Just because you didn't understand the conclusion doesn't mean that they didn't resolve anything.

Sopranos ending made perfect sense. They said several times during the series 'you never see it coming' about being wacked. The series was essentially Tony's story. Well, Tony got his brains blown out and it just went to black for him.

Exact same here. While the Lost finale wasn't perfect, the Sopranos finale really annoyed me.

Absolutely.
I remember that I was puzzled about the temple people and the alternate universe while watching...and then came the finale....which made the complete last season obsolete. What a big disappointment. Cancelled the Blu-Rays and got really angry about how such a nice show got ruined....there can't be a worse finale out there, beeing so untrue to its original show

Right...that's it. I just didn't get it...

What's there not to understand? It was extremely simple.

It's much funnier when a person reacts when I yank their chain...

LOST finale was garbage.

My internet sarcasm detector must be on the fritz.

The Lost finale pissed me off. Everyone guessed from the begining they were in some sort of purgatory. Which they were and the producers rejected every notion that it was purgatory the whole way through the series.

I forget that this is the internet and that there are people who would have no problem slamming someone the way I (jokingly) did. So I probably didn't do a good enough job of sounding sarcastic. My bad!

LOVE Gervais. Hate his laugh.

Yes, and it's also a non-committal death. While it can certainly be interpreted as Tony getting a bullet in the back of the head, since they didn't show him die on-screen they still have an opening to make a movie.

Sopranos...despite the open-ending, it felt that that series had come to a conclusion. As others have noted, Lost seemed to just end without any answers (well, at least not any satisfying ones).

Huh? The entire series just happens in "reality", and the whole flashback sequence in season 6 is them reuniting after their deaths. I think people were more pissed that they never explained what the island actually was outside of some crazy strong power source. I just thought it was funny that in the end only like 3 of them left the island for good.

The Lost writers decided that most things were going to be open ended. People hated that.

If you always thought they were in Purgatory and interpreted the ending as Purgatory you'd be mad.

There are some of us that are fans, Season 6 was below average for me, and thought they delivered with the ending. There are a few blogs that have an interpretation that I agree with, and show the greatness of the show.

But again, most things are open ended so each person can go either way.

Oh yeah, and the two phrases that most Lost haters detest:

- It's all about the journey.
- Whatever happened, happened.

All I can say about Lost is that at least it wasn't a floating alien island like that one poster swore it would be.

Holly crap, you people actually made it past Lost season 3?

Lost did for my TV viewing what The Wheel of Time did for my reading. Taught me I should've trusted my "give up on this" instinct, and soured me on a whole host of things to follow.

I never watched the Sopranos, but from what I've heard, the last season was pretty good, and the final scene of the finale is what cheesed people off. The wheels on the Lost bus fell off at the beginning of the last season and it was one slow motion fall off the mountain pass into the volcano all season long.

Very good description. I could not believe episode after episode that nothing was happening. It was obvious before the end that it was going nowhere.

I don't know why but I think only religious people would have liked the ending.

I remember watching the Lost finale and my comment to friends afterwards was that I felt satisfied on an emotional level, but not on an intellectual one. I don't think it deserves nearly the amount of hate that it gets. Anyone who thought/expected every little loose end was going to be tied up is crazy. Also, the whole "We knew it was purgatory all along and the writers lied to us!" is stupid. I agree that the whole "flash-sideways" thing was stupid and a needless red-herring, but the island was not purgatory and nothing in the finale suggested that was the case. All that said, I hated the direction the show took in the final season. I could not have cared less about Jacob and the MIB. I hated that they killed Locke and made him the bad guy. I could go on and on. It was obvious by the midway point of the season that the finale was not going to deliver on 6 years of build-up. I was just glad to see all the old characters back together and happy.

As far as the Sopranos finale goes, I'm not really a huge fan of the show and didn't see it until well after the fact, but I thought the blackout ending was perfect.

The "every little loose end" argument is brought up frequently with regards to Lost. I did not expect they would tie all these up. I did however expect them to actually deliver on the core mysteries of the show, and they never did. It was never "all or nothing" on the answers.

That whole 1st season, which made the show the hit it became, was sold on the progressively weirder stuff happening on the island. It was never about "tune in to see who Kate has a relationship with next!". After the S1 finale, people didn't tune in to see what new relationships there would be - they wanted to know what was down in the hatch.

What was so special about the Lost island?

That's the root problem right there. Lost was six years of building up a mysteryious mythology that they never paid off on.

You have a group of people living on the island, The Others, who will kill and die to defend the island. Why? They don't seem to know themselves.

You have a two hundred year old man living on the island. He doesn't know what the hell is going on.

You have a guy, Jacob, who is two thousand years old who seems to know everything and they kill him off an hour after he's introduced.

You have a "smoke monster" that terrorizes the island, and it turns out that it's just the (ghost of?) the brother of Jacob who was killed and turned into this thing.

Lost spent a good four to five seasons building an interesting mystery and mythology that they never paid off. The sixth and final season should have spent time showing what everything meant and why it was happening. Instead they dragged out that stupid (and ultimately pointless) "flash-sideways" gimmick.

The final episode of Lost, in and of itself, wasn't bad. It's that the entire final season never paid off on the promise.