# LOST 6.17 "The End" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2010, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459 "2010-05-23T15:16:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 528
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/528 "2010-06-15T09:28:06Z")
Since this thread is still alive, I’ll say something I’ve been thinking recently: I liked the final episode when I first saw it, but the more I think about it the more I think the writers chickened out. To me, [“Sundown”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_(Lost)) was the point where Lost seemed to be taking a very dark, apocalyptic turn. I really thought that somehow fake Locke was the devil incarnate, and had corrupted the souls of Sayid and Claire. And the creepy voice of Claire singing “Catch a Falling Star” to her boar skull baby as Locke and his new followers march out by torchlight to bring Armageddon to the world . . . that sent chills down my spine. And then they pulled back. Sayid and Claire weren’t really infected with darkness. Locke was just this guy, you know? And Jacob was a bit of a dunce. I didin’t care about the hatches and rabbits and getting answers to all that crap, but I do think Lost was going in a certain direction artistically and then didn’t have the courage to follow through. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459)._