Lost Withdrawal - A Support Thread (SPOILERS)

Marcaiocht_Tonn

This may sound pathetic but I am suffering unprecedented withdrawal after the ending of Lost. No TV show did this to me. I'll be finishing The Wire soon which I expect may have a similar effect.

Anyway, I cannot get the

"Jack dying/Vincent for company"

scene out of my head, it is playing over and over, along with all

the epic, sad music that accompanied the final scenes.

Anyway, just wanted to start this thread and hear other people's mournings as well! Consider it a support group for Lost addicts.

I thought the ending of Lost was terrific, but I gotta say also extremely sad. Yes, they all met up again in "purgatory" which was fantastic... but at the same time, Kate had to leave Jack behind to die on the island, and then live out the rest of her life without him - hence saying "I missed you so much" when she found him in purgatory. The years after getting home from the island must have been miserable for her. Someone else here mentioned, surely she would have tried to get back to the island again, after parting from Jack like that? I'd imagine so, although who knows, she may have had to let go, and accept the he had that job to do.

"My name is Marcaiocht Tonn and I am a Lostaholic. I have been sober for 3 days. It hurts."

Sanjuro

Thank god it's not just me then! I have to say, I thought the scene when

Christian tells Jack he's dead, and Jack breaks down

was absolutely heart-breaking. I lost my own dad a few years back, and like Jack, we had a pretty difficult relationship. So that whole sequence really resonated with me. Even though I'm an atheist! I absolutely loved the series and thought the ending was pretty close to the perfect storm.
The moment when Charlie and Claire recognise each other was written and performed perfectly. I was never the biggest fan of those two characters, but damn, if that didn't have me fighting back the tears.

And one final note for one of the greatest characters of the last decade, John Locke. I had been holding out the hope that maybe he wasn't dead for the entirety of Season 6. And was very sad to realise he was. But Jack's line 'You're not John Locke, and you desicrate everything he was by wearing his face' was the perfect epitaph for him.

Christ, I'm getting that old knot in the stomach just thinking of the whole thing!

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Like with any loss you need to keep yourself occupied. I miss Lost terribly, always will. It was my favourite TV show for an endless number of reasons. We'll get over it lads. I just can't wait to watch the entire 6 seasons again around September-ish.

PCros

I keep watching the final scene....its just brilliantly done! Such a huge gap to fill now!:(

tok9

This thread actually reminded me of this.

FRANCINE: My mother stole again from me this week. Now, I don't even keep money in my purse anymore. I've been hiding it. But when she wants a drink -- she stole 30 dollars. I know it may not seem like a lot of money to some of you, but it's a lot to me. And I want it back.
[Locke sort of chuckles.]
MODERATOR: Something you want to say? [Locke gestures to indicate no.] John, you've been coming here for a month now...
LOCKE: I just don't think 30 dollars is worth getting angry about.
MODERATOR: Well, Francine feels like 30 dollars...
LOCKE: Francine feels a little too much, if you ask me. You all do. I mean, seriously -- so-and-so never called me back -- my mother stole 30 dollars from me. I never even knew who my parents were. A couple of years ago my -- my birth mother found me, and uh, she told me I was special. And -- and through her I met my real father. Great news, right? [increasingly angry] Well, he pretended to love me just long enough to steal my kidney because he had to have a transplant. And then he dropped me back in the world like a piece of trash -- just like he did on the day that I was born. [shouts] You want your damned 30 dollars back? I want my kidney back!

I want my show back!

TouchingVirus

My week has practically gone down the tubes. I feel like I've lost something so important to me it's almost unbearable. There is no show like it currently, there probably won't be one for some time (if ever). And from all the TV I've watched, nothing has hit me so hard as the end of LOST - not even The Wire, Battlestar or The Sopranos.

And yes, I woke up after watching The End to the music from the final scenes in my head. They are still there, any spare second I have is taken up by the music. It's lovely, but preventing me from letting go, which I will have to do at some point. Maybe tomorrow.