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I got the the Blu-ray of the entire series for x-mas and just started re-watching with my 11 and 13 yr old boys who have never seen the show. Regardless of what you think of the ending, this is such an awesome show. We blew through the first 12 episodes in no time at all. After one episode my 11 year old went "No....it can't end there. We HAVE to watch another". My wife just laughed and said "Daddy and I used to have to wait a whole week"

I saw "This is 40" a couple of weeks ago, and I am tempted to rewatch Lost again. The daughter throughout the movie is watching every episode (which obviously takes a lot of time), and they show several scenes from the final episode that brought back memories. There are also some funny discussions between the daughter and her dad about the whole plot of the show.

It was a nice tribute to Lost.

Please post back after they've seen the finale; I'll be interested in their opinions..

I will. I understand why some people didn't like the ending but I felt it was well done. I suspect my kids will feel the same way, but ya never know.

+1. I don't understand all the hate about the Lost ending. After all they went through, it seemed rather logical. And I tend to like unanswered questions too, so...

Just skip to the end episodes of Season 5 and then watch Season 6. The last season's episodes take a totally orthogonal direction that makes nearly everything in preceding seasons irrelevant.

+1. The whole series up to the last season was going in one direction, they they did a left turn into something entirely different and left everything behind that had come before. It's like they fired the whole writing staff and brought in a fresh batch of guys who hadn't even watched the previous 5 seasons.

-1000000, but that is just my opinion. No need to convince others of how wrong they are

Thank you for solving THE biggest mystery of LOST...WTF happened to the series at the end.

Now I finally know!

Not as if that was the first time they'd done that. Season 3 promptly killed off all the characters introduced in season 2, making it largely irrelevant.

Well, those were just the tailies. It's like firing your special teams...

Now, killing off Nicki and Paulo....that was tragic...

You, sir, owe me a drink.
After reading that post, my carefully concocted Saturday night martini exited through my nose.

It's been my experience that that's the only way a martini tastes like anything other than lighter fluid.

It cleans the sinuses, too....as long as the olive (or onion) doesn't go through it (that requires a hospital visit)...

It has been said that the ending of Lost was emotionally satisfying, but intellectually very UNsatisfying. I agree with this assessment completely. I really, REALLY wanted an intellectually satisfying ending--never got it. It was a great ride though, well worth the trip!

Well said. I won't repeat my criticisms of the final season but will add that I really did like the whole "Reunion in LA" aspect of after years of following the intriguing characters we got to see them reunited, including all those who'd perished. At the time of viewing I thought there was a sic-fi alternate universe thingy going on.

I think really that's what it came down to for me.

We had all this weird stuff happen that they somehow gave very ordinary and plausible explanations to everything (time travel aside, though one could say it's always possible it could happen and we just don't know how yet). They hid all these puzzles and Easter eggs for us to find and discuss, like the numbers - then dismissed them as unimportant. Then at the end, they tried to eek those numbers back in with them representing the characters, but that made less sense than simply calling it a cool coincidence.

It all seemed to be building up to this big showdown between the Losties and some super secret evil corporation that was trying to harness the unique properties of the island for some sort of evil plan. We had not one, but two major evil characters angling to get what they wanted with the Jack and the gang in the middle. It had this truly sinister backstory woven in, with experimentation on multiple levels (including behavorial studies on the people who thought they were doing a study, yet their reports went to a big pile outside the bunker) and even mass murder.

Even the Jacob character made sense in the scope of the time travel aspect as a character caught just outside of time, like some temporal ghost.

Then, all the bad guys got their nuts cut off and Jacob ended up being this actively passive character that I'm surprised wasn't shown being nailed to a cross - yet suddenly he was the man. The smoke monster went from something awesome (potentially a nanobot security system) to a character apparently designed to remind Jacob of Mom's wine-making hobby.

With all that, it seems like the ending cheated by going after the tissue box instead of the slide rule.

They may as well have had Jack rescue some orphans from a burning school, then get hugs all around.

^^^ +1. Dude, that was an awesome summery. Agree with every point. You are hereby forgiven for the nose thing.

Martini neti pot? Sounds like a Dharma thing.

Lost fans have to check out this '16 bit tribute'...Absolutely classic! http://blastr.com/2013/01/16-bit-tribute-to-lost-is.php

They should do that for "The Walking Dead".

In season 2, they could try to find Carl....who is never in the house where he belongs...

This has probably ben posted before, but I just learned about it yesterday. Lost in chronological order.
http://www.chronologicallylost.com/

Me and the kiddies are half way through S2 at this point. It is practically impossible to stop watching once you get going.

Well we got through the entire series in about 3 months, and both kids and my wife all loved every minute of it including the finale. Interestingly enough, my wife initially didn't like the finale when we watched it during the original airing, but upon this re-watch with the kids she loved it.

No complaints other than the fact that i have to deal with Lost withdrawal all over again.

I would love to be able to watch all of that. But its about 85 hours worth, I don't know that I want to devote that much time to a show I still have some disappointed feelings about... but it seems novel, and maybe I would gain some newfound appreciation for the show.