Ok, let’s not beat around the bush…the final episode of LOST was less than hoped for by a great number of LOST fans. Oh, Hell it was possibly the worst final episode ever made – this is my humble opinion – but I have to believe that a lot of LOST fans must feel the same way, cheated, stepped on and hung to dry. Not to mention, patronized by the network and writers. My five year old could have written a more plausible satisfying ending (and he never even watched the show).
Most of the questions that we psychoanalyzed, over weak office coffee for weeks on end, never got answered, and we were asked to believe that the whole thing was just a cute little jaunt through life in angst ridden chaos, just to be explained away in the end as a bad dream, that really wasn’t that bad of a dream because as Christian told Jack at the end, “the time on the Island with these people was really the best time of your life” Wha..?? Are you F%$#$#@ing joking! Then why the Hell was Penny in the Church at the end?? She wasn’t even on the plane for Gods sake. It makes me want to weep every day, the way the last season and the ending went wrong.
Now before I get a bunch of angry emails and or responses by those of you who felt the ending was 'just right', don't bother wasting your virtual ink. Deep down, you know I'm right, and if you give this blog a chance, you'll see that things could have ended a lot more satisfying to the true LOST fan.
But for now, we’ve gone from being LOSTies to LOSers with the weak-kneed Chesire Cat smile ride into Heaven that ended the greatest television show in history. Seriously, I felt like any hope of getting the nagging questions which were left hanging answered, got sucked along in the jetstream behind the golden chariot racing into Heaven with the sickly sweet smiling cast. ( I swear I could hear the angels whispering in unintelligible voices of the disembodied jungle. It makes me want to beat my breast and scream against the injustice.
I no longer know these people. What happened to the real castaways? I think the writers thought that a tear jerker ending where everything turned out to be just a dream would placate the fans like me, who lied to my mother about having a broken leg to get out of cleaning the gutters, just so I could watch each episode, feeling the communal solidarity with millions of other Losties across the country, as we trudged along next to Hurley, anticipating the one liners, or following Lock into the unknown-because he had the big knife and he was the best bet to stay alive. I lived for the moment when I was with Sawyer getting shot at (which occurred approximately once per episode), but having avoided the screaming bullet, could get satisfaction from seeing the ‘others’ who did it get the crap kicked out of them when James caught up with them.
All of these things were taken from me by the excruciatingly bad ending. Ripped from my person, as if a big hand came from the netherworld, dug into my heart and tore it free while it continued to beat frantically, hoping against all odds that justice might yet prevail and closure would yet get granted.
But instead I just watched the finale, while my exposed heart beat slower and slower until with a final agonizing twitch, it beat no more.
Well, this here is one Lostie that isn’t gonna take it laying down anymore. I will make things right. In the pages to follow I will bring forth the hanging questions, meanings and whatever else the writers neglected to finish ( well most of them anyway, if I tried to address every one of these issues I would be have to live to be 219 years), and put them into a context that is not lame, ultimately tying everything together with a plausible ending that would have left us with a sense of closure, or at the lest a feeling of being able to let the show go.
So, follow along as I bring together the lose ends, construct reasonable theories and build convincing arguments for a better final season, which will ultimately lead to a final episode the way the writers should have written it in the first place.
If you like what you read, Hell even if you don't, tell your Lost friends about it and we might just have some lively conversation.
The next episode will begin shortly.
the LostBoy
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