Was Lost but now am...more lost.

Know that logo? Know this show? hmm? If you do, then because of last night, you'll be spending the day realizing the headache you have is not from playing King's Cup with kitchen cleaners, but because you spent Sunday evening getting humped in the head for 2 and a half hours. Haven't seen it yet, don't click past the jump.



              6 seasons of ABC's drama Lost ended last night. Much of America tuned in to see their favorite characters find closure, but more importantly, to have the most pressing questions answered. After two and half hours, 90 minutes of which felt like commercials, you now have all your questions answered. Wait, what am I talking about, no you don't. Nothing is answered. Nothing that matters. When Lost premiered it gave us a much needed break from the reality television plague by providing us with troubled characters, stressful and dramatic situations, and most importantly, a mysterious and freaky island. An island that contained polar bears, and loud roaring smoke, and possibly Egyptian ruins. From the beginning most of my questions watching the show have been about the island. Jack, Sawyer, Kate, Claire, Hugo, etc. etc. etc. sure they were all interesting but really, I have seen alcoholics with daddy issues and bad ass no shirt wearing action heroes before. What I haven't seen before is a piece of land with a hole in the ground that pulls planes out of the sky. That part of the world, needs some explaining to me.

              See the creators of the Lost used a two hour re-cap episode to justify their ending. Which to me is evident that you, no pun intended, were lost as to how to end your show. The phrase "Lost is about the characters" is mentioned who knows how many times in this recap. I understand that many of these characters have been a focal point and like any story closure to their tales is required. The creators however neglect that in six seasons they have made one extremely huge and important character. The Island. Hell, for the first two seasons they even admitted it had a life of its own and had its own problems and mysteries. Now we come to the finale and we are supposed to ignore the fact that you have given no closure to this biggest of your characters. Instead you take the cop out route and suggest that none of the 5 seasons worth of stuff we saw really mattered? I get that people getting punched in the balls is funny, if you needed a laugh I could see why you did it to me. It was unnecessary to perform Little Drummer Boy using fire pokers on em afterward though.

      Don't get me wrong. I am a fan of the show. I wouldn't be writing about it if I didn't care so much about how it ended. I just feel and I know I am not alone in thinking that instead of taking the hard way, the risky way, but mostly the exciting way to end the show and exposing the great mystery. They started the last season by making this smaller, easily explainable mystery and solved that instead. The first season of Lost is its best.


The rest hold up, and if the first season intrigues you enough, watch the rest of them. In the end though, and unfortunately for me, it now seems it wasn't necessary.