The end of "Lost" - I want my money back

TheDrunkMonk

Don't want to spoil the end more than the writers did for the 3 people that still watch it, but I'm as disappointed as a boy expecting a Colnago for Christmas and getting an Apollo.

Utter rubbish.

Splottboy

I've never seen it.

Take me through it, from the very first opening credits of the first show...

redddraggon

Lost went downhill once the second season had finished, with seasons 1 and 2 being some of the best US TV ever.

Lost relied on it's reputation and Evangaline Lilly for Seasons 3 - 6.

Anonymous

Stopped watching it halfway through the 2nd series. I thought it was great at first but very quickly saw that it was just going to go on and on and on and infuriate me.

acidstrato

just watched the final 2 myself

I dont really know what to say about it

i was a huge fan when from the very start of the pilot and have seen every episode but yeah...pretty speechless after that, just not in the "OMFG ROFLMSBFDFghfghdg.h" sort of way




infact this moment has me thinking back over my life for the last 6-7years since Lost began, girlfriend, money, an unquenchable thirst for beer...its all gone and who do i blame?



thats right! fucking Wiggle!

acidstrato

in all seriousness though, Evangaline Lilly looked great at the end. that is all

antfly

Were they all dead then, just like the ending in "Ashes to Ashes" ?
I stopped watching Lost ages ago.

antfly

Double post.

Flasheart

Never watched more than the 1st episode :roll:

symo

redddraggon wrote:

Lost went downhill once the second season had finished, with seasons 1 and 2 being some of the best US TV ever.

Lost relied on it's reputation and Evangaline Lilly for Seasons 3 - 6.

Err no they weren't. Here is what you should have watched.

The Wire
Mad Men
Dexter

Any of those three can take lost outside, hand it a damn good hiding then rewrite it's facebook page to be a thousand times better.

My favourite thing about lost was the fact it came up on some radio comedy

"What was that in the bushes?"
"It's a metaphor for the fear our viewers have that they might miss an episode and find out what was actually going on".

Seriously, yes you can confuse and mystify and audience but only for so long otherwise as anyone who watched Lost found out there is no actual plot or point and the mystery and confusion was just bad writing from script writers unable to weave a coherent story.

Just my opinion mind.

phil s

I haven't watched it in ages but felt compelled to post this

chriskempton

Like everyone else I got sick of being strung along at some point in series 2 I can't be bothered to remember.

I'm curious what the punchline was though, anyone?

Anonymous

There wasn't really one apparently.

Some kind of limbo or other such tosh.

Symo put it succinctly -

symo wrote:

Seriously, yes you can confuse and mystify and audience but only for so long otherwise as anyone who watched Lost found out there is no actual plot or point and the mystery and confusion was just bad writing from script writers unable to weave a coherent story.

I found that half way through the second series and knew it would continue that way, so I stopped and I'm glad I did!

Cressers

My thoughts as posted on another forum...

What a bunch of muppets they are. Five f*****g years and 121 episodes later it's all over and so are their miserable lives. How will they ever manage without it? Why did they sit through the endless waste of time that it was? Did they never read Orwell's 1984 where plots for the prolefeed were written by machine? I hate them because their private sorrow at waking up at five am to watch the final episode at the same time as the yanks, and the day of suffering of the people who'd taped it to watch later and so had to go through the day without being tipped off as to how it ended spread on to the news. And I really hated it because...I watched the first five minutes of the first episode. Having been thrown some distance from a crashing plane, the hero wakes up with nary a scratch, finds his way on to the beach where contrary to mechanical reality the engine of the crashed plane, severed from it's fuel supply, continues to run and then ingests someone and promptly explodes...

I turned it off in disgust that a programme so patronisigly stupid could ever be made, let alone shown, and that is at the core of my ire, that this sorry mess dragged on so long.

if only it were possible to round up the Lost fans and maroon them on a remote island...

Anonymous

The problem was, it was started without a finish in mind and the script writers weren't good enough to answer the questions raised in a satisfactory manner.

Anyone play that game when you were a kid (called consequences) where you wrote a bit of story for a couple of lines, put one word mid sentence on the next line, folded the paper over so only that one word was visible, then handed it on to your mate who would add to the story from that one word?

That's Lost that is.

rolf_f

NapoleonD wrote:

The problem was, it was started without a finish in mind and the script writers weren't good enough to answer the questions raised in a satisfactory manner.

Obviously, in this case 'Lost' refers to the plot.

I gave up when the moved it to the Crap Channel. I enjoyed it til that point but it made me vow never to watch an American multi series thing again as they just get transferred to a stupid channel as soon as they become successful.

Cressers

Transfered to a stupid channel?

I thought that they were all stupid.

sonny73

NapoleonD wrote:

The problem was, it was started without a finish in mind and the script writers weren't good enough to answer the questions raised in a satisfactory manner.

Anyone play that game when you were a kid (called consequences) where you wrote a bit of story for a couple of lines, put one word mid sentence on the next line, folded the paper over so only that one word was visible, then handed it on to your mate who would add to the story from that one word?

That's Lost that is.

I watched the lot, it's been the only non cycling show I have watched without fail and what you describe above NapD is exactly how I was left feeling at the end.
I did enjoy the show but the ending was a bit of a p*ss take if you ask me.

antfly

I didn`t watch Lost but I gather they were all dead and in purgatory or limbo and all went in to a church at the end {which is like a going to heaven type of thing} except one. In Ashes to Ashes those police were all dead and they all went in to a pub {heaven} at the end, except one. Surprisingly similar endings.

rml380z

Watched up until the end of series one, when everyone was excitedly debating what was down the hole. I realised I didn't give a #@8$ what was down the hole and gave up.
But then again, I got bored with 24 half way through series 2. Maybe it's just me.

All the good series get axed before they've run their course (or out of steam and originality) and we find out it's all just a dream;
Firefly
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Dark Angel
Dead Like Me
Carnivale

Only exception to that was The West Wing which was quality all the way to the end.

Cressers

Not just you, but there are few of we sane people left...

GiantMike

Never watched a second of it. Life's too short.....

TheDrunkMonk

I feel really stupid. I can usually spot utter rubbish a mile off, but must've been distracted by the (now) pointless intrigue and gloss.

Time to get rid of the telly again.....

mcj78

GiantMike wrote:

Never watched a second of it. Life's too short.....

But not short enough that you're compelled to stress that on a t'internet forum thus wasting another valuable couple of seconds?

I thought it was not bad - remeber folks, it's a tv show - it doesn't need to make complete unambiguous sense all the time. Nor does it pertain to explain all the mysteries of the universe - it's entertainment, if you fiind it entertaining, watch it, if not, go to the pub/out on your bike/switch back to coronation st/put on a bongo vid & bash one off. Even if you like watching it just to pick holes in the "plot" - go for it. Ultimately it doesn't really matter, some new show will come on & some people will talk endlessly about that, while others will critisize it and the whole thing goes round again.

J 8)

dinsdale81

I don't know about anyone else but when i watch a series to conclusion, i like to come away with some answers and i find it bl00dy annoying when you get some random ending.

To be honest, like everyone else it seems, i stopped watching lost at the end of Season 2 because it didn't seem to have any direction and was giving me a headache watching it. It just seems nowadays that writers try to fob you off with weird pointles endings because they can't come up with something constructive themselves.

The Prisoner which finished on Saturday is a good case in point. Six weeks of avid watching to come away thinking "what was the point" cos i still don't know what the point of the story was. Were they in the womans subconcious all along? Was the village actaully real or just a figment of her imagination that she created??????????? Someone please tell me because i don't know!

And don't get me started on the ending for the Soprano's

alfablue

dinsdale81 wrote:

And don't get me started on the ending for the Soprano's

What d'ya mean???? Brilliant ending!