there are plenty of bands worse than nickelback. and plenty of shows worse than lost

and hey they have have sold a ton of records! tons of people love lost! surely both are pinnacles of human artistic achievement amirite?

personally if i were in a band and the resulting music was nickelback, i would feel as though i failed artistically.

just as if i were a writer/director/producer for lost, if i were being honest with myself, i would again feel as though i failed artistically.

but taste is subjective so what do i know.

but again the idiots claiming that people that didn't think it was OMGAMAZING "dont get it" should get a f clue and maybe get off their pedestal of cockbaggery

The island is clearly a magical place with a protector who has to protect it from his brother in order to protect the outside world. He inherited this duty from someone he thought who was his mother that really wasn't. His brother killed his mother which caused the protector to throw his brother into the heart of the island, which is "a fate worse than death". Since then, the two have argued over the general good of mankind and brought people to the island in order to test them, waiting for an end [which appears to never happen]. Did you miss all of "Across the Sea", or are you just complaining to complain?

A island where in the the middle there is a plug that allows light(good) and prevents darkness (bad) from taking over. All other island phenomena stems from the power from the light. Island is timeless

This seems pretty obvious to me???

Most of these are things where I think 'Ya, it would have been cool to get some more information on some of this stuff, but it's not a deal breaker for me that it never got explained.' Like I said, there's some mysteries I'm more upset didn't get explained than others. But as a whole, I feel pretty satisfied with the amount of information given about most stuff, given the full scope of the show.

LOL no.

At least that finale was entertaining. 10 out of 10, as opposed to 2 out of 10.

the fact that Vagos and Phil disagree on the questions I posed is pretty good evidence that they weren't really answered (besides a couple I listed)

2 of the single biggest ones:

I also didn't get into stuff like the picture frames moving in the Miles episode, record players changing, etc...all of that I guess was just red herrings, but was totally used by the writers to generate buzz and excitement about the show. Hurley not knowing when in time they are, stuff like this...all red herrings

also, the answer for some of these appears to be "because". that doesn't count as an answer. if a child asks me why the sky is blue, and I tell him "because it is" I didn't really give him an answer

I'm not a huge hater or anything, but this is really awesome.

I think parts of it make a lot less sense, Sayid's sideways stuff seems totally bizarre, the Faraday/Desmond scenes likewise. Eloise and her reaction to what Desmond was doing seems a bit strange as well, if she knows (and how does she know) what's going on then surely she would want her and her son to move on. Jack having a son doesn't seem to have much logical sense either except as a plot device to get people to the concert.

I did think Kate looked super hot in her little black dress not sure where it went to when they arrived at the church.

I enjoyed the finale for what it was but I have been disappointed with s6 as a whole. I don't think this is a show that I will ever go back and watch again, which surely is really the test of whether a show is an all time classic.

I told multiple friends that the only way I'd go back and catch up with Lost after ragequitting following the Season 2 finale was if Jack died; if that happened, I promised I'd give the show a second chance.

bad beat finale for madtown ldo

I wanted more answers, but I have to admit that I loved the finale. I was all choked up a half dozen times and my wife was all out crying a few times as well. All of my friends (all over 35) had the same feelings and thought the finale was great.

In the end, the show ended like it started, lots of emotion and even more questions.

I also don't get how the flash sideways make any more sense now. if anything, they are even less tied into Season 1-5 than I had suspected. it was a completely new storyline opened for the final season, and ultimately a fairly dumb one. did we really have to watch characters we didnt know walk around purgatory? once they finally recognized each other it was cool, b/c we got our characters back...but jesus what a waste of time for the final season of the show

I'm in the criticizer boat for LOST, but some of these questions are getting into the minutiae and are starting to hurt you guy's argument.

I would take the 25 or 30 listed here - sort them - and be happy with the top 10 being given some type of explanation AND woven into the plot.

At the top I would have the whole Egyptian connection, Walt/Aaron specialness, the numbers, Desmond, ..

Assani,
They answered a lot of those questions implicitly or explicitly throughout the series. I think it's ridiculous that people expect all these answers to get spoonfed to them. Something like the Dharma shark never gets explicitly explained, but it is pretty clear that it was used for some sort of experiment. I don't really think knowing the exact mechanics of that experiment are necessary.


Edit: I am disappointed they never solved the mystery of where Bernard went to dental college or why Arzt was on the plane from LA to Sydney.

sure, agreed, there are really only a handful of HUGE things gone unanswered.

however, it is evidence of how disingenuous the writers are when they claim the show to be about characters. these are all weird mysteries they opened up to generate interest in the show, then we were told that they dont matter

All those that need to further understand the series, and never went beyond the aired segments, need to go to lostpedia and all the other sites that fill in many of the gaps. There is no cognisant reason to avoid those sites because of spoilers anymore.

oh noez, lost did not answer all the tiny details/mysteries i wanted to know.

I think the final moments of the episode were great. It pretty much erased my obsession w/ the island, and I realized that all that **** was not important.

SERIOUSLY WTF.

Did other people in the church change outfits?

I'm not the world's biggest Kate fan, but she looked great in that dress and I don't understand why she changed in the end unless it was to make the point that she was from a different point in time.

yeah, I get most of my list from the lostpedia section on "unanswered questions"

I think I would have been happier if Assani wrote the final season lol (not the first 5, but def the last.)

As someone who thinks you may have gone out of your way ITT to defend the show, I have to agree 100% with you here

I'll try to touch on the ones I felt I haven't really addressed yet...

I hope you dont. Most of this is grade A nittery to entirely irrelivent nothingness points of vague interest.

No, it's pretty good evidence that a lot of it is left up to your own interpretation. You don't have to like that. Some people have different levels of demand for information on different mysteries.

In terms of "What is the island?" it's such a broad question. Phil is right in that it was explained (mostly in Jacob/Richard's "cork" discussion). But there is a lot about the Light and the smoke monster that can be interpreted differently. I personally like this aspect of the good/evil story.

As someone who has been a defender of the last season, I agree with you that it definitely could've been better. However, with the direction they chose to go in, I think they did it almost as well as possible - and the finale was fantastic.