LOST Ending - Am I the only one who thought it was brilliant?
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It tops the Ashes to Ashes ending in my opinion. Both really good endings, but the good thing about LOST was seeing the characters all together for the final time and knowing how much of a journey we've had with them on the Island.
I'm glad some of the mysteries went unsolved. Why? Because the majority of us would never be satisfied with them. People would have their own answer regardless of the conclusion such as Christian turning out to be MiB.
Leaving it open will make this show talked about for years. If everything was answered, they'll be many arguments of what they wanted answered and it'll just cheapen the show. Hell, I was displeased that Jacob turned out to be a nobody who somehow turned supernatrual after drinking from his fake mother's cup and got all emotional by killing his brother. But if his background remained unanswered, he woud have remained a better character like he was at the Season 5 finale.
I'm glad some of the mysteries went unsolved. Why? Because the majority of us would never be satisfied with them. People would have their own answer regardless of the conclusion such as Christian turning out to be MiB.
Leaving it open will make this show talked about for years. If everything was answered, they'll be many arguments of what they wanted answered and it'll just cheapen the show. Hell, I was displeased that Jacob turned out to be a nobody who somehow turned supernatrual after drinking from his fake mother's cup and got all emotional by killing his brother. But if his background remained unanswered, he woud have remained a better character like he was at the Season 5 finale.
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Perfect ending IMO.
Need to rewatch it at some point though.
I dont get why people want this answering. I just took it as Hurleys his nickname. I have never questioned it to be anything special or diffrent?
Plot-wise - depressing and frustrating. Questions Questions Questions. Does my head in thinking about it.
To opt for a slightly skewed version of 'they're all dead' was predicted pretty much from the start, albeit they didn't die in the plane crash.
Purgatory, a dream, and 'all happening in xxx's head' were the 3 main ideas always proposed, and it felt a small amount of lazy that they went with purgatory.
But in saying that, while a fair number of questions undoubtedly did not get answered, in the course of keeping us hooked throughout the series, we needed more and more mysteries to keep the allure. Problem was they created too many to answer.
It was a decent conclusion, albeit not one which tied up lots of loose ends.
But this was Lost - was it ever going to?
Too much explanation would have left people outraged. "The island is magic."- cop out. "There's a scientific explanation"- it would need to be explained, but no one on the Lost team has mastered time travel as far as I'm aware, so whatever science they did tell us would be under extreme scrutiny! Given that the central theme of the show was Science vs Faith it's only right that we work out which one it was for ourselves (bit of both, imo), especially since that's what Jack and all the other characters had to do.
It really wasn't what I expected but it was beautiful and fitting. The whole show was about redemption and that's how it ended.
same i was not properly awake this morning whilst watching
btw my favourite scene is at the cliff side and the fight with Jack and MIB in the rain amazing
As far as Im concerned that was the perfect way to end the show, the writers already said that they wouldnt explain everything
Lost was always character driven, and thats what mattered in the end, the characters
That was a little homage to Matrix and the battle between Neo and Agent Smith I think.
I think it's more 'couldn't' than 'wouldn't'.
yh was gonna say that, it was amazing i was sorta hoping for slo-mo fights:D
Which is fair enough, unless you know of a show where time travel and movable land masses were fully explained.
In one of the many 'explanations' currently doing the rounds, it is casually mentioned that Jack sacrificed himself at the end. Okay, yes, but how did that happen? What exactly was the light? What were its properties? How did it bring about Jack's death? Through mere proximity? What was the exact nature of the light? If it was spiritual, how did it interact with the material plane?
That's just one of many, many examples. It's similar to the start of season 6, when Locke and the smoke monster were revealed to be somehow the same entity. "So now we know what the smoke monster is," many people said. Actually - NO, we didn't (and don't) know that, or anything at all.
Lost was a 6-years-long shaggy dog story. It was just a lot of mostly harmless bullshit, really.
People were never going to be happy whatever they ended it wiith
With it being a "mystical" island they could have written all the hockum they wanted and passed it as "mysticism" or "sci fi"
Well, quite. The nature of this show was that outlandish things happened which couldn't be explained, and it was left to the viewer to try and fill in the gaps.
Which is fair enough if the viewer is happy to do that, but Lost is a show which splits folk down the middle - those happy with the way it ended, and those frustrated by continued lack of explanation of various mysteries.
Many people say this, but I think it's a little selfish. The mysteries and the island were just as much of importance as the characters.
The mysteries were what made this show special and kept baiting you along with the characters journey. So I sympathise with those who got a very vague addressing of all the strange happenings.
In the end, the characters got the send off (as is usually the way) and the plot elements got the shaft (as it was too hard to resolve on camera given the shear number they threw in without much thought to keep the viewers hooked).
Still enjoyed it, very emotional - dare I say it, more written to appease the female viewers rather than the males (going by our householod and friends).
But as the finale went on, I just got swept up in the developments, and when Jack met his father Christian at the end, and asked "How are you here?" to be asked "How are you here, Jack?" and then Jack's realisation that he was also dead, and him breaking down in his father's arms and I no longer cared about finding out about the Tawaret statue, or Walt's specialness, or the H-bomb, or the infertility or a whole load of other questions I had - I just thought it was a truly beautiful and moving way to end a show I've loved so much.
Some people clearly are happy with this ending. I'm a bit underwhelmed by it, and do agree with the views which seem to criticise the overplaying of the FS of the final series as being the answer for everything from the start,
But wouldn't that have been fine? As long as it was answered. There were plenty of answers in the final series, Richard's episode being the highlight. In one fell swoop they managed to cover 6 or 7 big mysteries and that was very satisfying.