I was a faithful viewer of the show, but felt totally let down by the finale. For me it was very forgettable. Guess I was just too "dumb" to get the subtlety of a nonsensical, copout ending.
The entire series seemed to indicate that the audience would be treated to a final payoff, all the loose ends tied together, a reward for putting up with so many unanswered questions, riddles, coincidences, head scratching twists and turns.
In the end, the finale was a big "screw you " to the faithful fans of the show. The writers obviously had NO idea where they were going with the show and no real resolution. It might as well have been written by a bunch of monkeys on typewriters.
Call me dumb if you like. But as far as I'm concerned, people who were satisfied with the copout, lazy ending will accept anything.
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4 years ago
This is true. These days when you read about LOST it's mostly used as a punchline for a joke.
Sidebar: I've always maintained that it was Michael Giacchino's moving soundtrack that sold that final steaming turd of an ending and the showrunner's should have kissed his ass and said thank you.
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WhereIsRent (1014)
4 years ago
I think the problem for me was I expected a very sci-fi ending. I mean the show introduced time travel in season 5, but instead it opted for a very religious ending where all the character reunite in an afterlife and move on together.
I still maintain that the final season would have been much stronger had they not done the flashsideways, it was frustrating to watch as we only cared about the island timeline and what was going on with our main characters there.
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[email protected] (5497)
4 years ago
Yes, I don't know if I expected a sci-fi ending. But I expected more than "Well, they're all dead ,this is Heaven. Amen"
The show introduced so many coincidences in the flashbacks where the characters almost met or their paths crossed and they didn't know it. The writing seemed to hint at some big payoff. The characters were not on the island just by chance. There seemed, at least to me, something that drew them there together.
I was thinking of a Twilight Zone ending or something else fantastic and unusual.
One of my ideas was that all of the survivors had relatives who survived another disaster, like the Titanic, and somehow they were drawn together and survived the plane crash.
Something...anything...other than , they are dead. Thanks for watching.
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WhereIsRent (1014)
4 years ago
I don’t mind the whole ‘Jacob was recruiting them’ it was almost like he was bored and just playing God a bit, a very flawed character just like all the other main characters.
I think it should have had an ending where Jack lives and stays on the island with Kate protecting the light.
Everyone else leaves the island and goes back to their lives, even Ben who uses his wealth and resources to do some good.
Jack now has the powers of Jacob and can communicate with the dead. The final scene of the show is a final conversation between Jack and his father and Jack comes to terms over his guilt and his father tells him he’s proud of him. The final shot is Jack and Kate walking through the beach wreckage of the plane.
Bit of a Star Wars type ending but at least they could got rid of the boring flashsideways throughout the final season.
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kuatorises (7467)
4 years ago
Was an island with healing and other supernatural properties not sci fi, fantastic, or unusual enough for you?
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ItalianBuju (793)
4 years ago
I was also expecting something like the Twilight Zone or something.
I never watched GOT but I always say LOST and Dexter seemed like they were competing for the best series with the worse finale!
I was SO MAD after watching the finale that a week later, decided to watch them again, in case I missed something important or could see it differently and my teenage daughter came out and asked me why I would do that again and she was right!
I loved that show so much, I even went to my Cineplex for the live Q&A...I watched each episode twice, so I could spent one viewing just clue searching. I felt really disappointed.
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