Lost

It's over. After six years and 120+ hours of episodes, Lost finally reached the end of its storyline.

Everyone is dead - with the big reveal being that they may have been dead all along. They probably died in the initial crash or shortly thereafter. They needed each other to reach closure about the meaning of their lives that were ended so abruptly.

It was an incredibly good great ending that provided answers to all the big questions. And like many works of art - granted it's contemporary / contextual art that may or may not stand up over time - it allowed viewers to form our personal interpretations. The writers created a masterpiece.


Despite ABC's best efforts to kill the golden goose with incessant ads and poorly timed graphic promos for other shows ("V" anyone?) Lost was one of the most satisfying shows on television in a long, long time. Some of the characters were outstanding (Ben, Locke, even Jack), some killed off too soon (Charlie, Boone) and some we wanted to see more of (Sayid, Desmond, Hurley, Juliet). Jack was always going to be the chosen one. And Hurley was always going to be the glue that held the group together. And Kate - well, let's just say she needed a better writer.  I sometimes wondered which character I most closely identified with, but I never did settle on just one.

Jacob and the smoke monster were probably not good and evil, although it would be easy conceive of them that way. Each had defensible and at times, indefensible positions, although the Man in Black was a lot nastier after he took over Locke's body.

There are, of course, lots of unanswered questions. But those are details. The step-back view is a single reaction: breathtaking.