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We shouldn't have to simply "accept" the ending. I watched this show in hopes my questions find answers. All I found was a cheesy drama that used sci-fi as a hook. The ending wasn't all that terrible, but could it have been better. Hell yea

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05-24-2010 , 12:48 AM

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Jeff Mother ****ing Probst

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05-24-2010 , 12:49 AM

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looooooooool jeff probst!!!

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05-24-2010 , 12:49 AM

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Why did Juliet say "it worked" when he died ? If it really didn't (since sideways = futur purgatory)

exactly this.

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05-24-2010 , 12:49 AM

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Originally Posted by ZBTHorton

Just a random thought:

I don't want to speak in hyperbole, like so many other people in this thread about how "awful" the finale was. But I'm pretty much at a loss as to how someone could have liked the show as a whole, but hated the finale. Surely those who hated the finale, have hated the show for a long time.

I don't know how you can come to that conclusion. Just because the show ends with everyone being lovey dovey and we get an attempt at a conclusion means all the holes in the show can be put aside?

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05-24-2010 , 12:50 AM

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and the Sopranoes ending

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05-24-2010 , 12:51 AM

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amazing

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05-24-2010 , 12:51 AM

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I was really hoping Jeff Probst would show up when Smokey and Jack were walking to the light...sorta like a challenge

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05-24-2010 , 12:51 AM

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Originally Posted by graydot

We shouldn't have to simply "accept" the ending.

Yeah, exactly. I feel like a lot of people would have been happy with pretty much *any* ending because the ending itself wasn't important to them. For me, an ambiguous ending where "just accept it" was the explanation was disappointing. We got hosed.

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05-24-2010 , 12:53 AM

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That would have been classic, luv Bob Newhart

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05-24-2010 , 12:53 AM

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Originally Posted by ZBTHorton;

Lost and Sopranos finale were my two favorite shows ever. Didn't think the Wire finale was as good.

The Sopranos finale was probably the best finale I have ever seen. (6ft Under finale was excellent as well...much better than the show itself.) The Wire finale was good, but slightly disappointing given how great the show was...if they were just going for a great finale, they should have ended after Season 4.
The Lost finale sucked....I cannot remember being more frustrated with a TV show than I am right now.

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05-24-2010 , 12:54 AM

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Was I the only one who expected real alternate endings?

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05-24-2010 , 12:55 AM

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How many times did you cry?

Probably a dozen times. Just about every time someone had an awakening and then some.

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05-24-2010 , 12:55 AM

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Was I the only one who expected real alternate endings?

Ya I got owned.

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05-24-2010 , 12:56 AM

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Was I the only one who expected real alternate endings?

YUP

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05-24-2010 , 12:56 AM

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It's starting to hit me now.

No more LOST

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05-24-2010 , 12:57 AM

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I thought LOST finale blew Sopranos finale out of the water, but that's mostly based on my expectations for each one. Not really a fair fight.

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05-24-2010 , 12:57 AM

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"the show is about the people" is an excuse the producers have been using because they wrote themselves into a corner with the mysteries. the series was always 1/2 about what was going on with the island and 1/2 who the poeple were.

Says someone who DIDNT WRITE THE SHOW

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05-24-2010 , 12:57 AM

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why did juliet say it worked when she hit the bomb?
did it work?
what did ben really want all along? control of the island? did he even know what it was?

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05-24-2010 , 12:58 AM

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Originally Posted by keevin33

Sopranos finale and the Wire finale blow this 1 away

The Wire finale doesn't come close to the Lost finale, and this isn't me being reactionary after seeing the Lost finale.

I'm a HUGE Wire fan, one of the only hour longs that could ever be considered one of the best ever on TV, but The Wire finale was only just a great coda, a nice wrap-up of what we had seen for the previous couple of years. There's no way it can compare to what the Lost finale just put up.

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05-24-2010 , 12:59 AM

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Is there any particular reason why some of the greatest shows ever (Seinfeld, Sopranos, Lost, et al) have ended so unsatisfying or controversially? These shows are so powerful that the writers can do anything they want. We end up spending all of this time intellectually blue-balled debating these things, rather than walk away with a satisfying, "ahhhhh." One time?

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05-24-2010 , 01:00 AM

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They weren't dead the entire time. Everything that happened, happened. Everything on the island really happened.

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05-24-2010 , 01:01 AM

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expectations for the finale of those shows were too high

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05-24-2010 , 01:01 AM

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Okay, I'm not up to date on tv history.

What I'm reading on the net is that people liked the Newhart series ending as a dream thing.

I seem to recall Roseanne ending in a similar way and people hated it.

What was the difference?