So, I watched the final episode last night.  While I enjoyed it, I have some issues.

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Too many questions that I wanted to be answered were not otherwise a pretty good finale, but I need more answers.......................................please!

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So, I watched the final episode last night.  While I enjoyed it, I have some issues.

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Why do good shows always have to end like this.  Not only was the biggest question not answered, they created more questions.  No explanations about what the island is?  When did the survivors die?  Six years of my life and that is how the choose to end it?  JJ Abrams needs to be slapped.

 

LOL, Martian, if they answered all your questions, then there could be no follow-up movie and there is one planned.

Don't get me wrong, I loved the show but, much like Battlestar Galactica, the end just wasn't satisfying.
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This might seem off-topic, but if you stay with me, I might ease the disquiet Lost viewers might have. I discovered and hugely enjoyed science fiction at a very young age. I recall Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, Hoyle, Bester and other SF masters at a time when my classmates were still reading picture books. For example, I recall reading Have Space Suit -- Will Travel when it was serialized in issues of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (at the time -- and now -- I got them by my subscription). I was attracted to literary style SF more than action/adventure.

I later read Kurt Vonnegut's works, including Cat's Cradle, and my favorite of his The Sirens of Titan. After I left the air force, when I was an English literature college student, I attended a writers' seminar, with either a panel or a talk from Vonnegut. I think he was promoting Slapstick. During the question and answer period, another science fiction fan (no, it wasn't me) asked Vonnegut if he would return to writing SF like he did in Cat's Cradle, Titan, and Slaughterhouse-Five. Vonnegut responded that there were no real elements of science fiction in Slaughterhouse-Five. The science-fictional elements were meant to be relief for the author, the character, and the reader from the black story, like Shakespeare's clowns in the tragedies. He went on for a short time, and invited his SF fans to reread the book and to avoid thinking in science fiction terms, but to read it as mainstream, non-fantasy fiction.

I ask you to rethink (if not rewatch) Lost and bring to your thoughts that it has no fantasy nor science fictional elements. That they are story telling devices no more real than Tralfamadore. Then the loose bits and unsatisfying ending may seem better resolved for you.

I haven't seen the finale yet (waiting on the Blu-rays to watch it), but didn't the writers state back in season 3 already that they wouldn't answer all the questions in the end, since they see that's part of the charm of the series: the fact that it has mysteries and viewers can fill it in with their own theories?

The flash-sideways wasn't a real time or place.  It was a kind of limbo/purgatory.  I'm not going to get into how people can die in there or whatnot, but it was a place for everyone to gather and rejoice in their friendships before they ... moved on.

As Jack's father told him at the very end of the show, there is no "NOW" here.  Some people there died before him, some people after him.

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I haven't seen the finale yet (waiting on the Blu-rays to watch it), but didn't the writers state back in season 3 already that they wouldn't answer all the questions in the end, since they see that's part of the charm of the series: the fact that it has mysteries and viewers can fill it in with their own theories?

That's possible but, for me, that is just being lazy.  I didn't feel this way when Babylon 5 ended.  If I remember correctly, JMS finished his story.  I didn't have to do it for him.