Lost finale – no spoilers thoughts

These are my brief, no spoilers thoughts on the end of Lost.

This morning I woke up early to catch the series finale of Lost. Through thick and thin, I stuck with the story of the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 as they struggle to with all the dangers and purgatory the mysterious island threw at them.

What I loved about the show more than anything else was the back stories to each of the characters. For all of the strange happenings that took place on the island, what happened to the survivors was far more interesting than polar bears, the whispering voices and the black smoke. Certainly at the beginning of Lost, life on the island was the same each week, a struggle for survival. it was the flashbacks that was the meat of the story that kept me coming back. And as the series progressed, it was the realisation that all the characters had crossed paths with each other before the island.

We had the Dharma Initiative, the hatch, the numbers and the Others and what started as an unexplained mystery drama become something of a science fiction show. We were given electromagnetic anomalies, time and space travel and flash forwards. Some people hated the direction the show was going in and despite answers, this was always followed even more questions.

Which leads me onto the Lost’s finale. It was always going to divide people and it was always going to leave viewers with unanswered questions.

A lot was left unresolved/unanswered or plainly discarded. No doubt people will be postulating many of these questions for a very long time. To some degree this borders on infuriating as the scriptwriters wrap up six years of plot into the final hours of Lost without explaining a thing. Even now I want answers damn it!

So what are we left with? For me, what I loved about the show, the character’s stories that took place away from the island. As everyone begins to connect in the sideways universe, the writers and cast pull off an tumult of emotions ranging from the sublime to heartache. I sat on the sofa watching loved ones starting to remember their time on the island, and for some I cried as their reunion was more poignant than others.

The story of Lost was never about the island, good and evil, heaven and hell, Jacob and MiB/Smokey but about Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Locke, Hurley, Sayid, Sun, Jin, Claire, Charlie, Desmond, Juliet, Ben and everyone else. What the finale of Lost does is give fans a highly emotional, beautiful ending and a fond farewell.