# How SHOULD "Lost" have ended? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 25, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-lost-have-ended/540740 "2010-05-25T19:58:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-lost-have-ended/540740/41 "2010-05-28T07:45:46Z")
Lesbian love scene between Juliet and Kate in the healing pool in the Temple or some random waterfall. My version would have been way better than that final episode dreck. ---
**Author:** ![Seamack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@Seamack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seamack)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-lost-have-ended/540740/42 "2010-05-28T08:42:49Z")
Hurley watching flight 815 wash in on the beach - flick to Jack awakening in jungle - back to Hurley, who turns to Ben and says ‘It’ll end this time’. Fade to black. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-lost-have-ended/540740/43 "2010-05-28T09:20:46Z")
**Red** is correct, of course. The writers dug a hole without making sure they’d be able to fill it up later. It was a giant Ponzi scheme. When they realized they couldn’t provide answers for the questions they’d created they responded by creating more mysteries. Eventually everything was such a convoluted mess that there was no chance of providing answers- because the answers didn’t exist to begin with. You can talk about how the show was about the characters and that’s what’s important, but if that’s the case, why even create all these mysteries to begin with? Whenever I heard my friends talking about the show, they weren’t talking about the characters, they were talking about their theories regarding the numbers, the hatch, the smoke monster or whatever. The show was about the mysteries. ---
**Author:** ![HenryGale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b782af/32.png) [@HenryGale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HenryGale)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-lost-have-ended/540740/44 "2010-05-28T18:59:26Z")
This may have already been discussed in the finale thread, and my apologies if this has already been covered, but… I’d be interested to hear whow fans of both Lost and Battlestar Galactica compare the two finales. Both were character-driven shows with a deep mythology, lots of ongoing mysteries for which fans felt there was certain “promise” for a resolution from the showrunners. Both shows had their fans and their detractors, but it seems like both were on a whole considered to be unsuccessful. Lost didn’t give any answers, and the answers that BSG gave were stupid (not my opinions, but my perception of the general consensus based on message threads like this one). I’d posit based on this that a show of this nature is just doomed to fail in the eye of the public. There just isn’t a way to satisfactorally end it all. “Can’t please all the people,” and all that. For what it’s worth, the Lost finale was not at all what I expected, but in the end I liked it. I think **DrDeth** was dead on. The producers even went so far to have the Allison Janney character say it on screen: “Any answers I give you will just lead to more questions.” (paraphrasing) All the island mythology is just a rabbit hole that would totally turn into the episode DrDeth described if the writers tried to neatly wrap it all up.] To answer the OP, only one thing really bothered me; no way, no how without a magical explanation that was not given would that jet have ever, ever lifted off. The survivors escape on Desmond’s boat. ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-lost-have-ended/540740/45 "2010-05-28T21:22:35Z")
I feel the alternative timeline should have been that - an alternative timeline, created when the bomb went off. End with the characters realizing everything about their other life on the island. Then fade out. I don’t mind not knowing the reasons the island was special or where the others came from or why they killed so many people or how Richard traveled off island etc. What I hate - no, HATE - after some reflection is the heaven/we’re all dead/or purgatory-waitingroom crap/ and it’s all about Jack and suddenly his father’s a good guy? So I was ok when they were at the concert. when they got the church I was ready to punch the screen. I still wanna punch something. ---
**Author:** ![Baraqiyal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@Baraqiyal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baraqiyal)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-lost-have-ended/540740/46 "2010-05-28T21:54:18Z")
Like this: [![](https://i.imgur.com/wtzBE.gif) ](https://i.imgur.com/wtzBE.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-lost-have-ended/540740/47 "2010-05-28T22:12:35Z")
> [@Shawn1767](#): > > With a now middle-aged Tommy Westphall playing with a new snow globe. With a tiny Charlie desperately trying to get out. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-lost-have-ended/540740/48 "2010-05-28T22:16:51Z")
> [@Baraqiyal](#): > > Like this: > ["How LOST should have ended" - /r/pics (+1834) [May 27, 2010] - GIF on Imgur](http://i.imgur.com/wtzBE.gif) I laughed. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-lost-have-ended/540740/49 "2010-05-29T03:13:58Z")
Four years earlier. 100 episodes sooner. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-lost-have-ended/540740/50 "2010-05-29T03:17:19Z")
> [@duality72](#): > > Four years earlier. > > 100 episodes sooner. Nailed it. Thread winner! ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-lost-have-ended/540740/51 "2010-05-29T03:57:36Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > I laughed. As did I - that was awesome! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-lost-have-ended/540740/52 "2010-05-29T12:15:07Z")
> [@Baraqiyal](#): > > Like this: > ["How LOST should have ended" - /r/pics (+1834) [May 27, 2010] - GIF on Imgur](http://i.imgur.com/wtzBE.gif) I was going to post the link to this from Jimmy Kimmel’s show, but I guess this is just as good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-lost-have-ended/540740.md?page=2)