This is Wayne's World

So it ends then?

6 years of solid gold programming, cliff hangers, plot twists and tropical mysteries. Lost has finished. I feel like a curse has been lifted. No longer do I have the desire or the desperate need to know what is going to happen next anymore. I don’t wish I had the next episode on tape to give me my next fix. 6 years of story development to lead to what must be a certain rock solid diamond final episode. An ending to satisfy our thirst for answers…?
Well.
No.
Not really.

It disappointed in every way it could

I was gutted that so many of the stuff I found intriguing didn’t even get a look in. Stuff like Walt being ‘special’. What ever happened to him? The islands power and rules and well. The island. Oh well. It is what it is and I’m going to have to get over it I guess. But I’ve been a Lostie since the beginning and I really felt let down by the writers when they took the safe road to ending the show….. Just giving us what most people were writing about and predicting after season 2.

But did the writers really take the easy route?

Since watching the final show I’ve been deep in thought. It must have meant more then I initially took it for. I don’t buy ‘they’ve been dead all along, since the initial crash’ argument. And it pains me to think that everything happened only for them to die and all that preceded their deaths seemed to be…. Well. For nothing. Just to carry a story for 6 seasons when 2 or 3 seasons could have tied everything up!

So. If you want to know what Lost is all about here is my definitive answer and in true Lost style probably doesn’t actually answer anything….. So sorry ’bout that in advance!

Lost is meant metaphorically. OK they were all lost on an island but they were all lost in their hearts. Each character at the end had something to find, something to resolve in their souls and find peace. And the development of each character allowed us to explore them more as we undertook a journey with each character to their deaths in season 6. And then beyond…..
I think it is easy to forget its a tale about people when there are distractions like the island and its mysteries used to carry the story along…

Which leads me to when they died. Everyone on the island died when Juliet detonated the H bomb. They bit the dust at that moment. At first I initially toyed with the idea they jumped back into present day at the moment the bomb went off but since the finale i fell out with that idea…… Plus anyone writing time travel into a story is asking for trouble. Plot hole central!

Which meant (in my eyes) the sideways universe was a kind of limbo where they were all in trying to come to terms with their lot by living out how they would’ve like their lives to go, given the choice. All they had to do was remember the time before they died, their time on the island. Desmond was there to help them remember. Only he realised (at first) that they were in a kind of limbo. Running over Locke was not to kill him but to put him in direct contact with those who could help him remember…… Right?

Now…
Jacob and the story surrounding him and the Man in Black…
Jacob and MIB represented everyone’s struggle between good and evil. The past they left behind and the peace they are trying to find. An endless struggle between doing right over wrong.

Still with me?

What about everything in between like the Dhama Initiative. Well that stuff happened and the Whitmore ‘trying to find the island’ saga happened but we got too much info…. The way I see it, the writers had a lot of blank manuscript papers to fill and a lot of cliff hangers to find to keep us coming back til season 6 and they got carried away with writing fanciful stories that weren’t necessary but were enjoyable nevertheless. And that’s what upset me most about the finale was the realisation that we’d been had. Just a little, but bummed nevertheless.

And that’s it. The more I think about it the more I change my mind so that is my story and I’m sticking with it.

It was a top TV show though. Wasn’t it?

PS the image above bares no relevance to this post. I just thought it was cool and it is a little Lost related.