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So, needless to say, I'm somewhat disappointed with the series finale of LOST. I feel like on one hand it was very beautiful writing how they ended it (everyone together again and HAPPY!) but on another it's like, "did they just wake up one day and decide to just end LOST because they've gotten so deep they don't know when they'll put a stop to it if they don't?" It feels like they just decided to end the show and threw together a final season and therefore a rickety series finale. Don't get me wrong! I loved the entire final season!! And the final episode I was LOVING! I "saw" right where it was going for the first hour and a half and then at the end it took a completely different turn that left me stunned and disappointed rather than relieved! Let's start off with a few pointers. For one thing earlier in the season if you're watching with the HD pop-up enhancer it explains that the FLASH SIDEWAYS is showing what would've happened if the characters had never crashed on the island... Yet that doesn't make sense because in the FLASH SIDEWAYS things are affected from early on before the plane. For instance, Sawyer isn't a CON MAN, he's a cop. So, that leads the viewer to think, okay the FLASH SIDEWAYS is something that must've happened when the A-Bomb went off, because Juliet told Sawyer "it worked!" meaning that they had in fact gone back and made the island stuff never happen when the bomb went off. So after this episode we're thinking, the FLASH SIDEWAYS is what they're living now after the bomb went off and the ones still on the island will die on the island so they can get to their life in the FLASH SIDEWAYS, still being connected somehow to the awesome people they met on the plane! TOATLLY COOL!!!! The writers addressed this thought, but what they decided to do with the ending now seems to nullify everything we saw! Questions are defintely left circling inside my head. For one, if everyone in the church is actually dead, then when and how did Penny die?? What about Juliet? If the survivors of flight 815 had all actually died the day they first landed and none of that stuff ever happened (I don't know if THIS is what they were saying happened or not but if it is) then where do Juliet and Ben and ALL THE OTHERS come in to play? A land created by all the psyches of the survivors? A pergutory? OR if the writers were saying that they all ended up dying on the island then why didn't it show how Lapidus, Miles, Kate, Sawyer and Desmond died? Was that the wreckage it showed at the end? Did their plane crash as they were leaving because Jack plugged the thing back in to the heart of the island thus returning the island's electromagnetism? It didn't show how Hurley died or Ben... So... It's just very confusing. I know that some people say that it wouldn't be LOST if you aren't left lost, but I feel that as devoted viewers we deserve some sort of resolution! Some sort of "okay, I've got my answers, my curiosity is satisfied, the show can rest in peace now."