Are you ******* kidding? I don't see how anyone can seriously have watched all the seasons of Lost and found that satisfying. In the end they told you that almost nothing of what you've watched in the last 6 seasons was relevant to the story they wanted to tell. The writers threw so much stuff into the mix that they decided they was no way to actually explain everything, so they didn't bother.
LOST..... How do you think it will end
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I just took it for what it was, and realised it was actually perfect without all the little answers. They couldn't have ended it in a better way, seriously.
Yeah, so they could have given you 100 answers to every little thing, but big deal. That's the beauty of Lost, it's always been so mysterious and to keep questions unanswered like this keeps that mysteriousness. It always keeps you wondering, like the characters themselves.
IT'S A SERIES - NOT A SEASON!
ARGH!!!
Anyway, I've never been a massive fan of Lost - I'm too in love with House - but the ending seemed great to me. They've been stringing everyone along for ages, milking it for all its worth and I'm not convinced they had any idea where they were going at various points throughout all the series.
Understood the 'big answer', as according to the popular theories on 'ere so that's fine.
Quite a fitting end, and very well put together.
Can't wait for the end of 24, that's going to be a cracker!
And then it's a few months wait until House and Californication are back and we have all forgotten about the very drawn out, yet occasionally entertaining, Lost.
I find it funny they are releasing an encyclopaedia and what not, just a simple way to gather even more money. Lost addicts really bemuse me. But, each to their own. OK show in the end, very good ending.
ARGH!!!
Anyway, I've never been a massive fan of Lost - I'm too in love with House - but the ending seemed great to me. They've been stringing everyone along for ages, milking it for all its worth and I'm not convinced they had any idea where they were going at various points throughout all the series.
Understood the 'big answer', as according to the popular theories on 'ere so that's fine.
Quite a fitting end, and very well put together.
Can't wait for the end of 24, that's going to be a cracker!
And then it's a few months wait until House and Californication are back and we have all forgotten about the very drawn out, yet occasionally entertaining, Lost.
I find it funny they are releasing an encyclopaedia and what not, just a simple way to gather even more money. Lost addicts really bemuse me. But, each to their own. OK show in the end, very good ending.
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To be fair, even though a lot of stuff was left unexplained / irrelevant, the series as a whole and the ending was fantastic.
Jack was utterly useless throughout the entire series but still felt pretty distraught when he laid down to die where he started off. Vincent coming to see him off was awfully sad too.
Jack was utterly useless throughout the entire series but still felt pretty distraught when he laid down to die where he started off. Vincent coming to see him off was awfully sad too.
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I loved it, sat there entranced for the whole of the final episode and tears were in my eyes at several points. Everything I could have wanted from the final episode.
That, my friend, is absolute rubbish. They ended it by telling you nothing, at least nothing related to anything you'd watched in the previous 5 seasons. Battlestar Galactica, that was a series that had you guessing all the way through, plenty of mysteries and they managed to wrap it up properly and even throw in some answers you weren't expecting. This ending for Lost was either laziness or desperation because they'd invented so much and knew they couldn't tie it up consistently.
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Another question if somebody can be kind to clear up for me 
If the sideline timeline was set in purgatory, and the island was real. Why did they have problems with pregnancy and giving birth?
if the island was purgatory i could understand.
Also, what was Walt's purpose? whats with the Egyptian hieroglyphics? were they just there to give you a rough idea on how old the island was?
If the sideline timeline was set in purgatory, and the island was real. Why did they have problems with pregnancy and giving birth?
if the island was purgatory i could understand.
Also, what was Walt's purpose? whats with the Egyptian hieroglyphics? were they just there to give you a rough idea on how old the island was?
This was quite clearly an ending to the last 2 season Lost in Myth. The Lost about two brothers from ef knows where,raised by ef knows how crazy mother that fed them some bull.. rules and off they went to screw around with lives of others across about 10 centuries ( for ef knows what purpose ). The ending to the Lost that was like just add water mash from carton box - wishy washy - odd as an idea and written on a knee in office cantina by someone who couldn't be bothered to read the notes left by previous writers.
Lost, where everything was based on jumping to conclusions ("It was Locke Jack, we have to kill him" - because otherwise, we have such a good track record with Widmore fleet and bombs onboard, that it has to be Locke, right?) one liner promises without any backup (Island Needs You Hurley, coz like, I had some water from creek for breakfast and I know stuff), made on the spot theories without any grounds (You say he withstands electromagnetic fields, based on previous tests and proven science, I say he's a weapon and will turn into deadly pea shooter. We'll see who's right Locke, coz like what's the worst that could happen if I'm wrong, end of the world, right?) and of course the usual plot lines written by 13 year old for home assignment (such as The MIB, who's dead brother of Jacob, turned for unknown reason by light in the stream into Smoke (one off event), who's currently, for no specific reason, appearing as Locke, wants to leave the island, out of all possible options presented to him in the last 16 episodes, he would like to do it alone, preferably in 20th century passenger plane with some landing gear malfunction that needs to be lifted from sandy beach. It's snap your fingers easy for 2000 year old simpleton raised by crazy mother, even simpler brother, with one board game (no manual) and very limited understanding of social interactions, let alone aviation technology and mechanics).
The Lost we all joined six years ago, The Lost we watched from Season 1 to half of Season 4, sadly, we will never see the ending of. The story won't be told, the questions won't be answered.
We'll never find out who made the override wheel in the wall and for what purpose other than shopping in random African countries and giving everyone on the Island severe nose bleed. We won't ever know how The Others maintained and sponsored their large network of immediately available helpers, spies, observers, travel agents, labs and doctors they would import into the island, supplies, weapon providers, houses, shops, garages and submarine charters all around the world. We won't find out why it took 2000 years, countless lives, timelines, crashes and one hell of a party in purgatory to prevent one a-hole without a name from travelling around the world. Maybe he just wanted to do some sightseeing? Visit Rome? Stag party in Prague? Get laid in a Thai brothel? Would it be so bad? Prove it!.
We won't know why after Dharma massacre Hanso just left Island alone and never returned, with exception of Radzinski and "Kurgan" in a hatch, who decided to keep on going. Why didn't Hanso send anyone to The Island, even if they couldn't find it short term - wasn't the pendulum station theirs in a first place? Why did Radzinski shot his head off, if the problem of inputing numbers could be stopped forever by turning the key in the override, he himself designed into the system. Leave the shotgun, get Kurgan to turn the key, while you go for a walk - hatch will vanish and nothing needs repairing or pressing again - just try it, what do you have to loose? The writers won't tell us what happened to few hundred other people, both survivors, The Others, Temple Others etc etc when the skies started flashing. Are they still in a cave in 2005? Have anyone looked on the beach? Someone call 1977 and ask there. They must be somewhere.
We won't find out why Richard said he watched all of the people on 1977 picture die. He didn't. Not at the time. Not before. Not later. But then again - Alpert says a lot of things. He said to Locke "You have to get them all back" but why - that he won't tell us. Now officially - ever. We'll also never find an answer to what was "Box with whatever you imagine, John" meant to be and what was the real purpose of John Locke, The Number 2, The "We've been waiting for you", "You are the leader" (for about a day) to "My People", "Island Told Me", "Bad things happened on the island after you left, it was you fault" (was it?) - The I've-never-actually-seen-Jacob-on-the-island-other-than-Christian-Sheppard-for-few-seconds-in-a-log-cabin main man who Knew It All but sadly decided to hang himself in a motel room after asking half of the Oceanic Six, like what - once, to come back with him to The Island without understanding, let alone explaining why and for what reason. Was it their fault? And please don't tell me his purpose awaited eagerly by everyone for 4 seasons was to hang himself in the said motel room! We won't even find out how Smoke knew his last thoughts, despite the fact Locke died off the island, thus couldn't be "scanned" for recent/last memories...
The bigger things - what was the agreement between Ben and Widmore - you know - the deal they discussed when Ben visited him in bedroom in London and told him "You'll wish you hadn't changed the rules". There were rules? Someone changed them? Go on then (puts some popcorn in microwave). Or how "the one who moves the island can never come back". Except when he does. Duh! Why did Widmore send mercenaries to the Island he couldn't find, with mission to kill everyone and capture only Ben, when all he actually wanted was to get to the Island he couldn't find in person and do some lab rat stuff to Desmond, who... ahem.. almost got killed by his own mercenaries from "not Penny's boat"? What was the number sequence, how was it chosen for stabilizing the "Kasimir effect" (that was earlier blown up by bomb) below the hatch and why was it broadcasted around Pacific for some nutcase to remember and Hurley to write down. What was the deal with pregnancies? How did supply drops from season 2 work on an island no one could find? And did they include potatoes?
The smaller questions - like what was Libi doing in psycho asylum in Hurley's flashbacks? Was Claire still walking around with "activated implant" three years later? Why were The Others camping in underwater station for 16 years to scramble signals from broadcasting out of the island when the radio tower Danielle was broadcasting her signal was visible, on top of the hill, in an open space and the doors weren't locked? Or why did Mikhail tell Kate she "wasn't on the list" in the middle of Season 3 when aparenty she wasn't on the candidate list only because of her motherhood (which was a) not her baby b) not in Season 3 c) potato.
I can go for a while about this - page is too short.
Instead, the ending, regardless of how pretty it was - left us with sauerkraut (and mash) - we don't know the rules and mechanics of the alleged agreement binding both brothers. She made is so they couldn't hurt each other, you see. Maybe they should try? Not to mention - 2000 flipping years and all you had to do was to chuck your evil brother back into the creek and then just let him fall off the cliff. I bet Jacob is facepalming somewhere in ashes, of his ashes around that fireplace. We don't know the genesis of the wheel, The Mother, the wine/water/blessed/not blessed that makes you sometimes a) immortal protector (ala Jacob) b) immortal disinformation minister that never meets protector (ala Richard) c) potato. We don't know how Hurley is supposed to change the rules to the visitors of the island, since we know already a) Island cannot be found without rather large pendulum in some yankee apartment b) Island is shifted in time at least by several hours (Faraday rocket from not penny's boat tests) c) mostly potato. What we do know is that to enjoy immortality and ultimate trust of The Protector you need to participate in at least one of a) genocide/The Purge of entire Dharma b) multiple kidnappings, strangling, murders, assassinations around the world c) smashing potatoes. And to have another timeline with your friends in afterlife according to church window you need to participate in one of the following religions a) Islam b) Judaism c) Hinduism d) Christianity e) Taoism f) Wooden Wheel representing, of course, Potato Haulage.
Lost, where everything was based on jumping to conclusions ("It was Locke Jack, we have to kill him" - because otherwise, we have such a good track record with Widmore fleet and bombs onboard, that it has to be Locke, right?) one liner promises without any backup (Island Needs You Hurley, coz like, I had some water from creek for breakfast and I know stuff), made on the spot theories without any grounds (You say he withstands electromagnetic fields, based on previous tests and proven science, I say he's a weapon and will turn into deadly pea shooter. We'll see who's right Locke, coz like what's the worst that could happen if I'm wrong, end of the world, right?) and of course the usual plot lines written by 13 year old for home assignment (such as The MIB, who's dead brother of Jacob, turned for unknown reason by light in the stream into Smoke (one off event), who's currently, for no specific reason, appearing as Locke, wants to leave the island, out of all possible options presented to him in the last 16 episodes, he would like to do it alone, preferably in 20th century passenger plane with some landing gear malfunction that needs to be lifted from sandy beach. It's snap your fingers easy for 2000 year old simpleton raised by crazy mother, even simpler brother, with one board game (no manual) and very limited understanding of social interactions, let alone aviation technology and mechanics).
The Lost we all joined six years ago, The Lost we watched from Season 1 to half of Season 4, sadly, we will never see the ending of. The story won't be told, the questions won't be answered.
We'll never find out who made the override wheel in the wall and for what purpose other than shopping in random African countries and giving everyone on the Island severe nose bleed. We won't ever know how The Others maintained and sponsored their large network of immediately available helpers, spies, observers, travel agents, labs and doctors they would import into the island, supplies, weapon providers, houses, shops, garages and submarine charters all around the world. We won't find out why it took 2000 years, countless lives, timelines, crashes and one hell of a party in purgatory to prevent one a-hole without a name from travelling around the world. Maybe he just wanted to do some sightseeing? Visit Rome? Stag party in Prague? Get laid in a Thai brothel? Would it be so bad? Prove it!.
We won't know why after Dharma massacre Hanso just left Island alone and never returned, with exception of Radzinski and "Kurgan" in a hatch, who decided to keep on going. Why didn't Hanso send anyone to The Island, even if they couldn't find it short term - wasn't the pendulum station theirs in a first place? Why did Radzinski shot his head off, if the problem of inputing numbers could be stopped forever by turning the key in the override, he himself designed into the system. Leave the shotgun, get Kurgan to turn the key, while you go for a walk - hatch will vanish and nothing needs repairing or pressing again - just try it, what do you have to loose? The writers won't tell us what happened to few hundred other people, both survivors, The Others, Temple Others etc etc when the skies started flashing. Are they still in a cave in 2005? Have anyone looked on the beach? Someone call 1977 and ask there. They must be somewhere.
We won't find out why Richard said he watched all of the people on 1977 picture die. He didn't. Not at the time. Not before. Not later. But then again - Alpert says a lot of things. He said to Locke "You have to get them all back" but why - that he won't tell us. Now officially - ever. We'll also never find an answer to what was "Box with whatever you imagine, John" meant to be and what was the real purpose of John Locke, The Number 2, The "We've been waiting for you", "You are the leader" (for about a day) to "My People", "Island Told Me", "Bad things happened on the island after you left, it was you fault" (was it?) - The I've-never-actually-seen-Jacob-on-the-island-other-than-Christian-Sheppard-for-few-seconds-in-a-log-cabin main man who Knew It All but sadly decided to hang himself in a motel room after asking half of the Oceanic Six, like what - once, to come back with him to The Island without understanding, let alone explaining why and for what reason. Was it their fault? And please don't tell me his purpose awaited eagerly by everyone for 4 seasons was to hang himself in the said motel room! We won't even find out how Smoke knew his last thoughts, despite the fact Locke died off the island, thus couldn't be "scanned" for recent/last memories...
The bigger things - what was the agreement between Ben and Widmore - you know - the deal they discussed when Ben visited him in bedroom in London and told him "You'll wish you hadn't changed the rules". There were rules? Someone changed them? Go on then (puts some popcorn in microwave). Or how "the one who moves the island can never come back". Except when he does. Duh! Why did Widmore send mercenaries to the Island he couldn't find, with mission to kill everyone and capture only Ben, when all he actually wanted was to get to the Island he couldn't find in person and do some lab rat stuff to Desmond, who... ahem.. almost got killed by his own mercenaries from "not Penny's boat"? What was the number sequence, how was it chosen for stabilizing the "Kasimir effect" (that was earlier blown up by bomb) below the hatch and why was it broadcasted around Pacific for some nutcase to remember and Hurley to write down. What was the deal with pregnancies? How did supply drops from season 2 work on an island no one could find? And did they include potatoes?
The smaller questions - like what was Libi doing in psycho asylum in Hurley's flashbacks? Was Claire still walking around with "activated implant" three years later? Why were The Others camping in underwater station for 16 years to scramble signals from broadcasting out of the island when the radio tower Danielle was broadcasting her signal was visible, on top of the hill, in an open space and the doors weren't locked? Or why did Mikhail tell Kate she "wasn't on the list" in the middle of Season 3 when aparenty she wasn't on the candidate list only because of her motherhood (which was a) not her baby b) not in Season 3 c) potato.
I can go for a while about this - page is too short.
Instead, the ending, regardless of how pretty it was - left us with sauerkraut (and mash) - we don't know the rules and mechanics of the alleged agreement binding both brothers. She made is so they couldn't hurt each other, you see. Maybe they should try? Not to mention - 2000 flipping years and all you had to do was to chuck your evil brother back into the creek and then just let him fall off the cliff. I bet Jacob is facepalming somewhere in ashes, of his ashes around that fireplace. We don't know the genesis of the wheel, The Mother, the wine/water/blessed/not blessed that makes you sometimes a) immortal protector (ala Jacob) b) immortal disinformation minister that never meets protector (ala Richard) c) potato. We don't know how Hurley is supposed to change the rules to the visitors of the island, since we know already a) Island cannot be found without rather large pendulum in some yankee apartment b) Island is shifted in time at least by several hours (Faraday rocket from not penny's boat tests) c) mostly potato. What we do know is that to enjoy immortality and ultimate trust of The Protector you need to participate in at least one of a) genocide/The Purge of entire Dharma b) multiple kidnappings, strangling, murders, assassinations around the world c) smashing potatoes. And to have another timeline with your friends in afterlife according to church window you need to participate in one of the following religions a) Islam b) Judaism c) Hinduism d) Christianity e) Taoism f) Wooden Wheel representing, of course, Potato Haulage.
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If they ever wanted to write a book which gave the complete story and answered all the above, I'd be the first to buy it.
I didn't like it. I have read all the reviews and they have praised it but I don't agree.
That was not the show I started watching 6 years ago. The writers butchered it. They teased till the end and then did this so called brilliant twist where the stuff off the island was the Purgatory . Yeah great way to go guys :\
When they first started the series and got onto the second season they said everything will be explained before the show ends but they didnt explain much and what they did was a crap way of doing it (adam and eve were MIB and his mam.. please)
They said for a long time that everything could be explained by science yet they threw that out of the window because they probably watched back to the future one night and decided that time travel was cool.
I hated the way they dropped the darhma stuff. That was my favorite part about the series (I love Sci-Fi) and the orientation videos gave me chills but again they dropped it to focus on Jacob and his brother.
They did the whole thing with Richard and his wife a couple of weeks back but dropped it.
Sorry for the rant but I was just so disappointed with the way it ended and I'm let down by the fact that the produces promised us so many answers but left us with more questions
That was not the show I started watching 6 years ago. The writers butchered it. They teased till the end and then did this so called brilliant twist where the stuff off the island was the Purgatory . Yeah great way to go guys :\
When they first started the series and got onto the second season they said everything will be explained before the show ends but they didnt explain much and what they did was a crap way of doing it (adam and eve were MIB and his mam.. please)
They said for a long time that everything could be explained by science yet they threw that out of the window because they probably watched back to the future one night and decided that time travel was cool.
I hated the way they dropped the darhma stuff. That was my favorite part about the series (I love Sci-Fi) and the orientation videos gave me chills but again they dropped it to focus on Jacob and his brother.
They did the whole thing with Richard and his wife a couple of weeks back but dropped it.
Sorry for the rant but I was just so disappointed with the way it ended and I'm let down by the fact that the produces promised us so many answers but left us with more questions
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Me and my eldest daughter have watched every episode together but she hasn't been around for the last 48 hours so we must be the only 2 Lost fans who haven't seen the ending yet.
I've stayed away from reading in here and I don't know anybody else who watches it.
It's killing me not knowing.
Fair do's to her though, she was offered to go to a Lost party and refused because she wanted to watch it with her daddy.
I've stayed away from reading in here and I don't know anybody else who watches it.
It's killing me not knowing.
Fair do's to her though, she was offered to go to a Lost party and refused because she wanted to watch it with her daddy.
Loved it tbh.
Ending was quite moving at times. I sort of agree that more could have been answered/cleared up, but it still got a thumbs up from me. I guess part of the attraction is that quite a few things were left up in the air.
Bet discussions will go on for yonks
Ending was quite moving at times. I sort of agree that more could have been answered/cleared up, but it still got a thumbs up from me. I guess part of the attraction is that quite a few things were left up in the air.
Bet discussions will go on for yonks
So they didnt die with the plane crash at the beginning but died like as in the show (like jack in the end died of the stab wound from Locke)?
So Kate and Sawyer and the others that got off the island died much later NATURALLY?
My head is done in!!!
So Kate and Sawyer and the others that got off the island died much later NATURALLY?
My head is done in!!!