Lost Finale Thoughts

I know this is supposed to be my thing on books; but seeing as how this has just as many literary sources as writers and I happened to of loved the show, I would post this here as well as my many other haunts.

So last night was the big grand finale of Lost, and you know what? I enjoyed it.  Yes I seem to be one of the few that did truthfully walk away fulfilled and happy with the way it ended.  Alot of people are angry at JJ Abrams because he supposedly said it wouldn't be that ending, well many forget that he didn't have day to day dealings with the show any more.  Yes he was executive producer, but David S Goyer was executive producer of Flash Forward and look how that panned.  That and I can't seem to find anything where he said they wouldn't be dead.  Yes they said not a dream, but let's face it season five ended with the main cast that we loved caught in a nuclear explosion, yes it seemed to create a new timeline(and i actually believe it did), but in the end the original timeline was what we cared about and they wrapped it up logically. Call me a fanboy that's your right; I'm not going to back down from this verdict.

The show was entertaining and some of the best suspenseful moments ever in TV.  A lot of people didn't like it because it wasn't a one shot show where everything was wrapped up in a nice little package for that episode.  It was a continuing epic, that made you think provoked you into thinking deeper as a matter of fact one of my favorite internet reviewers The Cinema Snob(http://thecinemasnob.com/ ) said that while he wasn't a spiritually minded man this shows ending really did make you think about what you actually thought about the afterlife.  To me yes it could've been better, but that doesn't mean it should be.  It is what it is and to me that is good because the show ended the way it did it leaves enough speculation that the island is still there.  People can still find it by accident, and whatever happens to them well it's going to make them think.

I've seen people say, "but it didn't answer what the island was", am i the only one that watched it and came away with the island is purgatory, what happens to them there tests them and truly helps them come to an end with they're doubts about dying.  They weren't dead they didn't die until the end when everything started crumbling as a matter of fact the last thing we see is Jack die.  So, in a way they kept their promise these people lived while on the island they were judged and if they didn't accept it they were taken by evil. One of the most poignant scenes that I saw was Sayid and Shannon coming together and coming to grips with their mortality.

I don't know what anybody else expected but in the end this show is loved and now hated because it was thought provoking, I believe and this is my opinion that the people who have a problem with the end are unsure and in truth they'll end up in their own island sooner or later.  When that day comes come to peace with what you are and what you've done.

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While i still stand by what i said i should clear something up after watching it again the island is not purgatory it was something they created in they're mind so they could be together makes sense to me but of course i believe heaven is what you make of it it isn't jesus to some it isn't allah to some it isn't anything.  Truth be told i'm a Abrams fanboy there is little to nothing that JJ has done that i find wrong Felicity is well his stepping point and i didn't watch it so i'm not going to comment on that.

All in all the show entertained made you think and left you wanting more that is what a show should do in my mind

Thats all

Darth Thought