So, spoiler alert, I hated the ending of Lost. Rather than write some pompous essay, I'm just dumping thoughts here as they come to me.
After Lost ended, I tweeted:
I just got trolled so fucking hard, didn't I?And here's some shit I posted in /tv/'s ginormous sticky thread (green text is posts I was responding to):
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When is the 150,000 years later part?
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on the same level, except BSG was better because it had fucking Hendrix at the end.
the least they could've done was given us a full-length performance of "You All Everybody"
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>IF ISLAND IS REAL AND PURGATORY AND STUFF
>THEN WHO WAS DAVID
THERE IS NO DAVID
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TROLL'D HARD
as far as I'm concerned the end of season 4 was the end of Lost.
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SNOOP DOGG & MARILYN MANSON = BEST LOST ENDING
SNOOP DOGG & MARILYN MANSON = BEST LOST ENDING
SNOOP DOGG & MARILYN MANSON = BEST LOST ENDING
SNOOP DOGG & MARILYN MANSON = BEST LOST ENDING
SNOOP DOGG & MARILYN MANSON = BEST LOST ENDING
SNOOP DOGG & MARILYN MANSON = BEST LOST ENDING
SNOOP DOGG & MARILYN MANSON = BEST LOST ENDING
SNOOP DOGG & MARILYN MANSON = BEST LOST ENDING
dadadadadee it's the D-O-double-G
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Stephen King was absolutely right when in The Dark Tower, or maybe On Writing, or both, he said that he hates endings.I wish they had done what Stephen King did with the Dark Tower and put a "WARNING: YOU MIGHT HATE THIS. YOU CAN TURN YOUR TV OFF NOW AND LOST ENDS HOWEVER YOU WANT, OR YOU CAN SEE THE ENDING WE WROTE. YOU ALWAYS HAVE A CHOICE." notice up before the actual end.
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what's all this "they were all dead and went to heaven" bullshit?
the end of Lost was when the Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed.
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But still, the Dark Tower ending was better. I'm retconning Lost in my mind to end that way. Smokey turns the wheel and teleports to Tunisia. Jack does the same, and chases after him, and all is right with the world.
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>The only part about the final episode that you could really complain about is the final 10 minutes.
yeah, it wasn't all that bad, but late in the episode I started getting this awful feeling knowing that it really was going to fag out at the end. I wanted the island sinking to somehow reset the timeline, and for everyone to remember the island but get a second chance at life or something like that.
THERE IS NO JULIET'S ROCKIN' TITTIES ;_;
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>no one will ever understand it.
>it's like trying to explain a David Lynch movie. Good luck, shitdicks.
it made perfect sense. too bad it was fucking stupid.
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>I'm still crying.
oh shut up you big pussy. you cry more than hurley.
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>how do you know she died?
because EVERYONE died. Jack's dad said that they all died at different times. no matter when they died, they all came together again because they were the most important people in each other's lives.
now excuse me while I go throw up from the sappiness. what a fucking hallmark card of an ending.
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I know they were trying to give out some satisfying, happy ending... but that's not actually what I wanted, and apparently a large portion of the audience didn't want it either.
Most of the show was mentally stimulating because there were all kinds of mysterious shenanigans going on for us all to puzzle over. After every episode you could feel the gears in your head turning while you tried to figure out what you just saw, and came up with new theories about what was going on. The finale was just a huge mental Blue Screen Of Death. Don't think, be happy.
Fuck that. I didn't want a neat little ending that tied everything up with no conflict and everything is okay for everyone forever. I wanted to be challenged. I wanted to be able to look back on it ten years down the road and think "man, I'm still not sure what happened at the end of Lost."
Right now I feel like Sawyer did when he did all that work with that machine in the cage, only to get a fish biscuit.
That was the end of Lost. A goddamn fish biscuit. That the polar bears only took two hours to figure out.
I MAD.