I guess what I am wondering is why the series HAD to end. It was still popular. Why not expand it another season and deal with a lot of this stuff? I suppose upon thinking of that question perhaps they really had no way to tie them in.

I suppose the more I think about the ending the more....frustrated I am. Yeah, just a TV show, but so many of the unanswereds sucked me in, and to have so many left unanswered, well, sucks.

Great video, ISM.

They said from the beginning they had a 5 year plan (so it didn't run endlessly like the X-Files or some show that kept going and going). The writers strike turned it into 6 seasons by making a few seasons shorter ones but the intent has always been to tell their story and end it.

I think that the reason that the show ended was because the first season had an average of 15.6 million viewers, while the 2nd through the 5th saw the viewership decline to 15.5, 15.05, 13.4 and 11.05.

The X-Files ran 9 full seasons, with only a portion of the show dedicated to the "mythology". Interestingly, the X-Files viewership peaked in its 5th season, with 17.1 million viewers.

I hadn't realized that the show had dropped off that much in viewership.

I know about the original plan, BTD, but I liken it to an author who decides he is going to write a 100 page novella, and at the end of 100 pages stops when he needs 20 more to finish it.

Lost lost me after season 1. I watched periodic episodes and the damn show moved at such a friggin glacial pace. Like, I missed all of season 3 except the season finale, and I wasn't confused as to what was going on, after a 1 minute recap from my mom (who doesn't follow these things all that closely). Judging from everyone's reactions here, it's a bummer that the end was such a letdown... really, it was a bizarre way to end things.

I personally loved the finale...but I wasn't expecting most of the questioned to be answered, I didn't need most of the questions answered...except as they pertained to the characters. (although I really, really wanted to know what became of Vincent, and I was very satisfied to find [or believe] that he lived a happy doggie life with Rose and Bernard, after he, of course, comforted Jack [and who knows how many others] and helped ease him into death and what was to come.)

I maintain that LOST has always been about the humanity and the redemption of the core characters. In fact, I believe I posted at one point that I thought that we would discover that ultimately the show would be about love. How it binds us to people, how it leads us to extraordinary actions and how ultimately, it determines the path(s) we chose to pursue. And I think that was confirmed. Because of the love these characters had for each other, because they had become integral to each other's very existence, they were compelled to form (separately, yet in unison) an other worldly plane where they would each wait for each other until they were once again whole. Sure, they were reunited with their true loves...but that was only a minor consequence of needing to remember their bond. "Live together, die alone"..."live together, move on together" because none of them were whole as long as any one of them was missing. The sideways world transcended time and space; as Christian said (something to the effect of), "some of them have been here a long time, some of them a short time."

More to come, but I need to fix dinner....:)

I don't think most people's beef is that they didn't answer all the questions. I think think the issue (at least for me) is that so many of the questions were simply negated.

Hey, don't forget it's Tuesday, time for.....aaaawww.

:(

I'm going to miss my Tuesdays With Smokey

Exactly!