[Jon L]

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 It really seems to me that the writers ran out of ideas for season 6 and pretty much made things up to lead to the finale.  In a way, season 5 could be the ending to the series.....

I sort of agree that often the writers were pretty much throwing mud balls on the wall and seeing what sticks last couple of seasons, but many of these "what the hell?" moments are what made "Lost" so enigmatic and exciting.  Sure, some of these mysteries probably don't have answers and never really had answers to begin with, but what the hey, sometimes just asking questions is the fun part.  
 
I would like just half an hours with the writers, but I strongly suspect they themselves don't have the answers to many of the unexplained mysteries.  Perhaps they'll come up with reasonable answers between now and the Bluray release and include them
 

 

[oqvist]

Cliff hangers is part of the territory... And Lost surely was the champion of cliff hangers

 

[Calexico]

I loved Lost, but season 6 really lost my attention... as a result, I didn't really care about the ending.  It seemed nice... I didn't pay that much attention.  I was playing video games while watching it lol.  I think it may because I started watching Lost recently, so I burned through seasons 1-5, and having to wait a week for each episode in Season 6 just tested my patience too much.

 

[Landis]

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Cliff hangers is part of the territory... And Lost surely was the champion of cliff hangers

One could say that... This picture accurately describe my feelings toward that:
 

 

[Edwood]

I liked the emotions and flow of the ending.  I did NOT like the ending period.  Lame.  They took 6 years to tell a story that's been done before in 2 hours. 
 
Was a very obvious ending.  And the so called "twist" of the truth was done in a movie called "Passengers" and was done much better.
 
Meh, it was quite obvious that Lost was just a drawn out money train that ABC tried to run into the ground, and they did.  I lost interest in the show for a couple of years and the ending didn't make up for it.  They had a simple plan and then dragged it out for 6 years, just making crap up as they went.
 
 

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Really?  The fricking story was literally a Cahtholic story of a 6 year purgatory?  I want 5 years of my life back, ABC.  Because the whole story should've been finished in one year.  Hell even better, a mini-series.  A lot of people figured out the purgatory story from the very first few episodes, and the creators probably crapped their pants, because their awesome "secret" was discovered so early.  They even publically denied it.  So Lost was pretty much as Sawyer put it, "That's a hell of a long con."
 
-Ed

 
 
-Ed

 

[fuseboxx]

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1) What 6-year purgatory are you talking about? The island was real. Everything that happened in it was real. The alternate-reality was the "purgatory."

2) Two hours? How the heck could you develop the stories of that many characters in such detail in order to communicate themes of loss & discovery, good & evil, destiny & free-will in 2 hours??

 

[Edwood]

How about spoiler tags, fuseboxx? 

 

[fuseboxx]

We're talking about how you didn't understand and missed the point of the finale. All you could reply with is about spoiler tags??

If one would read through the thread, there are already so many spoilers that are more revealing that what I said.

 

[71877]

The ending was ok (as in well executed, seeking the journey-has-ended emotion from the audience), but funny enough, it gave me a Battlestar Galactica deja vu. Both series tried to rationally explain all the phenomena happening, but always with the whole 'it-doesnt-have-to-be-rational-it-could-something-supernatural-but-nahhhh-rational-thinking-is-the-way-to-go!' thing luring in the background. And both went completly off the rational explanation at the very end (Battlestar with the angel-god thing, and Lost with the, well purgatory-heaven-hell-shepard-guiding) and embraced the whole supernatural intake. Kinda disappointing it was 'again' a sort of religious (oh-oh!) ending (the whole Kate with 'Christian Shepard, really?!' WINK WINK ORLY was a bit overdone). A more alternative universes or 'real' approach wouldve been nicer imo (but it seems we've Fringe for that ).
 
But ye, the ending wasnt the most important thing of this serie, the journey was satisfying enough. Nice high-budget soapserie

 

[EddieE]

No need for spoiler tags really. If someone clicks on a thread about the last episode of lost having not watched it they are stupid enough to deserve it being spoiled.
 
fuzebox is right - only the alternate reality was purgatory, and I felt that the writers added this idea to the final season because the fans were into it in the first season.
 
They did a lot of head-nods in that episode to the fan base, with Sawyer calling the man in black both "Flocke" and "Smokey" in the finale.
 
In terms of character resolution and the AR explanation - I really liked it. Very emotional, if the actual ending five minutes went a bit lord of the rings with way too much slow motion hugging. Have to say (very rare for me) I teared up during both the Sun/Jin and Charlie/Claire "realisation" moments. Felt like a tit. Then watched it again with a mate and he teared up at the same points so felt a bit better. But where was Eko? And Michael and Walt? I had the strong impression the latter two were left out precisely because the writers came up with nothing to explain the "importance" of Walt and hoped no one would notice.
 
And this brings me on to my gripes. I was one of those people who was very much into the mythology and the mystery, and I felt they utterly fluffed it. I won't write an essay (well not right now anyway) but I was extremely unsatisfied with the number of loose ends, missed opportunities and general lameness of their wrapping up of the plot side of things.
 
So a mixed bag. When it came to the charecters they mostly did them proud, but they spannered the plot properly.

 

[oqvist]

I really didn´t feel anything during the ending... But then I had lost interest in just about every character by season 6 was only about seeing how it would end really.
 
Otherwise honestly instead of making real life the dream and the Island reality the series would make much more sense if the Island was the purgatory. I mean just about all the mysteries happened on the island. In real life nothing spectacular or super natural happened and that was the dream? 
 
But I understand they didn´t went with that ending. It wouldn´t be lost because it would be the logical way of do it. Also dream endings is crap. Remember Bobbys comeback in Dallas

 

[Prog Rock Man]

Yeh, but what about the polar bear?

 

[Zodduska]

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Yeh, but what about the polar bear?

I always assumed Dharma brought them there for testing, remember the cages?

 

[Prog Rock Man]

So Dharma is purgatory and polar bears don't go to heaven? 
 
I am not watching the whole blinking thing again! I want answers now!

 

[Zodduska]

only the flash sideways during the final season was "purgatory"