LOST finale now being shown 5am Monday simultaneously with the US!

[EightiesChick]

Story about it here. Brilliant move by Sky IMO as even if you can't watch it till Monday evening, that's still only one day of having to avoid the internet to beat spoilers. Plus gingernorks will be unable to spoil it on here! Woo hoo!

i also thought it was a bit of an anticlimax.

Haliborange - that was my prediction a la Alice in Wonderland! I too gave up watching at the beginning of series 3 but DH kept going - it sounds like I wouldn't have been satisfied by the ending so I'm glad I've saved myself years of confusion!

So if the island was real and they survived the plane crash but died at later stages than none of the island mysteries have been resolved.

I thought it was brilliant. The fact that everyone ended up with their own personal redemption, with the exception of Ben who chose to stay in purgatory because he hadn't yet found his - just ace.

As someone somewhere else said this morning, "Anyone who was looking for 'answers' was always going to be disappointed, but anyone who cared about the characters would be blown away"

I don't care that some of the finer details were left unanswered - what the numbers meant / what the Dharma initiative was / how they branded sharks and polar bears etc. I guess I'm just comfortable that the island is what it is.

Oh and the Sawyer and Juliet reunion was heartbreakingly wonderful.

Exactly hollyoaks, like the whole 'women can't have babies' thing, what was with the time travelling and going back to the seventies, how could the island move, why did Jacob's brother turn into the smoke monster when he went into the light, but neither Desmond or Jack did? IT felt like the ending to a completely different show with the same characters.

I agree that it was a great ending for the characters and their relationships which have been built up wonderfully, and I spent much of the two hours sobbing quietly into a cushion but the creators have always promised that 'the answers are coming' and they haven't.

I was disappointed. And more on the grounds of the characters than the scientific questions (though some of that was annoying too). I didn't like the LA-X / sideways universe being, effectively, a fantasy. The characters getting their 'reward' there is not good enough; Sun and Jin didn't really get to see their daughter, etc. It was all a fantasy to comfort them after death before they 'moved on' to a 'proper' afterlife. And, if they were all destined to get to the church together in the end anyway, what was the point of all of Desmond's manouevrings during series 6 to make them remember, and bring them all together? Surely none of that was actually needed, so was it just a way of Desmond keeping himself occupied in the transitory afterlife?

I also felt the Jacob figure and mythology ended up seeming fairly irrelevant and powerless. He was built up during earlier seasons as having carefully chosen these particular people, and done quite a lot of manipulation, observation (watching them in their earlier lives) to bring them to the island. But then, their purpose in being there was left irritatingly vague, just that they 'weren't happy'. Only Jack really seemed to matter in the end as he agreed to take on Jacob's job, and even then it seemed as if it didn't really matter who did that, as Jacob said to Kate; 'It's just a line of chalk on a wall (her name being crossed out). The job's yours if you want it'. So why go to all the trouble of assembling that particular group if the details of what each one needs to do aren't ever fleshed out, and who takes on the top job isn't even important?

The only thing I'm still confused about was Jack's son...what purpose did he serve? And did he ever really exist?

I thought the rest quite moving and beautiful.

No apparently he didn't really exist and was just an opportunity for Jack to experience being a father and prove to himself that he wouldn't have been the same as his dad, or something.

EightiesChick - I've just clocked your comments on the Guardian website.

And that's the way I saw it, LostGirl. In the purgatory timeline, everyone got the chance to be the thing that they felt in their heart they wanted to be. So, deep down, Sawyer wasn't a petty criminal - so he got to be a cop.

I certainly didn't get that Sawyer, Kate and Miles didn't make it when they flew off. I thought they probably lioved long lives and met up with the others in church when they died. That's why Kate said: "I've missed you" to Jack.

It was all about the ride for me, not the end. The 'big' questions about the island were answered throughout season 6, not just the final episode. Of course not all of the questions were answered but I have thinking been about it all day coming up with my own ideas which is part of the beauty of it all.

I won't forget it for a long time and I want to go back to the beginning and watch it all again. That for me makes it a great telly programme. Thanks Lost for keeping me entertained all this time! Oh and for making me cry for 1 3/4 hours from 5.30am - 7.15am this morning!

Have just watched it and am still totally confused which has annoyed me tbh. Some of my has been cleared up on this thread but I still don't get it tbh!

However, it was a lovely lovely episode - most of which I have spent snivelling into a tissue. Having spent 6 years with these characters, I am so glad they all got a happy ending In fact, I am still emotional now and am welling up again

Is it repeated cos my SKY has bugegred it up - keeps jumping, losing the sound and the picture is crap !

HELP !!!!!!

I really enjoyed it and have mulled it over alot! I get the basic idea that they all died at different times but one thing keeps confusing me! At some point in the last episode, Desmond told Jack the plane never crashed. What did that mean???

Lovely ending, great to see Hurley and Libby reunited! (sob)

Tillyboo - worry not! Tomorrow (Tues) at 9pm, Sky1, it's on again.

hmj, i thought desmond was referring to the flash sideways when he said that about the plane not crashing as that's where that timeline started.

I loved it - I know there was so many ynassnwered questions, but thecharacters journey was fantastic - the best for me being Juliett and Sawyer.

My question is Desmond was busy trying to help everyone get to remember so they could go onto the afterlife - but he worked for Charles Whitmore in the sideways life didnt he? So was it Chalres who wanted them all to go move on ? WHy?

WE love it!!!!

Yes, he did work for Charles Widmore - however, it took Charlie to make Desmond realise what it was all about - he didn't always know they were in purgatory.

I don't know if you remember but halfway through this series, Charlie had the 'memory flashback' when he almost choked swallowing the drugs on the plane.

Meanwhile, Desmond was sent to track Charlie down so that he would play in the concert, but Charlie didn't want to as he knew there was more to life than that. He drove Desmonds car off a pier (I think) which gave Desmond his memory flashback to the island. That's when he went all 'shepherd rescuing his flock' on us

yes soshe i agree with 'the others' you have it all wrong love.

The island was real not purgatory, no inbetween place at all. The sideways flashes in season 6 was the only purgatory/unreal part.

Jin and sun died together in the submarine.

Clare, Arron did not die on the island

Sawyer did not die on the plane at the end (we see a shot of the plane flying off while jack watches.

For people who have Sky - the finale is available on Sky anytime, if you want to watch it again, for the next week. Plus there's another repeat plus the documentary 'goodbye to..' programme on Friday evening.