Tuesday, May 25, 2010

"Lost" - Yes, They Were Lost, All Right

I'll keep this spoiler free, and that's not terribly hard, since they didn't tell us anything anyway.

I'm sure the last ten minutes was the part they've supposedly had written from the beginning, and I think the finale would have been much better without that part. Frankly, they could've ended the show at any point after the first episode and still used almost exactly that same ending. It was a feel good ending that brought a lot of couples together, and meant absolutely zip-a-dee-doo-dah in terms of what was happening on the island. I'm actually okay with how things resolved on the island itself, and wish they'd left it at that without bothering with the flash sideways stuff and the coda.

Not only did they fail to answer some questions, they failed to answer just about every question, after asking our patience all of the way and swearing there would be answers if we only hung in there until the end. I enjoyed the character aspects of "Lost", but I'm going to make a point of avoiding anything these writers do in the future after they've been party to such a cheat in terms of the mythology ultimately meaning nothing at all.

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