It's hard to find a piece of television as divisive as the LOST series finale. When the show bowed in May, it left viewers with an ending that was immediately torn apart by critics and endlessly praised by fans. There was a clear line between those who loved the finale and those who hated it, and, in many cases I witnessed on Lostpedia, the negativity was far louder than the positivity.
Now, however, executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse are saying that the haters are changing their tune.
"Strangely, what happened over the last couple months is that every single person loves it," Cuse told Entertainment Weekly. "It seems like that's actually been a change."
Lindelof added to this, reaching into his ever appropriate bag of metaphors. "The finale is like a relationship. When it ends, at first you only remember why it ended. But as time goes on, you focus on why you were in it in the first place. I think that is what is starting to happen now."
I personally loved the finale when it aired back in May, and I still love it now. Do I wish it could have been more mind-blowing? Absolutely. My opinion of the sixth season has begun to drastically evolve in the time spent apart; I have deliberately not watched an episode of season six since the finale in order to let my mind stew on it for as long as possible.
Other fans seem to be having the opposite reaction. While I'm growing slightly more cynical, Cuse and Lindelof believe that fans are growing more receptive. That's probably due to the recent DVD release of the series as a whole on DVD and Blu-Ray. Fans getting a chance to watch the entire series are now remembering, as Lindelof said, "why they were in it in the first place."
Will there eventually be an entirely positive or negative consensus about the finale? Of course not. But we're beginning to see the beginning of a great exodus toward the big grey area in the middle, it seems. The history books haven't closed on LOST.
It took me a few months to get over the shock of the finale and realize how HORRIBLE the ending was, and how it was all a big CHEAT. The ending wasn't even original…It was the stinkin' "The Five People You Meet In Heaven" except with 20 people to avoid copyright infringement. The ending could have been WAY better. This just goes to show that the writers were making it up as the went, even at the end.
Yeah because good writers manage to avoid plot holes as they make it up. And next thing you'll tell me, the entire series of comic book stories were planned from 1930 on!
do you honestly believe anyone could plan 6 years of storyline ahead?
of course they were making it up as they went along, that's the job they were hired for…
to tell a great story, but still be adaptive and responsive to the character acceptance by the audience..
that's a great part of the process…
if Michael Emerson had been there only for 5 ou 6 episodes (as planned) Lost would probably be a whole different show… if Paulo and Nikky were planned to become central main characters (despite not being accepted by the viewers) Lost ratings would sunk.. and by consequence it might even be canceled..
wasn't it great to feel our opinion had some impact on the show.. I loved that feeling..
the plan ahead approach (the write-first-film-latter) is for movies, not several-season-series!
if the make-up-along-the-way approach creates plot-holes? of course it does…
but honestly… I don't mind a bumpy road when the journey and the view is so awesome!!
I had mixed feelings on finale until I happened to see pretty bad movie this year on DVD called "Passengers" which was released in theaters in 2008. The timeline is obvious and Flash Sideways was exactly the movie's twist ending. Still, LOST was the best TV show ever shown on TV.
That was the worst ending ever. They just ran out of ideas. I loved every episode of lost until the 6th season. Once the sixth season started I began saying to myself, uhh where is this headed? hmmm… and then at the end I was totally disappointed with it. I wish they had a chance to redo the ending the right way. Overall though lost was still once of the best series to ever be on television.