Poll: What Did You Think Of The Lost Finale?

by Sean Fallon on May 24, 2010

It’s the question that’s probably on the lips of almost every TV fan today—what did you think of the Lost series finale?

I have to say that I enjoyed most of the finale, but I was also pretty disappointed with the lack of clarity on a lot of key issues. I mean, I bought into the purgatory theory years ago, so the ending wasn’t a surprise, but there are a lot of questions left unanswered.

We know the creators of Lost aren’t about to spoon feed their audience, but after analyzing the details I’m beginning to think that there are a few holes in the concept. Either way, the theme of the show seems to be about redemption—and the show succeeded in getting that across.

Feel free to share your opinion in the comments.

Tagged as: lost, poll, television

http://jenius.phrebh.com phrebh

You forgot the option, “I didn’t watch it, because who cares about Lost?”
http://www.facebook.com/abrauner DarthBrowncoat

What is lost? and did they find it since it was the last episode of it.
ADD

Loved it–thought it was a good, memorable finale. Still left questions, but every good show does!
Chadams

I think:

1. People who are trying to prove superiority in never having watched LOST are cute at best. I’m glad American Idol does the trick for them.

2. Anyone who didn’t like it or found fault here and there needed to go into the finale not expecting to find something to criticize on the internet post-show. I know everyone’s got an issue, but the finale wasn’t indicative of the show as a whole. It did a LOT of things series finales do, like trying to provide emotional closure as opposed to answers.

I’m glad it happened, I’m glad LOST aired, and I’m glad we all got to watch it. Hurray for television.

Darthbrowncoat

I once saw a scene from the lost. Captain Tightpants was married to some chick on the show but there was no Island. Captain Tightpants got killed and that was the end of that. I also read that Mac from always sunny was on this show. That must of been cool.
http://jenius.phrebh.com phrebh

I never claimed superiority in not watching Lost. Nor do I watch American Idol. I was just never interested in Lost and thought that a well written poll would include that option.

I also don’t usually generalize based upon a short comment, but if I did I would say that you a fanboy who needs to try defend something that you had no active part in just so you can justify the time spent watching it. That may not be true, but I can guarantee that you are doing what you accused me of doing: trying to claim superiority over me by gainsaying my comment. And I’d rather be a snob than a hypocrite.

http://thedrunkenscholar.net Drunken Scholar

Don’t back pedal. If you were really concerned about ‘a well written poll’ you wouldn’t have added that snarky bit about , “because who cares about Lost?” Just admit that you sneer at Lost fans, and your obsession with hating it without trying it just the other side of the coin of everyone else who obsessed about it who did.

It looks like you’re both a snob AND a hypocrite.

http://jenius.phrebh.com phrebh

I must admit that the sarcasm might not have been necessary, but you misread its intent. I could care less about who likes Lost, but the poll just assumes that everyone must. I’m not obsessed with hating it, either. I’m obsessed with people either telling me what to like or assuming I like something for whatever reason.

I’m not a snob, nor a hypocrite. I’m just opinionated. And while I can be critical, in both the best and worst sense of the word, your comment shows little in the way of a well thought reply and just continues the knee-jerk reaction of people defending something they like without thought or consideration of the fact that other people may not like it, too. Instead of worrying about why I don’t like Lost, or even why I’m starting not to like people who do (and understandably so given the nature of the abuse I’ve been taking), you should be worrying about why you care about what I think.

Still Lost

If the island itself was supposed to be real, then the unsolved mysteries were all real too, and deserve real answers. I feel like the writers knowingly cheated the fans of a satisfactory ending by leaving those many mysteries (which they so carefully created to string us along the entire time) unanswered, and focusing on the characters’ stories instead.
Okay, so all the “souls” reached “salvation” except Ben, but that seems secondary to the island’s story line. These whole six years, the characters have been used like pawns and story props to move the plot along… killing them whenever was convenient for the plot, bringing them together and apart willy-nilly. To have the story suddenly end with a focus on the characters rather than the plot seems like a total cop-out to me. And the whole afterlife aspect? Pure pabulum. Extremely needless sappiness.
Jim

Not that the ending was utterly disappointing but it revealed what I suspected a while ago: that the creators do not have a coherent concept of what was going on and were covering up unresolved mysteries with bigger mysteries with even bigger mysteries, because it was the easiest thing to do and good for the ratings. It was a “narrative pyramid”, so it was more or less clear that the final episode is not going to explain anything.