And at the last scene we see the original crash site, apparently with no survivors.
So none of it really happened?
Purgatory?
After investing so much time in the show, I was really hoping for an ending that would wrap it up and explain the meaning of the entire thing.
I should have known better. Hollywood types can't resist the opportunity to give us a "meaningful" ending that few people can make sense of.
But Christian said everything happened. So was that supposed to be Oceanic 815 or the plane Lapidus was flying?
After investing so much time in the show, I was really hoping for an ending that would wrap it up and explain the meaning of the entire thing.I agree with your first paragraph but I'm not sure if the word "Hollywood" explains the monumental failure of the Lost Finale.I should have known better. Hollywood types can't resist the opportunity to give us a "meaningful" ending that few people can make sense of.
Hollywood gave us The Terminator series, which was a great depiction of time travel.
I thought Lost was going to be another such great depiction and though it flirted with science for much of its run it finally fell back on the Spiritual. Nothing wrong with that, if that's the kind of fiction you like.
Lost -- unfortunately in my mind -- turned out to be no kind of Science Fiction at all. It was a weird kind of ghost story or "Spirit Dream".
Which would have been fine if they hadn't teased us with SF for 6 long years.
I don't mind watching the show. I had many good conversations out of it with my friends and I believe that we came up with way better theories for what was going on than did the writers of Lost.
I believe what really happened is that they chickened out.
They were afraid, in the end, that the American Public can't handle good SF. They are sadly and stupidly wrong. But, they are also rich. And, like I said, I don't begrudge the time I put into the show.
Off topic but I also think that Avatar chickened out when it came to how much science they put in their story.