It seems that a lot of the hate on the ending of the show is because all the theorizing over scientific parts of the show for the past 6 years seemed to be for nothing. I'm not saying that's with EVERY person who didn't like the finale. But I think most people who hate the finale/end usually end their rant with "Just wasted 6 years of my life."

I was just thinking about how LOST will be look in about 10 years. I feel that the show will always be one of the greatest shows ever made and the incredibly mixed feelings of The End will diminish. I'm saying this because in the future, new viewers, people getting older and hearing about this great show back between 2004-2010 will LOVE IT.

Why? Because they won't have to wait 6 years to see the end. They won't have to theorize endlessly being obsessed with the show for so long. I feel like THAT is the viewer who hates the end's own fault for putting it so high up on the pedestal. I am a casual but very involved viewer who is very happy with the ending. HOWEVER, I feel that I would have invested all my time with theories... I probably would like it much less.

Again, this doesn't apply to everyone. I'm sure there are plenty of casual viewers who didn't like the ending. Just trying to make a point

ditto

I just think rewatching will be a completely different experience. Better, deeper and richer in many, many ways, but also not as exciting in some of the original ways--now that we know the answers to some questions and the fact that most stories were dead ends.

I'll never forget the night Locke dropped his flashlight and heard a metallic "clunk" that eventually turned out to be the hatch. That was a once-in-a-lifetime thrill.

I think you are right...because I finally got my parents to watch LOST. I loaned the first season to them at Christmas and they watched the pilot that night...and called me within days begging for the rest of the DVDs. They were fully caught up to season 6 by the third episode, and watched it through the finale live...

And they loved it, all of it, including the finale. They didn't spend months theorizing. They didn't have to wait months to see what was in the hatch, what happened when Desmond turned the key, or anything.

I myself liked the finale well enough when I watched it, but the past few days it has grown on me more and more. I have to say, it was an amazing, touching, beautiful ending to a wonderful show, and I think it was very close to perfect. I LIKE not knowing everything...leaving it all open to interpretation is part of the fun :)

My wife and I have had a lot of discussions about the show over the past couple weeks. As it lead up to the finale I would explain about what was going on on The Fuselage, perhaps a bit biased to one way of viewing it, but she had a reaction to what I was saying at one point that surprised me. I was actually trying to explain the view point of people who were very invested in the mysteries and wanted closure on them. It went something like:

ME: So, there are all these people who have studied every little detail of the show. Picking it apart and looking for the underlying logic of things. Finding clues in every set piece and all the details of things. Reading into it. And they want...
HER: They want the Wizard of Oz ending.
ME: Uh... what? No, I think..
HER: Yep. They want it all spelled out.
ME: Well, you can't really...
HER: They want the wizard to pop out and say, "This was that. Walt was this. Ben was that. Island was a ufo. Here's a balloon. Fly on home".
ME: Uh... hmm.
HER: Why can't the story just be a story?
ME: But there are all these weird things left unanswered! What the hell is Widmore even doing? Why was Ben dorking around with that cabin? Why did Dharma have secret doors into Egyptian tunnels? Why did...
HER: Will it change the overall story knowing that stuff?
ME: I don't know. Maybe. Actually yeah, it will be smarter with those things...
HER: It's not your story.
ME: ...
ME: I don't really like talking about Lost with you.
HER: Whatever. Play me some music.
:mad:

Turns out she might be right as usual. :undecide:

I think us crazy fans have had both sides of the spectrum. We have had a hell of an experience letting our imaginations run wild with this story. And we have come up with MUCH cooler versions of it than what we have got in the end. I think we make a better writing team than TPTB. And because of that, we are disappointed that they didn't think of all the cool things we thought of. And so the story is perhaps a bit of a let down because we got so wrapped around the axle about what would be cool that our expectations weren't... book like. We didn't wait for the author to tell us everything. We filled it in ourselves. And while that was a very cool thing, and I will always treasure the time this show served as a catalyst to my imagination, I think perhaps it diminished the reception of the story for me as well.

So, in years to come, as other people look at Lost through different eyes, I think they will have it the other way. They probably won't get the crazy "imagination is everything" ride that I have had, but they likely will take the story for what it is and perhaps be happier than I with it in total. Maybe. Maybe not.

Maybe in ten years people will still be saying, "What the hell was going on with WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALT!?"
:rolleyes:

One thing is for sure, Lost will definitely leave its mark. For some good, others bad. But it certainly won't be forgotten.

In all likelihood I have no idea what I'm talking about so here is a link that will maybe make this post worthwhile. I like the Jackface at the end. (http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2010/05/lost-sweets.html)
:biggrin:

I don't agree i think the research i made about the names and the time i spend to try to understand how the show was constructed and whole was what makes lost so great! Finding my answers was the best part.
I think the end could have been greater but i think it wasn't a bad end, it is an intelligent one as the show always was and i like that.

I don't agree i think the research i made about the names and the time i spend to try to understand how the show was constructed and whole was what makes lost so great! Finding my answers was the best part.
I think the end could have been greater but i think it wasn't a bad end, it is an intelligent one as the show always was and i like that.

ditto

No matter how many times we re-watch Lost, it’ll never be the same again because we now know how it ultimately concluded and that will always color our perception. We should definitely savour and appreciate the journey we’ve all just taken, because it’s something no new viewer will ever have the opportunity to experience in all it’s tantalizing mysterious glory.

I absolutely loved the finale and think TPTB were absolutely right not to answer all the remaining questions. It’s might even be one of the main points of the show, since it’s such a neat reflection of Life itself: sprawling, ambiguous, often unfair and hard to get to grips with, not everything ties up neatly, not everything can be explained in absolute “black and white” terms, what’s vital to one person is trivial to another, and some stuff will just always be beyond our ability to comprehend.

Whilst I wasn’t surprised by the show’s final imagery (it made such perfect sense), just about every other Lost theory I’ve had over the years was shot down in flames by the end but rather than being p*ssed off about it, I’m really glad and I’ll tell you why. I’ve gradually come to appreciate that in the end, getting Answers was probably far less important than the Questions we asked along the way: the research it prompted to help us formulate our theories, the fascinating books or ideas we discovered, sharing thoughts and opinions with newfound friends on here. In the end it really was all about The Journey. Surely that should be Lost’s ultimate legacy?

H x

It seems that a lot of the hate on the ending of the show is because all the theorizing over scientific parts of the show for the past 6 years seemed to be for nothing. I'm not saying that's with EVERY person who didn't like the finale. But I think most people who hate the finale/end usually end their rant with "Just wasted 6 years of my life."

I was just thinking about how LOST will be look in about 10 years. I feel that the show will always be one of the greatest shows ever made and the incredibly mixed feelings of The End will diminish. I'm saying this because in the future, new viewers, people getting older and hearing about this great show back between 2004-2010 will LOVE IT.

Why? Because they won't have to wait 6 years to see the end. They won't have to theorize endlessly being obsessed with the show for so long. I feel like THAT is the viewer who hates the end's own fault for putting it so high up on the pedestal. I am a casual but very involved viewer who is very happy with the ending. HOWEVER, I feel that I would have invested all my time with theories... I probably would like it much less.

Again, this doesn't apply to everyone. I'm sure there are plenty of casual viewers who didn't like the ending. Just trying to make a point



I doubt there will be much rewatch value in the show for any but the hardcore 'Darlton can do no wrong and Lost was my life' crowd. Plenty of non 'casual' :rolleyes: viewers who avidly followed the show were very disappointed in the ending. Certainly no-one I know in real life (as oppossed to hardcore forum fans) who followed the show felt happy with the overall conclusion.

And since it's now widely known that most of the mysteries were 'unanswered' (read: the writers had no idea where they were going with them) it's unlikely to appeal much to 'new' viewers.



[ Got to love the way that suddenly all the mysteries that fuelled interest in the show for years and sparked so much debate on the Fuselage are now totally unimportant since the writers never had any ideas to tie them up adequately :biggrin: ]

Got to love the way that suddenly all the mysteries that fuelled interest in the show for years and sparked so much debate on the Fuselage are now totally unimportant since the writers never had any ideas to tie them up adequately

I think they're still important. Just not to the castaways. For the castaways what was important was each other. Showing that via the FS doesn't invalidate anything that happened on the Island.

The mysteries of the Island are still pretty awesome and one day when I revisit the whole series I'd like to see if I can piece together my own version of how they all fit together. I think others should do the same. We'll all have lots of stuff to talk about that way. We might never know if our ideas are "right" but comparing interpretations is always a rewarding experience.

I still have a chance to search for clues and possibly answers and meanings of those things which were presented, but i (we) didn't see because I (we) didn't know what we (I) were looking for.

That could be fun. I've already noticed 2 things that were there from the start, the LOST splash screen, and the comic book during Richard's test of little Locke. I'm sure there are more, "should've seen it" moments out there.

I still have a chance to search for clues and possibly answers and meanings of those things which were presented, but i (we) didn't see because I (we) didn't know what we (I) were looking for.

That could be fun. I've already noticed 2 things that were there from the start, the LOST splash screen, and the comic book during Richard's test of little Locke. I'm sure there are more, "should've seen it" moments out there.


There are no 'clues and answers' to uncover - this isn't real life where you might be able to work things out even if they were never spelled out, it's a scripted drama. :biggrin:

Everything was consciously written and if an answer wasn't forthcoming (or convincing) on screen then that's it ... period. There's nothing extra to 'find' and IMO spending time trying to *mod edit* answers up after the fact seems frankly a bizarre waste of irreplaceable time, to me at least.

I doubt there will be much rewatch value in the show for any but the hardcore 'Darlton can do no wrong and Lost was my life' crowd. Plenty of non 'casual' :rolleyes: viewers who avidly followed the show were very disappointed in the ending. Certainly no-one I know in real life (as oppossed to hardcore forum fans) who followed the show felt happy with the overall conclusion.

And since it's now widely known that most of the mysteries were 'unanswered' (read: the writers had no idea where they were going with them) it's unlikely to appeal much to 'new' viewers.

I disagree. I wouldn't call myself a hardcore LOST fan to the point that LOST never disappointed me (but, maybe because I even frequent The Fuselage and make posts that counts me as a "hardcore" fan) -- and I am already re-watching the series. I feel like there were a lot of truths and new insights and ways to view the series brought to light by the finale. I am completely happy with the ending; YES, there are many unanswered questions, but it doesn't take away that in the end it is a story about the characters and the people on the island. I think due to the finale there is a particular interest in watching S06 again. I have already suggested it to friends to watch.

In the end, I agree that this will be a series possibly "more" enjoyed by people who don't have to wait around for years to see a conclusions -- but it still offers the same magic to those who enjoy looking into and researching the mysteries this show produces episode to episode. I think this series will prove to be timeless.