Lost Ending (SPOILERS)

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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

Poll Question: How was it?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Great!	1	[14.29%]
OK	2	[28.57%]
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Textbook Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 08 2009 Status: Offline Points: 3281	Topic: Lost Ending (SPOILERS) 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

darkshade Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: November 19 2005 Location: New Jersey Status: Offline Points: 10964	Posted: May 03 2012 at 19:42
	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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Barbu Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 09 2005 Location: infinity Status: Offline Points: 30855	Posted: May 03 2012 at 19:54
	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

Flyingsod Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 19 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 564	Posted: May 03 2012 at 20:08
	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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Textbook Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 08 2009 Status: Offline Points: 3281	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.

Snow Dog Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2005 Location: Caerdydd Status: Offline Points: 32995	Posted: May 04 2012 at 03:52
	I thought the ending was great as everything fitted together (or seemed to)


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	I was lost once, then I found myself. Turns out I was just behind the couch. Oh!

HolyMoly Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: April 01 2009 Location: Atlanta Status: Offline Points: 26138	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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RoyFairbank Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 07 2008 Location: Somewhere Status: Offline Points: 1072	Posted: May 04 2012 at 17:36
	I can't remember how it all connected now but I remember thinking it did not live up to itself.