I’ve invested a lot of time into the ABC television series Lost. I’ve watched a few of the seasons multiple times and I’ve retained a lot of information from past seasons. Season five I believed was going to be its last season and I was prepared for all my questions to be answered. To both my delight and disappointment I was informed that the show still had one more season to go before all the answer would be unveiled. I think I thought the fifth would be it’s last because I had watched in a documentary that they had the story laid out up to the fifth season. I was wrong, and I still had one more season.
More questions arose and a couple were answered as the fifth season came to a close. Now the sixth season has started even more questions are circling in my head. I am now at the point where frustration over the show is no longer an issue, I expect there to be some convoluted storyline that doesn’t make sense to me now and I trust that all the questions will be answered. More to the point, my mind better be blown.
I don’t want the show to end with me wondering about anything. There better be a nice neat little package of answers. I want to know why the time traveling, who Locke, Jacob and Richard Alpert really are and what the heck is with the island. Those are just a few of the questions I want answered and those don’t even touch the broader storylines.
J.J. Abrams knows how to tell a good story. I have been watching a lot of what he has produced and created including Alias, Fringe, What About Brian and the handful of movies he’s had his hands in, so when it comes to the series finale of Lost, I am expecting a lot. My expectations are rather high and I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels this way. There was a lot of investment and a lot of unsatisfying finales that just made your mind swim, but you knew that in the end, J.J. would make it all better and it would all end up making sense.
He should know that if the series finale doesn’t end up blowing everyone’s freaking mind, he will likely be the most hated man on Earth. Having watched half of the first episode, I’m concerned that there aren’t enough episodes left in the season to answer all of the questions people have. I swear, if I feel just one bit unsatisfied from the series finale, I’m going to hunt him down and have him explain every freaking detail of that show until I am satisfied.
