So after all these years of watching the show, each episode maybe providing an answer but raising five more questions, the end finally came a few nights ago. I anxiously awaited it, thinking – FINALLY! I might not get the answers to everything, but I should find some satisfying conclusion to explain the flashbackwards, forwards, sideways, diagonal whatever. And, boy, did I get my answers….
The writers had no clue themselves! They didn’t HAVE the answers for all the questions they raised, so how could they provide them to us?? Why should I expect the creators and the writers of the show to come up with a better way to wrap the end of the series than with the cliched “they’re all dead” response? After all, it was only their idea in the first place. It might have been their idea to introduce dinosaurs (season 1), four-toed statues (season 2), an island that time-travels (season 4), but why should they have to provide explanations that make sense?
Truly, I believe the writers had no idea the show would become the world-wide sensation that it did. When the show took off overnight with such high ratings and viewership, the writers sat back and said “Oh F*#@!” Because they realized back then they had no realistic way of achieving closure to the show. Every season was an introduction of a new angle, a new twist, with the writers frantically and furiously scrambling to come up with some resolution. But at the end of the day, the writers were just a bunch of hacks with no logical recourse to their plot twistings and turnings. The only way the show could have possibly ended any worse is if they had one of the characters – say Jack – wake up when the plane was landing, realizing the whole thing was a dream.
So here is my thanks to the writer’s and creator’s of Lost:
-Thank you for not giving me a happy ending. All these years of watching and we get to the end to find out that not one character was left alive? I watched a show for years about dead people – thanks so much for that!
-Thank you for thinking of me, the viewer, as having such a low standard of acceptance that I will be perfectly fine with the cop-out ending you chose. I know I spent years watching a television show so convoluted I needed a dry-erase board to keep up with the theories and connections, but – yeah, when it comes down to the ending, simple is always better.
-Thank you for the 2-hour preview prior to the finale to rehash all the divergent material going on within the show, but pointing out again and again how the show wasn’t “plot driven” but “character driven.” It made me believe the finale was going to be really disappointing. Thanks for meeting, hell – exceeding – my expectations.
-Thank you for the early announcement in season 3 telling me, the viewer, when the show would end. That inspired me enough to stick with the show because I knew a time would come when I would have answers to all the strange vaguaries making up Lost. So thanks for having me stick with a show that – in the end – decided one all-encompassing passe, cliched answer was what their viewers would be most content with.
-And thank you – really – for an explanation that still doesn’t explain anything. I guess it makes sense, otherwise the show would have been named Found.
Anybody else have some thanks they want to offer? Post your thankfulness below….
