LOST ending (spoilers, duh)

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So I've just finished watching LOST.

Ending was pretty much exactly what I was expecting, which was something of a dissapointment actually. I was hoping there would be some big mind-blowing twist, but the series basically just fizzled out with confusing (not to mention boring) rubbish.

Blah bah Jacob. Blah blah smoke monster. Blah blah candidates. Blah blah protect the island. Etc.

opinions?
 
Not really specifically about the ending though is it?

Actually, people shouldn't have even posted ANYTHING about the ending in that thread tbh. Since that wasn't what it was about.
 
I was a HUGE fan of Lost since the start, i'm in the middle of rewatching it all again.

The ending was a big "Meh" It seemed rushed and I know the creators have always said they knew what the ending of the show would be but I dont think they really did. They added so much extra crap betweens Seasons 2-5 they had to answer all the questions for that which added more questions which never got answered and so on. Like the whole time travel thing, they didnt have that down as the orignal plans when they did season 1.

my thorghts are the exact same as yours really a big wtf, meh.
 
Van Hellseek said:
Actually, people shouldn't have even posted ANYTHING about the ending in that thread tbh.
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Seriously? :confused: People did discuss the ending, but if you can't be bothered to read it then there you go. I didn't know we now had rules about what people should and shouldn't talk about in threads.
 
i'm currently re-watching all of lost, currently halfway into season 5. my memory from the first time round remains true, the first 3 seasons are great, goes a little down hill in the 4 season and start of the 5th but is still one of if not the best series i've ever watched. the trouble is, it was so difficult to end.
 
Terrible ending made worse by how awesome the first 3 series were. Infact I'll even go as far as saying at the time I was still fully onboard with series 4, it's only now looking back that it's clear the wheels were already starting to come off.

If series 1-3 was the setup, series 4-6 was the punchline to a completely different joke.
 
I wish I hadn't watched the last one and instead staged my own alternate ending with Morphesque figurines of all the characters (Hurley would have needed to pots of playdough).
 
Yeah my thread did kind of split into two parts, the people who were suggesting a large range of series for me to check out and then the ones who were commenting on Lost in general.

I agreed with what a lot of people said though, it opened my eyes to how many things were left unanswered. It basically made me realise that I would be completely **** at reviewing things like that as I don't look at the story as a whole and more enjoy the current episode which would then keep me interested enough to watch the next one straight after. My favourite series would be the one where we are first introduced to Desmond with the hatch, fairly sure this is series 2 but I watched all 6 series within a few months so they kind of all blended together, I think this series ended with Charlie drowning too?

I quite liked the final series and the ending at the time but now I wish there was some answers, for some reason I hope that the writers have their own answers to all the questions but I suspect these were just raised to increase interest with no real plans which disappoints me. Even if there is just an interview with the writers explaining it all...
 
DJmartin said:
My favourite series would be the one where we are first introduced to Desmond with the hatch, fairly sure this is series 2 but I watched all 6 series within a few months so they kind of all blended together, I think this series ended with Charlie drowning too?
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Desmond is introduced at the first episode of season two, Charlie kicks the bucket at the end of season three. Both great episodes though.

See you in another life, brother. ;)

I thought it was a great shame when they killed off Charlie, he was one of the better characters. At least they kept him in the series a little, despite being dead. :D
 
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The ending still brought a tear to my eye. Peoples theories on Lostpedia were excellent, about the lighthouse thing where you could see places in the world being down to the curve of the earth coupled with the island's 'in a bubble' like effect. It's a shame the writers couldn't explain barely anything scientifically.
 
Definitely the worst ending to an amazing series.
Basically they're all dead so nothing needs explaining.

There were some great theories by fans piecing loads of stuff together and my fave was based on Egypt.
 
dmpoole said:
Definitely the worst ending to an amazing series.
Basically they're all dead so nothing needs explaining.

There were some great theories by fans piecing loads of stuff together and my fave was based on Egypt.
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They weren't all dead though, they were only dead in the alternate timeline flashes (which turned out to be a form of limbo) but were alive for the entire series other than that (except when they had actually been killed and smokey was pretending to be them).

I remember getting up early to watch it live from the states and thinking, is this it?!
 
Antar Bolaeisk said:
They weren't all dead though, they were only dead in the alternate timeline flashes (which turned out to be a form of limbo) but were alive for the entire series other than that (except when they had actually been killed and smokey was pretending to be them).

I remember getting up early to watch it live from the states and thinking, is this it?!
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I thought it turned out that it wasn't an alternative timeline, and in fact it was more like the limbo thing was after they die in the main story. It's where they go to meet up after they die.

Which means it wasn't alternate, it was just AFTER they die. :confused:
 
Macky said:
The ending still brought a tear to my eye. Peoples theories on Lostpedia were excellent, about the lighthouse thing where you could see places in the world being down to the curve of the earth coupled with the island's 'in a bubble' like effect. It's a shame the writers couldn't explain barely anything scientifically.
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I would have thought that approach would have backfired badly on the show.

Long, scientific explanations, like the one you pointed out for the Lighthouse, would alienate the more casual viewers. They would be confused, and just stop watching the show. It's a quest for ratings at the end of the day, anything that potentially reduces the number of viewers, is a no no.

Besides that point, the show was about the characters, not about scientific explanations.

How the Lighthouse worked?, What was the nature of the Islands ElectroMagnetism? , What was the Source? Does the nitty gritty technobabble, scientific explanation for these really matter? Does it really serve a purpose to the story, no.

I would loved to have had this stuff elaborated on a bit more, but it's not a necessity. Things might have been different if it had been on say..SyFy instead of ABC.

Anyway i'll stop there, is this thread will probably ignite into another heated discussion/argument about LOST, if it hasn't already :p.
 
IceBus said:
Have a look at this for some thoughts from lots of Lost fans: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18285116&highlight=lost
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In particular post 25 ;)

So, a few days before the finale I watched Jacobs Ladder, an excellent movie. For the purpose of this post I will SPOILERS it - essentially the entire film is really just the protagonist's fevered hallucinations about the cause of his imminent death, and attempts to reconcile his feelings for his loved ones.

My first interpretation of the Lost finale was that they'd stolen this concept entirely, by making the whole 6 series just Jack's hallucination as he lay dying in the bamboo. I thought the shots of the wreckage at the end suggested that very little time had past since that crash, and that he was in fact the sole survivor, living out his last minutes, alone. I've since read around and that wasn't the intended idea (the wreckage shot just gives some closure, and a reminder of how it all began), but still found that interpretation to be very powerful (alright, I cried like a baby). In fact, the film Jacobs Ladder is quite heavily referenced - obviously the character Jacob has a ladder to access his caves. Also, a piece of the soundtrack music from se6 is called Jacobs Ladders.

This guy thought the same as me: 'Lost' ends with gut-wrenching, thought-provoking farewell.

Like most of the show, the church "limbo" bit at the end is a little vague. In another nod to Jacobs Ladder, Christian Shepherd explains that you can only move on when you've achieved closure from the people closest to you. The people in the "limbo world" didn't need to be "real", or their "souls" (the series makes no religious presumptions at all as shown by the multi-faith stained glass window in that scene), the point I think is that they mean something to Jack. They appear just as he remembers them, young and happy, not some of them old as if they just came from living out their long lives.

Really lovely ending I thought :( :)
 
I liked it. It was an emotional end to a show I've been obsessed with for 6 years. Still sad it's finished tbh, nothing will ever come close to it.

Think I've seen every episode at least 3 times each, and read all of Lostpedia. :o

joeyjojo said:
This guy thought the same as me: 'Lost' ends with gut-wrenching, thought-provoking farewell.
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Why is he writing as if that actually was the ending?

That would have been an awful ending.
 
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