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Lost - "The End" 5/23 series finale (spoilers)

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#1 ·
What an awesome episode!!!!!!!

Ok, it actually doesn't start for 1 hour. :)

Here it comes!
 
#1,453 ·
I think your description of S6 is consistent with what most of us posted here. To me, it felt like a different show, and it completely made S1-5 feel irrelevant and unimportant to the whole scheme of things. That said, in context to the rest of the SEASON, I felt the ending wasn't that bad. In context to the whole series, not so much. I kind of agree, Juliet blowing up, almost makes more sense as the series finale to Lost 1.0 (the first 5 intertwining seasons) and the actual series ender is more like that of Lost 2.0. But it was what it was. There have been few series on TV that lead to true water cooler discussion (outside of these reality series). Lost was almost in a class by itself. While I'm disappointed in the last season, it's still one of my favorite TV shows of all time, and outside of perhaps Fringe, which just ended, the last must see the night of the episode series for me.
Interesting that you bring up Fringe, because while I didn't feel what you felt about Lost, I did feel that way about Fringe.

Ever since...

Peter stepped into the Machine
...I felt the show had lost its direction. I kept hoping they would eventually tie things together, but they never really did.

In the end, the acting was excellent and the story was emotionally satisfying, but the series never connected together the way I had hoped it would.
 
#1,454 ·
I get it, though.

I think what happened is they had something they wanted to do, and there were 2-3 seasons in it. The rest was, in their mind, just filler. But it was the filler that kept a lot of people (like Steve and me) coming back year after year. We thought the filler was what mattered. And when it turned out the filler was just...filler, we felt kind cheated.

I suspect if they could do it over again, they would do it differently. I suspect they really didn't get (until it was too late) that so many people were getting so deeply involved in their filler; that, to so many people, the filler WAS the show.

Great ride. Shame it ended in such a wreck. :D
Exactly this. You know, all they needed to do was inject more about how important Jacob was during the first 5 seasons, then it wouldn't have seemed so out of the blue. For the first 5 seasons I thought that Jacob was mostly a figure of Ben's imagination. I thought he used Jacob as a way to justify his power and take the heat off his "less than stellar" decisions. You know, like "the devil made me do it". So at the end of S5, we learn that this whole thing is about Jacob, without a clue to his importance, it was really kind of a big change in the story. Anyway, it's all been said already.
 
#1,455 ·
Interesting that you bring up Fringe, because while I didn't feel what you felt about Lost, I did feel that way about Fringe.

Ever since...

Peter stepped into the Machine
...I felt the show had lost its direction. I kept hoping they would eventually tie things together, but they never really did.

In the end, the acting was excellent and the story was emotionally satisfying, but the series never connected together the way I had hoped it would.
The thing about Fringe, is, from the very beginning, there didn't seem to be a single purpose to what they were doing, it was a bunch of story lines and each season there seemed to be something else. Only the last season did it seem they were really pointing at some specific ending. Lost ALWAYS seemed to be pointing to something, either getting off the island or, what is the meaning of the island (once they went back). So I was more ok with Fringe changing the storyline from season to season.
 
#1,461 ·
Saw in article on HuffPo today that read "Lost finale aired 3 years ago and people are still pissed"

I got a chuckle from it.
I still have the last three episodes on my DVR....I just can't bring myself to delete them...even though I have all the seasons on DVD.

I'm surprised someone hasn't picked Lost up on syndication. I think I remember seeing them for awhile somewhere, but it's been at least 2 years. Seems like a natural to rerun on SyFy or even Chiller or Cloo
 
#1,462 ·
I still have the last three episodes on my DVR....I just can't bring myself to delete them...even though I have all the seasons on DVD.

I'm surprised someone hasn't picked Lost up on syndication. I think I remember seeing them for awhile somewhere, but it's been at least 2 years. Seems like a natural to rerun on SyFy or even Chiller or Cloo
Yeah but I bet JJ and company want a lot of $$$. Plus it is a hard show to watch in syndication I think.
 
#1,463 ·
I still have the last three episodes on my DVR....I just can't bring myself to delete them...even though I have all the seasons on DVD.

I'm surprised someone hasn't picked Lost up on syndication. I think I remember seeing them for awhile somewhere, but it's been at least 2 years. Seems like a natural to rerun on SyFy or even Chiller or Cloo
I have the last episode, the Finale. On 3 different TiVos.:) Just in case. Since it's not copy-protected, I can move it around every time I get a new one.

I remember at the time it was still airing, it was already being syndicated. I think it might have been on ABC also. Late night airings. Watched one or two, but you're right, it's not an easy show to drop in on. Maybe a start to finish viewing.

But I haven't seen it anywhere in years.
 
#1,464 ·
I have the last episode, the Finale. On 3 different TiVos.:) Just in case. Since it's not copy-protected, I can move it around every time I get a new one.

I remember at the time it was still airing, it was already being syndicated. I think it might have been on ABC also. Late night airings. Watched one or two, but you're right, it's not an easy show to drop in on. Maybe a start to finish viewing.

But I haven't seen it anywhere in years.
The ABC affiliate here in NY used to show it opposite SNL. Usually they were about a season behind, so it was nice to watch, because you kind of understood things that you didn't before.

Hmmmm...summer is here....maybe time for a rewatch?
 
#1,467 ·
Lost was such a damned good show...
Totally agree. For all it's crazyness, it was a must watch for me. Probably the last show that I HAD to watch the night it was on.
You guys are only posting because I posted a link to this thread. ;)

I miss it, too, on the way to work I was just thinking about the introduction of Ben, and how we all thought HE was Jacob for the longest time.

Greg
 
#1,468 ·
You guys are only posting because I posted a link to this thread. ;)

I miss it, too, on the way to work I was just thinking about the introduction of Ben, and how we all thought HE was Jacob for the longest time.

Greg
Well I posted because there was a new post in this thread :)

Ben was such a sublimely evil character. You really didn't know what he was, or whether he was lying or telling the truth. And acted so well.
 
#1,469 ·
Well I posted because there was a new post in this thread :)

Ben was such a sublimely evil character. You really didn't know what he was, or whether he was lying or telling the truth. And acted so well.
and I didn't see any link (not that I remember anyway), I posted because we TALKED about this thread (and it's post-count). :)

And, because I miss Lost.
 
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