Lost - The Final Season

[JudynTX]

I guess I belong to the Love Story Camp. That's what is so great about this show, each of us can walk away with our own interpretation of the show.

[rjv]

i still can see people from the love story camp being pissed. sayed and shannon ? what was all that stuff about claudia about?

jin and sun really died without bringing up their daughter?

kate and juliette? hugo and libby?

[JudynTX]

i still can see people from the love story camp being pissed. sayed and shannon ? what was all that stuff about claudia about?

jin and sun really died without bringing up their daughter?

kate and juliette? hugo and libby?

It's ok rjv. Go watch it again.

I'm reading what MIB's name was....... Samuel.

[Stringer_Bell]

i still can see people from the love story camp being pissed. sayed and shannon ? what was all that stuff about claudia about?

When Sayid found redemption on the island, when people stopped looking at him as a killer and more like a friend...Shannon was there. That's the way I understood it, but I totally see why some people don't want to see the situation like that because of the time invested in Claudia and Sayid going on a kill frenzy against Dharma/Widmore employees.

I was in neither the love or sci-fi camp, I just wanted the show to end without me saying "they could have done a better job in the last two hours of ending it." I predicted the series would end with 1) Jack finding a young child somewhere and handing him/her a candy bar a la Jacob or 2) Jack calling out to a new ship with his arms waving against the Sunset as if to to say goodbye...and writers found a better way, which was so much more profound than I thought this show could still show us. It was a real end to OUR journey with the characters and now they move on and we're left with all the memories we shared with them.

[Sii]

I haven't read all the comments yet about last night, but I imagine some are complaining about it. I thought the ending and the whole episode was perfect. To please everyone on ending this series was going to be impossible - last night was about as well as I could have hoped for - and this is my fav TV series of all time

The alt world being where these characters who had passed on at various times waited until they were ready to let go - and everyone was there including Jack was perfect. I dont think it invalidated anything that happened on the island all these years - the whole journey was important. This show has always been about the characters - their lives and the struggles they faced. It started and ended that way. To show these people coming together as they passed on was a fitting tribute to the bond they formed all these years and how important everyone was to each other

The scene where Jack is finally closing his eyes - in the same spot he woke up in with the pilot no less - and then not dying alone because Vincent showed up was pretty emotional

I wasn't dissatisfied at all with it

[JudynTX]

Oh damn....don't bring up Vincent again. !

[Kermit]

Jensen recap part one is up.

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,2031...387946,00.html

[florige]

I haven't read all the comments yet about last night, but I imagine some are complaining about it. I thought the ending and the whole episode was perfect. To please everyone on ending this series was going to be impossible - last night was about as well as I could have hoped for - and this is my fav TV series of all time

The alt world being where these characters who had passed on at various times waited until they were ready to let go - and everyone was there including Jack was perfect. I dont think it invalidated anything that happened on the island all these years - the whole journey was important. This show has always been about the characters - their lives and the struggles they faced. It started and ended that way. To show these people coming together as they passed on was a fitting tribute to the bond they formed all these years and how important everyone was to each other

The scene where Jack is finally closing his eyes - in the same spot he woke up in with the pilot no less - and then not dying alone because Vincent showed up was pretty emotional

I wasn't dissatisfied at all with it

Oh damn....don't bring up Vincent again. !

Okay, I think I am going to have to buy and watch this series now.

[JudynTX]

Okay, I think I am going to have to buy and watch this series now.

I hope you do.

[sonic21]

I didn't mind that they didn't answer questions. The finale was great.

[MannyIsGod]

I really have zero interest in debating topics that you simply can't be right on. And whether or not you found a show appealing or satisfying is one of those very topics, but I would like to say a few things regarding people being upset.

I never considered myself as part of any sort of camp of Lost fans. I appreciated the show on many levels but in the end what mattered the most was that it entertained me. I remember watching the first season on DVD in 2 days straight because of how sucked in I got with the mysteries and everything that was going on. As the show went the reasons I watched evolved a bit and I grew to love the easter eggs, the cool referenced to obscure only the nerdiest of nerds understood, and the way I liked certain characters.

I was extremely satisfied with this season because of the writers had a direction and knew exactly how to get there. Many people will complain about the lack of answers but in all honesty they did a tremendous job of giving answers and moving the show along in the path they wanted to take it. You don't know every little detail, but this is a one hour a week television show not a Tolkien novel and that is something thats very important to remember. The fact is that for most people, we didn't NEED all of the answers and not having them simply adds to the mystery of the Island. Having everything explained to you and spoon fed can be an insult to intelligence as much as much of the ing makes it seem as the opposite.

In all honesty, I had very low expectations of what to get out of the finale and what to expect form fan reaction. A lot of the time people want the last show to be the ultimate climax and the best show of the entire series but the fact is when you have a show that has given you over 100 hours of television what are the odds the final 1-2 hours will be the best? They aren't very high. I thought they did an excellent job of tying it all together and I'm sure when I watch the whole series again I'm going to catch things that are going resonate with this finale all the way back in the first season.

Its a of a show and I'm sad its over.

[AFBlue]

I thought this was the perfect ending to the series...half about the mission to preserve the Island (a rare source of "light") from a being -bent on destroying it, and the other half about bringing closure to the relationships of the Losties.

On the mission-side, I loved that Jack fulfilled his destiny to kill MIB...and that Kate was finally worth a damn and came through with a clutch bullet! I loved that Hurley was asked to protect it after the danger subsided...and that he in-turn asked Ben for his guidance.

I loved the few relationships that were able to sustain in real time (i.e. it's implied that Hurley and Ben sent Desmond back to be with Penny and Charlie, also that Kate helped Claire raise Aaron). But what I loved even more was that they found a way to tie up relationships that didn't end so cleanly...Jack/Kate, Sawyer/Juliet, Sayeed/Shannon, Hurley/whatsherface. The pure emotion in all of the reuniting/awakenings was epic.

This show was as much about the characters overcoming obstacles and finding themselves as it was about the mysteries of the island itself. I could spend time agonizing over the importance of the numbers or why some Losties flashed to 1977 whereas some flashed to "present day" in the Aljira flight...but that would take my focus away from the most complex, well-constructed series of all time.

I will definitely miss this show, but what a great way to end it.

[Sigz]

Excellent ending to the series.

I can't believe LOST is officially over. What an excellent TV series. What a ride.

[rr2418]

When Juliet detonated the H-bomb, wouldn't everyone that was near by have died? They were at ground zero! If that wouldn't have killed them then radiation would've.

[4>0rings]

I am just not happy with it. There was no way they were going to be able to please everyone, but to end the show like seasons 2-5 never existed is lame to me.

The story of the character's was great, I enjoyed the show for many other reasons than just the sci-fi . It just seems like a farce to create this crazy scenario with scientific anomaly's, time-travel, characters named after scientists and philosophers, etc.. just to have it all come down to "a magic light". I remember hearing the producers in an interview talk about how everything that was put in the show was put there for a reason, are you kidding me? Like how they explained why they put all of the specific books throughout the series in the re-cap episode, "All of the books were books that the writer's had read and liked" or something along those lines. Good to know Lindelof, thanks.

Pretty much everyone who was watching the show to see who Sawyer got to kiss this episode was happy, and everyone else who was intrigued by a show that pushed the boundaries, brought in sci-fi elements, and was damn awesome for around 4 seasons were ed because there was no way they would be able to tie in all the crazy they made to seem important. Like when Jacob told Kate, "It's only a line of chalk on a wall" GMAFB, if it's only a line of chalk on a wall, why make it seem like it was the most important mystery EVER. Why were there endless cliffhangers, and build ups? What were the numbers all about? Why had widmore be such a mysterious and important character just to have him shot and out of the story without ever even giving him a real purpose.

I knew the re-cap episode was going to highlight specific things that they wanted to be refreshed in the viewer's minds so they could tie in the story their way, but I didn't really expect to be slapped in the face. They pretty much defended the finale before it even started by saying this show was all about the characters. Was it? Or do we think it is because they prepped us for what was going to be a let-down unless we were viewing it they way they wanted us too.

Basically this, that show and the time I wasted on it. The whole last episode was bout people touching each other then Jacks dead.

Next to Locke, Mr. Echo was the next best character and absolutley nothing about him.

I could of watched season 1 and part of 2 and the last 2 mins of the finale and would of been fine.

The writers them selves said they were NOT in purgatory, heaven, dead, or on an alien world. YOU!

[Kamala]

When Juliet detonated the H-bomb, wouldn't everyone that was near by have died? They were at ground zero! If that wouldn't have killed them then radiation would've.

That was my reaction too. Apparently it blasted the losties to 2007.

[Texas Chili Dog]

[Jacob1983]

We can all agree that the flash sideways/alternate reality was "limbo" or purgatory right? And the Losties either died in the plane crash in the pilot, the second plane crash to get back to the island, or the H-bomb right? I liked the ending. It wasn't pefect but it gave the characters peace and closure. Every character had achieved their goal or purpose on the show. The characters in the church at the end were the ones that were closest to Jack and the ones that touched his life the most. No offense to Mr. Ecko but he wasn't an important character. Michael and Walt weren't either.

[4>0rings]

I told my gf, ''Jack didn't just do a flying punch to a guy holding a knife did he?''

Show was such BS.

[ace3g]

kind of looks like they edited Jack's face to the stunt guy leaping, his face changes immediately from mouth opened to close and the face position changes a bit to, maybe that is just from the gif but it looks weird

[Texas Chili Dog]

First scene of Lost side-by-side with the final scene:

[ace3g]

thats awesome cool find

[Texas Chili Dog]

Was I the only one expecting to see some Matrix go down between Jack and MIB?

[MannyIsGod]

I'm not yet convinced the flying punch scene in the rain wasn't an homage to the Matrix.

They loved to do like that.

[exstatic]

And the Losties either died in the plane crash in the pilot, the second plane crash to get back to the island, or the H-bomb right?

Not what I took away from it. Jack even asked Christian, and he said everything happened. Think about it: if they all died on O815, how did they have these deep relationships with people they never met? People died along the way, but the island and everything that happened on it was real. The only non-real/non-linear place was the flash sideways.