The LOST Finale - First Thought, "What the Heck Just Happened?"

I have been one of the countless LOST fans since it's beginning. From its very beginning, it gave itself credibility for its writing and acting. Due to its many twists and turns in the plot, it immediately began the rumors of what it all meant. There were monster like sounds, ancient statues, many clues that led to ancient civilizations, time travel, and on and on.

One of the earliest thoughts of fans was that it was a "purgatory" type of place and that the characters in the story had indeed died during the plane crash and the story was everything they were going through in the here after, leading to their eventual paths of heaven or hell. As this rumor surfaced as was posed to the series originators and producers, it was categorically denied. In the end, that was exactly was it was.

There were so many flash-forwards, flashbacks, and flash sideways that I was actually reminded of the Chevy Chase movie, "Funny Farm", where Chevy played a sports writer, turned novelist. His first attempt produced a story that he gave to his wife to read. She told him she hated it, because of all of the flash forwards, flash backwards and the flash sideways. Who knew, this would end up working for a real life TV series???

During the years, viewers kept saying there is no way this could end with the writers tying all of these twists together, and make sense. The finale did leave some things unanswered, such as why were certain characters not in the last show. Was it just because they didn't go to a good place, or just not involved in the main character, Jack's transcendence to the beyond? What was the purpose of the ancient statue, Jacob, the good caretaker of the island, the bad, man in black, and the scientific Dharma Initiative?

Of course, one of the largest complaints from fans was an evening of far too many advertisements, which were about 45 total minutes of the 2 1/2 hour episode. I will admit that I was disappointed immediately after the show ended, but when I watched the Jimmy Kimmel show after the news, it was presented that the whole story was really about one main character, Jack, finding his path of good and bad and passing the tests that led to heaven, or his forever after.

If the story line is thought of as being one character's prospective of dealing with his life, what he has accomplished and done for others along the way, then we can understand it not needing to tie up every lose end.

The story of LOST, with all of its complexities, was not about each twist, but of how one man dealt with looking as his life and how he felt he dealt with the struggles of right and wrong and in the end, gave his life to save others, at least in his mind. Jack found his true path and found happiness.

I knew the image of the eye close up would be a significant last image, but not that it would be a closing eye, rather than the other, always opening of an eye....nice touch, plus having the same dog show up, just as Jack had seen when the story started, and lay down beside Jack, as he died.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_(TV_series)
Source: http://abc.go.com/shows/lost