Well, when I said "clear," i didn't mean satisfying.

It was clear to me that's where they were going in the beginning, and I never believed it when they said that limbo/purgatory was not what the island was. So that's "clear to me" since I always presumed the worst.

I suppose i slyly hoped that, once they nixed that idea and the series grew into something else, they'd be clever enough to write themselves a new finish. But if all they could manage was a "sideways universe" to be the new limbo - all I can say is I'm not very much surprised, though awfully disappointed.


And that's not to say I think even that idea couldn't have been pulled off well. I just don't think it was. Though, to be fair, during the finale and right after, I felt very emotionally satisfied.

As did I. Which is what I was going for with my "inverse finale". They did half of their job. They addressed, reasonably well (with aforementioned weaknesses like Sayid), the emotional elements of the series. But fell completely flat on addressing the other half other of the picture.

I would have been equally annoyed had the finale been ALL about how the island worked, leaving us with, "Oh, all that relationship stuff just kinda happened, the details don't really matter, it was all just kinda there to string you along until we made our point about what the island is." Even if that island explanation was really good, I'd have felt seriously cheated for having invested in those characters. Just as I currently feel seriously cheated for having invested in the island.

:snap:

Now that's funny!

This may have been posted here already but I am too tired to read through recent posts on my phone.

Unanswered questions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xYp0...=youtube_gdata

Yeah, I linked to that up above. So even though I'm not one who cared about the unanswered questions, the sheer quantity of them is something I found incredibly insulting.

Prior to seeing that video, I was waffling on the themes of the finale and the denoument of the Island and the Sideways world - - but adding this bit of insult to the mix, and I became firmly on the side of HATING the LOST Finale.

I wonder how this ending will affect the bluray boxset sales?

I saw something yesterday (too lazy to go find it) that the 6th season will have a lot of extras that have more answers. Specifically the actor who plays Ben said there is a 13-14 minute section of he and Hurly running the island.

Is it animated??