Lost - The End

[Sionnach Glic]

Well, here we are. The six year long journey is now complete. The epic struggle between good and evil came to an end this morning at 5AM GMT.

So, what did you guys think?

I'll have to wait until 9PM to see it, which means avoiding large parts of the internet due to the possibility of spoilers.

[Tyyr]

Neo-BSG ending. 50% good stuff, 50% ass.

[colmquinn]

Neo-BSG ending. 50% good stuff, 50% ass.

Short and to the point - I agree with you

[Sonic Glitch]

Neo-BSG ending. 50% good stuff, 50% ass.

I don't even watch the show regularly and I figured that would be the type of reaction people would give it.

[Tyyr]

It's an incredibly clear distinction I think. The Island proper events came to a satisfying conclusion. The side-verse stuff was total shit.

[Sionnach Glic]

I'm just after watching it myself. I think, overall, I enjoyed it. The events on the Island reached an excellent conclusion. The events in the alternate world....not so much, but still alright. Also, the score was excellent.

[Tsukiyumi]

I was totally satisfied, personally. Of course, I watched it again today, so I was able to re-analyze it.

[Tyyr]

I think that the events on the island were handled well and I really enjoyed that part of it.

I think events in the side-verse were absolute ass. The ending utterly invalidated every bit of it and made it half a season of pointless filler. You learn nothing new about the characters because the people who land at LAX on Oceanic 815 aren't the same people who crashed on the island. Different lives, different choices, different people. And anything you might have considered to be learned was wiped out when the moments of recognition happened as the side-verse character was replaced with the main universe character. You didn't learn anything about the main story you'd spent the last five seasons watching as it had absolutely nothing to do with the island or anything happening on it at all. So in the end you learn nothing about the characters, you learn nothing about the story, it's just half a season of filler so you can have a cast reunion at the end and send everyone off to heaven. In the end it didn't mean dick, and in a series where even the book props that people are holding have sub-text that's unforgivable.

[Sionnach Glic]

You've got a point there. Most of the flash-sideways bits turn out to be pretty pointless once people snap back to their "real" minds. And after that it's just a way of getting all the cast in one place together again. Still, I enjoyed seeing them all meeting back up again, and those bits had some excellent scoring on them.

On another note, somehow I just knew that Hurley would be the one left to take care of the Island at the end of it all.

[Tsukiyumi]

On another note, somehow I just knew that Hurley would be the one left to take care of the Island at the end of it all.

Uzume and I both said the same thing.

[colmquinn]

Here's a review of the lost - The End by some one who's never watched lost (supposedly) - but its funny

http://techland.com/2010/05/24/the-lost ... st-before/

[Tsukiyumi]

Interesting. He would've undoubtedly enjoyed it even more had he watched the rest of the show.

[Graham Kennedy]

So as somebody who dropped out after about a dozen episodes... what the hell is the thing about the island? Is it a magic island, aliens, or what?

[colmquinn]

Basically, (and I mean very basically) some people lived and some died. The final battle on the island was between good & evil and some people got off the island. The end.

Flash sideways was all the people living in some kind of after/inbetween life - waiting - for want of a better word - yet time meant nothing in that world - until they were all ready to "move on" - Dawkins knows what it means but thats it.........

[Tyyr]

So as somebody who dropped out after about a dozen episodes... what the hell is the thing about the island? Is it a magic island, aliens, or what?

Yeah, they never answer that.