the white light? But it is all for a good reason. To make YOU realise that no matter what the ending or how many unsolved questions, the journey is the most important thing. Doing the best you can matters. For all of us, and for the cast of lost, the journey is the destination. They tell us that searching for meaning in every detail is a waste of life and time. They have taken 6 years to try to tell you this. After all that time as a LOST viewer, haven't you learn to relax on the details? Don't you get the urge to just go out and just do good and be good?

Stop wasting time looking for answers and just get out there. If you haven't learned that after 6 years of LOST, you never will. How much longer will it take? The writers have done a great good for you. It took a long time for you to realise. They are kind in that they have ended the lessons, even though some of us still haven't learned. And that they gave us great stories and good morals. They want you to interpret the story in a way that is meaningful to you. And by the way, isn't that what the bible does too?

Now.. There are two ways to react: 1) "who are these people thinking they're saintly enough to write a bible-type story?" or 2) "Thanks for the lesson. I'm better off for having been a part of it. I'm gonna get on with my life in a good way".

AndyD

So that's the show huh? It's all just about the love interests? The mystery, the numbers, the reasons the dharma initiative were wiped out, the polar bears, Walt's special abilities, talking to the dead, time travel, electromagnetism, tubes taking notebooks to nowhere, healing the crippled, babies unable to be born, Tawaret, hieroglyphics - all window dressing for a standard relationship-driven soap opera?
What a huge dissapointment. Hacks, traitors...
For emotional satisfaction of such ilk you can find things in reality - long-lost African families divided by a civil war reunited by Comic Relief, hell, adding a schoolfriend or former lover on Facebook - is this REALLY the pay-off for six years of loyalty and intrigue?
Disgraceful. Absolutely disgraceful.
Anyone lese feel really foolish?

It was like reading an Agatha Christie book at the end of which Ms Marple says "damned if I know who the killer is"

It's maddening how a lot of people are defending the notion of "the mysteries and the island didn't matter ... it was about the characters!" like the two are mutually exclusive. The show went out of its way to build the mysteries of the the island to epic proportions. If the mysteries of the island ultimately didn't matter, why have a mystery show on an island? The writers screwed themselves when Ben moved the island, and they were never able to bring the show back in a narrative and intellectually satisyfing way. Instead we get hugs with old friends.

Disappoint?
The series was great, and the finale was great also.
Epic.
My girlfriend was crying in my arms the whole time.
We said goodbye to people we got to know through their adventures. We were sad both, but knew we had to let them go.
Life goes on nevertheless. Everybody dies.
I love Lost. I consider it to be the best show ever.
I will never watch it again just to remember this feeling of elation, joy and sadness I have now.

so smokey/MIB/Flocke was appearing as the ghosts of dead people all the time, but
in the episode when jacob and the mib are kids and his dead mother appears and explains to him that she is his real dead mother...so who is this monster then?

So how long have you been an ABC employee?

Sure Lilly.

Everything that happened off the island in season 6 was the in the afterlife waiting room construct thing and separate to everything else that happened. Jacks Dad sums it up when he says it doesn't have when. So some of the people there died before Jack, Charlie for example. And some went on to live lives after the show finished, Hurley and Ben on the island everyone else off. At some point they all end up dead (it doesn't really matter when) and meet up in this construct before moving on.

Don't get too hung up on the afterlife thing, all the really important stuff with fights and explosions and stuff happens on the island in 'reality'.

The ending was horrible,it was all centered on love relationship like it was a soap opera.They completely ignored all the mysteries of the island and showed a crappy afterlife ending that was copied by dozens of movies.We watched 6 seasons waiting for some answers about the island to see that eventually they would all die and go to heaven?Worst than Seinfeld finale

Sure,go ahead and ignore the 5 and a half seasons of misteries popping left right and center,people that enjoyed this finale are either geniuses (not really,you can't master unlogical things with intelligence) or brain-dead,pretty obvious choice here.
Do not fool yourself,things got way out of hand for the producers to deliver anything even midly acceptable.

I also loved the judaic-christian approach in the finale despite all the egyptian symbols throughout the series,fried my brains.

I was robbed of 6 years of my life ! This show started off so well but the finale was the worst finale ever!It explained nothing, and only led to me asking more questions!
You didnt need 2 hours for that crap, you could have done it in one episode.
I AM ANNOYED, this is like waiting for your birthday and eagerly opening your present to find a lump of coal.The writers are idiots, and ABC should never let them write again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtwUx_GQ1xw Explains it all.

The End was a beautiful episode, and a moving culmination of a courageous and entertaining show. I am devout in my non belief in any religion but this finale has done more to bring me closer to a faith in something than any passage in the Bible.

Not solving the mysteries? The show is making observations, metaphorically, about the mysteries of life! We've had a few thousand years of recorded history to solve those. Which are solved, really? The point is what is important. Figuring out who built the statue and wrote the inscriptions on the walls is as useful as determining how the pyramids were built. Yeah, it would be cool to know. But what is important is how we treat each other NOW, in our present lives.

Which seems to be the point of the show.

Namaste!

I feel dissapointed, basically i might as well have skipped season 2 to 5 because everything that happened had no relevance to the end at all, none of it mattered. Most people guessed they were all dead in season one anyway but kept watching because those lying producers promised us this wasnt the case.

Talk about a long con...

They are/where NOT dead! Can you get your head around that? The alternate universe (off island stuff) introduced at the beginning of season 6! is the only instance of a non real reality. And that doesn't mean ALL the off island stuff throughout the show was unreal - it's just the season 6 off island parts. The return of the Oceanic six, Kate raising Arron, Sun having the baby - all this happened. It was only where everyone acted like they had never met each other and no crash had happened. I'm saying that the ending wasn't a cop out though.

Thankyouu!! makes sense now! just one more question though... How is jacks fathers name ( Dr Christian Shepherd ) relevant??? I know kate clicked on but i didnt!!!

The island was real. It was a magic place which was very important (not explained). Jacob had to protect the island from MIB. Knowing that MIB would kill him if he could, Jacob had to find someone to protect the island if he got whacked - Enter Jack & co. MIB gets whacked, island gets saved - Hoo-Ra.

During their time on the island however many of the Oceanic survivors die. Some also escape (Kate, Sawyer etc. on plane - zoom) Some survive but remain on island as it's protectors (Hurley, Ben etc.) All these survivors eventually die too, but in the future - not shown. The Flash sideways is a purgatory where all of them work out things before moving on. There is no time there (as Christian said) so they are all dead even if they died at different times. Jack has Father issues so in purgatory he is a father, Locke is a cripple but can only leave when he accepts his lot in life and is set free when he is finally able to allow himself to be cured, Sawyer has always bent the rules so in this existance he is a cop - and so on. Ben has a chance at redemption with his daughter and Rosseux which he is still working out so it is not time for him to leave yet (it's fitting that he has to spend more time in purgatory than the rest). THey work out their issues and meet up in order to move on. Lots of Christian imagery here but at no time is God or Religion mentioned. Most of the passengers come from a western, christian background so that is the most likely image that they would create (they created it as a place to meet as explained...sort of), but it does not mean that their 'afterlife' is the same as that in Christin belief. However...

This brings us back to why the island and its mysteries were not explained in full....Cue Lost movie in a couple of years or I'll eat my own kidneys. Don't care about any denial about this from Lost's creators. Francise is too big, too much cash to be made from too many short-changed fans. Watch this space.

I was disappointed.
What a absurd end.
Now it is waiting for season 7
This is a open end.
No closer.

I am furious.
This is a terrible ending.
Maybe they want a Bafta Award.

I enjoyed this serial until the final episode. They could have made up a much better ending considering that they have made 6 interesting seasons (without the end). I think that they complicated the show too much. While me and my dad were watching he used to say that they mix things too much and they will be unable to unmix it all at the end. It seems he was right

Hi Jo,

I liked your explaination. How do you know all this? I could follow everthing apart from the Finale. I could hardly understand it while watching. This may be because I am Hindu and know very few things about Christianity. After reading your comments, everything makes sense to me now. I will read more about it christianity now.

I also like the ending now. Only one question though. I couldn't understand how Juliette was Jack's wife. Please do explain it if you know.

Thanks

Throughout season 6, the incanations of 'Now it's time to move on' and 'time to let go', while aimed at the characters were also aimed at us. This is the end and now we too are being asked to let go. Let go of all the holes in the storyline, deadend plots and unanswered questions. It seems the writers gave up on pulling it all together and instead decided to pack them all off to heaven. It is really gobsmacking in it's ham fisted audacity. When you consider the time and effort fans have invested in this series, to end it this way, is frankly insulting. And if this was a character study all along what bothers me is the lack of what we really wanted/ needed a proper reconciliation between Jack and Kate. Why oh why didn't Kate stick with Jack on the last mission instead of scampering off the island (Aaron? wasn't Claire on the plane). But now we are to believe that she has had a life off the island (plane took off as Jack died). Perhaps married had kids etc but in the afterlife there she is waiting for Jack again - come on. I feel completely cheated by 'The End'. Waiting 6 years for this. Truely dissapointed.

Excellent summary, Jo. I can't believe so many viewers think the ending means they were dead all along. You're absolutely right -- only the 6th season L.A. material is the afterlife waiting room.

But still, I have problems with that. We're clearly meant to believe that the nuclear detonation created this alternate reality, in addition to stopping the island moving around in time. This renders the whole L.A. material little more than a huge red herring. Why should these characters have to remember their lives with each other before moving on? Why should Desmond and Hurley have to work to bring them all together? Why are their loan sharks in an afterlife waiting room? The questions proliferate.

I think they should have stuck with an alterate reality, which has more a sense of "reality" than an afterlife -- somehow events matter more when you're bound by the laws of physics (even in an alternate Los Angeles) than on a spiritual plane. Disappointing.

Finally, this ending is unrelated to the island and any of its mysteries. You could apply the spiritual waiting room scenario to any show, even The A-Team! It explains nothing, merely posits a metaphysical reality that only kicks in after you die, making it a total dodge.

I wasn't looking for answers to every mystery, but at least for an ending that related to the rest of the show. This one didn't. Better that they simply have some dying on the island, others escaping, the end.

Christ, I get tired of hearing committed fans regurgitate the party line... "it was all about the CHARACTERS!" And then acting smug about it (again following the party line set by the writers), as though anyone who disagrees is too stupid to understand.

Listen, since at least the time of Aristotle, serious critics have known that good writing is about character AND plot. The most famous creator of characters was Charles Dickens, and yet he is also a master plotter -- AND he worked much like modern TV writers, spinning out the story on the fly (because he published in serial form).

But ok, there are definitely stories that focus more on one aspect than another. Catcher in the Rye (novel), Six Feet Under or M*A*S*H (both tv series), About Schmidt (movie)... these are all examples of character-driven stories. Good examples of plot driven stories might include Foundation (sci fi novel series), Chinatown (movie), or Law & Order.


It's about setting up expectations (e.g. Chekov's cliche about the gun... and if you don't know what I'm talking about, you don't deserve to be commenting on what makes a good story) for the reader and delivering on them in a surprising and unexpected way. And you kind of know what kind of story you are in for from the beginning.

And from the beginning, LOST was about PLOT -- all those mysteries set up are a sign of a plot story. Who are the others? What is the island? Why can't women have babies? What is the black smoke? Who is Jacob? What was the Dharma initiative? What is the significance of the numbers? None of those questions (not even the one about Jacob) are really about character. In fact, LOST frequently killed off main characters (the last season was a bloodbath), because THEY ARE EXPENDABLE. Even Jack. Had Matthew Fox decided not to return, LOST could have continued, much as it did w/o Mr. Eko. Because LOST was about the goddam ISLAND not about Jack or any of the other characters.

So it's just a copout for the writer's to claim that it was all about character. Yeah, that sounds marvelously sophisticated... but it's just a load of crap.

And don't get me wrong... a good character story has a good plot and vice versa. Lost did have good character development... up until the last season. But that was never what the show was about -- if it was, why bother with the mysteries and island at all? It could have taken place in L.A. from beginning to end, if it was just about the characters and the decisions they made. But that was not the kind of story the writers of LOST set up... they set up an intriguing story about a mysterious Island with an unseen leader, filled with all sorts of odd anomalies (healing powers, space-time properties, unusual monsters, odd creatures, bizarre conspiracies)... and then decided to tell us that the whole story was just about a group of people who set aside a special place to meet after death.

I'm sorry to say it, because I loved LOST, but the last season was largely about two writers who had moved on to other projects.

"The End" was for me such a cop out. After 6 seasons of plot twists, suspense and unexplained phenomenon... all we get is a stained glass window with icons from all religions and a walk into a bright light. I was expecting something much more mysterious and thought provoking than a remake of "Highway to Heaven". Not only were so many questions left unanswered, but the desire to seek explanations and to philosophize on their meaning was extinguished just like the light in the cave.

Although I definitely "enjoyed the ride" the destination left me bored. I felt like a victim of a "long con"... or like I had just watched some silly YouTube prank and been "rickrolled".

Yes... the characters were engaging and I was moved by their finding each other again in the sideways world... but what a let down otherwise. We got served up a cheesy happy ending for everyone... and a silly plug on a volcano. Instead of wanting to watch it all again to see what clues I'd missed... I found myself bitterly regretting that I had watched the last episode which killed the idea that there ever was an answer to be found.

In a nutshell.
LOST was seriously fantastic for series 1-4 (especially imo series 3 and 4)
Series 5 it started creaking at the joints
Series 6 was barely watchable - rubbish scripts and rubbish cheap looking sets. Plus - the mystery had gone.
As for the finale - I'm lost for words. It was the final nail in the coffin of a show that had been dying a slow death. What a waste.

i loved the first 5 seasons - 6th season was a joke. I had the entire six seasons on preorder bluray but when last eppy aired I cancelled my order. No way am I sitting thru the mist rediculous ending of a show ever. What a shame the most intelligent show ever ended with fluff. I was such a fan till that last season - shame on the writers

LOST was like this sleezy guy who strings this girl along for 6 years even giving her an engagement ring and then decides with no good reason, “Nevermind, I am not interested in marrying you anymore!” For my people and I (who were TRUE LOST fans) the finale wasn't the downfall. As we look back now, LOST really took it's terrible turn for the worse starting in season 5. At first, we though Season 5 was an epic season but now that the show is over, we realized that the show took a terrible turn for the worse! Season 5 went another angle and in classic LOST fashion created more issues that did not really connect or satisfy and the past questions raised up to that point from previous seasons. In total darkufo.com came up with this brilliant revelation: Their researched revealed and outlines that the total mysteries raised were: 628, The ones ANSWERED: 351 and the
UNANSWERED question count was: 277. Unbelievable! 277 questions unanswered sounds like really bad, incoherent writing! We marvel at many who were happy and satisfied with the LOST finale. It seems like they like being in long relationships in life that have no point and bring them no real resolution! The bottom line is that the LOST creators were great question creators…but they were terrible question answerers. We gave them too much credit and they just were unable to deliver.

This pretty much sums up how I felt about the finale as well...

Just watched the DVD extras... Now the truth is out there. The writers had a great idea for series 6 - a sideways world that (apparently) arose out of the A-Bomb detonation. But they could not find any way to connect that world back to events on the island. Plus, in lost fashion, they wanted a twist. But they stuffed it up. They failed to connect the two stories (You could re-edit the whole thing and remove the sideways world parts and not even notice) and, much worse than that, the sideways world stuff was quite boring once Desmond started his smug "self-realisation" tour (cue lots of hugging). I thought only deadlines could explain such a lazy ending but then i saw in the extras that it was because they really wanted to have all the cast in a big hug. After all, 6 years of working together...

What an opportunity missed. And so easy to go for something more exciting: Take the original premise of bifurcated time, starting from the plane crash, and you have two worlds running in parallel with the original story going on in the first world and a second world (where the hatch part of the island has been nuked) with Jakob trying to find a different way to get those same candidates to the island (since the smoke monster still wants him dead). He would be getting desparate so he uses the powers of the Light (which is a nexus between the two worlds of course, existing in both worlds - and many others) to start to infiltrate the parallel world and remind all the parallel candidates of their alternate existence. As the parallel world starts to collide with the real world, you have characters suddenly realising they are dead/dying in other worlds and their parallel lives (which were better than their original real ones for the most part) starting to unravel... plus: one of the two worlds has to end - "there can be only one" - and only by finding a way to reach across to their island counterparts can they survive etc etc. The characters have to choose between their own lives... their normal life or the one with the island in it... and agree on the choice... all the while trying to find a way to defeat Locke and his smoke monster "sideways" counterpart. Of course the Finale still has to involve Jack saving the island, and even dying.

Stephen King's The Dark Castle series (3rd book) dealt with what happens to a person who changes the past and one of the characters is dead in one time stream but still alive in another. (He goes nuts and a footless (sic) lady has to have sex with a demon to save him... but Lost could have taken even that in its stride too, surely!).

Why didnt they think of all that? They probably did but it was too much for one series...

On the other hand the island part of series 6 was quite exciting. And Locke made a pretty cool bad guy.

I watched the series on Netflix over a 45 day period. At first I thought this might be good, to see it more like a very long movie. But I remembered things that the weekly series fans might have forgotten. I don't know which is better, but this was definitelty not written well for a condensed time viewing like I had. So many questions never got explained, so many conflicts never resolved. What was the smoke monster, I know it was Jacob's brother, but how/why? Why did it make that crazy chain rattling noise? Does the island have powers of life/death/healing? What about the heiroglyphics and the ancient statue with four toes? Were there ancient inhabitants? Exactly why did Jacob choose who he chose to come to the island? What happened to the others he chose? Why did DHARMA come here? Why did Ben, Ethan and Juliet steal babies? Why were they so concerned about fertility? How did Anthony Cooper arrive, only to be killed by Sawyer? What's up with the polar bears and the terror owl that hooted Hurley's name? And what was Charles Widmore's real interest? And Pierre Chang? Where did Ricardus, Miles and Lapidus end up? I mean, the list could go on for quite a while. Well acted, yes. Well scripted, yes. Great filmography, and even up until season 6, well written. But definitely not thought through. Seems like they just hurried up at the end to shut things down. The questions the writers posed were way too deep for the ending they provided. Great in so many ways, but just not given a good resolution. Too many questions, that did not need to be introduced if they knew answers would not be forthcoming. Was it all just a dream? People that followed just need a bit more specificity. In my humble opinion.

I loved the show, but I have to say that it was one of the most disappointing ending. What a waste! Feels like the writers were bored and couldn't care less about writing a good and interesting ending. It feels more like they spent about five minutes on it. Not giving us the faithful viewers answers about the island and the people. The ending they gave us instead made the entire show redundant. I'm glad to see that I wasn't the only one very disappointed.