What way would you have ended Lost?

charlieharper

It's safe to say most fans weren't impressed with the show's ending but if were up to you what "twist" would you have put on the ending.

Cyndaquil

I'm not sure if most fans were disappointed, to me it seems more like 50/50 in favour/against. But anyway...

I wouldn't have done much with the finale itself (bar give more roles to characters like Daniel and the Freighter folk, the Tailies, etc...). I would have also given Michael some shot of redemption. However, I would have tried answer more questions in the episodes leading up to the end, resolve Walt's fate, etc.

(although it was satisfied with the DVD mini-episode).

Sad Professor

I liked how the show ended, but I do have a few ideas for how it could have been improved:

I would had made Ben a more heroic figure. He would have taken up MIB's offer and gone with him in Dr Linus, acting as his right-hand man for the reminder of the season. But then at a critical moment in the finale he would have revealed that he was actually conning MIB all along. He would have then died in a blaze of glory, weakening MIB in the process.

I think it was a mistake for the writers to try and redeem Ben. Ben's actions shouldn't have been redeemed imo, they should have been justified via flashbacks that would shown him to have as much knowledge as Jacob.

I wouldn't have spent all season doing the Flash-Sideways, just the pilot and the finale. And I would have made the Sideways an actual alternate time but one which deviated from the main timeline at the point of the crash. In other words, the characters would have had the exact same backstories that had already been established, their lives would have been same, except they wouldn't have crashed on the island. This timeline would have been destroyed in an apocalyptic event as a consequence of the characters not being on the island to press the button. This would have really rammed home the importance of the island and the Losties purpose there.

I wouldn't have totally explained the island, but I would have emphasised the sci-fi angle more. It would have been described to us how the island existed inside the mouth of a stable wormhole, thereby explaining how the island moved and certain aspects of time travel. The island acted as cork, both keeping the wormhole stable and preventing whatever was on the other side from coming through.

However, I could never have improved on the perfection of the final moment of Jack dying in the jungle. I was the perfect way to end the show.

astrofool

I feel they had everything in place to do something really ambitious in season 6, and really show a cohesive end to the whole thing, something along the lines of merging the realities, and doing a good time/reality loop, and not being afraid to really push the scope of what was happening. Instead we got an in depth knowledge of Jacob (not a really interesting characater) and the MIB (he's the smoke, and can change forms, we get it).

I enjoyed the final season, but feel it probably could have done with being a 22 episode season bringing everything together via Desmond.

A Neurotic

Sad Professor wrote: »

I liked how the show ended, but I do have a few ideas for how it could have been improved:

I would had made Ben a more heroic figure. He would have taken up MIB's offer and gone with him in Dr Linus, acting as his right-hand man for the reminder of the season. But then at a critical moment in the finale he would have revealed that he was actually conning MIB all along. He would have then died in a blaze of glory, weakening MIB in the process.

I think it was a mistake for the writers to try and redeem Ben. Ben's actions shouldn't have been redeemed imo, they should have been justified via flashbacks that would shown him to have as much knowledge as Jacob.

I wouldn't have spent all season doing the Flash-Sideways, just the pilot and the finale. And I would have made the Sideways an actual alternate time but one which deviated from the main timeline at the point of the crash. In other words, the characters would have had the exact same backstories that had already been established, their lives would have been same, except they wouldn't have crashed on the island. This timeline would have been destroyed in an apocalyptic event as a consequence of the characters not being on the island to press the button. This would have really rammed home the importance of the island and the Losties purpose there.

I wouldn't have totally explained the island, but I would have emphasised the sci-fi angle more. It would have been described to us how the island existed inside the mouth of a stable wormhole, thereby explaining how the island moved and certain aspects of time travel. The island acted as cork, both keeping the wormhole stable and preventing whatever was on the other side from coming through.

However, I could never have improved on the perfection of the final moment of Jack dying in the jungle. I was the perfect way to end the show.

Ego trip much!? :P

ChaseThisLight

Sad Professor wrote: »

However, I could never have improved on the perfection of the final moment of Jack dying in the jungle. I was the perfect way to end the show.

I couldn't agree more with this. I can't imagine it ending any other way.

I honestly was one of the fans who loved the end of the show, hands down. I didn't have a single complaint. I mean, I expected to because I knew we'd not get answers to everything, but I realized that I didn't need answers...I needed a purpose for everything.

All along, Lost was, at the very core, about life, death, rebirth –

the very thing that Mother said was the heart of the Island, the source.

It was represented in so many ways over the course of the show, and yet it took to the very end for that realization to truly come to the surface, for us to see that the show was not simply about survivors of a plane crash and their trials, that there was a deeper more powerful meaning to it all.


And that meaning was beautiful.


For me, the idea that we go on after this life, that the people we had connections with would be there, that we would have another life with them, whether our connection with them was one of love or friendship or dislike, is both touching and comforting. It gives you hope. Hope that you can correct mistakes, right wrongs, find those that you lost too soon. Hope that it was not all in vain. Hope that there is something better.

So, I would have ended it exactly how it ended.

(Hope I didn't need to use more spoiler in the above...my apologies if I did, and I'll correct it if needed)