Uh, not that I'm still thinking about it, but I want to further spread my thoughts on the finale of the greatest network television show (The Sopranos is best ever - network or cable) in history.

I was severely disappointed.

I didn't need the finale to resolve the few questions that I had of the show, but there were just too many significant holes left empty. The core of LOST was the people and the evolution of their hearts, minds, and relationships with those around them, but the finale (and pretty much this entire last season) treated the show as if the mysteries of the island were insignificant. The finale completely ignored what the show is also about - the magic of the island.

And the connection between the present world and the final season's sideways world was not intellectually stimulating at all. LOST was known for being both emotionally and intellectually stimulating, but the finale was only concerned with the former and sadly dismissed the latter. I was hoping for a clever connection; all we got was a bunch of conclusions to love stories.

There's a very fine line between letting the audience make their own interpretations and lazy, incomplete writing.

We deserved more.

I was looking forward to the days after the series ended when I could get people who had missed the show to go back and watch this perhaps once-in-a-lifetime series on DVD. Now that I know what it all led up to, I don't want to anymore because I'm afraid they'll be disappointed in the end too. And that's a damn shame.

Here's an excerpt from a critique of the LOST finale by The New York Time's Mike Hale:

"The battle Jack was about to engage in with the monster inhabiting the body of John Locke mattered in the way that the proper placement of X’s and Y’s matters in an equation — meaning on LOST always having been largely abstract, as if it were a product of flow charts rather than imagination.

But when the entire island story line we had been following for six seasons turned out not to matter very much within the internal organization of the show’s narrative — to be largely disconnected from that final quasi-religious resolution of the plot — it was deflating, despite the warm feelings the finale otherwise inspired."

I agree with Hale's entire analysis - it's both accurate and acute. He writes what I am feeling better than I can. Please read his critique here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/arts/television/25lost.html

LOST.

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