I LOVED it! A fitting end to a wonderful show with so many themes. Anyone who went into a finale like this expecting a "logical"' explanation should have known better anyway. Once you get past that, the ending was absolutely perfect - touching, warm and full of hope. Thank you, LOST, for six great years! We'll miss you!

Man I'm glad I bailed after season two. Told you all that you would be disappointed!

Anyone feel like the emotional investment, analysis of character and plot reconciliation that each Lost fan has so faithfully engaged for nearly 7 years was a monumental waste of time?
If you had known the number of hours invested is equal to amount of time it takes to complete, oh say, an Associate Degree in the discipline of your choice. Would you trade one for the other?

I have always loved Lost and haven't missed an episode since it began. However, there are too many questions left unanswered and the ending was, in my opinion, fluff. Since I not a fan of "purgatory" and the fact that ALL the passengers were not shown in the end was extremely disappointing. Sorry guys, but I think you missed the mark on the season finale.

The writers went in the direction of "emotional and relationship closure", instead of the direction of "let's answer every technical question". This was a perfectly acceptable way to go. Personally, I'd much rather be misty-eyed and happy (after seeing a well-presented resolution of the characters' lives), than dry-eyed and analytically satisfied (after getting every nitpicky question answered to perfection).

I love a show that starts nowhere, goes nowhere, and when it is the final show you still do not know what the hell was going on and they made millions. What a country!

As for the series being a waste of time?...it is television is it not?  you watch it to fill in time when you have nothing better to do.  Television is not an investment, education, volunteering, actually doing something other than sitting on your arse staring at a piece of glass, that is the antithesis of an investment.  I personally enjoyed the series from the episodes I did catch and felt the conclusion was very well done.  I feel very sorry for people who have so little in their lives that is real and fulfilling that all they have to fill in those gaps are televised media and online blogs.  It is a beautiful day out and I could as some do, sit and "chat" all day about Lost or something else or stare at the old television, NOT,...I'm going to gather myself and go for a short hike up the Poudre and then lunch before heading back down.  That is a worthwhile investment of my time anyway and I still say Lost was a good show but still just a show, an escape from real life imho.

I felt like the Series Finale should've been the Season 6 Finale - it totally left out so many important ideas from the previous five seasons! Aside from that, I do think the finale itself played out well, as there was action, romance, and of course sadness - the scene of Jack's death was absolutely tear-jerking. Also, throughout the series I was a fan of the romance/love triangle among Jack/Kate/Sawyer, but I was extremely happy to finally see Jack and Kate profess their love for each other. It would've been nice to somehow see more of that play out (especially considering how absolutely happy Jack looked when Kate said she loved him).

In short, I definitely didn't expect everything to get answered, but I was hoping that more island-related points would've been addressed. I do understand the producers' claim that this show was mainly a character study, but there were so many seemingly important events that happened on the island, I really think they should've brought some sort of closure to that too.

I have watched the show for 6 years and when the first season ended I figuered they were all dead and stuck in purgatory, since that was the case (no imagination there), I NEED answers. What is the importance of the numbers, where and how did the island get it's powers, what happened to Walt...there are so many more...what a let down. Six years I'll never get back!!!

I think that after a while, they writers were making things up as they went a long.

They used way too many Deus EXs, in order to advance the plot. It got up to the point where they could not explain all the lingering questions their plot line opened.

So what they did was to opt for a lot of weird events, with the promise of giving answers as to what those unexplained events are, which they never follow up with.

These events because of the way they were treated at the end, are now to me, cheap gimmicks. Gimmicks used to advance overdone emotional scenes.

They are overdone because they take place in a context of the absurd.

They would have been wonderful stories if a) the stories themselves were developed with in a context of realism. b) If weird events were to used, they should have been nicely tied with the story of these people.

Instead, the writers wanted to say a love story and in order to make a cheap thrill out of it, they used "The Island" as a Deus Ex to save them from falling off the cliff each time they got stuck in trying to advance the story line of these people.

Like one of the people said above, if this was a college assignment, it would have been graded with a D-.

I think that after a while, they writers were making things up as they went a long.

They used way too many Deus EXs, in order to advance the plot. It got up to the point where they could not explain all the lingering questions their plot line opened.

So what they did was to opt for a lot of weird events, with the promise of giving answers as to what those unexplained events are, which they never follow up with.

These events because of the way they were treated at the end, are now to me, cheap gimmicks. Gimmicks used to advance overdone emotional scenes.

They are overdone because they take place in a context of the absurd.

They would have been wonderful stories if a) the stories themselves were developed with in a context of realism. b) If weird events were to used, they should have been nicely tied with the story of these people.

Instead, the writers wanted to say a love story and in order to make a cheap thrill out of it, they used "The Island" as a Deus Ex to save them from falling off the cliff each time they got stuck in trying to advance the story line of these people.

Like one of the people said above, if this was a college assignment, it would have been graded with a D-.

I've got mixed feelings, but the writers must have done SOMETHING right, because even with the mixed feelings I can't quit thinking about the finale! LOVED it when Kate saved a bullet, when Jack passed the torch to Hurley, and when Saywer & Juliet FINALLY met up and remembered. I expected Jack would sacrifice himself after last week's episode, but actually watching it -- look out, I'm starting to tear up again! Definitely did NOT care for the "flashsideways/purgatory" ending, though, but I suppose it's an appropriate metaphor for the show ending and for fans and actors alike to "move on." Although to be honest, I probably have more fun blogging with other fans the next day than I do actually watching the show. This may become the first DVD series I'll buy. Otherwise I'll have to find something "constructive" to do with my time. Namaste!

It was just a long con of the audience so that they could charge up to $900,000.00 per commercial spot during the finale, and damn there were a lot of commercials. The creators of Lost, and ABC made lots of money, as I'm sure the actors and crew did to, all at the expense of the audience of that was a sci-fi show, a drama show, a comedy show, a religious epic, a what? Yep, the long, long con worked.

At the end, life is a series of events, some wonderful, some full of grief, some full of terror. At the end life's events are puzzeling and answeres are not always given. There could be no better ending than to be surrounded by friends and family who took the journey with you.

SOOOOO disappointed. The thing I haven't seen in anyone else's comments is that, by presenting it as a test/fantasy/dream/whatever, they are saying that the rest of the series didn't matter. You can argue that it was a character-driven show, but the island was one of the biggest characters and I'd argue that viewers emotionally invested themselves in the island as much as they did in their favorite characters, and not knowing more about the island drives a lot of the disappointment I'm feeling.

But are we talking about God creating this place where people are redeemed? Was it the island? Was it all about Jack, or was everyone part of it?

And Desmond was "on the island" (to the extent we can say it exists) before the crash, yet it was he who reminded everyone of their "real life"...but...but...

Okay, so if no one survived the crash, what were the characters remembering? Were they in purgatory, and then in an alternate purgatory that they weren't aware of?

Jeez, this is worse than the Battlestar Galactica finale...

I moved to Hawaii in April of 2004. Then Lost came along, and the island of Oahu had its own storylines next to the show. Three of the actors portraying the main cast were busted for DUI- Two were killed off the show right after, Evangeline Lilly's house burning down in Kailua, and the burglaries of several of the main cast members by low lifes. I never knew what to expect when I would pick up the morning paper and see something about Lost on the front page of the Advertiser. I feel a sense of loss. I don't like most television. This show was bigger than television. It will become a DVD cult classic.

The finale did not answer lots of mysteries---but it was beautifully done and so heartbreakingly bittersweet. The Losties were united and were all so joyful: When have we ever seen that? But---they were all dead and were now ready to "let go" and move on. As Christian said, "Everybody dies, kiddo." That final scene with Jack lying on the ground, the plane soaring overhead, Vincent beside him so he didn't die alone, and his eye closing for the last time---- it was so incredibly sad, poignant beyond words and breathtakingly haunting. I will never, ever forget that picture.

It was after all, a story. I was with it until the very last scene. "And they all walked toward the Light..." Seriously. This was the best you could do? Yes, yes, all religions lead to the same goal. True. Mystical teachings say that suffering is caused by the the false sense of self - the "me" not "you". Couldn't the end dug in just a little deeper with the notion that the island was the false self, the place of suffering, of false ego. And when they finally "let go", what they were letting go of was the notion that we are separate from one another. We don't have to die to find that out. We just need to see our wasted, selfish thoughts and actions as totally made up. The sideways world is what life can be like - all corny love and hugs, without the mental suffering. Please change the last three minutes.

They didn't spend nearly enough time discussing the Polar Bear.

Polar Bears are magnificent animals that deserve a show of their own without all of the distractions that were in Lost.

I was drawn into the show when the Polar Bear first appeared and watched every episode since in hopes to see more of these marvelous creatures, but to no avail. They were horribly maligned by the series writers.

You people are ridiculous!!! Lost couldn't hold a candle to the greatest TV show & the two best TV characters in the last 30 years, The X-Files & Mulder & Scully, and the new best show on TV, in Fringe!

I didn't think it was bad. I figured it would end with Jack closing his eye. He and Kate. to me, were the two most lost. There really wasn't any other feasible ending. It was inevitable that he would sacrifice himself in order to redeem himself. I was glad that they gave Kate some creditability, however, by having her take out MIB. Her having to come to terms with wanting to destroy that which hurt the things she loved was not in vein. Thatta girl Freckles. The only thing that bothered me was the Smoke Monster was really not addressed. Why didn't Jack turn into one? Why didn't Flocke turn back into the Smoke Monster? The writers spent so much time on this concept, it would of been kind of cool to see a smoke monster battle. In the episode 'Across the Sea' the mother stated that something terrible would happen if you went down there. That premise became obsolete somehow. Oh well, it is television. All in all, it ended decently. As they say, it isn't where the journey leads you that matters, its what happens during the journey and, I can honestly say, I really enjoyed the twists and turns of the show's 6 years.

I am not sure what to say. The reunions and the people remembering was beautiful but I did not like the way it ended. Ok I get it they were in purgitory waiting for others to die so that they could move on together, but what about the others that were not there such as Richard and others. I feel a little let down and frustrated.

Everyone stop pushing your close minded opinion as though there is an absolute right or wrong. You watched b/c you fall into one of four camps:
A) "character-driven" - you are probably female if you fall in this camp (sorry to stereotype)and you liked or loved the finale
B) "religious/spirituality-driven" - you probably liked or loved the finale because of the purgatory/heaven angles
C) "action-driven" - probably male (see prior disclaimer) - and you were luke-warm or hated the finale because you received no answers to your "island" questions
D) "sci-fi-driven" - you DEFINITELY hated the finale because you were told for 6 years this was not about anything related to purgatory. Ha-ha, suckers!

So, now that you have self identified yourself, you can stop trying to convince people from other camps that you are right and they are wrong. Get over it. And by the way, I am a "C" and hated the ending.

It took me a nice shower to realize what LOST ending was really about. The ending was not about The Island, or any of the LOST Characters, or about answering all the questions we needed answering. The ending was about JACK. The events in the ISLAND where real, as soon as HURLEY took the spot as the ISLAND protector he and BENJAMINE began working out a plan to give JACK the happy ending he needed. I assume HURLEY has some devine intervention to orchestrate the sideway reality and ending, but this was his gift for the man he followed, for the man he admired, for the man that saved the ISLAND that made him feel normal. What we saw at the end was not an explanation of the ISLAND but JACKS gift for being inspirational, daring, and a savior.

Hey,

Lost was no dribble. It made you ask a lot of questions. I can't put down any show that is thought provoking. I have to say Fringe is getting good. I didn't like it at first, but Walter and Peter have grown on me and they are using that format where they keep coming back to the knawing questions after so many episodes like they did in XFiles. I have hopes for the show. It has gotten better and better.