You have wasted 6 years of your life!
I stole this from a tweet.
I watched part of the first season and couldn’t get into it. Some of the characters were really annoying to me.
Was it all a dream or something? I’ve never seen an episode but I’m interested in all the guessing as to what the finale would reveal.
all a dream? . . . yah, something like that, let’s say a very secular dream that is neither real nor unreal, kind of like what we call life.
BTW, what is dog spelled backwards?
that’s probably the best troll attempt i’ve yet seen on slowtwitch.
What? are you saying that troll = Truth?
Why do you hate Dog?
Is a troll a razorback?
Thats funny! I read CNN’s recap of the finale despite never watching an episode, and it made me realize how silly a show it really seemed to be.
You have wasted 6 years of your life!
That’s exactly what I said to my wife.
When this season started I said they better come up with a really good way to tie everything together…I think they failed MISERABLY.
~Matt
Complete failure of a Final Episode. Its like they threw up their hands and said Fuck it!
Complete failure of a Final Episode. Its like they threw up their hands and said Fuck it!
After seeing the finale episode I thought that about the entire last season. They could have left off the entire “Sideways jump” and spent far more time on explaining the significance and function of the island itself.
Seems to me they got so used to misleading and misdirecting people that they just weren’t happy filling in the blanks.
In the end you have the fairy tale ending which was completely lacking in imagination and surprise and you’re still left with a bunch of questions about the main character…the island.
I will never be fooled again dam it. The producers where calling this a “One off”, meaning this will never be done again. Yes, and it’s all their fault because now no one will want to invest in a series where they get nothing from week to week all based on a multi year finally.
Sucked. Hell I’m no writer and I think I could have come up with something better than that.
~Matt
see thats the exact problem with the whole thing: THEY DIDNT EXPLAIN ANYTHING ABOUT THE ISLAND. Here is how I interpreted it and it matches what lots are saying on line. -the island was real, they were really there and all the strange things that happened really happend. -the sideways view was sort of an afterlife limbo where they all had to come to grips with their lives and how they died etc -in the sideways part, there was no time so even though they all died at different times, there was no time in the sideways reality. so, jack died on the island, saywer and those who excaped may have died a year later or 40 years later. thats why time didnt exist there in the sideways part. Now, I think its bullshit that thats all it was, nothing was explained, nothing was un covered, there was really no closure, just a twist ending. thats what sucks.
see thats the exact problem with the whole thing: THEY DIDNT EXPLAIN ANYTHING ABOUT THE ISLAND.
Yep, the entire last season was a cover up for the fact they couldn’t figure out a plausible explanation for everything so the tried to divert your attention with the “Sideways” and try and make you forget about the island. The entire focus was shifted to the sideways…which was completely created in the last season and meaningless to the prior 5 years.
And seriously all the above aside thats the best they could come up with for the sideways ending? Good lord it was just short of a Disney ending. I expected to see dancing fluffy bunnies or something.
The more I think about it the more pissed I’m getting 
~Matt
The “it was all a dream” or “they were dead the whole time,” has to be done very carefully because it is a very lame explanation.
The whole series really was about human relationships: greed, power, lust, love, jealousy. For me, the island and its mysteries were a backdrop and not so much a character. The story was the people. How do you end stories about relationships? How do you end stories about lives? The only possible way. The people die.
Everything that happened on the Island and off the Island in the first five seasons happened: time travel, island hopping, people dieing, etc. During the final season, they tricked us into believing that the flash sideways was an alternative time line. Instead, it was purgatory. It is where you wait before you move on. Their theory is that you create your own purgatory based in large part on the strength of shared experiences and relationships. This state remains until you awaken to the realization that you have died. When Desmond figured it out, he began collecting his fellow souls, awakening them to the fact that they were dead. I believe Ben did not go into the church because he is still waiting for someone … Alex or Rousseau maybe? I don’t recall seeing them there. Or maybe Widmore? Anyway, I have come to like the ending. It will be interesting to see if they try to develop movies or other shows to explore what happened during the remainder of everyone’s lives.
The “it was all a dream” or “they were dead the whole time,” has to be done very carefully because it is a very lame explanation.
As Brick said everything really happened. Unlike Brick however I hated the ending because it was entirely based on the sideways portion which was only half of the last season. So the entire show of 6 years ends on an “Explanation” or build up to a “Flash sideways” of 1/12 of the entire series…again suckage.
Again, unlike brick, I saw the Island as one of, if not, the main character. “Everything that happened happened”, but it ALL happened because of the the island…which was never explained.
It would be like having the entire Star Wars series end with everyone going to heaven and have heaven almost entirely unrelated to “The force” and only have “Heaven” play a part in the last half of episode six.
~Matt
The problem with LOST’s ending was the main character of the show, for me, was the island, and they left the most interesting thing out of the finale. its almost like they did all of this to try to maximize the tears at the end and everyone being happy to justify the suckage. My wife fell for it, me, not one bit.
One thing that really bothered me was the seeming importance of Widmore in the last season and then he’s dead without any real implications to the story. Weird.
Yup… totally lame. Honestly, what brought me into the show were the characters and the flashbacks into their lives previous to the “island”. The emotional closure of the characters was nice, but they practically wrote the island as a character (“island isn’t done with you yet”, “it’s what the island wants” blah blah) and there was no explanation of the island at all.
The problem with LOST’s ending was the main character of the show, for me, was the island, and they left the most interesting thing out of the finale.
Yep, exactly.
its almost like they did all of this to try to maximize the tears at the end and everyone being happy to justify the suckage. My wife fell for it, me, not one bit.
Like I said earlier, it was almost as if they couldn’t figure out how to wrap it all up so in the last play of the game they thru a hail mary pass and hope that everyone was distracted enough by it that they forgot about the first 5 seasons.
I was very disappointed, and after trying to explain what happened to my wife for 20 minutes she didn’t really seem to enjoy it either. The whole “No time” in the flash sideways was lost, no pun intended, on her and frankly a cheap cop out to me.
~Matt