The Show That Wasn't

This is strictly an off the cuff, shoot from the hip reaction. I may regret it in the morning, but i don't think so. The ending of Lost was terrible. This type of terrible show ending is the worst for one very important reason, you can never go back. I can never again watch any of the episodes or seasons of this show without remembering the ending and how it changed everything. A show with so much mystery must have some kind of closure to the long standing questions. Maybe not all the questions, but some of them must be answered.

Season 6 was about the battle for the island and Jacob's and the Smoke Monster's long standing struggle. Then all of a sudden, in true deus ex machina fashion, it was all about Jack again and his God complex and overcoming his demons. Was his defeating the Smoke monster the ultimate act of saving of everyone? I'm sorry but they just tossed out so much of what needed to be addressed and turned it into something else. It was a feel good ending. "Awww they all find each other again because of their time on the island". Cute but terrible. They grafted this feel good ending onto the show to tie everything up and to allow people's hearts to overwhelm their heads. They did not answer any of the important questions. I have seen some responses on the internet to the effect of, "they didn't answer the questions and that's fine because the message was more important". Excuse me, but if I want a message I'll get a t-shirt with a slogan written on it. The message is nice and everything but had little to do with the last six seasons of the show.

It's clear that what happened on the island happened and that they only entered Sideways World/Purgatory after they died. Now I, and many others, recall that the theory of them all being dead and in a kind of Purgatory was thrown out there early on. The writers categorically denied that this was the case. And they were telling the true, until they weren't. It wasn't the case until Season 6 that they were in Purgatory waiting to move on when they introduced the Sideways world. How does this ending in any way connect to what happened on the island? It doesn't. It was as if the writes painted themselves into a corner and simply brushed everything aside in favor of the cute cuddly way out. Not to mention the fact that the writers basically lied to everyone when they denied this.

I will probably analyze this show at some point and look over it again. Many people will declare the ending the best ever and totally worthy of the show that it wraps up. I am not one of them. For a show that showed so much promise and only surrendered it in the final half hour of it's life, I feel it did not get it's just due. I am sad about this.

Maybe I should listen to Lost and believe in an afterlife that is created for me as a better place; one where the ending of Lost didn't suck. See ya in another life brotha.