c0up

That was quick. I liked the subtle little jab about them not answering all the questions.

Good ol' Posterous.

Heh, I was almost expecting Damon and Carlton to be those two employees. I was more excited by the Hurley Bird than anything else Q_Q

Hurley bird?

*unplugs laptop and walks towards a meeting room*

I think it was there for a few seconds in that cage that was covered.

i want more!!!!!

Ben, Hurley and Walt spin-off you say?

Who knows, maybe in 10 years, if they haven't gone on to bigger and better things!

I loved it. It was perfect...."We deserve answeres" i loved that....

Haha. It was definitely tongue-in-cheek, but I think what disappointed me, relatively, was the description I'd heard of it before I saw it, which was something like "Ben and Hurley's time on The Island leading up to the series finale", so I was expecting a bit more.

Ha!! I think it's great how they answered what a lot of ppl thought were the most "important" questions in a mere 12 minutes. This was the greatest thing I've seen since... well.... LOST!!! - Thank you!!!

I think anyone that watched it hoping for answers to "important" questions would've just been more disappointed :O

And anyone that did actually follow the show closely probably already had the "answers" that were shown anyway.

I just wanted to see more of them dying ~_~

I half expected Ben to kill both men. Nevertheless, I thoroughly enjoyed this. Walt is really awesome.

Oh snap, you're right, I could totally see Ben doing that! In a light hearted way, of course.

Yeh, they screwed up Walt. I guess they were hinting that he would be Ben and Hurley's successor?

Amazing, my biggest question answered.... WAAAAAAAAALT!!!!!!!!

Heh, glad someone got what they wanted out of it.

It's kinda funny how they used Jacob's theme for Hurley now.

Wow, so many questions answered, especially those surrounding CHRISTIAN and Jacob's Cabin :confused

Hmm, don't think there was much I felt remained unanswered about Christian, but the cabin, yeh, quite the random. Horace building it for his wife and then Jacob and MiB taking over it or being imprisoned there.

Oh the memories. Brain. Hurting.

Yep...just like I predicted. A low-budget info-dump designed as damage control.

Oh wait, they didn't actually give us any information. Just more of the pathetic, insulting nonsense that the finale was filled with, and just like the finale, it answered nothing of consequence.

Are Damon and Carlton really so delusional as to think that I give a flying **** that a couple of obsolete Dharma employees got severance pay? I'm more sorry than ever that I wasted 6 years of my life on this show...and I hate myself for holding out any hope that these 12 minutes could somehow atone for the atrocious, insulting finale.

Of course you predicted it, Eloise! Is that actually your name? o_o Freaky coincidence if so.

I absolutely loved the finale [http://c0up.posterous.com/lost-the-end-spoilers-duh] but this was just a light hearted "bonus" for the DVD. Damon and Carlton had no involvement with it, AFAIK.

i enjoyed this little bonus, but it just felt too.......short!
i would have loved to see more of ben and hurley with their banter, maybe on the island. i have been looking forward to seeing this for the last few months since i heard about it. was actually thinking of buying the DVD set just for this scene, and to be honest, glad i didnt. would have been on a bit of a downer if i had spent all that money for this.
yes, it answered questions i wasnt really bothered about.
yes, it was nice to have this little bonus.
yes, the finale was great, and left pretty much everything answered that needed answering.

but now i have seen this epilogue, i just feel gutted that there is now going to be no more fresh LOST for me to watch.

I thought this was great. Thought the Pierre Chang reference to "having to use aliases in the future" was hilarious, since only once (with Hurley at the Orchid) was there ever any question as to why Chang used so many different names. Also the reference to the electromagnetic radiation being harmful to the gestation process of the bears evidently is connected to why women couldn't give birth on the island. One of my few gripes about the show and characters was how Walt pretty much disappeared after all the buildup of how "special" he was. So it was cool to see him being brought back into the fold and gave some closure to that.
The only complaint I have about this snippet is now I'm even more disappointed that it's over. Best show ever. Period!!

"yes, it answered questions I wasn't really bothered about.
yes, it was nice to have this little bonus.
yes, the finale was great, and left pretty much everything answered that needed answering."

My sentiments EXACTLY, dj yorkie, and buying the DVD for just this would have been pretty disappointing.

@Mark: I still feel the Walt inclusion was a bit of a cop out, but, better than nothing I guess. I would love it Damon and Carlton gave us a brief description of what they saw Walt's role being in the greater scheme of things if he hadn't gone and become gigantic. Likewise with Mr. Eko's premature departure.

c0up, I think (by design or not) the show was never meant to answer every question. Kind of goes with the show's standard operating procedure to leave lots of things open ended, deliberately unanswered, or impossible to answer.
But yes it would have been interesting to know if there was a greater plan for Walt. As for Eko, it's too bad the actor wanted off the show as I think his character was quite interesting. With his death I never completely figured out why the smoke monster wanted him to repent and then killed him when he wouldn't. The monster had underlying motives for wanting Jacob's candidates to die but not sure what its interest in Eko was. So much of this show's story and its characters was about choices and consequence...and however ambiguous it was, Eko's death fit this theme very well. It could also be that they just had to figure out a way to kill him off the show, I suppose?

Oh yeh, I came out the finale with every question *I* had being answered, and especially listening to the podcasts they used to do, you kinda expected that it was going to go down that path of character resolution, as opposed to all the mysteries of The Island being solved.

Re: Eko, I think you're right in terms of him not admitting / atoning for his sins to Smokey, and being The Island judge, jury and executioner, Smokey sent him on his way, but who knows how it could've turned out.

Dammit, now I'm reading Lostpedia again!

Liked it alot, wanted more. Glad to see Walt's story wrapped up.

Here's my thoughts on Jacob's cabin. It was meant to be the place the others and particularly Richard communicated with Jacob. The Ash was meant ro keep smokey out, but at some point the circle of ash was broken and Smokey began using the cabin to impersonate Jacob, or appear as Christian and others to get people on his side and do his dirty work.

The only thing I didn't quite get was how it kept hopping around The Island; the rest was pretty much as you described, but really, if that was a burning question for someone at the end of LOST, they clearly watched it in a different context to me.

Although, now that you mention it, didn't Jacob always live in the statue? I mean, when Richard first met him, it was in the statue, and I know that Ilana went there, so I guess there was some period of time he spent there, or she was looking specifically for MiB? *sigh*

That was fricking awesome!

That was brilliant! What a perfect epilogue. Bravo!

Lost still isn't as good as Twin Peaks. And at least now we can surmise that Hurley's reign as Lord of the Island lasted long enough for Ben to get tired of hearing him sob about Jack being dead in the woods when they found him. Kinda lame, but what do you expect from Lost?

@c0up:

Yeah, ultimately the show answered my own questions, the ones that really mattered, although I admit I had to watch the finale several times and rewatch a lot of old episodes (I admit I have actually watched each episode at least twice through) before I was able to fully digest and appreciate what had occurred. Five years ago when I for the first time watched the first season, I recall raving in particular about the character development being the best I had ever seen in a TV show.Ultimately, the show was about the characters and about their redemption. The mythology was important yet remained peripheral in the greater scheme We were asked from the very outset of the show to accept mysticism and supernatural phenomena by having to believe they could have survived a plane disintegrating at cruising altitude and the resulting impact, not to mention the existance of a "smoke monster" and many other such things, so in the end I don't have a problem not getting a specific explanation of why turning off the light made MIB human again or why MIB and Jacob (and others for that matter) felt bound by some unexplained "rules" (such as, MIB can't kill Jacob but someone else can on his behalf, Jacob is immortal but could be killed nonetheless, why detonating the hydrogen bomb sent Sawyer and co. back to 2007 and didn't otherwise blow up the island and the Dharma folks who apparently kept on living until Ben exterminated them, etc. etc.). That stuff was not meant to be answered I think and I don't think the writers ever really intended to answer it. In the end, even if people didn't appreciate the sideways "purgatory" tangent, that paradigm could be viewed almost separate from the island, real life timeline, which was what actually happened to the characters in their time alive.

I notice most people tend to either love the finale or absolutely hate it. Many of those who hate it can't seem to articulate their complaints beyond that they didn't get the answers they wanted. Honestly I think a lot of these people are similar to the ones who were outraged because Kate and Sawyer didn't end up together, etc. Clearly this was a show where you could not have hopes and expectations about any sort of outcome because it would inevitably lead to despair- which is remarkably similar to...life itself. And that is what is brilliant about it: this is what you want, this is what you get.

I'm 40 years old and in the past 20 years I have watched almost zero television because mainly, I think TV sucks in general. I spend a lot of time outside in the mountains and don't like mass media.So Lost is honestly the only show I have ever watched as an adult and the only one that I actually had an ongoing thought to make sure to see it. My wife and I never missed an episode and we still talk about it and what it meant. I think this is the mark of a successful program in that it has generated in its viewers a discussion that will continue for many years to come.

Finally I think it is pretty funny that people who hate the show still seem to keep going out of their way to absorb all things Lost, including the "New Man in Charge" video, then proclaim how it sucked, etc. Even they are still in the web. Ha.

It looks like they drive on the left ("wrong") side of the road for Santa Rosa area. They say they are going home. They are going to England to do a spin-off.

And LOST will continue to be dissected for...eh...ver.

Yes, thank you for concluding the Walt story. That was the only thing I thought was missing.

Wow, thanks for all the comments, tweets and shares, guys!

@Mark: Epic reply o_o I totally agree, and I've seen every episode twice too! I think the way I ended the post on the finale still sums up my feelings about the show:

"There will never be as much theorising, speculation, love, dedication or hate directed towards a show. There will never be another television show like LOST."

I thought it would be fun to just blog about the first episode of this season, and there ended up being a post for every episode, and more often than not, they got lengthier and found an audience. It's absolutely amazing that months after the finale, a light-hearted 12 min video can still generate so much discussion and interest, and it is definitely a testament to the show.

So I wonder how long ABC / Disney will wait 'til they reboot it in some form...

And so?!?!?!?!?!

That was pretty sweet. Few nice little tid bits. Left me with one burning question though. Why was Hurley wearing black and not white?

Lol, I got you beat. I watched from the 1st episode every year before the new season came out.

@Brent: Didn't notice that! :O Hurley is evil!

@Bill: Wait, so you've watched....

25 + (25 + 24) + (25 + 24 + 23) + (25 + 24 + 23 + 14) + (25 + 24 + 23 + 14 + 17) + (25 + 24 + 23 + 14 + 17 + 18) ...

456 episodes of LOST?! Or have I completely misread that? O_O

an open window for movie

Awesome stuff - just wish there was more. Lost is like a psychoactive drug, you don't always need to know why it works so well (though sometimes i research scrips for fun), but it's best to just sit back and enjoy the ride while it blows your mind!

How about a cop show spinoff with Sawyer and Miles? That could be fun...

So how come shannon/sayid/john locke all saw walt on the island even though walt wasn't dead?

@jukap It's almost like comfort food for me, seeing those characters on screen who I've grown up with for a quarter of my life!

@xxx, @annie There'll be a spin-off in some way, it's just when, I guess. I think that Terry O'Quinn and Michael Emerson were pitching a show together to networks!

@Brandon Interesting point. Walt not being dead means that it wasn't Smokey taking on his form, so I guess he somehow projected himself? I mean, the kid sure knew how to kill birds. Reading Lostpedia now, and I never realised Walt was in Room 23 O_O And I hadn't seen this 'Room 23' mobisode either http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Room_23_(mobisode)

moooooorrrrreeeee lllooooooosssssttt!!!!!!!

This was a total wast of my time. It answered NONE of my questions at all. I know they can't make everyone happy, but what was the point of this?

Unfortunate that you viewed it in the context of providing answers. If they didn't do it in six seasons, they sure as hell weren't going to do it on a 12 minute epilogue! It was a light hearted bonus featurette on a DVD, and I don't think they pitched it as any different.

Ahh well I had figured that Darmaha brought the Polar Bears that was kind of answered in season 2 or 3 when Kate and Sawyer played love nest. In the Bear cages. But was nice to know what happen to Walt.

not bad not bad

@C0uP
There is nothing weird about watching 456 episodes of Lost, i have watched every episode at least 5 times so that amounts to over 700 episodes!! ...and i'm pretty sure i'm not the only one!!!

@Brent
And since there is no more MIB or Jacob, is there any need to have 2 sides still?? ...It was a game between 2 brothers, but it is has ended now... and i don't think Hurley is one to make ememies in a hurry!!

Yeh, I'm definitely at the low end of the obsessed scale when it comes to LOST, which is pretty disturbing O_O

Good point re: not needing 2 sides any longer!

Thanks for the post!

They also explained the reason why woman couldn't give, birth it was because the orchard blew up. The polar bears should be checked if they are pregnant before going to the orchard as it has some effects. Subtle answers to some great and simple questions! LOVE IT.

Glad you both enjoyed it!

1. I wonder if Walt playing "Connect 4" was a little joke about the fake commercial on Jimmy Kimmel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8JBYlNTf-Q

2. He bribed him with a granola bar?!

3. After Hurley said "Time for us all to go home", I was half-expecting the Dharma van to pull a flying DeLoren!

Nice catch re: Kimmel!

Zomg, flying Dharma van would've been sweet

This is what they were going to release with the DVD? Is it funny? Hurley's the man.

As a die hard LOST fan this was just as i expected, fairly shit & to give some sort of closure on the bigger questions that people wanted answered. Like how good did you expect the answers to be in 12 minutes when Lost has been trying to explain so for 6 seasons (ie Walt, lol glad to see they didnt just forget the Hurley Bird. Was positive that was photoshopped into the youtube videos).
Is it meant to be a joke towards the fans that didnt understand the ending & wanted more answers by just summarising in a bad manner some of the bigger mysteries?

One thing though how did Walt know his dad was dead? The last meeting he had was with Locke & that tall black dude where Locke said ''last i heard yer father is offshore on a boat near the island'' (Locke knew he was dead but refused to tell him ''hes been through enough'')
Or how did Walt predict Lockes death/Posession by the monster in that very same scene?

Either ways i'm glad to see it but yeah feel let-down as i knew i would be. No love lost (no pun intended :P) for an awesome show

Yeh, I saw it in much the same light that you saw it, Thatguy.

And I can't figure out how Walt knew Michael had died either.

wow! well, i'll admit that i was a little disappointed with this, but it was nice to see some more LOST...hah.

I want more!!!!

FUCK YOU Damon and Carlton I was a devoted fan and expected more thatn....they were all dead to begin with a Dallas shower scene nothing mattered and no answers...six fucking years and this is it? pergatory? I hope you never work again...LOST had so much goinaa and so many twists...and you end it as a dream...nothing was real??? I want my six years back, assholes

:O Damon and Carlton weren't involved in the creation of this epilogue.

Sorry about your six years!

Brilliant, what a great bonus!

the one thing I enjoy about Lost is you can make it into whatever you want. Sometimes I played it out like they were all dead and the island was just their own afterlife since they all died together. Other times I played it out like the actual episodes and storyline made you believe it too .. then sometimes I just played it out in my own mind with my own theories and ideas. I think thats why I love this show so much .. I watched the first pilot episode in may of 2010 and just recently finished the final season and just watched this clip tonight. Long live lost! <:o)

It's true, and you can't say that for much else [if anything] out there.

I re-watched seasons 2-5 with a friend who was watching it all for the first time, and watching it all in such a short period of time, for the first time, would have been a very interesting, and double-edged experience; oh the hours I spent each week between episodes, theorising and crawling through the web, not to mention the agonising four month or so gap between seasons!

Congratulations on making the journey, and welcome to nostalgiaville!

@Mark, if you a TV show with great character development then you should whatch Six Feet under .... You can't really say Lost is better regarding Character Development than SFU !!!!

None of it matters - it was all just a dream, remember? Jack closes his eyes for the last time, and we discover the whole series was nothing but a shaggy dog story and we are a bunch of suckers. JJ Abrams is laughing at us all the way to the bank.

@Ana: I don't think I'd say LOST is better than SFU, or many other shows in terms of character development, but they did a pretty darn good job. I think we got to go through quite a journey with a lot of the characters.

@Duffy: It wasn't a dream o_O

Ana/c0uP:

Six Feet Under was a good show, and indeed the character development was superb, but I still don't think it's in the same league as Lost.

The closest comparison with character development quality I can think of would be M*A*S*H. Ok, so the Mash story lines were infinitely more simple and each episode brought complete closure and so the show's plots aren't even close. But one of the reasons MASH was so successful with the public was that the characters were of such strength and personality that when it finally ended, there was this blurred sense where it was difficult to imagine that these characters weren't real. I got the same sense, perhaps stronger, from Lost.

The polar bears? THE POLAR BEARS? My Gosh!!!!
They could have answered a lot of other things!
Or make a special episode!
But the polar bears? Of course th polar bears were transmitted there! Of course they brought them there for expirements!
And help his dad with WHAT? and WHAT is he going to do? I mean, I do NOT need all the answers cause that just would destroy the mystery of Lost... But rfom ALL the questions we had they chose to answer the thing about the polar bears and create new questions?
I am veeeery dissapointed! :/

i think walt was gonna replace dogen rather than hurley because he approached him in the same manner as jacob "u will have a job" and etc

And yet here you all are discussing a 12 minute long epilogue and theorizing it to death, this is why it exists.

sweeeeeeeet

Dude...I miss Lost so much. It completely changed me. I freak out everytime I see someone from Lost on another show or movie:
"OH MY GOSH LOOK IT'S CHARLIE/SAWYER/KATE/JACK!"
"Uhhh...who?"
"Gosh never mind...it's a Lost thing."

Heh, I do the exact same thing. Can't wait to see Ben and Locke on tv again!

This appears to be a possible setup for a miniseries or movie about what goes on after the last scene shown here. It likely wont happen but Id love to see SyFy pick up a sequel series - call it FOUND. There are still enough people alive to be the core of a new series. Just one of their tasks would be to free the trapped souls like Michael. The Island itself is still full of unanwered questions and mysteriies - where did it come from? Is there a way of using it for good rather than abuse it like Dharma did?

I also still hope Jin (Daniel Dae Kim) now on Hawaii 5-0 will one day catch Ben trying to steal an ancient artifact from a museum in Hawaii and he says to him "You look VERY familiar" or catch a con man named James Sawyer played by ole Josh.

The powerful emotions regarding the finale show just how much of a deep impact it left on millions of people.

He called walt keith Johnson what was that about! and the island and the dharma theres so many questions I want more lost!

@versica when walt and michael got off the island they had to get new identies cause they were suposed to be dead, along the same reasoning behind desmond and Lapidas not being with the Ocianic 6.

@RIZZO

I laugh at you, buddy. After 6 years and you still dont get it? You should be angry at yourself, not the creators. Youre obviously too blind to understand what happened in the finale. I could explain it to you...but nah.

I loved it. I always felt lost and all its characters were representations of parts of our own psyche through the different stages of life. When they opened the hatch that was the point they left innocence/childhood behind and entered adolesence. This was also the point where walt stopped featuring very strongly. I believe Walt represented the creative imagination, the most god like of our faculities, something that we all lose touch of as we get older and more closed down. So I was glad of his return; it makes sense to me.

The thing is that no matter how many questions lindeloff and cuse answer, every LOST fan will be raving for more LOST, its just a simply unique show. Lindeloff and cuse said that if they answer all the questions by the end, then there will be no mistery, no great question left, no reason for people to remember the show, or constantly say to fellow fans "why was this that way?" or "how did they do this?" the fact of the matter is that i believe somewhere inside the show, every question is answered, except for one: What were the numbers? Simply a fantastic show... im 13, and even i know that LOST is amazing. The funny thing is that my dad showed me the show a litle before spring break last year, and in spring break just got on hulu and watched the whole seasons 2-5 in that whole week, i was addicted to this show... truly... amazing... always... unanswered

another show to try now is the event, i think it's going somewhere, but it will never replace LOST

Yayy finally someone put this up! thanx that was awesome, i love ben, walt & hurley together. :)

Wow! People are still discovering, watching and commenting on this!

Thanks for the comments and keeping L O S T alive!

Leute kann mir mal jemand sagen ob es das im netz auch auf deutsch gibt??

Ich weiß nicht, ob es irgendwelche deutschen Version auf YouTube, aber hoffentlich ein Torrent mit vorhanden sind?

I blame Google Translate if that didn't make sense!

Just saw this for the first time. Brought back the memories of the show... I miss it. I need more lost in my life.

Why does it feel like anyone who didn't care for the final episode or admits that they didn't 'get it' are being put down? What ticked me off is many people brought up ideas like purgatory, religious references etc during Season1. The 2 clowns (Damon & idiot #2) came right back saying "Nope, that's not it". Then they swore up & down at the end of every season "All will be revealed, your questions answered blah blah." Prior to each finale to build them up. Each year the finales usually answered very little & where almost insulting, frustrating. Any questions actually answered where done so in a way that made little sense. Big build up all season, deflated in usually one night. More often than not, creating more mysteries to boot.
My feeling, the show was originally expected to last only 1 maybe 2 seasons tops. Suddenly contracted for so many seasons meant a lot of scrambling. With pitifully excessive filler blurring the original storyline. The dizzying flashbacks, flash sideways tossed in out of sequence, reminded me of being car sick as a kid. Loved the first 2 seasons, after that a slow death. I was so enthusiastic after each protracted 'wait for the next season'. If they had no intention of ever answering the questions they should not have used those very words at the end of each season. If the shows intention was philosophical enlightenment, don't package it as a 'long con'.
That's why so many where aggravated. They had invested six yrs of loyal viewer ship, plus endless blogging~ chat rooms to alternate theory websites. A long time to be so caught up with TV 'characters'. Many, almost embarrassed to be so emotionally involved realized all the hours they had spent watching, re-watching reviewing arguing theories etc. Frustrated or aggravated with the writers or maybe with themselves. All for what, to feel lied to or worse conned?

still doesn't explain Walt....

They shouldn't have promised answers, but I'm glad we didn't get them. The ones we got were not satisfactory compared to the wonder we all experienced when they piled on question upon question. I would rather pretend the last couple episodes that explained Jacob and the Man in Black and the second reality. Those answers were better left up to the viewers own imaginations.

"The new man in charge" is Walt. You all missed it.

@Captain Obvious: I guess it depends where on that timeline of events you look at, but you're right, the title of the epilogue could also apply to Walt, as it could have applied to Jacob or Jack, at one point.

@Mia: I think that they [Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse] made it pretty clear on more than one occasion that what we'd get out of the finale was character resolution, and the epilogue was meant to be light-hearted, if anything.

If ever there was a case for the Journey being so much more wondrous than the Destination, LOST is it, and I agree with what you said on your latest blog post too!

Would Ben really be able to take orders from a kid? My guess not really if he's the successor to hurly!

still want to know how ben and hurley died....but besides that...all is good

Interesting subtle addition to the story would've been nice if it were extended to a full episode!!!
Ayy Justin so you can watch "The New Man In Charge" here enjoy!!!

Thank u very much...

@saj: It could just be that Walt succeeds Hurley / Ben after they move on.

@jack: Probably something way too non-dramatic to warrant showing

@Mahdi: You're welcome!

Did anybody notice that Hurley was wearing black?

Heh, think someone earlier mentioned that too. Guess that balance is always needed to some extent on the island

Does anyone think that the title, "New man incharge" is not actually referring to Hurley but Walt? thus the job offer

Does anyone think that the title, "New man incharge" is not actually referring to Hurley but Walt? thus the job offer

I had no problem with the unanswered questions; my problem was with the whole Purgatory/Flash Sideways/Afterlife (but not FINAL afterlife) crapola. Are we to believe that after we die, we continue to kill others, or be in danger of being killed? These things were happening during the entire flash-sideways stretch, with Jin and Sun and Sayid, etc. How is that supposed to be part of an afterlife?? I could deal with an afterlife concept, but not the way it was presented all season long in the flash sideways sequences.

I tended to be the one explaining what was happening in the show to those I watched it with...especially during the multiple timelines and time traveling during season 5. Now I just finished season 6 about 15 minutes ago...and I've got a single question relating to timelines...

Were the final events on the island happening before or concurrently with the timeline on the mainland? or was there no dimension of time on the mainland...as the mainland they were experiencing was post-purgatory?

@trev: The title could apply to both Hugo and Walt

@jakenate: I guess you could call it an "afterlife", but it was more a shared state for them to find each other, and a part of that reality was revisiting choices and trying to move on with what they'd learned on The Island, some of which involved death and its friends. I think some of those events you describe also triggered their recollection of the Island life.

/shrug that's all I got!

@DoctorElectron: Even though they were shown concurrently, I think it's safe to say everything that happened in the Flash Sideways happened after they died on The Island, hence, after. But you're right, the Sideways had no linear time I don't think. Then again, Island time was a little whack too.

these actors are one hit wonders i loved the show but see no future for most of them they made there money

i just can't see where walt was a factor in the show at all

Well, Walt was a clusterfuck pretty much because Malcolm David Kelley grew a foot towards the end of season 1 and they had to write him out of the show

I absolutely loved this. It left a LOT of questions unanswered, but I think explaining every detail of the show would only spoil the nature of it. Real life doesn't come with an operations manual that explains every question that comes up, so why did some people expect such a complex show to be tied up in a neat, little package at the end?

I enjoyed watching "friendly Ben" and Hurley as a leader, even if it was only for a while. The tie-up of Walt's storyline was well worth the time investment of watching it and has actually slightly changed my opinion of Walt and Michael's story.

Well anyway you look at it walt was a nobody to the show show ending was garbage i did watch every show many times so fucking lame in the end

@noseless_wonder: Glad you enjoyed ^_^ I guess the simpletons are looking for mindless escapism and don't want the complications of real life to be mirrored in television ~_~

@cobra982v: herp derp

Why was he driving on the left side of the ROAD?

Haha, didn't notice! I knew the Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute was actually in Australia!

didn't they say the show was not about aliens or purgatory just a cop out all it was could have run the show for a couple more sesons easy

why would walt be in charge of any thing best thing that happened to him was he got kidnaped

I liked the epilogue.
I think most of Season 6 was unnecessary, the flash sideways was pointless and a waste of time (why should we be more invested in the afterlife of characters?), the spiritual allegories were heavy handed, the dramatic and sudden introduction of a central, deity type “villain” was just an easy cop-out to keep Terry O’Quinn on the show, any of the “answers” that the writers deemed fit to include were often just tacked on and contrived (i.e. “the dead people are the whispers”).

Season 6 of Lost does not fit very well with the canon of the series. Lost had a chance to create a truly timeless piece of science fiction. After viewing Season 6 several times, I still think that it would have been much more satisfying for the series to end with Season 5 rather than completely tarnish the legacy of the entire series with Season 6.

Because I was so disappointed with the final season (and maybe even just the last half of the final season), the epilogue was a welcome breath of fresh lost air. It “felt” more like the lost that I knew and loved in Seasons 1-5.
You do not have to answer all questions to create a relevant and satisfying piece of work (i.e. anybody see Inception?), just choose artistic and thought provoking ways to keep the viewer engaged and thinking (of which I think the epilogue did, but the finale did not).

I guess you're with quite a few people in thinking that they could have done season 6 without the Flash Sideways at all.

I personally loved it [http://c0up.posterous.com/lost-the-end-spoilers-duh], because as much as The Island and its mysteries were special, they were a backdrop to a story about people, and The Sideways provided an emotional resolution that we probably could not have seen on The Island itself.

One central problem—which we had hints of early on, back when the show was still pulling off one masterful structural coup after another—was that the series had become obsessed, in both overt and unconscious ways, with manipulating its own relationship with its fans, alternately evading and reflecting their critiques, and then finally satisfying them in the most condescending possible way, with sentimental sleight-of-hand.

My entire post didn't come though, weird...
Anyway, my previous post was from Emily Nussbaum's review. http://nymag.com/arts/tv/reviews/66293/
One that I agree with (she more eloquently voices problems with season 6).

The flash sideways and the finale was blatant, sentimental pandering right out of a 70's sit-com.
For such a ground-breaking and post-modern show to revert to "oh no, it's actually just about the characters, aren't they sooo great guys! *tear*" was a slap in the face to people who appreciated the show for more than just its melodrama.

Hello,
I just watched final episode of LOST and I am very disappointed. I wanted to know what other people are thinking about and I am agree with people who wrote that LOST gone wrong direction and with unexplained and shallow story.
The End ended like some purgatory, heaven for casualties of the Island.There is no explanation why dead souls can see flashes when they are dead, I believe they cannot have memories as some amnesia patients, they had some paralel life in purgatory they were driving,flying gone to concerts, driving Hummer,corrupting a cops that redicolous even for this TV- serial.
What happened to others in plane which is gone at the end ,Kate,Sawyer, Miles ,Richard ,Lapidus???
Belive me I got grey hair as Richard because of tv-show:-))
Dont be naive and stupid, screenwriter are making money, but We are spending time on this!!!
I am very dissapointed and they could make it better on the end like some Island BOOM, big flash and they are again in airplane 815 without their memories are deleted they talk to each other in plane, exchanging experience or something and make later individual investigation in Pacific or something.
On the beginning of first episode of sixth season We can see Island is at bottom of Sea!! What now!!
By the way serial is full of violent talks, very often they are talking"I kill you,gonna kill;kill him;kill her!!" Its too much they are like some ambassadors of violent behaviour!!!
Why should Walt take leadership and to protect the Island because Island killed his father and made him to kill other people. Walt must be stupid person and naive to do this.

We spent all a lot a time in front of TV for what ???
I am tired, are You?

I heard about this for the first time when I got the complete collection of LOST in late Dec. The reason I waited was because all I had seen before was season 6. I watched this as soon as I finished seasons 1-5. Unlike many lost viewers (no offense)... I actually was able to comprehend just about everything that happened in the show, so naturally I thought that this little epilogue would answer the still lingering questions left by the finale. Sadly, it didn't! Oh well. The video was still entertaining... even if it did cause more questions! LONG LIVE LOST!!!

@Snap: Thanks for the NY Mag link. Scathing, but hard to argue with. I'd never say I only appreciated the show for its melodrama, and season 6 still had mythology overload on occasions, but I can see where you and that review are coming from.

I don't know if you ever listened to the podcasts Lindelof & Cuse did; I've listened to them all, and in the last season especially, they set my expectations on what the finale would be like. That possibly shaped how I feel about it too.

@Emir: I got tired reading that :O

@Lostie 4815162342: Glad you enjoyed it regardless!

Emir: Yes. Yes I am. Very, very tired.

Others here have already stated in perfectly articulate terms exactly why Lost will go down as one of the most frustrating TV shows of all time. Lost had a great first Season, dipped a little in Seasons 2 and 3, but then became awesome again for Serason 4 and 5, only to commit an act of perverse vandalism on itself in Season 6, to the point where, although I have the whole series at home, I am not sure if I can ever bring myself to watch it again. What would be the point?

Maybe I'll re-watch it up to the end of Season 5, and treat that as the end of the whole show. I'd maybe watch Jacob and Richard's backstory episodes from Season 6, but I wouldn't really be interested in the rest.

All these people who hated The End, what was it you liked about the show in the first place? I thought the finale went exactly the place I felt the show was moving all along, and although still surprising, was exactly the sort of thing I hoped for. The redemption of the castaways was always the central theme of the show from the first episode.
And why do people think it was all a dream and nothing mattered? I think it was pretty obvious. I mean the whole point what that everything was real and it DID matter. Christian says this to Jack. Jack's speech to Desmond says this too, and so many other things along the way reinforce it. All the choices and actions of the characters on the Island mattered. This is why Ben can't go in the church yet. He "still has some things to work out"...
Anyway, no one can ruin my thorough enjoyment of The End, the epilogue, and the whole series.

The ending (and epilogue) left a lot to be desired but overall I think it was pretty solid. When I got into lost season three had just came out on dvd. After watching the pilot with a friend I ran out and bought all three seasons. I watched them religously and by the time season 4 came out, I had watched the first three season about 7 times each. I cant help but wonder if things would have been different if not for the writers strike. I dont know why, but I have a feeling that some of the orginal storylines were forced to change or be removed altogether. In my opinion most of the questions were answered in one way or another even if it was a vague answer and left it up to your own discretion. I did feel season six did drag on a little bit, but and although I wasnt completley satisfied, I still enjoyed it.

I've read through every post and I have some of my own questions that will never be answered but I still wonder............

Almost every character that was on the show came back in one way or another in the final season except, Mr. echo, Naomi, some of the orginal others, Juliet's sister, cheech, Mr. Paik, the two guys from the hatch and Nina and Paulo. Just kinda curious?

Why did saywer stop with the nicknames? They were one of my favorite things

I was reading the connect four post above and if my memory serves me correctly, wasn't that what hurley and walt used to play? Which brings me to my question, did the job hurley offered walt equal to the money hurley owed him? just saying

maybe I missed it, but did it ever explain how the mib was able to change bodies, and why after switching to Locke he couldn't do it again?

I see what they did with the water with sayid, but never really understood. They said he failed and had a darkness in him, same thing happen to claire. But what happens if you pass? Weren't we led to believe ben also was put in the water. Was he someone who passed or did he too have that darkness?

I seen some people talking about the cabin. Screw who used it or didnt use it. What the hell was that all about when ben and locke were in there and the cabin started shaking and that quick flash of a person popped up and all that hooplah. I paused that scene like Im sure many of you did and so I ask, What's up with that?

Maybe some of these things were answered I missed it as I have only watched the 5th and 6th season once so far. But yea....................................

Anyone realize that in Chang warning recruits watching the video of the effects of the electromagneticism on pregnant polar bears might have been an answer in itself about why the pregnant women on the island kept dying?

omg, leave it to LOST. i went to go to the next episode... ridiculous......

One of the things that annoyed me about the last season was the distinct lack of Walt. I know it seems silly but if they'd shown this as part of the finale then I would have been a lot more satisfied with it simply because the whole time I was thinking "Oh man, I hope Walt and Eko appear in this episode..." and neither of them ever did or were even mentioned in passing. The flash sideways seems a little pointless really. It was a way to put the characters in situations that were otherwise unexplored (eg. Jack having a son) which is interesting but ultimately took up a lot of time of the final season when I really wanted a little more closure. Overall though, it was a good show and most of the questions I have are completely trivial things. Seriously though, why WAS Locke on that weed farm?

explains the bird shouting hurley, also explains why charlotte found polar bear fossils in the tunisian desert - including walt in this 12 minute special was nice, because he was one of the most intriguing stories in the first season and it seemed as though he had been forgotten.

this does tie up some lose ends but i still dont get the point of the flash sideways.

I could accept that this show was all about character evolution, but if that's the case then it really bothers and disappoints me was the exaggerated use of mysteries, questions, developing a very intriguing plot and opening more questions as a device to getting people's attentions and keeping them hooked... and then blowing it up with something that seemed like a cheap story ending, a deus ex machina (times 2) that would explaining everything for the "good" (jacob) an the "bad" (the MiB). I mean, come on, people... anything and everything could be easily explained by the mere existence of these two characters. And then all the questions that aimed to make a little bit of sense out of the plot were dismissed as "unimportant" or, worse, as "not related to the development of the characters". Simply speaking, if the aim was developing characters and giving them the possibility of reinventing themselves then a normal island with stranded people would do perfectly fine. And I can grant you a bit or two of sci-fi here and there (I love that), but then again only if it all makes sense.

For example, if MiB could trick anybody into killing Jacob, why did he insisted on killing people throughout 2000 years of history instead of using each and every one of them (or all of them) as tools for murdering Jacob? Or what was his original plans for escaping the island? Just sail? If so, why didn't he did that from the beginning? And if he had to kill Jacob before leaving, then why didn't he packed everything and left as soon as Ben stabbed him? On another subject, what does "protect the island" exactly means? Because when the MiB exists it was somewhat clear that he was the bad guy (of course only after we knew of his existence), but when he didn't exist (i.e. before Jacob or after Jack kill him), then what did this protection meant? Why allowing people (a whole, big bunch) live, build scientific stations for the sole purpose of harvesting the energy and profiting from it (i.e. the Dharma folk)? Or if Jacob is some sort of "semi-god" inside the island, how come he is so powerful in the outside world so as -for example- to help Locke survive the fall from a window? And from a character development perspective, am I expected to believe that Ben, who was very willing to kill his father and spend many years killing other people (or having them killed) in cold blood then flips to be a "good guy", and then again turn back into a bad guy and be very willing to kill anything and everything when the MiB offered him to keep to island, to be once again suddenly changed to a good guy and accepts Hurley (who he totally disregarded before) as chief? Why (but please, explain me why) simply not killing Hugo and fulfilling his ambition -since he had no remorse or problems in offering to kill more people after killing Charles Whitmore? And I can keep on and on...

OOOOhhh... that ranting felt good.

I am (was) a big Lost fan. I used to blindly defend the story, the series, the idea, the concept... it was like being in love. But after this, I feel betrayed. I cannot help remembering one of my best friend's phrases after quitting halfway through the second season: "it feels like somebody's pulling my leg and making a profit in the way".

Unfortunately, it feels like that now.

R.

PS: And please, don't come with the simplistic answer that "life is full of unanswered questions"... this show is not supposes to mirror real life, it's a fantasy tv series for pete's sake!

Horace spells his name Horus it's a little bit important.

Ha - that was great! I am one of the - at times lonely-feeling - group of fans who loved the finale, and thought it was very fitting. Because I also thought that the mysteries and mythology of the show was peripheral to it when in the end, it was about the stories and the relationships of the characters and their journeys. The island was central to their story - but it was not the whole story; it was merely a vehicle through which their stories were told.

This doesn't mean that I didn't love the mythology and the mysteries of the show - so I thought that this epilogue was neat and tied up a few loose ends. I mean, I had already guessed about the polar bears, didn't really care about the Dharma food drops, and just assumed that Walt had gone on with his life as best he could - but it was nice to have that little bit answered. I think it makes sense that Walt belonged on the island - and maybe if Michael hadn't been such an a$$hat in getting his son back, they could have stayed and built their life together there.

I have been re-watching the series with my friend who's never seen it before, and I am frankly amazed at the continuity the creators maintained throughout, especially given the supernatural, fantastical elements of the show. In addition, I have never seen another show which struck such a remarkable balance between staying true to the integrity of the story and acknowledging and responding to their fan base with the story (remember Nikki and Paolo?). It's funny how they designate certain characters to voice the audience's thoughts and confusion at times (sometimes Sawyer, but often Hurley.) I think they achieved this again with this little epilogue.

So, thanks, creators - you didn't need to give the fans this extra little tidbit, but it was awfully nice that you did. :)

skallywalla why do you feel that walt should be on th island ? i didn't see where walt was a big paart of the show at all he was kidnaped big deal no real reason for his being there at all

Attempting to reply to these comments has become a daunting task, and I don't think I can reply to every single one any more, but trying my best!

@dont tell me what I can't do:

re: characters not returning - I think they tried to pack as many in as possible, and I'm sure they'd have loved to get Eko back on, but it was probably just due to scheduling, more than anything else

re: MiB and switching bodies - He explained to Jack that he could take the form of any deceased body on The Island, and, hard to remember now, but it feels like they mentioned a rule that after Jacob died, MiB had to stay in that form. And the simple fact that "Locke" was always around the main camp / characters, and couldn't switch identities as easily.

re: water - Ben was still a child and didn't have that darkness in him, but they did mention that he would lose his innocence and his memory once he was submerged in there

re: cabin - I believe that was MiB in there, and it was part of his grand plan to make John Locke "believe", and take him on the journey that eventually led to MiB taking over his body. Ben thought he was the only one that was special, and could see or talk to Jacob, and MiB did this to start the conflict between the two.

@Ian: Yep, that was pretty much the correlation made.

@a lost lost (no pun intended) fan: Glad you got that rant out of your system! However, most of these "questions" of yours have answers...

Jacob brought people to The Island as candidates, and MiB couldn't kill Jacob or those candidates directly. The fundamental debate on The Island between the two was about humanity and the nature of people, and MiB needed to manipulate these candidates, or someone else, into killing Jacob.

It's not like MiB was alone in doing so either, with Jacob heavily manipulating the lives of candidates in bringing them to The Island.

Once Jacob was dead, there were still remaining candidates left, and until each of them were killed too, MiB couldn't leave.

"Protect The Island" meant protecting The Heart of The Island, which Jacob / MiB's mother had sworn to protect, hence the duty being carried on to each subsequent protector

MiB knew he couldn't just sail off. He wanted to harness the electromagnetism [what eventually became the Frozen Donkey Wheel] to manipulate time & space and leave The Island.

Ben was never a "good guy" until the end. His motivations were always pretty clear, but The Island was all about redemption and second chances, and he got his. I believe that's what character development is about...

@skallywalla: I sit firmly amongst that group of fans too! I'm already wondering when to start from the beginning, yet again ^_^ glad you enjoyed

@clem: The executive producers have said it themselves; if Walt hadn't matured so quickly in real life, his character / role on the show would have been very different. He was *the* special one, and they always played that up in season one, and who knows what it could've led to.

Hm... I enjoyed this, I liked it. But I was very disappointed by how pathetic Ben's character has gotten. I absolutely love him, and to see him like this really ruins the whole episode. But they finally answered my question about how they still got the DHARMA food!

any place on the net we can watch lost yet id like to go over some of thw shows since there is no real tv on now

@clem: I believe Netflix has it? Or there's always ChannelBT...

thanks

Wish there couldve been more! Im suuuch a lost fan so like always i know you dont get all the answers. But that Dharma video was great. Walt? idk... seems a little weird. But it was nice to see Hurley again.

they named this show lost for a reason guys. don't expect answers. its a digital puzzle for our enjoyment

@cobra9832v: you're most welcome

@LOST.: Agree that the Walt thing was a little weird, and more a hat tip to what could have been

@mike: a six year digital puzzle like no other!

My wife and I just finished LOST on Netflix, for the first time, and we both loved it. For us, the show became a mind-game, and a puzzle in the 'choose your own adventure" style. I am thrilled that so many questions remained unanswered by the finale, and in this video. I was thrilled to see Ben redeemed. I am glad that we finally sat down and watched this show. We avoided it when it was originally aired for the same reasons we generally avoid TV, but I am glad we jumped in and participated in this story, even if only after the fact.

@E_Hedonism: So glad you both liked it, and bravo on getting through the show after the fact, and seemingly managing to avoid spoilers!

SPOILER ALERT!!! Love the show, best there´s ever been, total life changer; absolutely love the finale (still cry like a child on every rememberance scene as they find each other with that heart breaking music and realise they are dead), love the epilogue, miss the weekly thrill. But if you´re going to explain the polar bear matter, why not going all the way and explain how the hell their bones ended up in Tunisia. I mean, obviously they got into the same electromagnetic portal as Locke when he turns the wheel down at the well. Either that or they were "teletransported" like the duplicate bunnies from the mobisodes. But, was it intentional?, was it an accident? Not that I´m expecting a true answer but dammned it I also miss speculating with the show. (big sigh)

The most important thing I wish that Lost had answered was how Hurley died if he became immortal. I mean, when he became the new Jacob after drinking the water, he became everlasting, didn't he? Yet he was in the church at the end, dead as anyone else. I just wish I knew if he died in an act of heroism or by the hand of another.

@Novicus: I'm assuming they implied between the experiments and the electromagnetism, the same way Locke got there. That place in Tunisia was almost a known exit from The Island, hence the cameras Widmore installed.

@Dr. Ponyo: I'm pretty sure he moved on, leaving Walt or Ben in charge. Doubt there was any violence involved.

The polar bear thing wasn't to explain the polar bears which we already knew, it was to explain why pregnant women were dying, which was never explained and we had to deduce it was because of the electromagnetism. Walt was there because nothing about Walt made sense. Why did the others take him? Ext... Well now we know that Walt apparently is special in a way that even Jacob wasn't. We've known that Walt can see things and Hurley has been able to talk to the dead. Apparently Walt can help free the people who whisper and are lost souls on the island. They answered why the people were still dropping food which had made no sense, and they told us why there were mutant birds in the season one finally in the "dark area." That's a lot of answers. I'm not really sure what else you wanted from a 12 minute dvd extra that they didn't really have a budget for.

@ Coup My take on Eko was simpler. He wasn't a candidate so smokie wanted to use him. But when Eko wouldn't listen and basically told him to F-off he was his own man, he just killed him to be rid of him. He knew he was never going to be controlled. Where as he still had a chance of getting the other people to kill Jacob.

And Walt knew his Dad died because he sees things that happen on the island. He told that to Locke when Locke came to see him. I'm sure he just saw that it happened or he knows his dad is trapped there.

they just made walt look like more than he was to end the show with us thinking. all mind games from the start i don't watch to much tv after that big let down was the best show ever not because they didn't answer everything they could have milked another seson or two out of it but what do i know

What about the NUMBERS?! Why was the insane guy in the hospital with Hurley chanting the NUMBERS? 4 8 15 15 23 42...

The numbers corresponded to the castaways and their specific position on the dial that Jacob used to monitor the candidates at the watch tower. Their appearance and the way they affected things were because Jacob was "using" them to subtly manipulate the castaways to end up on the island. He needed to bring them their but didn't want them to know about him so they would still have the choice he wasn't given. He didn't want to have to tell them to come to the island so he used the numbers to get them their. If you notice they tended to really only interact with the six castaways that they pertained to.

I am glad I watch this. For the longest time I have allways wonder where did that food drop came from an why they were still droping food on the island.

why would they be dropping food for ppl in purgatory to start with i still say they ruined the ending with that pugatory crap a dream on the air plane would have been better

did the plane sawyer and the team was crashed?cause they died you see..??

I fail to understand how fans failed to understand the finale to the series? Why do many people assume they were dead all along? Christian explained to jack that the sideways flash was a place they had created to meet up again although once they had died at whateverpoint in their lives they were unaware of this as they had not dealt with their life issues. For jack he had father son relationship problems with his dad from a young child, claires unsurety regarding the baby adoption etc etc etc.

Yes they survived the crash, they lived on the island and theyndied whenever it was their time to die. Claire may well have died aged 103! Who knows! It all happened and I can't think of any other way it should have ended!

Ps. Wonder how many lost fans still use those numbers fir the lottery :P

I'm just glad that they explained that bird that called Hurley's name in Season 2.

Ben is the real Keyser Soze!

Am i the only one interested in dharma lore?

What I can't get is what kind of machine could throw those foods to the island from that far...I suppose Walt was prepared to be Hurley's replacement...or just an assistant?Hurley also loved helping people,even dead people to whom he could talk,so he wanted to help Michael's spirit to move on,that's why Michael was not in the Purgatory-Reality...he had already moved on and as for Walt...well he could be still alive(immortal and everything)if he became the New Jacob after Hurley so that's why he wasn't there either.Anyway LOST was my favourite TV series but I couldn't find New Man in Charge on YouTube.I'm glad it's here.

PLEASE TELL ME IF THERE IS GONNA ANOTHER SEASON OF LOST OR SOMETHING LIKE IT EMAIL ME.... AND IF SO WHEN AND HOW CAN I WATCH IT!!!

PLEASE TELL ME IF THERE IS GONNA ANOTHER SEASON OF LOST OR SOMETHING LIKE IT EMAIL ME.... AND IF SO WHEN AND HOW CAN I WATCH IT!!!

WAAAAALLLLTTTTTTT! THEY TOOK MY SON!

Adam, a drone (pilotless aircraft) was used to airdrop the supplies onto the island...

two shows absolulty had me in awe, Lost was one of the best series ever......................Battlestar Galicticia was the other.......... It was an ending that lost could only do. I just hated that Sawyer lost his true love.........I cried Long live lost..............

two shows absolulty had me in awe, Lost was one of the best series ever......................Battlestar Galicticia was the other.......... It was an ending that lost could only do. I just hated that Sawyer lost his true love.........I cried Long live lost..............

How does one kick the habit of being a "Lost" junkie? I watch the prior seasons over and over- I love these characters. I seemed to have missed the last season and am only catching up now- this was an interesting epilogue, but so many questions are still unanswered. "Lost" did not end. I am not satisfied with the finale or the epilogue and want it to continue going on and on--- nothing on television ever intrigued me as much...

A job that Walt as 2 do since there are no more lost episodes that question about what job Walt is suppose to do is going to remain in my mind forever

what was that thing when john locke didn't push the button? the diagram with all of the things pointing at the question mark.

I think that walt's job is the same job that richard had. since hurly is the new jacob he needed a new richard.