LOST Series Finale : I’m…Lost…
*Spoiler alert*
So after six seasons, LOST finally concluded last night. I started watching the show three weeks before this season, I got through all of the prior five seasons in that time. Once I started watching, it seemed to get more and more confusing but I just wanted to see how the show was going to end. I wanted all the questions that had been building up to be answered. What was I left with? …Nothing.
When I first started watching, I thought it was going to be just a shipwrecked trapped on a deserted island show…cool idea. Then they bring in polar bears, Dharma, time travel, and all sorts of crazy sci-fi elements…I was loving that. In the end, they explain none of it. At the start of Season 6 they create this “side flash” storyline. The whole season everybody is wondering what that even means, but I think all of our heads were still more curious about the island. What was the black smoke? What’s really special about the island? We’re told this last season would “reveal all”, but it seemed to just keep stringing along this side flash plot-line. This all builds up to the final episode where all they do is close out the weird side flash storyline they created. How do they close it out? Oh, they’re just all dead no big deal. WHAT??!?!?!
I’m sitting there wondering :
- What is the purpose of that black smoke?
- How did EVERYONE else die? It’s not just Jack in that church, it’s everyone who appeared to escape on the plane too.
- How did man in black turn into the smoke monster instantly after being thrown into that well, and why?
- What were all the weird symbols and markings?
- Island moving? Time travel? Yeah none of that explained.
- Dharma Initiative? They started going into that hardcore I think the second season, and then just dropped it.
- How is Richard immortal, and then why is he mortal in the end?
- WTF is the light in the center of the island?
These are just questions that are coming off the top of my head. I thought it was awful to just end the finale with a 2 and a half hour reunion only to find out that they’re all united in death. Seriously…they’re all dead?
I feel like I wasted so much time on this show, anybody saying it was a great finale has become just to emotionally attached to all the characters that anything would seem good. Even them all…being…dead.
Except for Ben, but they don’t explain that either. He’s just chilling outside the church that’s in…purgatory? Earth? Where the hell are they that once they walk into a church they get to walk into heaven or wherever that white light leads?
Seriously people…you cannot be happy about this ending. If you are, you’ve been duped hard.
I agree completely. Anybody can make a show that gives people questions. Its easy to do weird stuff when you don’t have to worry about providing an answer for it.
Never did get into the show, and I don’t think I’ll be downloading the seasons now either!
Although they chose not to explain much (from the geek’s perspective some things were explained)…
* What is the purpose of that black smoke?
The black smoke doesn’t have a “purpose”, it’s the Man in Black when he doesn’t choose to take on the form of a dead person.
* How did EVERYONE else die? It’s not just Jack in that church, it’s everyone who appeared to escape on the plane too.
Jack’s dad tells him that everyone is dead, some died before Jack some died much later than Jack, everyone has to die eventually. How they die is irrelevant, perhaps some of them died in their sleep in their 80’s after a long and contented life. I don’t think that time would pass the same way in Purgatory as it does in the real world.
* How did man in black turn into the smoke monster instantly after being thrown into that well, and why?
Unexplained, and not really necessary to be explained for the sake of the story.
* What were all the weird symbols and markings?
Many of the symbols and markings (you talking about the ones in the “church” window) are various symbols of the afterlife and resurrection (christian cross, wheel representing reincarnation, etc…)
* Island moving? Time travel? Yeah none of that explained.
Again, not necessary for the story.
* Dharma Initiative? They started going into that hardcore I think the second season, and then just dropped it.
It was a scientific expedition sent to the island to explore it’s strange properties. Does it really matter whether they got the money through an IPO or the fortune of the Knights Templar?
* How is Richard immortal, and then why is he mortal in the end?
Did you watch the Richard flashback episode?
* WTF is the light in the center of the island?
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I agree with you on some points, if you were watching Lost as a science fiction show then the ending was disappointing because it didn’t truly explain anything, if you watched it as a character driven drama (which was truly it’s intent as a show) then it was an incredibly powerful finale.
I have to agree with you on a lot of those points. I have to say that I saw this ending as a possibility a long time ago, but it seemed soo obvious that I didn’t think that would be it. It’s honestly disappointing. It was definitely sad to watch the last 10 minutes of it, but it just opens up plenty more questions.
Overall the last season just seemed like “Oh shit, this show has to end, let’s use this season to wrap up a few things ASAP and then they’re dead. peace.”
I think it could have been done better. Then again, knowing how it ends now may offer some insight to things that happened previously. That would require re-watching it again…
More importantly did anyone bank off any of those terms?
ok, i have to go back and watch it again and some things weren’t explained, but I thought it was a good ending. What I understand to have happened is they all died in the plane crash. But they weren’t ready to move on so they worked out whatever they needed to work out together before they did. That was the point of the island. All the dharma stuff, whatever wasn’t real anyway, hmmm I know what I think it meant but not sure how to articulate – … The side story was what would have happened if they hadn’t died. In the end they work everything out karmically or however you want to put it, and deal with the fact that they died, and that nothing in the side story will ever happen?
Basically if you are too worried about the black smoke you are missing the point. The point is that its ok to die, that heaven, however you understand it (all the different religious symbols at once in the church), exists, that all the different religions are just different interpretations of heaven, that it does exist, and that everything will be ok after you die.
So stop worrying about the dharma initiative.
I never watched the show once, friend had me watch it and was obviously extremely lost as well.
i agree with you that there are a lot of unanswered questions but none of them are really important. Most of the ones you wrote already have answers.
The main idea in the finale was that they were all reunited in the afterlife, even if they died on the island or 50 years after. Not everybody died on the day jack died, proof for this is the dialogue between Hugo and Ben at the end when he tells him he was a great number 2.
Richard’s immortality was linked to Jacob, so when he died, his spell was gone too.
Hi guys,
I didn’t watch this Show. But Season 1 is sitting in my Netflix Quene where I can watch it instantly. I like to start from the beginning just so I want be confused. But according to your blog I will still be CONFUSED!!! LOL!!!!
Kind regards,
Sam
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The light was just part of the island’s magical properties, paired with the high level of electromagnetism, or whatever Daniel Faraday called it.
You can’t “cram” for a LOST season finale, let alone a series finale.
* What is the purpose of that black smoke?
No real “purpose”, so to speak.
* How did man in black turn into the smoke monster instantly after being thrown into that well, and why?
It wouldn’t matter if they did explain it anyway. It’s not relevant to the story. My theory is: He died as a human when he was thrown into the center of the island. His heart was full of anger and resentment, so when his body “died” he took on the form of a pillar of black smoke.
* How did EVERYONE else die? It’s not just Jack in that church, it’s everyone who appeared to escape on the plane too.
Did you actually watch the whole series through? Sayeed = bomb on the sub. Jin and Sun = on the sub. Libby = shot. Hurley, after taking the role as protector, and eventually passing it on to another, dies. Jack = knife to the side. Locke = murdered by Ben. Shannon = shot. Should I go on?
* What were all the weird symbols and markings?
The symbols in the church were all symbols representing various “religions”.
* Island moving? Time travel? Yeah none of that explained.
Doesn’t matter. Not relevant to the overall story.
* Dharma Initiative? They started going into that hardcore I think the second season, and then just dropped it.
Doesn’t matter. Not relevant to the overall story.
* How is Richard immortal, and then why is he mortal in the end?
Jacob “blessed” him. The last of Jacob left the island, thus removing the “blessing”.
* WTF is the light in the center of the island?
You are in for a rough life if you want everything explained to you.
* Should I go on?
Kate? Sawyer? Lapedis? Anybody else that “escaped” on the plane?
* The symbols in the church were all symbols representing various “religions”.
I was speaking more on the cork in the center of the island. Not the signs of the different religions.
* You are in for a rough life if you want everything explained to you.
Your answers to all of my questions are “Doesn’t matter”. It all does matter because it’s part of the show, it’s why we watched it. We wanted to learn about all of these things and in the end, they explain none of it. I don’t want everything explained to me, but explaining nothing is just stupid.
Ah, scuber.
Those two questions illustrate my closing statement to a “T”.
You just gotta know everything.
I guess the main intention of the author who created “LOST” want you to be “LOST after watching the finale. Point Taken! Luckly, I only watched some epis..
Here’s a few more unanswered questions about the show:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1936291
A few unanswered questions though: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1936291
If worrying about the Dharma Initiative and the Smoke Monster mean you are missing the story, then why the fuck do they take up roughly 1/3 of the show with episodes directly related to the two?
The questions in the post are just some of thousands that people have. Everyone I know thinks the whole show was a let down. Even my wife who was die hard, even when i was saying that the show has sucked for seasons 5 and 6, she now feels disappointed by the finale and the whole show in general.
In the end, the show could have went in any direction they felt like when it came to the storyline from season 2-5. All of the content in those seasons could be rewritten to contain completely different shit, change dharma initiative to aliens living on the island, for instance. None of that matters because in the end, they aren’t going to explain any of it.
Tell me this, when the fuck did everyone die? on the island? did they actually crash there and die? Where did Jack die? Did he crash on the island and die there?
At the end Jack is looking up as he’s dying and the plane flies overhead. Is he really laying there?
LOL, thank you, and i thought i am the only one that was/is confused. I was very extremely disapointed, that was all so far fetched, well probably they will soon announce Lost the Movie that will explain everything, oh wait, Lost II will then explain everything, or maybe Lost III, or eventually Lost Directors Cut….
I also have the personal challenge of an overtly analytical mind to overcome, and it pains me when there are unanswered questions or plot lines that do not make any sense. Just being swept up in the visual awe of a production, and immersing yourself in the sound and cinematography is just not enough for me.
The final was a big disappointment. I watched some episodes from various seasons, but have to admit that the plot never excited me.
I am as confused as you are. I hate it when tv shows do that. It is so not fair.
To be honest I was lost in the first season and just gave up on it – I could never really seem to get into it.
All the good writers left television to work on lucrative internet jobs. Now all you’re left with are talentless fags and women to write the majority of crap on television. Which is also why programming content has been seeing a steady decline as more and more young bucks abandon it in favor of user-controlled internet content with the added benefit of zero gov’t censorship or control.
The Spearhead did an excellent article on this losing between old and new media, check it out:
http://www.the-spearhead.com/2009/09/24/the-new-tv-season-missing-men/
There’s a reason they call it the boob tube.
I know many wouldn’t believe me, but I have never watched even a single episode. I heard it was good, but was never able to watch it. Figured that I would get it on DVD and watch it one New Years Day!
Personally it was a huge disappointment :(
was expecting something else..but anyways the show was great…enjoyed all the seasons.
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LOL, can’t believe you watched that show past the 2nd season.. by that time I thought I was going to puke if I heard Michael scream “WALLLLLTT wheres my boy???!! WALLLLT”.. lol, that shows a complete joke.
watch for a good laugh LOLLL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVehDbM6NTI
I was so disappointed to what happened! I’m waiting for that episode.
Nah! Lost final episode was Lost. :)
It’s really a disaster. I actually still feel pretty bad since the finale of Lost. So many unanswered things… :(
It’s really a disaster. I actually still feel pretty bad since the finale of Lost. So many unanswered things!
What a nice news for a LOST unlover :) I don’t like it from the first season.
What a nice news for a LOST unlover :) I don’t like it from the first season. I prefer watching Prison Break – more convincing than LOST
The final was a big disappointment. I watched some episodes from various seasons, but have to admit that the plot never excited me.
I thought it made perfect sense to me. Lost is quite a religious programme, symbols, life and death and Greek Myth is mainly used.
I think they all died at certain times during the series. Don’t you think it’s strange how Jin was running around after being blown up on a boat? Or in the final season, a bomb hit the beach and John said to Jack..welcome to our team. Also the blowup in the submarine must of killed alot of people…
•What is the purpose of that black smoke?
The smoke is like a security guard as Ben mentioned back in Season 3 I think…but in fact is John Lock/The Man in Black.
•How did EVERYONE else die? It’s not just Jack in that church, it’s everyone who appeared to escape on the plane too.
When they went back to the island, I believed they died…Ok remember there was explosives on the airplane? Sawyer, Kate and the others flew that plane…they must of died that way. Jack died on the beach, Hurley probably died from taking care of the island etc.,…
•How did man in black turn into the smoke monster instantly after being thrown into that well, and why?
I think relates to being a ghost…instead of a white ghost…he was black…a bad guy. The black and white, has different meanings like Yin and Yan…
•What were all the weird symbols and markings?
Relates to Chinese/Greek/other countries
•Island moving? Time travel? Yeah none of that explained.
The island was an expirement. I think there was a huge amount of energy at the bottom of it, hence the drilling. The energy could be harnessed and cause Time Travel, that’s why Dharma came along.
•Dharma Initiative? They started going into that hardcore I think the second season, and then just dropped it.
See above. It’s all linked with the rich guy who worked for Dharma…
•How is Richard immortal, and then why is he mortal in the end?
There was an episode on it, being touched by Jacob. Think of Jacob and The Man in Black as Gods on the Island.
•WTF is the light in the center of the island?
Relates to the Dharma drilling.
I only watched the whole series once and not a Lost Nerd, but it did all link. The polar bear was the Black Smoke changing…he could be different things including the dead people on the island.
They all blew up on the plane…remember when Locke said there’s explosives on the plane?!
Hugely disappointing. All good fiction, including science fiction and fantasy, needs some kind of logical framework and consistency. There is, i believe, a subtle difference between suspension of belief and total disbelief. As far as TV shows of this ilk go, even programs like X Files and Fringe which deal with pretty outlandish themes still maintain sufficient realism and logical consistency to ensure the viewer was able to keep their interest.
Also, what the hell is with the Polar Bears?
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I had been tempted to start watching the Lost series a lot of times since a lot of my friends watched it also. But I barely had enough time to watch the shows I was already following, so I didn’t want to get hooked on yet another one. Looks like it was probably for the better as I hate cliffhanger endings after a season of dedicated viewing.
It was a really bad ending, I only started watching it in the last couple seasons it was a good idea, till they messed with it.
Yes,I really agree with I lost myself.I need another series
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Lost season finale was total. I was expecting more but the prediction didnt come true
Is there a new season in the works? I’m beginning to miss the show already.