A few questions were answered. A few questions were made up specifically to be answered. The questions that nagged at us for six seasons however, pretty much remain unanswered. The ending felt like a cop out to me, yes they’re all dead now, what we thought were “Flash Sideways” were actually still Flash Forwards, but showing the Lost crew in their afterlife. The place where they go and meet up, before moving on. Wait, didn’t I see this finale just last week, in Ashes to Ashes? I’m sure I’m not the only one who want’s to know what actually happened on the Island with Hugo as ruler, and Ben as his No.2 and what happened back in Society when the rest of the crew returned home (again).

The mysterious Polar bears were just some Darma experiment. Nothing mystical about that.

The Darma Initiative themselves we spent 3/4 seasons wondering about, were just a pointless group of scientists trying to harness islands power. They had no place in the finale. Neither did “The Others” who were just another group of miss-lead people, trying to protect the island from outsiders.

The Light at heart of island keeps was on of those questions made up at the end of this season, in order for the writers to have something to answer. The light itself keeps the island static.

Attach a wheel to this light and you can travel through time/space.

Apparently if you remove a stone from the light, the island falls apart. It has been suggested that this would cause the end of civilisation - but there was no evidence of this when the stone was removed in the finale.

It had also been suggested Jacob’s Brother (who I refuse to call the Smoke Monster or Man in Black – surely the guy has a bloody name?) was Evil incarnate and released into the world would also cause the end of civilization as he corrupts society. Not sure if that’s actually true, since he was just a boy, like Jacob, who happened to be raised by a loony islander. There was no Good vs Evil battle here, just two misguided sons, doing what they think is right by themselves and/or the island.

Jacob isn’t mysterious, he’s just ignorant. His job is to protect the light from outsiders and to prevent his brother from leaving the island.

Somehow the light turned Jacob’s brother into a smoke monster that can take the form of others, although his body was physically dead. Only Desmond can walk on the light because he has a resistance to electromagnetism. Saying that, Jack somehow survived the light – he didn’t die or become a smoke monster.

Drinking water and incanting a spell makes one invulnerable. Magic!

Questions I’m left with are;

If everyone is dead now (Jacob, Jack, Hugo), who’s protecting the light?

Who was the woman who used to protect the light, where did she come from? How did this all start?

Where was Michael / Walt at the end. They played pretty prominent parts throughout the series, but were nowhere to be found when the rest of the gang met in ‘purgatory’ during the finale.

How could ghosts appear to Huge, especially if they don’t remember that they are dead. Was it Jacob impersonating Hugo’s dead friends, or Jacob’s brother?

[Update]

There’s a great round-up at MSNBC.

I’m so frustrated about this ending. The flash-sideways were a timeless afterlife, therefore they meant nothing. We learnt nothing about the past 5 seasons of the show, none of the mysteries were solved. The only answers we received were to questions made up in season 6 with the specific purpose of being answered.

When it comes down to it, Lost was poorly planned. The writing was both fantastic and absolutely shit, at the same time. While it kept you gripped, with a suspense there was no payload at the end – six years of questions, and absolutely no answers. Disgusting.

The worst thing is, I know I’ll be buying the DVD set, simply because they’ve promised to provide some answers as extra features. But the fact that they’ve had to do this, instead of gradually providing answers over 6 seasons, or even during one epic finale, simply proves the poor writing of this show.