slop101

All told, and as the reaction over the credits montage proved, people put way more thought into this show than it's writers and creators did.

So while the show didn't have the brains people thought it had, it had a lot of heart, which unfortunately a lot people didn't care about or notice.

Brent L

That's pretty much my reaction too. I just watched it for the first time and it was just amazingly beautiful, and really moved me.

Michael Corvin

ABC answered more about Lost than the writers!

Deadman31

two annoying things I noticed watching the finale again

1. When Miles called Sawyer to tell him he saw Sayid at the concert. He then told Sawyer he just called and was told the van never arrived at the prison. No he didnt.

2. Kate walked into the church wearing the dress, but when Jack joined everyone she had a totally different outfit on.

Pizza

They should not of released that info and let fans continue to debate the meaning of it. That was the joy of the show: debating every little detail, which in this case, would include the end credits.

rocketsauce

I wouldn't say debating "every little detail" was the joy of the show. Yeah leaving certain elements or themes open to interpretation is great, but in this case it was something the network tacked on, not the creators or the writers. Therefore letting us on to believe it could have meant something would have been disingenuous.

spainlinx0

Did it have that much heart? Or really when you think about it was it just a bunch of confused people running around like chickens with their heads cut off, doing a bunch of random shit just because the writers dug a hole they would never extricate themselves from and pulled the greatest television con in history.

Joe Schmoe

I don't like the answer we got about the numbers either. It's suggests the use of these numbers over and over again was nothing but coincidence.

HE Pennypacker

Awesome post.

I can't believe people are actually satisfied with the majority of the answers that were given. I've never seen anything like it. Either no answers were given or the most nonsensical, farcical, bullshit answers were.

Joe Schmoe

I think the ending you're suggesting is what the producers assumed the audience was expecting to be the show's end. By having some of the survivors leave the island before the series' end, it not only surprised the audience, it also proved what Locke had been saying to Jack: they weren't supposed to leave. It wasn't until Jack tried to live a normal life again off the island that he realized Locke was right. He still had something to fix on the island (which I believe was getting the rest of the survivors off the island like he had promised them) and he had a part to play in the island's past (the Incident that took place in '77). Once he did what he had to do, Jack knew he could let go.

superfro

Good point. The creators/writers wouldn't want to do that right?

spainlinx0

I have resigned myself to the fact that at least I enjoyed the show, even while knowing they had no direction or answers to the majority of the mysteries (and really we all kind of knew that early on, but kept lying to ourself that it wasn't the case). It was fun through the years as people tried to tie together different pieces of the puzzle.

I enjoyed those threads. But it really is shameful how amazing some people's theories were, and how much research they had done. And now for what? To analyze a show that the writers did not put nearly as much effort into. To name characters after certain people, to place certain books so that we caught a glimpse of them thinking they were a clue. Why did the pictures in the frames change? What could it mean? Oh that's right, it means the writers knew it would fuck with our heads.

Now, it turns out they were laughing while doing that. Let's throw this in. This will get the internet geeks heads spinning. What a bunch of fucking scammers. They had very little respect for their audience, and I will not trust any project they are involved with from now on.

Fool me once...

rocketsauce

They don't want ABC to do it for them was my point.

AJW

Kate's dress change confused me too. Actually could there have been a 3rd dress? I thought the original dress that Desmond took out of the bag to give to Kate had spaghetti straps on it? Her concert dress was strapless.

Joe Schmoe

I normally read all the posts looking for answers, but 50+ pages is just too many to go through so please forgive me if someone already answered this. Why did we need the flash-sideways storyline this year? When Jack asked Christian in the church "What is this place?" and Christian said it was a place they created to remember and let go, was he talking about the church or the entire sideways storyline? If it was the whole sideways storyline, what happens to the people in this storyline who didn't go to the church? Island Jack never had a son, so what happens to David in the sideways storyline?

Joe Schmoe

That sucks about the dresses. I hate finding continuity flaws in shows/movies I like. When I re-watched the pilot episode Saturday, I noticed Cindy the flight attendant ran past Jack toward the front of the plane when she tried to coax Charlie out of the lavatory. Yet somehow, Cindy showed up on the island with the rest of the Tailies.

dsa_shea

What answers about shit that occurs on a magical island would be reasonable? Let's get real here.

dsa_shea

Jack never had a son period. His son was just a figment of his imagination creating that relationship that he never had with his own father.

Jimmy James

So, in Jack's wildest dreams, he's still a failure at marriage? Seems cheap.

Joe Schmoe

I think Matthew Fox was right when he said on Jimmy Kimmel that the show was about Jack's test. His time on the island was like a second chance for him to prove something, fix something, etc., so he could let go and move on to whatever comes after death. It's clear to me now that Jack died when Oceanic 815 broke up, and when we see his eye open in the first episode he's not just waking up from unconsciousness, he's getting his life back so he can do whatever he needs to do and then move on to the afterlife. By the show's end, he had played his part in the island's history (the Incident) and in getting his friends off the island for good; he could finally let go and move on. I think his death did mean something.

Joe Schmoe

Agreed. And Kate imagined herself as a fugitive still? Or was the sideways world only Jack's vision of a better life (not Kate's)?

Joe Schmoe

I read in Entertainment Weekly that the producers felt they couldn't tell their story without the flash sideways. Really? I don't see how the sideways world was necessary. Was it entertaining? At times, but aside from that I fail to see how it was necessary to complete Jack's story arc on the island.

redrum

seriously people that were expecting reasonable answers prolly should of quit watching the moment they heard dinosaur noises coming out of the forest

HE Pennypacker

Cuse and Lindelof no doubt thought just that before penning the drivel found in Across the Sea. That somehow incorporating magical elements will preclude people from wanting sensible answers to questions raised in past seasons, you know, when shit wasn't fully "have this magical water that I gave magical properties with my magical chanting." First the "security system" that was supposed to be given a plausible explanation turned into some actual benevolent force capable of shape-shifting. Then we got Across the Sea. I wasn't a fan of the time-travel either, but hey, at least that's not flat-out magic shit.

spainlinx0

And the people who thought they were watching a show about compelling characters should have watched the Wire or Six Feet Under.