Poll: Are You Happy With The LOST Finale?

Gee… surprise surprise!

“You kind of went with the obvious choice.” -Smocke

I’m still not sure exactly what to think about it. It was (true to form) not what I was expecting. At this point I guess I still have mixed feelings. Some parts were incredible. Some parts were disappointing. Overall, though, I’m still, “Hmmmm…I need to think about it some more.”

it was goddamn awesome

I liked it because it hit all the right emotional notes. I think it’s a bit of a cop out that they didn’t try to answer more questions but it did such a good job of utilizing the characters, wrapping up their personal stories and mixing in some action that I didn’t really care all that much. As far as the answers go, if the creators want to put out some companion material I’d check it out. I heard they’re going to add a little more lore centric materials to the big dvd set which I already planned on buying anyway. It would have been an impossible task to service the characters properly and answer the big lore questions. What Mother said was absolutely true: each question will only lead to more questions. The doing big data dumps of info would have been like jumping into quicksand. Servicing the characters was the right thing to do. The lore was really there to set the mood and tone for certain aspects of the show.

I was invited to a lost dinner party with lost inspired dishes. I made a cake and put it in an ocean of blue jello since I’d never watched the show and for the second dish did some research on lostpedia or whatever its called to come up with a chicken dish. After eating, the show started and after an hour of 50% show and 50% commercials all of which lacked polar bears I went home to catch some z’s.

There should have been polar bears.

Pretty amazing, easily the best scripted TV series ever, and one of the first big “finales” to live up to the show.

It was very good. I found that it was impossible to make up my mind about it until it was all over but the reality was that the show was about the characters: the title, the plot, everything. Everything else were just plot devices that didn’t need answering directly because they can either be understood but watching it all again or just weren’t important to the central plot.

In the end Lost was an engaging show the required something of the viewer, even at the end.

I still think that the *new* BSG had a better finale but that’s the only one I can think of that bests the final episode of Lost.

As a person whose never seen an episode of Lost but caught most of the recap before the finale, I enjoyed it. It was a cop out for the real fans of the show, but the dramatic points were well executed enough that those who could care less about the overall mysteries were satisfied.

Sadly, everyone else has something to gripe about now, besides the BSG finale.

Emotionally it ticked all the marks, but that was not the main driving force behind Lost. Many other shows offer characters you can live and love with. Lost had something more. And the finale wasn’t just a cop-out – it created a major plot hole.

In light of it, the back stories of Jacob and the MIB don’t make sense. They have no context. Not does any of the Dharma stuff. Or the feud between Linus and Widmore. Or Penny finding Desmond. Or “Why the island is so important”. Or the time-displacement.

It’s not that these questions weren’t answered, it’s that in a ten minute final section they were all made completely irrelevant.

The best way to watch Lost? Stop after Season 5. That to me will from now on be the end of the show. At least it’s more satisfying than the dribble they served up.

I thought it was perfect. Maybe life is a place for the soul to grow. We all could be dead now. OOOhhhh Creepy.