The simple answer is this: I’m not satisfied in having to decipher an open end and then having to create a meaning out of.. a 6 season long story.

It’s one thing to do this with a film. I thoroughly enjoy a movie from time to time where at the end of it I’m left going, “What the heck just happened? I don’t get it.” and then dwelling on it for a bit.

It’s an entirely different thing when instead of a two hour film, it’s a 117 hour Television series wherein, between every single episode I’m left conjuring up ideas of what is going to happen next and how it will ultimately play out in the end. You can’t tell me they ran out of time.

Now, maybe my disappointment in the ending is because the biggest questions I wanted to know the answers to were A) What is the Island? and more importantly B) Why is the Island?

If you’re alright with the ending being that everyone was sucked into an electro-magnetized island, then fought and killed one another, for the purpose of eventually reuniting then so be it – but that’s not why I was watching the show.

Perhaps the biggest reason it irritated me is because I felt like I was seconds away from having my answers. The entire show – up until the last 10-15 minutes or so, was the best two hours and fifteen minutes of television I’ve ever seen. It looked like I was going to be able to forgive some of the random side stuff that was unanswered throughout the story because those are the questions I wouldn’t mind conjecturing about.  I could even see a way for them to work Walt back into the mix so that we could figure out why he was truly, “special” and that was something to which I never thought we’d return.

Seriously, it was epic. I even tweeted about it early because I was so confident that things were coming together. Then Christian Shephard walked into the frame and let us know that flashing sideways is parallel not only to your current time, but also to purgatory.

I know, I know.. some of you loved the ending. That’s totally fine – you were just looking for a different type of resolution than I was from the outset.

Feel free to tell me how wrong I am in the comments.

- Forever a Lostie regardless of the end

Ted