LOST!! *Some spoilers*

It appears (based on Twitter and some other forums) that a lot of people are confused with the ending and the season's narrative style. So there's probably going to be a lot of discontent about it. I'm pleased based on my interpretation of it, though.

I thought it was a very good finale, and it ended exactly as I predicted (or well I mean, on the island...not 'off' the island...though I guessed as much at about 10:30 but it doesn't count)

And while I think it was good...I mean...other than the obvious flaws...I just can't believe that they saw how crazy people got about Battlestar Galactica last year...and decided to go the exact same rout.

I have been joking, the entire season about who was going to end up a secret angel. The answer "all of them" never crossed my mind. I did like how that was all a big shit in the eyes of the fans though. "Oh, did you think the island was purgatory...no no no no, that would be RIDICULOUS...it's the other dimension that's purgatory." I've never laughed so hard at the big brass balls of a creative team in my life. It honestly made me respect everything so much more.

Christian's line about how the most important time in his life being spent with those people was amazing...mostly because I loved the way that only meant the main cast...and NOT Eko or Anna Lucia. At least I didn't see Anna Lucia, maybe I'm wrong, Michael and Walt either...Walt especially...why would Walt be important, that's just crazy. And none of the Fantastic Four were important apparently? I don't see why that is. Especially since 2 of them were some of the only 5 to escape the island. But those are little gripes.

Also, the island literally had a cork in it. That made me 'bout shit my pants with the funnies.

Now I just leave you with one more thing that actually does bother me a lot. If they're all dead and none of that was real...who/what is Jack's son?

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LOST

I cried so much when Charlie and Claire finally got back together. Two of my fav chars, and I loved their love. Also cried at the ending, in the church. Overall very satisfied with the ending, but yeah why weren't Michael/Walt there? They had significant roles. I can understand Ana Lucia not being there, I suppose.

I think with Walt and Michael, the issue was just the fact that the actor playing Walt was aging too much. So they basically wrote them off the show, and seeing older Walt in the church at the end wouldn't have seemed reminiscent at all of the 2004 10-year-old Walt that most people remember. Plus they sort of justified Michael not being there since he's stuck whispering on the island now.

I also read that the actor who played Mr. Eko asked to leave the show in season 3, so that's why they killed him off. Apparently, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje was offered a chance to return this season, but he declined the invitation because he wanted more money than ABC was willing to pay him. So I'm guessing that actor availability had some influence on the people who were there, too.

Before the finale started and at the beginning, I really thought that the original island universe was going to be destroyed with the Man in the Black sinking the island and that the light in the cave would somehow perfect the 1977 bomb detonation and create the "flash sideways" universe where all the main characters would end up with their memories back and having what they wanted the most in their lives. I'm more satisfied with how it actually ended because it felt more realistic this way without giving everyone artificially happy lives. I don't understand the theories I keep reading that say everyone died in the original plane crash. At least when Ben and Hurley were talking about their time as #1 and #2 on the island and when Christian was saying they died at different times, it seemed to me to suggest that they were still alive when they crashed on the island and stayed alive until they died. I feel like the island happenings were real and that the "flash sideways" was where they went after they died (regardless of when they died (with some deaths coming after the time we witnessed on the show)) before they moved on.

Jack's son...was just a figment of his imagination based on the issues he had with his own father, I guess?

Yeah I know all that stuff about Walt and Michael and Eko but it's still annoying to make those kind of claims on the show and not have real reasons why the characters aren't there. And not just them, the fantastic four not being there is really weird...and Ana Lucia...especially since Libby was there...and Anna Lucia was on the previous episode...I don't know maybe I just didn't see her? It's a small complaint but when it's like "All of these people were SO important" and then not including everyone.......and also completely minimizing the deaths of all the other 42.......just weird. It bothered me. Not enough as a reason to not like it, but enough to complain. HAHA!

I think anyone saying that they died in the plane crash wasn't paying attention, because they very clearly say that isn't the case. Exactly what you said Brant, all of that happened, and when each of them died, be it in season 1, or after the events on the island in season 6, they all wound up in purgatory there and now are realizing it and remembering their lives.

And I'm just sayin', Jack's son obviously had interactions with a bunch of other characters, and was even a part of his life with Juliette...I don't know, just a weird thing to have that character thrown in there.

Ana never had a lover tho But neither did Boone. But he rocks.

You're wrong. I'm Boone's lover.

PS, I love that this whole thread is in spoiler tags. Even this post. It amuses me.

It makes is so much more ominous.