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Lost finale with commentary

Still confused? The finale of Lost will replay on 7TWO next month with added commentary.

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Lost fans who are still baffled / elated / confounded / by the finale of the dazzling series may like to tune into 7TWO next month for a replay of the ending with commentary.

This is a late night airing, at 11:40pm, so with the two and a half hours, it might be worth employing your PVR.

The replay will also include pop-up facts on the finale, although it isn’t yet clear whether Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse are involved.

It airs at 11:40pm Friday July 16 on 7TWO.

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  2. Plenty was wrapped up in the final season and everything ties in together like the importance of the hatch, dharma, etc. Lost has the best closure to characters I’ve ever seen in a TV show. They provide enough information for us to come up with our own conclusions, not spoon fed everything to us. If we were told exactly what the island is people would still whine about the answers given. Good thing the complainers are in the minority. Perhaps they’d be better off with the hundred boring generic crime/medical shows out there.

    Lost – Greatest series of all time.

  4. I loved the Lost journey, but after much reflection felt the writers had gone too far in not providing some explanations. In essence season 6 was pretty much self contained. It created the idea of the alternate reality and in the end answered everything about it. Similarly the battle between MiB and Jacob (and the islands role) was almost totally explained (but again a late entry).

    No real attempt was made to look back at seasons 1-5 and try explain it (other than the island is mysterious and has magical powers). But seasons 1-5 also contained some of the best story telling I’ve seen on TV so I guess that’s forgivable :0)

    Regards

    Peter

  5. The final was a cop out because they didn’t really have an ending to the characters real life story, there was no real happy ending at all the vast majority in the real world, where the show was set for all these years. So it concluded but didn’t wrap up or end that in a satisfying way.
    Instead they constructed a story to give them all a happy ending, that wasn’t in the real world. Wasn’t the story we were watching. Really the characters emotional journeys started off in the final season in the real world, but as it went off and a fairly non plot continued, the emotion was in the side flash. Which in turn was just heaven and there for unrelated to the story at hand. The fact they didn’t have a way to give the characters emotional, proper stories for the final season, shows they didn’t know what they were doing, how to wrap it up.

    If the ending of the show is, what happened in real life didn’t matter, whether the characters lived or died on the island, got off the island and lived a long time or not. All that matters is once they eventually die, whether sooner or later, they’ll all be in heaven and happy. That’s a cop out.

  7. I really feel a bit John Locke’d by the last season. Just like the character John Locke, who believed they were brought to the island for a reason, and his reward for such devotion to the island was being killed and having his body used by the man in black, I too feel that after years of devotion to the show, believing that everyhing in the seasons was happening for a reason, only to find out in the end tha seasons 2-5 didnt matter, all that mattered was in season 1, I felt really cheated and let down.

    Essentially the who saga of the oceanic 6 leaving the island and then feeling like they had done the wrong thing, didn’t matter at all. Kate could have raised Aaron and married Jack if she’d wanted.

    As Christian Shepard said at the end, all the events in their lives were real… But none of them matter; all that matters is that they all stay together.

  8. I actually enjoyed the finale, and I’m sick to death of hearing all these people saying “it was a cop out” or “six years wasted” or “the final season was pointless”. Go re-watch the series until you get the point of the series.
    Sure, there were some unanswered questions, but I’m ok with that. Remember, this is a show where every answer leads to another question.

  11. There’s nothing too baffling about the final, it’s the whole approach to the final season which wasn’t done well.

    The real insight would be about the troubles and constant changes to what they were doing while writing the season, but they’ll never come clean although about half way through the season it became obvious they had no plan.

    They didn’t have a way to wrap up the stories and mysteries, hence why characters and major plot lines forgotten and discarded. Instead of wrapping up the tangle of stories, they then just showed and said in vague way some stuff that really wasn’t important or done creatively and told a story created for that season, that wasn’t the story we had been following. It just had the same characters.

    The ending didn’t wrap up the characters stories or journeys, it was a cop out disguised in emotion. This was done because the main story of the final season was not about the characters journey. There only journey was then made to be in limbo… give me a break.. cop out!

  13. If its anything like the “enhanced” episodes in the US then Darlton have nothing to do with them. ABC are responsible for them and they should be considered un-canon.

  14. This might be the same as the enhanced episodes they air in the US, although I thought those enhanced episodes only had pop up facts, not commentary.
    I’ll be checking it out to see if there’s any interesting info there.

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