Anyone who knows me well, stalks me, or just follows me on Twitter knows my love for LOST.  It is my favorite tv show of all time.  I watch a good amount of television, and there are shows that I have loved over the years, but nothing ever reeled me in and kept me thinking like LOST did. 

I am writing this to simply share my thoughts about the show.  I am not saying I am right(even though I am), and I know plenty of you will disagree.  But, I have been doing way too much thinking about everything that happened, and reading other peoples opinions, that I needed to share mine, whether you care or not.

I knew that going into the final season, people were going to bitch no matter how the show ended.  There would be no pleasing some people.  Some people are just like that. I guess that made me a little like the Man In Black.  And I will admit, I was a little uncertain where exactly this season was headed.  The sideways storyline had everyone confused and wondering what was up.  But I had faith.  I guess that made me a little like Jacob.  (At this point I will not compare myself to any other characters.  I PROMISE!) Wasn’t not knowing what was going on half of the fun of the show?  You always had to wonder “why?” and make up your own theories.  And now, it’s over.  There are still plenty of unanswered questions.  So, you still have to make your own theories.  And I am okay with that.  Sure, it would have been interesting to know why there were so many Egyptian-themed things on the island, but does it REALLY matter in the end?  I have a feeling if they gave us answers to some of those things, we would have said, “Oh.  Well, who cares about that?  I guess that wasn’t really important in the grand scheme of things.”  Not to mention, those answers would have just lead to more questions.  Just like Mother said in Across The Sea.  That line was intentional, and kind of aimed at the viewers.

A lot of people are complaining that the show has always made the island seem so important, and now it seems like it had nothing to do with the island.  I don’t agree with that.  At least not completely.  The show was always fooling us.  We thought it was about a plane crash.  We thought it was about Ben vs. Widmore.  We thought it was about Jacob vs. Man In Black.  In the end, it wasn’t NOT about those things, but it really was about the castaways.  At the end, Christian told Jack that the time he spent with those people were the most important of his life.  He spent time with those people because Jacob brought them to the island.  And Jacob brought them there to find his replacement.  Jack (briefly) takes over for Jacob, and dies saving the world.  That’s my theory anyways.  If the light wasn’t protected, life for anyone, anywhere would cease to exist.  The light was the Source.  It was the manifestation of life, death, and rebirth.  It had to be protected, or the world was a goner.  Once we learned about the Source, I wondered how the flash-sideways world even existed.  Since, in that “reality”, the island was sunk, therefore the light would be gone.  How could any of them exist without this?  They couldn’t and didn’t. 

Everything we ever saw happen on the island was real.  The H-bomb going off did NOT work after all.  Faraday was wrong.  Whatever happened, happened.  It seemed that the flash-sideways was going to be the new reality that gave everyone a happy ending.  And it kind of did, just not the one we were expecting.  They all had to die to get to their “happy place”.  We have no idea how long people like Sawyer, Kate, and Hurley lived.  With Hurley taking over as the island’s protector, he could have lived for hundreds of years.  Who knows.  But again, I’m okay with not knowing.  But they all had to “let go” in order to move on.  Everyone is saying they all now went to Heaven.  I don’t think it’s necessarily supposed to be Heaven, but something at least similiar.  Did you notice the church that they all met in had symbols from multiple different religions in it?   I think they all took the form of their lives around the time of flight 815 in their purgatory/after life, again, because it was “the most important time of their lives”.  

When I watched the finale last night, I was just trying to wrap my head around what was going on.  I’m not even sure that I totally grasped what had happened until it was actually over and I could think about what I saw and heard.  Once I had discussed it and thought I understood what had happened, I went back and rewatched the end.  I’ll be honest, it made me cry the second time.  I’m okay with admitting it.  I don’t say things like this very often, but I thought it was beautiful.  It was a very fitting and tasteful ending for a show that has been a big part of my life.  A very bittersweet moment.  As much as I would love for it to go on and on, this was how it needed to end.  

I also keep reading about people saying this final season was rushed.  Could you please explain that to me?  What was rushed?  They took all season long for the flash-sideways payoff.  They gave us (some) answers all season long.  And they just flat out didn’t answer some things.  They rushed to not answer things?  I just want to know what people think was rushed.  

Let me be clear, I am by no means saying it was flawless.  I am by no means saying I wouldn’t have liked more answers.  My biggest disappointment:  I was POSITIVE  we were going to get some Walt.  In the early days of the show, they seemed to make a point to say that he was “special”, but we never knew why.  He seemed to have some powers, that we never fully got to explore.  I know that they had to basically write him out of the show because he had grown so much, but I thought with all of the time travelling, they could make it work.  I was convinced when Fake Locke found the dog footprints last night, that Walt had returned to the island, and reunited with Vincent, and they were who helped Desmond out of the well.  Also, I swear that in the Times Talk Live: LOST with Damon and Carlton last week, that Damon said we were going to see Walt before this was all said and done.  Why did you say that, Damon?!?! Why?!?!

It also would have been cool to know who made that damn Dharma food drop back in season 2.  As I typed that, I had a thought, am I crazy to think that there was still someone making food drops for Dharma in 2004?  After all, Desmond WAS down in the hatch saving the world.  He needed to stay alive to keep the world alive, right?  Right?  I don’t know…

I could go on with this all day.  But I will stop here.  I just had to get all of this out there.  I’m not expecting to change or blow anyone’s minds, I just needed to say it.  I don’t like reading what the haters are saying.  Sure, you can have your opinion.  I will just think your opinion sucks and secretly laugh at you AND your family.  I know at the end of the day, it’s just a @!#?@! tv show(that’s a reminder to the haters out there as well), but I really, really enjoyed the ride.  

Tony