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I hated the ending. The thought of them all dead and in some sort of limbo was dumb. If they’re all dead, then how did some die again on the island?
I would like to see the other 2 alternate endings.
Should have had Hurley waking up in a mental institute from some sort of coma. That would have been a lot better. (But it’s been done before though)
It would have been better if it were all about Aliens. LOL.
I’m glad I only watched it occasionally. The recap before the final episode was enough to fill in the blanks.
Overall, the series was like a 16 ft vertical comment on Dvorak. The whole story could have been told more effectively in one season. The final episode was an unimaginative cop out to Christian superstition…. borrrriiiiiinnnnngggg… when the alternative could have been unusual, dramatic and enlightening. Cripes… how many times has heaven been symbolized as a bright light coming through a doorway? Gak.
Animby, don’t waste your time.
Anubis and the Ankh was a dead giveaway. Oh p-ding.
Every philosophy about death seemed to be covered someway. I love when Hurly was in the diner and had the jukebox play the band with the name of a river called Styx.
I’m so surprised many of you didn’t understand that Dharma represents science trying to understand life and death. Ben represented the struggle so many scientists have. Much like Darwin and Einstein he had one foot in science and the other in belief.
Sawyer was like Han Solo and didn’t believe in any mumbo jumbo but he believed in himself and eventually Julia. Julia was a pure scientist by the way.
Anyway, as endings go it was the best I’ve ever seen.
Never watched it. I hate these piss poor shows written by a committee of writers that muck with the script and continuity as they go and end up with a huge sticking mess of a non-sense plot.
#24 — Wow..what a dog that series was. I am glad I gave up on it after a few shows in the first season.
The wrecked plane at the end tells me that this was all a cosmic dream sequence. What a stinker.
The fact is, there was NO WAY OUT for this storyline. No way out. The fact that they needed to waste 4.5 hours of time on Sunday and the fact that this was the “big event” shows you how pathetic TV has gotten.
I never watched an episode and only 20 min. of the last one.
From what I heard I assumed that the island symbolized life on earth.
I couldn’t stand the 20 min that I did watch, all I kept thinking about was how come their hair and clothes look so nice after being stranded on island?
Where did they get the coffee mugs, coffee pots, guns and knives etc… from?
How they adapted so easily from going to a grocery store to buy food to having to find all of their food on their own?
Maybe my questions would be answered if I watched it from the beginning, I don’t know.
IMO it may have had originality but it lacked authenticity and seemed like every other cheesy tv drama to me….the dialogue was the worst. But hey if that’s what you like then more power to you.
Also, I may have never seen a “Lost” episdoe but I’ve seen all the “Late” (Jimmy Fallen’s spoof of Lost) episodes and I have to say they are hilarious and I highly recommend them.
Wow! I can’t believe so many people didn’t get it. Has no one read any of Joseph Campbell’s work? Is the general public that unaware of the heroes story structure. You shouldn’t be!! Almost every movie you watch and book you read is based on it. Is the average television watcher so lazy that they need every aspect of the structure spelled out for them? No wonder reality T.V. does so well. They weren’t dead the whole time and it wasn’t a dream either. I guess unless you cater to the reality T.V. mentality these days people won’t understand. This series is the same set of stories that people have been telling for centuries just with different details.
No I don’t think a lot of viewers understood that they were really not dead on the island, what happened on the island was real. The sideways flashbacks were really them in a sort of “purgatory” where after they each died they would meet up again one last time before “moving on”.
I think what is confusing people is trying to consolidate the real life timeline with the purgatory timeline and how they all got together again even though they died at different times. You need to let go of time as it has no relevance, in terms of them meeting up again time was not important. Yes Jack lived for real and died for real on the island after saving it. Yes Kate, for example, lived for real and escaped the island aboard the plane at the end, and she went on to live her life, whatever that may have been, and for all we know died a white-haired grandmother. But after death, and before moving on, they all met one last time, stuck in the side flashbacks until they realized where they were.
I still think it was great, but there will always be those unsatisfied. It’s a freakin TV show, get over it. I’d rather watch it than complete and utter crap like Jersey shore, or any of the other garbage reality crap that has taken over TV in the last ten years. Lost was a story, the creators told their story the way they told it, and that’s it.
The story of Lost is the story of Jack Shephard in a way. The series begins with him waking up in the island and ends with his death. All that happened in the island was real. The flash sideways showed the characters meeting in some kind of purgatory. Once they all remembered their real life and got together they could move on. The flash sideways happens in its own timeline after all the characters have died in their respectives real lives.
When Hurley comes out of the church at the end and tells Ben Linus was a great number two, it tells you that there was a ‘life’ after Shephard dies (however long it was). Jack dies knowing that some of the characters escaped the island. They lived their own lives and when they died met in this ‘purgatory’.
To sum up:
A plane breaks apart over the Pacific, crashes on an island.
One survivor of the crash staggers through the jungle.
He collapses, and, after hallucinating for 120 hours, dies.
To sum up:
God tortures his human toys in another cruel and evil game.
#33 – I was under the impression that that was a statue of Sobek, not Anubis. I think it had a crocodile’s head. The details are fuzzy since I never got too involved in the show so I could be wrong.
I watched the ending and felt that it was pretty messy, meaning that if the island timeline was real, then so must the time travel they experienced. It’s a little irritating that they spent the final season and episode showing a “flash sideways” (I hate that term) that was supposed to be their “limbo” life when instead they could have explored time travel more. WTF?
I has been suggested that Desmond was the first to realize what was going on, but this isn’t really true, it was Faraday (the physicist turned pianist). Once he realized he decided to help everyone else remember also.
Anyway, this is a TV show after all. They were going for big ratings for 6 years. The scenery was awesome, the story was intricate enough to keep people interested and they had a few hot chicks running around the island also. There were several shows in this season, including the finale, that were LAME!!!
Having turned the mish-mash off after about the third episode, I’m glad the series ran long enough to generate enough interest to allow the posting of this thread ending with the knowledge that Wm. Golding’s “Pincher Martin” – may be one of the most horrifying books I’ve not yet read. Thank you Lynn #21 for making Lost worthwhile.
I found Sarah Connor, the Terminator Series much more rewarding. Straight linear story line involving personal sacrifice, honor, heroism and the fate of mankind versus machine. It did drag too much in the middle there but picked up before it got dropped. Too Bad. Breaking Bad is broken. Now all I’ve got is Bill Maher until Dexter return to kill. HA!
The ending was a kind of “have your cake and eat it too” situation. As the dual plot lines had the characters both alive and dead, at the same time, but in two separate “realities”. Thus has been the way season six played out. And in the end, even some characters who died seasons ago, were brought back, to “move on”. So which “reality” was a kind of purgatory, and which was something else? One of the many questions that will probably never be adequately answered.
I’d still like to know what Michael Fox’s tattoos mean? We certainly got to see them often enough, that they should have been explained a little.
Now that LOST is over, we’re faced with something even worse. No refuge from Reality TV!! It’s all bad dancing, bad singing, and bad sportsmanship. Just what the world needs more of.
Quite a few comments from people who never watched it. I enjoyed the finale, it surpassed my expectations, especially considering how often shows birth with a great concept but can’t follow through.
I agree with the earlier post sympathetic to the MIB. After watching his backstory, I felt he was owed some redemption. His “mother” killed his birthmom, raised him with lies, and slaughtered an entire village- can you blame him for wanting to get off that rock?
I’ve never watched Lost–ever. From other comments that was a good idea.
I watched every episode. Great show. I really liked the part where the sheriff had the sword fight with the alien shark before it went back to the alien ship.
Hey! Thanks Gasparrini and spinedoc for explaining the time difference, in the “purgatory” life. And you’re dead right about it. Because for years I’ve theorized that “heaven” existed as a timeless realm. Where past, present, and future, was all the same. So all souls meet there, regardless of when they died. Which is pretty hard to wrap one’s head around understanding non-linear time. But rather wonderful, if you can, even fleetingly.
Personally, I like LOST from episode 1, on. I knew it was going to be special. Just as I knew “Cheers” once would be. Right now, I’m also following “Chuck”. Which has been a fun ride, so far. And looks like they’re notching things up for next season. Like Chuck starts doing his own independent spy work. But that’s a guess, for now. The show is not meant to be a serious spy thriller, like Jason Bourne. But it’s clever and inventive enough to entertain. And that’s what 99% of Tv is about, anyway.
LOST didn’t have to make perfect, consistent sense. Hell, real life rarely does. It was about the characters, and their relationships with each other. And the journey. And how we saw both the good and bad side in each of them. And how they were all redeemed in the end.
So the flash sideways has all people who ever died and all people who ever will die living a second life in a REAL (jack’s dad said) world. Shouldn’t there be 100’s of billions of people on this version of earth; 30ft deep stylee. When during the actual timeline did the group “create” this alternate universe with a whole world full of other people in it? I don’t see the religious angle as very potent other than throughout a large span of time people who came across the island have had various explanations and ideas about what is going on there. Jacob’s mom didn’t know very much so I knew after she was gone there would not be much explanation unless it came from Faraday or Elouise. I think it is safe to say there is some strong force deep within the island that has something to do with magnetism but beyond that I don’t think we can make any assumptions about any kind of sentience or good/evil having anything to do with the power of the island. Everything in the series is consistent with a blind force of nature that the humans alive within the timespan from Jacob’s mom until the end of Jack’s life only understand to a degree and from different angles. Jacob’s brother was already a bad seed and I thought when Jack came back out of the cave he would be like a nicer version of the smoke. I wish the series would have been more about exploration and discovery and less soap opera style drama. I like how love connected everything just like Einstein said Love=Gravity. I just wish the ending wasn’t so dumb, how and when did they set up this alternate reality and what about the billions of other people living their lives in the alternate reality? They insist everything is real and Faraday can even understand it through his calculations so who are all the rest of the population of the alternate world and why do they have this huge power of putting together a reality just like ours with other sentient beings in it(an entire ecology, etc.). You combine Love with the power of the island and a hydrogen bomb and out of all that chaos you get a new universe where after billions of years of evolution (first cosmic then on earth)you have another almost identical universe to the original one? So hokey!
Bobbo, JCD, you really have to watch 4 episodes to ‘get’ the show. The end of the 4th episode is when it earns its Emmys. Then after another season or two you start to realize maybe this isn’t that good. Then you are reaching the end point and you keep watching, and hopefully the writers fll the gaps for you.
I just wish Sam and Diane had gotten together.
The writers chastised and mocked viewers for suggesting that their would be elements of “purgatory” in the show.
It’s not purgatory… it’s “limbo”.
How silly do I feel now?