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Originally Posted by menevets
While I'm not completely happy with the ending, the writers really wrote themselves into a muddle and I'm not sure if anyone could have written a satisfactory ending that satisfied the entire breadth of the audience.
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I do agree with that. My disappointment isn't just with the final episode.
The writers negotiated having three 18 episode seasons to wrap it up after the 3rd season. So they had the rare luxury in TV of knowing exactly how many episodes they had to finish their story--and they blew it IMO.
They wasted season 4 on Widmore's mercenaries sent to capture Ben. Which ended up having little to nothing to do with the Season 6 plot.
They wasted season 5 with jumping around in time, then stuck in Dharma--which again had little or nothing to do with the season 6 plot.
Season 6 they just scrap all the past mystery for the most part, came up with a lame story for Jacob, his brother and the smoke monster, made a new mystery with the Island light, and cop out with an ending that's all about the characters and nothing about the island.
Just terribly disappointing for me as one of many who watched mainly because of all the mysteries, spent time online discussing them looking up mythos related to various things on the show (the statue etc.) as it just all feels like a huge waste of time now.
They had 3 years and they could have started explaining some of the mysteries. Why Walt was special, spent some time in Season 5 on how and why Dharma got on the Island (some was explained in the online ARG, but doesn't count IMO), more about the others, fleshed out the Ben/Widmore feud if they were going to spend so much time on it in Season 4 and 5 etc. etc. etc.
Just very, very disappointing for me. And pretty much kills the chance I'll every watch another serial TV drama. Better to stick with movies, much less wasted time if it doesn't pan out. Or at the least I'll wait and watch on DVD when the whole run is over and I hear from friends that it was great from pilot to ending.