View Poll Results: What did you think of the Lost Series Finale?
Loved It! Fantastic Way to End the show!
132
34.92%
Thought it was Good
111
29.37%
Meh, Thought it was so-so
64
16.93%
Hated it. Disappointing way to end such a great show
48
12.70%
Screw Lost, I'm selling by DVD's/BR's and will never look back!
23
6.08%
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Lost -- 2 1/2 Hour Series Finale -- "The End Part 1 & 2" -- 05/23/10
02-05-19, 03:13 PM
#2277
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Re: Lost -- 2 1/2 Hour Series Finale -- "The End Part 1 & 2" -- 05/23/10
They couldn't even fix that shitty ending if they gave them an 18 hour series.
02-05-19, 03:13 PM
#2278
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Lost -- 2 1/2 Hour Series Finale -- "The End Part 1 & 2" -- 05/23/10
02-05-19, 04:58 PM
#2279
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Lost -- 2 1/2 Hour Series Finale -- "The End Part 1 & 2" -- 05/23/10
A reboot wouldn't work because Lost's primary lure for many viewers was the mystery about the Island and that is now absent. I can't even imagine what type of millennial casting they would attempt with a reboot.
02-05-19, 05:36 PM
#2280
DVD Talk Ultimate Edition
Re: Lost -- 2 1/2 Hour Series Finale -- "The End Part 1 & 2" -- 05/23/10
Meh. Normally I’d be all against a reboot, but they fucked up the last season and ending big time. They can’t make it worse.
Lost was the last tv show I dropped everything to tune in for. No dvr or binging. I loved the first five seasons.
Lost was the last tv show I dropped everything to tune in for. No dvr or binging. I loved the first five seasons.
02-05-19, 09:33 PM
#2281
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Re: Lost -- 2 1/2 Hour Series Finale -- "The End Part 1 & 2" -- 05/23/10
Hire me.
It will be a prequel series that explores the Dharma Initiative in more depth. We will learn of its origin and it’s experiments on the island that led to their discovery of ... whatever it is that intermingles time, space, and reality.
Or was that already covered? Been so long I can’t remember. Hell, this is almost making me want to go back and watch it again.
It will be a prequel series that explores the Dharma Initiative in more depth. We will learn of its origin and it’s experiments on the island that led to their discovery of ... whatever it is that intermingles time, space, and reality.
Or was that already covered? Been so long I can’t remember. Hell, this is almost making me want to go back and watch it again.
02-06-19, 06:30 AM
#2282
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Lost -- 2 1/2 Hour Series Finale -- "The End Part 1 & 2" -- 05/23/10
LOST is one of those shows where we were completely absorbed by it for a while, but once it ran it's course, no one cared anymore. It doesn't have the staying power that I thought it would when it was producing new episodes. I think it might have had more long-term impact if it ran two seasons less and never gave us ANY answers. 
02-06-19, 07:42 AM
#2283
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Lost -- 2 1/2 Hour Series Finale -- "The End Part 1 & 2" -- 05/23/10
Hire me.
It will be a prequel series that explores the Dharma Initiative in more depth. We will learn of its origin and it’s experiments on the island that led to their discovery of ... whatever it is that intermingles time, space, and reality.
Or was that already covered? Been so long I can’t remember. Hell, this is almost making me want to go back and watch it again.
It will be a prequel series that explores the Dharma Initiative in more depth. We will learn of its origin and it’s experiments on the island that led to their discovery of ... whatever it is that intermingles time, space, and reality.
Or was that already covered? Been so long I can’t remember. Hell, this is almost making me want to go back and watch it again.
There's a lot you can do with the Lost universe but I do agree that it's too late since the show didn't have much staying power once it was over. I'll be interested if anything does come of this, but I don't really care all that much either way.
02-06-19, 08:21 AM
#2284
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
Re: Lost -- 2 1/2 Hour Series Finale -- "The End Part 1 & 2" -- 05/23/10
I'm still a bit pissed that they came out and said explicitly that "no, they are not dead" in one of the interviews in the early seasons only to have that BS ending.
Rewatched the series with my kids a couple of years back and it held up well but I don't see a reboot as a good idea.
Rewatched the series with my kids a couple of years back and it held up well but I don't see a reboot as a good idea.
02-06-19, 08:42 AM
#2285
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Lost -- 2 1/2 Hour Series Finale -- "The End Part 1 & 2" -- 05/23/10
I'm still a bit pissed that they came out and said explicitly that "no, they are not dead" in one of the interviews in the early seasons only to have that BS ending.
Rewatched the series with my kids a couple of years back and it held up well but I don't see a reboot as a good idea.
Rewatched the series with my kids a couple of years back and it held up well but I don't see a reboot as a good idea.
I never really held the "flash to post-death" sequences against them, but it is a bit of a cop out. At least they weren't dead on the actual island.
As for a reboot? Naw, but this is one instance where I'd be cool with a prequel series. But man the quality was so much higher on LOST than on a majority of the "puzzle box" serials that followed.
02-06-19, 04:01 PM
#2287
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Lost -- 2 1/2 Hour Series Finale -- "The End Part 1 & 2" -- 05/23/10
Lost was fueled by internet discussion, but that also did the show in. The showrunners supposedly came up with the Purgatory solution fairly early on around season two, but eventually too many people started guessing Purgatory as one possible end.
02-06-19, 04:05 PM
#2288
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Lost -- 2 1/2 Hour Series Finale -- "The End Part 1 & 2" -- 05/23/10
have another plane crash on the island with new people.
show some remnants of the other group here and there but nothing specific.
if it lasts long enough have a character from the original show up somehow/someway
essentially a reboot but not.
show some remnants of the other group here and there but nothing specific.
if it lasts long enough have a character from the original show up somehow/someway
essentially a reboot but not.
02-06-19, 04:27 PM
#2289
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Re: Lost -- 2 1/2 Hour Series Finale -- "The End Part 1 & 2" -- 05/23/10
Lindelof is off ruining Watchmen so who would oversee this if they did bring it back?
02-06-19, 08:18 PM
#2290
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Lost -- 2 1/2 Hour Series Finale -- "The End Part 1 & 2" -- 05/23/10
A bunch of new people arrive on the island, probably on lifeboats from a sinking cruise liner just to be different.
Hurley and Ben are running the mystical side of the island.
The other survivors that made it off of the island — Kate, Sawyer, Desmond, Richard, Miles — will show up from time to time. They’re out in the world keeping the island a secret, and occasionally show up on the island to assist Hurley and Ben.
02-07-19, 12:35 AM
#2291
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Re: Lost -- 2 1/2 Hour Series Finale -- "The End Part 1 & 2" -- 05/23/10
this SNL skit from 2006 nailed the ending along with half the people watching. The writers in fact had no idea what they were doing and made it up as they went. No thanks to a reboot, prequel or sequel. Suckered once but won’t be fooled again.
02-07-19, 06:43 AM
#2292
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Lost -- 2 1/2 Hour Series Finale -- "The End Part 1 & 2" -- 05/23/10
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02-07-19, 06:52 AM
#2293
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Lost -- 2 1/2 Hour Series Finale -- "The End Part 1 & 2" -- 05/23/10
If they could commit to just a 10 episode mystery prequel, I'd be interested. A 24 episode season after season show (like Manifest) doesn't interest me in the least.
02-07-19, 08:56 AM
#2295
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Lost -- 2 1/2 Hour Series Finale -- "The End Part 1 & 2" -- 05/23/10
Hell no. Let it die already. It's not like the show has even aged well.
02-07-19, 09:30 AM
#2296
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Lost -- 2 1/2 Hour Series Finale -- "The End Part 1 & 2" -- 05/23/10
Sorry, but the final season ruined whatever mystique this story had for me. It essentially made all the mysteries pointless, so I'm not sure what could be accomplished with a follow-up/reboot/prequel/etc. Unless they could somehow retcon 90% of the series...
02-07-19, 11:39 AM
#2297
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Re: Lost -- 2 1/2 Hour Series Finale -- "The End Part 1 & 2" -- 05/23/10
It's obvious that the new series should be called "Found" although they kind of covered that ground already.
11-10-19, 03:10 PM
#2298
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Re: Lost -- 2 1/2 Hour Series Finale -- "The End Part 1 & 2" -- 05/23/10
Just finished watching LOST on Hulu (my first viewing) and enjoyed the wild ride. With a show like this, I never really took things that were said or shown too literally. I suppose that the ending was fine given what they had to work with. Just how many times did the characters (Kate, Sawyer) end up getting shot only to survive with no complications. I was prepared for pretty much any cockamamie outcome the writers came up with. Therefore, what they did dish up did not seem all that outlandish.
I thought the show was wonderful to watch given its locale backdrop. I love shows or movies about airplane crashes and their survivors. It was a great ride. My favorite "WTF" Lost moment was in season 3 The Man From Tallahassee (and The Brig) when Ben presented Locke's father Anthony Cooper to him in the holding tank, directly in the aftermath of showing TMFT shoving his blood out of a high-rise window.
I thought the show was wonderful to watch given its locale backdrop. I love shows or movies about airplane crashes and their survivors. It was a great ride. My favorite "WTF" Lost moment was in season 3 The Man From Tallahassee (and The Brig) when Ben presented Locke's father Anthony Cooper to him in the holding tank, directly in the aftermath of showing TMFT shoving his blood out of a high-rise window.
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11-16-19, 02:12 AM
#2299
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Lost -- 2 1/2 Hour Series Finale -- "The End Part 1 & 2" -- 05/23/10
I think original viewers of Lost as it aired week to week would appreciate the mysteries more. A big part of Lost's fandom was coming up with theories about the unexplained mysteries each weekly episode. Probably the first show during the Internet era to develop an elaborate life outside the show itself. Game of Thrones had something similar but everyone had the books, which helped act as cheat guides.
11-16-19, 07:17 AM
#2300
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Lost -- 2 1/2 Hour Series Finale -- "The End Part 1 & 2" -- 05/23/10
Yep, the speculation was half the fun of the show.