Warning!

Lost spoiler ahead!

If you’ve seen the finale already, do read.

If you haven’t, think about it three or four times before you read.

If you don’t care about Lost - why are you even reading this? ;)

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I loved Lost Seasons 1-5. I was hooked and researhed every sly reference and the meaning of every character name etc.

I also loved Season 6 episodes Ab Atterno and LAX. Aside from that I think Season 6 has been a disaster. Too many things seems to have been ‘attached’ rather than well-written into the story.

I was loving the finale ( I was almost in tears when Charlie caught site of Claire) until Christian Shepherd turned up with that flagrant all-religions stained-glass rubbish.

I could go on for pages as why but I will focus my post on the questions that bother me the most-

1. The purgatory alt-timeline only introduced in last season? How can what has turned out to be a vitally important part of the show ONLY be introduced in the last season. That’s bad writing.

2. The light introduced 3 episodes from the end? An even more important part of the show is introduced sooooo late in the Series, and suddenly is the focus? oh, and btw all the evil in the world can be stopped by a stone bath-plug. Apparently. That’s TERRIBLE writing.

3. If the alt-timeline is indeed purgatory, how can Hurley see dead-people (EG once Charlie died, he still advised Hurley, yet we now know he went to purgatory where he didn’t realize he was dead. Are there 2 dead Charlie’s) How can Desmond meta-jump into it and how can Keamy die?

4. Why is everyone the age they were at the time the plane crashed? Does time work in purgatory? How come Aaron is still a baby when in the real world he was far older, and presumably lived a lot longer?

5. Sayid soul-mate was Shannon not Nadia?? this is perhaps the most outrageous thing I have ever seen?

6. What on Earth was that Lighthouse thing?? Seriously? A lighthouse that allows you to see peoples lives?? Only mentioned for one episode?? This still boggles my brain.

7. (Added) The whole smoke monster thing has never felt right to me, infact I’m hopelessly confused….

When Richardo arrived on the Black Rock, he was confronted by MIB in person, and also Smokey, yet MIB was dead. Jacob makes no reference to this, even offering MIB wine. OK so we know MIB can inhabit bodies, but what made him stop inhabiting his human self? Why didn’t he inhabit bodies like Eko etc? And wasn’t MIB trapped in the cabin surrounded by ash, asking Locke for help? Does that mean during that time he can only be Smokey? How the hell could he have been Christian then?

What happened to the Smokey part of himself when the bath-plug of heavenly-light was pulled> Did it just evaporate?


8. The fact that what the island is and what it represents has just been TOTALLY FORGOTTEN this season. It was awesome that Jack sacrificed himself and Hurley is now the leader, but what happens next? Who was Jacob and MIBs mum?etc.

It doesn’t matter, as long as we can have some lovely slow-motion-soft-focus shots of all our favorite characters…..

…and I think this is the main problem, It seems that Daltron have realized they have a runaway juggernaught of a plot that they lost control of long ago, so rather than waste energy trying to save it, they focused on the fact that we have all grown to LOVE these awesome characters, and allowed that to be the focus.

Not the plot. Not the actual story. The characters, at the sacrifice at what most of us started watching the show for originally, The mystery.

Lost started as a high-concept mystery, and ended as a low-rent soap.

Please, I would love responses from lovers and haters alike. This is a serious post, from a long time Lost fan.

I just feel let-down.

Wanted to plot something down as well:

I seem to remember something that the producers said once (but damned if I could find a link) that the main theme of the show was how the people changed, developed and progressed throughout the seasons. The Island was indeed one of the main characters, but not necessarily in a way that we were to know anything more about the mystery behind it.

The point about the lighthouse? Couldn’t agree more. What was it’s purpose? Who put it there? Why did Jacob want Hurley to take Jack there? Possibly to see his purpose on the island, but I’ll have to rewatch some episodes to be fully certain about my theory.

Also the Purgatory/alt-timeline is in question: I believe that the alt-timeline was “happening” actually after Jack’s death, but was shown at the same time as the normal timeline for effect. Some people online say that only Jack died on the Island and went directly to the alt-timeline to “let go”, and the other islanders came when Jack was ready. Shouldn’t this mean that the others already was dead before Jack died? Or was time of death irrelevant?

I also want to know more about the Hurley/Ben-coop-thingy they quickly hinted towards before Hurley went into the church. Will there be something extra portraying this time of theirs, perhaps on a boxset with the series on DVD/BlueRay? That would be awesome, it that was the case!

My view of the finale? So-so, I think it’ll grew on me. The mystery that was contained in the show is still there even with it being over, which kinda fits in. The whole show was about being wtf’d and always wondering what was happening. When even the ending left me in that state, it kinda felt right, ya know?

As an added remark, even thinking that the producers would be able to explain a shitload of mystery within the season finale (through one season, even) is just being optimistic.

I might rant more detailed about this later on. I’ll leave the comment section open for anyone interested in this or with comments.