I just watched the last episode of Lost, what the hell.

[texanwitch]

All a dream, Jesus.

Glad I didn't watch the show for all five years.

I would have been so pissed off.

I was expecting Bobby to be walking on the beach.

Supernatural had a great ending of the season.

[ohheckyeah]

1. a la Dallas?

[texanwitch]

2. The show could have went out with a bang.

This sucked.

I watched all of the first four seasons last summer, in 4 or 5 days.

The writers must have run our of ideas.

[ohheckyeah]

3. I would have been pissed.

That's a terrible way to end a t.v. series.

[texanwitch]

4. I waited to see the last episode with a few friends.

All a dream, I could do better then that.

[ohheckyeah]

5. I know what you mean.

And just think, some asshole got paid for that!

[texanwitch]

6. Yeah, a lot of money.

I feel sorry for the really hardcore Lost fans.

WHAT A RIPOFF.

[unpossibles]

7. are you being sarcastic here?

It wasn't all a dream. I suppose the "sideways world" kind of was, but the show itself wasn't. The credits shots of the wreckage were put there by the networks, not the writers, and Jack was wearing different clothes than in the pilot.

[texanwitch]

8. Everybody was killed in the crash, that is what I got out of the show.

At the end Jack's dad told him he was dead and everyone was waiting for him.

That sucks.

[unpossibles]

9. no, they were not all killed in the crash

Hurley and Ben's dialog shows that they lived on as guardians of the island, and Christian (Jack's dad) told him plainly that "some died before you and some after". I can see how you'd see it as a "Jacob's Ladder" sort of ending, but it wasn't.

[stray cat]

24. No -

[unpossibles]

10. spoilers

http://screenrant.com/lost-finale-explanation-kofi-61464/

[Withywindle]

11. It wasn't all a dream.

It was the afterlife, after they'd all died in their respective lifetimes. They met again because it turns out that they were the most significant people to each other. (I had real issues with Sayid winding up with Shannon instead of Nadia until a friend convinced me of this point.) But the church they met in was the place of acceptance, which Ben wasn't ready for yet, which is why he decided not to go in.

I actually had more sense of loose-endings after SPN, oddly enough! I assume Bobby got his soul back from Crowley but we never SAW that at all, so it felt unresolved. And Sam....?!?!?

Also, SPN's tendency to kill off beloved characters only to bring them back later really reached self-parody in this episode. (Only the women STAY dead.)

That said....









ASSBUTT. :rofl:

[texanwitch]

12. All I can say these people had one hell of after life,

I can only hope my after life is half as interesting.

I still had hopes for a better ending.

[Withywindle]

13. I had better hopes too.

But I'm OK with it as is...it could have been SO much worse.

[texanwitch]

14. It could have be worse.

The concept of the show was very interesting.

[fujiyama]

15. I can understand the frustration with the ending

and I have issues with the way things went in the last season (you may even say the last 2 seasons). It felt as though they were introducing more questions, with obviously no time to answer them.

I also understand the need for more answers, but ultimately in the end I felt satisfied with the way they closed it. I just loved the way it cut between the "purgatory state"/alternate reality and the eye at the end. And having Vincent come by was great. Giachino's music fit perfectly. Overall, I felt it was a beautifully done ending.

Overall, I'm sad to see the show go. It was a great ride and I don't quite expect another show with this kind of scope and ambition. The scale, the sights, the music, the sheer dynamic and interaction of the characters made for an incredibly engrossing world.

[Bucky]

16. I liked the ending, but still thought the whole 2nd reality notion was a bum steer

It was a nice ending, just not what Lost had been about up to that point. The writers did set up the viewers to think (erroneously) that it was all a dream by over indulging the show's ambiguity. The point that they made--that the love and help they gave to each other while on the island was more important than, say, whether, how, and when they got off the island--is almost tailor made to be unsatisfactory to the audience.

This violates the Spielburg principle of entertainment. Teasing the audience's imagination only works if, ultimately, you satisfy them with what you've been teasing them about. Otherwise, the ending has an effect, just not a satisfying effect, for its audience. As a viewer I was so tied into this show that I was really inventing all sorts of answers just because I was emotionally invested in having a tidy ending. They chose not to have an ending that tied up the loose strings. As a story consumer, I trust my story tellers not to leave me hanging like that. But they did, and they at least gave me enough clues along the way that I could find some satisfaction with the "Gosh, wasn't this fun?" half-answer that they did provide:

[The2ndWheel]

17. It wasn't all a dream

The questions, mysteries, and situations, in and of themselves, didn't mean anything though. Other than as a backdrop to the development of the characters. I don't know if they planned exactly that from day 1, or if they painted themselves into such a complex corner that they found a loophole to the storytelling, but that's what we saw.

However, there are so many things about season 6 that make me think there was another story they were trying to tell, and then at least half way through, for some reason, they had to change it.

[OhioChick]

18. I was letdown with the finale of LOST.....

On the other hand, the season finale of Supernatural was great!

[texanwitch]

19. Supernatural had a great ending show for the season.

I was wondering how the writers would work it.

[OhioChick]

20. They really did......

I just hate now that I have to wait to see what happens! :)

[texanwitch]

21. This will be a long summer.

I felt so sorry for Dean.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

22. For the last time: IT WAS NOT ALL A DREAM AND/OR PURGATORY!!!

The producers and actors have all said as much very publically and multiple times.

The events on the Island were real. Some people (Charlie, Boone, Shannon) died on the island, some people made it off (Kate, Sawyer, Claire) and died later on in their lives. Jack died after re-corking the island.

The Sixth Season's "Flash Sideways" world WAS a purgatory of sorts where all the characters reconnected after they had all individually died. That was the only part of the series that was not based in reality (loosely speaking, that is, considering the time travel aspects of it).

There were multiple unanswered questions about the series, but reality of the events on the island was not one of them. I don't know why people can't understand this.

[stray cat]

23. People clearly don't watch very closely if they come away thinking a dream

[SoxFan]

25. I don't even see SidewaysWorld as purgatory

I think it is an actual alternate reality, with the explosion of Jughead as the point of divergence from the original time line.

Eventually, the consciousnesses of the characters in both timestreams merged, giving them a mixed set of memories.

And the church? It's located on a time-space anomaly. Remember, in the OTL it was the Dharma Initiative's Lamppost Station. It exists outside of our linear conception of time.