LOST, what would have satisfied you?

[Koxinga]

@grude

1.The limp dick finale, talk about anticlimactic! The episode Sundown had me thinking they would still pull out and deliver. It was chilling and apocalyptic, all extraneous cast members were now gone and the players seemed in place for the final battle(with a wildcard in the villains camp) and then…nothing. More edicking around and running from island to island.

Agreed – as I said at the time:

@Koxinga

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” 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.

What would have satisfied me? For the writers/producers to have the gumption to keep going in the direction they’d headed out on. Something was about to happen in the story that probably would have been controversial and possibly at odds with the creators’ (and much of the audience’s) personal beliefs (whatever those might be). The stage was set for the Four Horsemen, the Whore of Babylon, the star Wormwood, all that Revelation shit baby, and it was too much for their petty word processors to handle. Instead they threw up their hands with this goofy shit-eating grin and said, “hey, it’s just a TV show, whaddya want?” Very disappointing.