My Idol Chatter colleague, Esther, did a wonderful summary and analysis of why the ‘Lost’ series finale was disappointing, but I can’t resist chiming in for a few moments on this because while Esther feels disappointed, I feel even stronger: I HATED IT. I mean, really hated it. I wanted to throw something at the tv.
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Um, so in the end, after all that drama and survival and fighting to stay alive and to find meaning and love despite hardship and their attempts to get off the island and back again, and then this horrid, off-kilter, jumping the shark last season I suffered through, the “pay-off” is that they are just all dead. WHAT?! What do you mean they’re all dead? What do you mean the sideways world was, I don’t know, all fake? A dream? Purgatory at best? I sat through Lost’s craziness this season for this outcome?
All that, all those years of amazing seasons, and they end it with everyone being dead and with Jack’s Dad playing the role of Jennifer Love Hewitt in the ‘Ghost Whisperer.’ I will now have to pretend that ‘Lost’s’ last season never happened and come up with my own ending.
Anyone have a better, alternate endings for us to contemplate? I’d love to replace a good ending with this terrible one and soon. Sad, sad, sad.