Tonight we bid adieu to Lost after six seasons on the air. The series finale had a lot to live up to and, without question, it wasn’t going to please everyone.
The producers have long said that the series was about the people. The title referred to their place in life and, through their experience, they grew and changed. In the end, all of our Losties (and many of their loved ones) are all together again, bound by the most important time in their lives — their time on the island.
In looking at the immediate reaction, it seems that many people feel cheated. I think it stems from (I believe) the misconception that the characters were dead the whole time.
We were told that the Losties were not dead and not in purgatory and they weren’t. Their experience on the island was real. They were all dead by the end of the show, in the church — a place they all created so that they could reunite once they had each passed away. As Christian told his son, some of them died before Jack did (on the island) and some died after.
What did you think of the series finale of Lost? Satisfying or upsetting? Love it or hate it? How does this one rank against other series finales?
UPDATE: If you were confused by the final images, blame ABC.
Lol…… You know everything is not what it seems to be. :~)
Are you sure? I’ll have to look at that again.
I don’t think Kate and the rest of the gang made it off the island alive. If you remember at the very end you saw plane wreckage. I do believe they all died.
@Venell2: I think you’ll find that that wreckage was from Oceanic 815.
I was fine until I realized the flash sideways were not reality but rather a gathering place for their souls to reunite. I was looking for a finale that was more along the lines of being rooted in time travel and alternate reality theory not death and the afterlife. As far as what was going on…. the island was real. They lived their lives and the flash sideways was not sideways at all, just their gathering place after they all died. We do not know how long they all lived either. As evidenced by some of the comments made by… Read more »
I’ve felt since the end of season 1 that the island was a ‘purgatory’ and everything I’ve seen since confirmed that interpretation (at least to me). Before they arrived on the island they were Lost; we discovered that each person had committed significant ‘sins’ (not necessarily in the religious sense). Through their actions on the island they atoned for what they did in their life. And in the finale they found their redemption. The religious symbolism was present throughout but in the finale it was relentless. I’m a committed atheist but I loved watching Lost. Imho, the most religious show… Read more »
I’d be really intrested to compare the ending of Lost with the ending of Ashes to Ashes which just concluded on the BBC, they sound (techincally) similar but A2A has had mostly positive feedback.
it would be an insult to A2A to compare it with the lost ending. A2A explained everything, left nothing unanswered and tied everything up, lost took the cheats way out, made it up as they went along. I don’t care if they’re dead and moving on, I want the Islands question answered
I am still LOST! They did not explain many things. When did they all die? What was with the Dharma initiative? The turning of the wheel? The smoke monster? Jacob? The plane wreckage at the end…was that from the first crash or the 2nd? What about the plane flying away at the end? Why didn’t Ben go in the church? I thought the ending was supposed to explain all the mysteries! Sure it was good that they were all together at the end, but why did they not explain it all? Why did Jack have a son later & not… Read more »
@SydCam: So many questions…here are a few quick answers. The island experience was real and characters died when you saw them die. For example, Boone died soonafter the plane crash (season one), Jack died after saving Desmond, etc. Kate, Sawyer, Miles, Rose, Bernard, Vincent, and the other survivors died at some point later. The flash-sideways, where Jack had a son and Sawyer was a cop was their own little reality that they’d created (purgatory-like perhaps) to work out their problems and to live after they died. It wasn’t real like the rest of their lives. They created the church as… Read more »
I have watched LOST from the beginning to the end & have never missed an episode. I understand the ending, how they all came together again, I cried & cried & was happy that they were all together, but I do not understand the flash-sideways. Since this last season began I thought the flash-sideways showed what would happen if the plane had never crashed. But I did not understand how Jack had a son, Sawyer was a cop, Jin & Sun were not married, & how almost everyone we had seen on the island were all crossing paths with eachother… Read more »
1-after “The Incident”…it seems women were unable to carry a child full term, and died. Claire was immune b/c she conceived before coming to island. 2-the numbers were assigned to each candidate by Jacob. It was answered that “Jacob had a thing for numbers” and although they don’t seem to have had much significance…it was still fun to find them throughout the series. The fact that Hurley had the exact numbers on his lottery ticket, and the same numbers appeared on hatch just confirm they were destined to come to the island at Jacob’s hand. 3-Charles came back to make… Read more »
Although a lot of things were left without explanation on last night’s Lost finale the one thing that remained constant in the whole series was that these people were drawn together for a reason. Everything that happened to them on the island was real and it made sense that they would all be together in death as they were when they were alive. The island was a sort of place for misfit people who didn’t fit into the mainstream of society. They all had inner demons and the island helped them discover themselves and to make them all see they… Read more »
Absolutely dissapointed. I can’t say it made all that much sense to me, and it felt like a cheap way out. I felt I didn’t even get one answer never mind any kind of attempt to deal with the mysteries. I certainly have lost all interest in the show and will not be going back to even try to make sense out of something that now seems to me as having been made up as they went along. I certainly will be stay far away from anything else the writers make in the future too, they’ve wasted my time, and… Read more »
What about the plane with all of the dead people on it? I think that they all died in the plane crash, and those were their bodies. Some remained to ‘let go’ of their past by living on the island and helping each other?
I don’t know I am just trying to see where that came from?
What a horrible ending! The worst finale ever. What a waste of six years.
I would frame the show this way: Was it a successful series and would I recommend it? Yes. Some shows are about the journey, not the destination, and this is one of those. LOST was downright magical and wonderful at times, and without it we would’ve never been introduced to such outstanding and unique characters as Benjamin Linus and Hugo Reyes. Was the series finale satisfying? No. But I would preface that by saying that the entire last season was not satisfying. I think the producers made a misstep by choosing to go a metaphysical route in the end instead… Read more »
cryed like a baby all the way through, will miss all the people miss Hurley but glad they were all together at the end
I decided to start watching lost if by the end the feedback was good. But as I noticed, many people saying it sucked. I am glad I did not invest any time at this.
My theory is Jack died shortly after he woke up in the bamboo field for the first time and everything that happened on the island he was just imagining before he died,since he saw everyone on the plane. that’s the significance of him dying where he woke up. It’s probably not true , but there’s 1000 other theories out there.
Steaming hunk of dog pooh…as the whole season was. Really, seven years to come up with “Jack is dead and so are pretty much everyone else”? Moderator, it seems to me that Kate was dead because she was waiting for Jack in the church. I assume they were all dead although it makes no sense to me that Kate and Jim and some of the others who flew off the island showed up dead in the church. I guess the plane must have crashed…or not. The whole thing was a silly, steaming pile, steaming pile and not worthy of the… Read more »