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RoyFairbank 
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 17:36 |
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I can't remember how it all connected now but I remember thinking it did not live up to itself.
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HolyMoly
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 06:43 |
I agree with what other people have said already - that it promised to be a lot more profound than it ended up being. By the time it ended, I wasn't watching it regularly any more, but the finale was still a biggish deal to us. We invited a bunch of friends over to watch. When it was over, the mood in the room was as if the favorite team had just lost the Super Bowl -- bummed out, but philosophical and reflective, "ah well, it was a good run. But man, what a drag".
That said, it wasn't horrible - it did kind of wrap things up so there was a feeling of "ending", but still a bit underwhelming.
Edited by HolyMoly - May 04 2012 at 06:45
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 03:55 |
I was lost once, then I found myself. Turns out I was just behind the couch. Oh! 
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 03:52 |
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I thought the ending was great as everything fitted together (or seemed to)
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Textbook
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Posted: May 03 2012 at 22:23 |
Some people got angry because producers had said "It's not a dream or an alternate reality, they're not all dead" etc, but the ending seems to be exactly some vague mixture of this. There's a rumour that the reason Season 2 was so odd and directionless compared to every other is because there was a behind the scenes battle going on for the ultimate direction of the show and until that was resolved, they didn't want to advance the plot. You can see Season 1 was much more hard-nosed and driven, but then the underlying "big reveal" was switched because the show was more popular than expected and the original, less-mainstream ending became much riskier and that's why it all went cloudy. All seems to be gossip though, no hard proof of it.
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Posted: May 03 2012 at 20:08 |
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I think it was an absolutley atrocious ending. There was not one single redeeming factor for me. In fact Darkshade, that's what I wanted to say about lost in your poll... Prepare to be disappointed. It was really just the proverbial " It was all just a dream!" ending. Lazy writing. Or they ran out of ideas.
Deus Ex Machina In spades! and it's ugly. The series is better without that last little bit of contrived and convenient goofiness. I obviously hate the ending.... but I ignore it so I can admire the series as a whole. In fact I hate it so much I swore to never watch another JJ Abrahms show. but then I noticed his name on Fringe so I broke my oath.
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Barbu
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Posted: May 03 2012 at 19:54 |
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I never talk about Lost, if i were i'd tell you that after 4 viewings of season 6, the ending is Awesome but i never talk about Lost.
Edited by Barbu - May 03 2012 at 20:08
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Posted: May 03 2012 at 19:42 |
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That last scene was a little "um, ok" for me, but I'll have a better opinion once I finish my re-watch of the series. I'm about half way through the last season, so won't be long.
I was a little disappointed in The Man In Black's ending, I thought it would have been cooler if he got off the island, even for a little bit, so that some serious sh*t would have gone down, but then the losties would have saved the day, etc.
As far as answering questions, I think that was what most of season 6 was about, not the finale. The finale was closing the story up, even though it still left many things open.
By the way, I still have yet to see that 12 minute epilogue that wasn't originally aired on TV.
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Textbook
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Posted: May 03 2012 at 19:34 |
As people were discussing Lost in another thread, I thought I'd ask what people thought of the ending. As I recall, most people seemed to like it, not whole-heartedly, but a bit, and then over time, as I expected, people became more and more critical of it as they thought harder about what it actually meant and what had or hadn't been tied up. I thought it was terrible myself, BUT ask me to tell you how I would've ended it and I can't come up with anything. It was an impossible position in a way- NOTHING would've met the hype. It had to be the most astounding ending EVER in order to silence people and that wasn't going to happen. Every scenario I conceived of was disappointing to various degrees. But as for the ending we got- a guy called Christian Shepherd - CHRISTIAN SHEPHERD - leads everyone into a church where they are bathed in white light. An ad for Christianity? Really? Ooh look we're all smiling and hugging to obscure the narrative failure with warm fuzzies. Gee whillikers. I know they say that it is, but I am very very sure that this was not the ending originally intended. You can *feel* the interference compared with the original tone of the show.
Edited by Textbook - May 03 2012 at 19:34
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Lost Ending (SPOILERS)
