LOST ending (spoilers, duh)

Even as far as the last episode there was scope for Desmond being 'employed' as someone a la Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap who travels across timelines setting things right, but in the end they went with a faith rather than science fiction ending, which allows for easy cover-up of plotholes that couldn't be explained any other way.

Sloppy writing dug them a trap that could only be escaped from using the ending they came up with. It works, just, but is fairly unsatisfactory as far as I'm concerned.
 
According to lostpedia (regarding the heart of the island) it is not explained who the skeletons found near there are.

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Heart_of_the_Island#Unanswered_questions

I thought it was made clear that these skeletons were the human body of the man in black, and his murdered 'mother'. Especially as Jack comments that one of them is female.

After the black smoke gushes out of the cave for the first time you shortly afterwards see the dead body of the man in black, and Jacob buries it along with the body of the mother. They are pictured with the black and white stones, which you see again with the skeletons.


Edit: Having read more I think it's regarding different skeletons to the ones I'm thinking of. Just ignore this post. :p
 
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I've just got around to watching season 6. Shame it's come to an end, I wanted it to continue, but I suppose everything has to finish.

I thought episode 9 "Ab Aeterno" where we find out about Richards past was fantastic, such a great performance by Nestor Carbonell.

dmpoole said:
Basically they're all dead so nothing needs explaining.
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I've recently read through a lot of "Lost" threads, and you say the same thing in most of them. Everything that happened on the island was real, they were not dead. Only the flash sideways in season 6 were they dead.
 
Longbow said:
I've recently read through a lot of "Lost" threads, and you say the same thing in most of them. Everything that happened on the island was real, they were not dead. Only the flash sideways in season 6 were they dead.
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I thought in the last one they were all dead :confused:
 
They were all dead in the final scene.

But suggesting "Basically they're all dead so nothing needs explaining." is not true. Everything prior to season 6 was real, and everything on the island in season 6 was real.

Everything that needed to be explained, was. They were all brought to the island because of Jacob. Many die a long the way, some leave the island, and some stay. But they all eventually die and meet up in the afterlife.
 
I've not read the spoilers, I watched everything up to the last 6 episodes. I still don't have the motivation to find out what happened :(

MW
 
Longbow said:
They were all dead in the final scene.

But suggesting "Basically they're all dead so nothing needs explaining." is not true. Everything prior to season 6 was real, and everything on the island in season 6 was real.
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Yeah I know, what you shouting at me for?
They were all dead in the final episode - I was not wrong.
Are you saying some were alive?
 
I watched every episode of Lost. In the first few series it was amazing, then it got to be a bit of a struggle and then it ended. Just like that. My view, even after reading all the various views about what it represented etc, was that I had been betrayed by writers who really didn't give a toss, made it up as they went along and chose a quick, lazy way to end it. No real closure of everything that had ever been good about the show. Almost a case of "thanks for all the money, see ya losers!".
 
I thought the ending was excellent, as the writers say the more questions you answer the more you get asked, people where never going to be satisfied

the only thing I hated about the last series was the stuff with dogan and the temple at the beginning that was filler for the most part
 
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the writers say the more questions you answer the more you get asked, people where never going to be satisfied
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When I first read that my thoughts were "Wow, what a load of clap-trap. Why don't they really admit that they couldn't be bothered to answer any of the questions? Oh yeah, probably because they don't have any answers and just wanted to get out with their profits." My opinion has not changed.
 
I'll just copy/paste from some of my previous posts:

The beauty of Lost was the premise that it was going somewhere and that 'everything happens for a reason'. The whole show enticed you into wanting to know the secrets of the island and to find out the back history of this special place on which the main characters had crashed. Why they were there, what special reason/force had brought them there, why were they all so linked, what did 'the island' want with them.

Season 1 gave us the main background into most of the characters and set up a perfect balance of wanting to find out more about both the characters and the island.

Season 2 started to give more into the history of the island and set the scene well for developing a history to the island and why it was special.

Season 3 had potential and just about offered enough to keep you thinking that the main plotline was going somewhere. But in places you could see that the writers had started to lose their way a bit and there were definitely more 'stories' that were not developing the plotline further.

By Season 4 it became clear that the real importance and history of the island was never going to be explained other than in a pretty wishy-washy way. Characters were introduced only to have little or no actual significance to anything other than dragging out some extra episodes.

Season 5 was almost completely pointless, although by this point it was becoming clear that everything was effectively pointless. There were points where S5 did try to go over more stuff from the history of the island, but by this point it was just random information that only vaguely fitted into the story so far. By this point in Lost I knew that what we were seeing wasn't a development of the core plotline, but instead just more information on the lives of the losties, but information that was no longer really relevant to the 'bigger picture'. It was clear by now that the original premise of the show was never going to be explored in the details that many were hoping for. By this point it was almost like a soap opera update. There was no point to what was happening, none of the subtle interactions and bonds that made the characters so interesting and interlinked right from the outset.

Season 6 had some horrendous plot development with the 'protector' and 'light' story. But it did it's best to close off the show as best it could. By now there was no way to recover from the lack of direction throughout S3-S5. The ending was always going to be a disappointment to those who had seen the true potential for Lost right from the first season. While the ending was about the best the writers could do with where the show ended up - it was a huge disappointment to see a once great show end up in a situation where the only possible ending was a total cop-out.

The end of Lost became more about the 'journey' of the characters, but ultimately the end of that journey, that we were watching, was becoming less and less interesting.

Don't get me wrong, I loved Lost and was absolutely hooked, but the last few series totally diverged from what could have been an absolutely epic TV series. It became more and more obvious that the 'journey' was being dragged out and not actually leading anywhere.
 
Good call div0. One of my colleagues just came out with a great comment: "Watching Lost from start to finish was like watching a treasured relative go from telling you about their amazing life story whilst you sat rapt to seeing them dwindle into senility and dementia." Hear, hear.
 
I finally watched the last couple of episodes of Lost last night and I felt let down by the ending, I didn't have a problem with any of the previous seasons (even the time travel stuff) but season 6 was just a mess

It's not to much the afterlife stuff I have a problem with but more that you never get to find out what happens to those that left the island, I wouldn't of had an issue with never finding out what happens with Hurley and the Island but I feel you need to know what happens to Sawyer and co when they got 'home' not just seeing them at a time when they're all dead and meet up for a chat

I also feel the killed off too many characters in the end as well, Jack, the Koreans, Sayid (speaking of which his final storyline was rubbish as well as was the whole temple thing)
 
I thought it was a good ending.

You have to remember that the most important thing about Lost was the character development; we had six series of getting to know all the characters, most of them brilliant and well defined. I'd actually argue that I've not seen better character development, as we delve into people's past, present and future and you just don't get that in the short running time of a film or many other series.

The meaning behind all of the island's mysteries wasn't important, that was just the catalyst that drove the character development onwards.
If they had ended trying to answer all the questions, I'm sure there would have been just as much a disappointment, as there is no way you could please the entire audience.
The Creators of the show new this and ended on what was important to the audience, the cast.

The other thing with so much left unanswered is that you can't rule out that somebody will try and bring it back one day.
 
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