Just Carl

Anonymous asked: What didn't you like about the Lost ending? It made me cry for about a week. I thought it was brilliant.

As an episode, it was one of the best pieces of storytelling I’d ever seen, and yes, was very emotional. As a season finale, it had the perfect amount of suspense and progression in the narrative. But as a series finale (ie, the very last piece of Lost we’re ever gonna get), it sucked. 

They gave us nothing we didn’t already know (or were 90% sure of), and left dozens of story-arcs untouched. Giving us a bunch of mysteries, then only “solving” 2 or 3 of them is just bad storytelling.

My biggest problem, however, was the biggest pile of bullshit storytelling ever…

(IF YOU DON’T WANT SPOILERS, STOP READING HERE)

… For 5 seasons, they produced story after story, and mystery after mystery. Primarily, we wanted to know what the island was, who all the people (Others/original inhabitants/Dharma/etc) really were, why everything was happening, what made the “chosen ones” special, how the island and the Man in Black had their power, and what exactly that power was. Then there was all the time travel stuff… why was Desmond special, who caused the time travel, etc. 

And that was fine… one bit at a time, they gave us scraps of info, and that was how I liked it. We had to work for our story. That’s cool. 

BUT THEN… they introduce this whole other story in season 6… when we had these “flash-sideways” into another reality… which was fine, as long as it was treated as “just another mystery”. BUT IT WASN’T. It was treated as “the” mystery. The only thing that mattered. And then in the finale, they revealed to us what these season 6 stories where, and that was it. WHAT ABOUT THE 5 PREVIOUS YEARS OF MY LIFE I WASTED!?!

Imagine me telling you I had a bunch of secrets I wanted to tell you, but I couldn’t tell you for 6 years. In that time, I gave you clues, but never enough to give away any of the secrets. THEN… after 5 years of waiting, I tell you there’s one more new secret that I’ll tell you in one-years time. You think “great, more secrets!”. Then when the 6th and final year is up, I only tell you the answer to the secret I gave you one year ago, ignoring practically everything I told you the previous 5 years, telling you you’ll just have to use your imagination. That would be stupid and unfair, and bad “secret-telling”, right?

Well that’s what Lost did to me!

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