The End of "LOST": It Didn't Blow Me Away. It Just Blew.

So, Lost is done after six years. I spend the majority of my Sophie Davis years and all my time at Stony Brook years keeping up with this show, for this terrible payoff. First off, I loved last season. The sci-fi nature of last season really made it a standout. But the show also had other standout moments: Henry Gale, Michael shooting Libby and Ana Lucia, finding out that the Oceanic Six escaped the island, and even last season's finale. But I felt from the start that this season found its focus, but its focus was bad. It lacked any excitement, at least from me. Things were very vague, but I kept watching, hoping for a payoff. But it was not to be.

What was the light in the cave? What does drinking the special water do to you? How did the man in black die so fast? What did Juliet blowing up jughead actually do? How did those people from 1977 suddenly travel to present day? What's the point of that whole hatch storyline? Or pushing the button? Or the entire dharma intiative?

Apparently, there is no point. The island has a special light that should be protected. Two brothers, who are probably just human, live on the island. One protects the light, one turns into smoke. The good brother tries to find someone to replace him but dies. The replacement and his friends kill the smoke monster. Everyone goes about their own way and dies. They all meet up after they die. The end.

That's the entirety of Lost, summarized in a paragraph. I could probably summarize it in a sentence, but I'm too upset about losing 2.5 hours of my life to this garbage, so it's not worth the effort. Anyway, I leave with these explanations of the final scenes of Lost from the AICN talkback for the finale:

Everything except the "sideways flashes" were real, and really happened. The sideways shit was them after they died, whether we saw them die throughout the course of the show or not (like kate sawyer and everybody on the plane at the end).

Christian said it himself: everyone didn't die at the same time (so they didn't die in the plane crash), but just convened in the afterlife. I loved it. But he fact that the ending has to be explained to anyone (let alone a sizeable number of people, as it seems) is a major fail for the producers.

Everybody dies. Every single person who has ever lived either already died, or will someday die. When that point comes when they've all passed away, those particular people found each other in the afterlife. The flashsideways was that afterlife. The regular timeline was their actual lives. We didn't get to see the entire rest of life of James, Kate, Hurley, Ben, etc...but when, at the end of those lives, they died, they found each other. Beautiful.

And here's the best one:

Michael, Walt and Ecko went to hell. Only black people married to a white person go to heaven according to the show.