Thinking About … the Lost Finale

Jesse

Sure I still had questions, but I absolutely loved the LOST finale. I found it exciting, moving, satisfying.

Cookie

I loved it. I don't understand why everyone is bitching about it. No ending would be good enough, there is no WAY all the questions can be answered. I think after a few years when everyone is less emotionally swept up, it will be seen as a whole instead of just “the end” as it is right now. I think it's brilliant. Sure, I have questions leftover, but this show is still way smarter than almost anything else out there, has made me think, made me cry, made me find new friendships.. I have no complaints.

John

ahhh…it was alright. After i thought about it and read some other opinions and viewpoints, which were very helpful, i came around and decided it was a decent ending. Still a HUGE fan of the show; the finale didn't kill it for me ;o)

jujube

It left me with a feeling of something uncompleted. It was as if a couple of chapters had been left out. I'm going to miss the show.

Dave

I couldn't possibly get myself into Lost. It was just so much BS. I love that the final episode got everyone up in arms though. You reap what you sow.

Ken

I loved the finale up until the final resolution. I was really geared up for an ending where the parallel universe became the real universe as fortold by Juliet's last thoughts as reported by Miles: It worked!

This would have made for a super happy ending with the various couples getting together again but still fit within the confines of the Lost “universe.”

Alan Brand

Lost? Am I missing something?

gussie

never saw it – what was it anyway – something about if we werent Chrsitiains wed all go to the other place? Or was that something else.

Big Troy

The ending was terrible, there really isn't two ways about. This type of ending where they find out they are dead is just played out.. Why couldn't it have been something ancient and mythological and some sort've climactic ending where some characters were killed, some characters escaped and they somehow merged it with the parallel universe thing that ruined the show. I mean, it is so obvious they made all of this crap up as they went and try to outdo eachother by adding some new crackpot coincidence or mystery to every damn episode and then couldn't for the life of them tie it all together. Yeah the show was smart and very engrossing but too ambitious and not fully thought out. I am disappointed it ended up like the sixth sense.o o o o O O al those trials and tribulations and bogus backgrounds and stories for NOTHING. lame

Kendotek

Didn't see the finale… the show “lost” me back in the first season. Last thing I remember from the show is the damn countdown and that dude being afraid to let it finish. That's about where I gave up on the show. It was aptly named, lost is how I felt trying to follow it.

Skipper

I enjoyed the finale. There were tearful moments in it, seeing sad endings become joyful was really satisfying. I still don't get the “dead part, it failed to resolve the island issues and missed the sideways views for me. Did jack have a son? But all in all, it was a smooth and satisfying ending….but I want more…I will miss the show.

John

Quite dissapointing! It could have gone so many better ways. The best ever ending, for me, still has to be 6 Feet Under. They took the characters right to the end! Sorry, Lost didn't even come close…..

CJ

Still LOST!. I thought that at least I would have some closure to some questions, but it only opened up the floodgates for more questions! Questions that I didn't have hve or would not have even thought of before the finale. For example, seeing that everyone really didn't die from what we saw… Kate, Sawyer, Miles, Hurley, Ben etc…. then how did they die?? If the plane crashed and no one survived… how did Ben and Juliet become an important factor in the ending? I love the show up until the last 10 minutes of the finale. I see why the writers went into hiding, they were lost too! I will miss the show dearly, 2 of my favorite shows of all time are now gone. I don't know what I'll do on Monday or Tuesday nights anymore.

Rick

It blew chunks!

cooper

terrible. what a disappointment.

Emmanuel Louis

By now it should be abundantly clear that the writers had no idea where the show was ever really going. In the end they were forced to attempt what they'd avoided all along–constructing a cohesive plot-line that actually makes sense. By now, this was of course impossible. Anyone who didn't see the let-down coming was kidding themselves.

Jason

If it was a stand alone “lifetime” movie it would have been good. The final show for 6 years of unkowns?? It was stupid.

Phil

The biggest unanswered question to me is what the freak was the Island? Sideways world was a time of passing over and the Island time was real? So what made the “fake” mother kill the real one and keep the children in the dark? What made Jacob and the man in black immortal? What was worth the whole time of protecting the island?

Why could the writers not just give the answers to six years of questions.

Six words that sum up the final episode…

Stupid

Amanda

I did find the finale incomplete, but there was no way to answer it all. Some things are better left to mystery. We all knew the point was for the characters to redeem themselves from their poor life choices, and it makes sense, the two worlds being different. The island was a place where free will took place and the energy of the earth was gathered for good, or for evil. Jacob and the man in black (sure wish he had a name) were only influencers of change. Mother took them because as babies, they were innocents, yet to be influenced by the world.

You really had to watch every episode to get it… but for the truely intellectual, everything fell into place.

rion

The Lost Finale was very emotional and that's about it. I got so into the show at the beginning… it was so cool and mysterious, but the last few seasons it completely changed and the writers just couldn't answer any questions well enough if at all. At the end they just decided to try to make some closure with the characters by telling us that they all eventually died and met up in “heaven”, and the island is safe. Forget about all the weird stuff that got us so into the show. It was a well-written ending in itself but not really what any of us wanted.

Chuka

Hmmm…was the Lost series finale good or bad? Well, it's gotta end up being an opinion. I'd say in the end it seemed to be all just one big “Valentine's Day”-type chick flick! Where everyone get's to be with the ones they loved…oh and then they all went to heaven after that? Just like in 24, where Jack kills all those “guilty” people and goes scott-free in the end? Talk about eating your cake and having it….anyways, I definitely have questions that weren't answered, e.g.:
-What was 'The Monster's' real name? And how was he formed from being thrown into the cave?
-Why did he finally become mortal when the stone was taken out of the hole in the cave?
-Who the heck were 'The Others' and where did they come from?
-Why weren't Rose and her husband and Michael and Walt and Mr. Eko and Libby and everyone else that was on the plane in the Church too? Not enough money to pay them?
-How does Jack get stabbed with such a long knife and still have enough energy to stop evil-locke from jugular-izing him? (Jack Bauer anyone?)

LongDucDong

I can't answer everything, but the reason Penny was in the church goes back to something Christian told Jack. The most important time in everyone's life was spent on that island. The alternate timeline (off-island) was the actual purgatory. There was no space or time. They had all been dead for various amounts of time. As Christian said, we are all dead (though many deaths weren't show, like those who escaped on the plane, or Hurley and Ben. That's why Kate told Jack that she had missed him so much. She and Claire and Sawyer and the rest got off the island by the plane and presumably resumed life elsewhere, only to die much later in life, living out their years with the memories of those lost. And why Hurley told Ben he was a great number two. They presumably had a long run together on the island.

So Penny wasn't on the plane but she spent her most important time on the island, like Juliet. Of course, that doesn't fully explain the absence of other characters, like Walt. You can only guess that the most important time in his life wasn't spent on the island. No clue what's up with Ben not going in the church though.

Overall thought the finale was really good, and I had lots of doubts over the years.