The island was about two things: the characters and the mysteries. TWO things. The finale was about ONE thing - the characters. And when you point out “Hey, what about the mysteries?” you're told “You don't GET Lost.” What I get is, if you were told six years ago, that THIS would be the big answer you'd get in the end, you'd never have gone on the ride in the first place. Period.

This is a great post. Sick of the whining about the show… it's one thing if it was too intelligent for most of you to understand (same went for the very obvious end of the Sopranos, which other people seem somehow confused by because they wanted a cheesy “Hollywood”-style gunshot to cap it off), but there's no reason to hate the finale because it's beyond your capacity for critical thinking. Here's a hint, though: it was real. Everything necessary was explained. Sure, you don't know what Charles Widmore was doing on the island, but is it really important for your enjoyment of the show? Of course not. Sure, you may be a bit confused by the Unitarian church sequence, but if you go over it and watch it again, it becomes very clear that it takes place after the events in the series. And that's all I'm going to say about that.  Great finale — despite the silly “Juliet, it's you!” reunions, which would've pissed WAY more people off if they were left out.

What are all these unanswered questions that are plaguing you people? The show pretty much answered everything. If you actually care about the show, more so than just making comments online lambasting it, then go read some at the LOST wiki which can pretty much answer 95% of your questions. lostpedia.com

I thought it brought everything together while leaving just enough room for interpretation for different spiritual beliefs.
By the way I found a website that give you prizes for your opinions here is the topic about Lost Finale:
http://opinion.ezwingame.com/topics/did-you-love-or-hate-the-lost-finale

Let me break this down for the OP. LOST was based on the premise of a mysterious island. It ended with a bunch of sappy character-driven plot caps. I disagree with people who say it's ok to like the last episode. If you did like it you completely missed the original point of the show. It was surely LOST along the way. There, that's the meta point of the show: the passengers weren't lost, the show was an exercise in the loss of meaning. Go get deconstructing, kids.

this post screams with stupidity and yet still manages to have that “if you didn't like the ending, you didn't understand it” smuggness. we are all supposed so to suddenly love this ambiguous ending after 6 seasons of poor acting, unresolved plots, and guilty pleasure suspense? all of sudden. if you like the ending…fine. but don't get all pompous about people who think it was a load of shit that obviously wasn't planned out from the beginning like the writers claimed. “I know! Parallel universes! Time travel! That's how we'll explain all our bullshit!” give me the craziest, most ludicrous, most complex storyline every written and i'll wrap it up nicely in two and half hours using time travel and parallel universes…..bite me LOST.

except a movie is 2 hours long, not 122 hours long

The problem with the last season of Lost isn't that they didn't provide answers, it's that the answers were contrived, dull and didn't make it seem like there was all that much at stake in the finale. Sure, “the boring two-dimensional wizard Jacob did it because it had to be that way because just because and ghosts and he hates his brother who is pretty much the Jim Carrey character from the Truman Show” is an answer, but if that's the best they can come up with, they should have just left it totally ambiguous (ala 2001 or Twin Peaks… which would have been badass) or stolen one of the infinitely more interesting theories from online. Ultimately, Lost's writers failed to learn the lesson of Battlestar Galactica. If you can't tie up the mysteries without making the entire show seem like an arbitrary rollercoaster set up by a random douchebag God, just leave the mystery intact and go uber-surreal. Also, acting like you can separate plot from character in an action-adventure show is a pretty lame excuse for screwing up the plot. Think about it: would Lost have been just as good if it were just a conventional hospital drama about Jack coming to terms with his dad's death? For most people… no. It would have just been another sentimental TV drama, a couple notches higher than Grey's Anatomy on the quality scale.

Ronan

Haha! It's funny because Christianity is REALLY fucking retarded!

You'll hate these good movies but you'll love these 3 turds George Lucas forced upon the world. You trying to say something about Lost fans?

wait, i'd heard that in pulp fiction it was Ms soul in the briefcase because of the hole on the back of his neck (bandaid), like some particular asian folk legend……or something

Hey thanks for making fun of my religion! I find it hear-warming when people do that.

Look folks, the reason I gave up on LOST after the second season was that I went through the exact same thing decades ago with Twin Peaks.

If I have to psuedo explain that the entire show wasn't purgatory one more time, I swear to everything that is Holy I will bitch slap someone.

It's exactly the same, remember when Quentin Tarantino gave 347 press conferences between the start of Pulp Fiction and the end of it promising he'd reveal what was in the suitcase…Oh…wait…

Hahah. C'mon, this is kinda funny.

Ummm….I guess I'm missing the point about the island, I thought they answered that.

“The Island evidently serves as a cork, preventing a mysterious evil from escaping into the rest of the world. The suppression of this evil serves as the source of all life, death and rebirth. Given its importance, a protector is charged with protecting the Island. The Island moves to various geographic locations, making it difficult to find. The Island seems to have been in the Mediterranean (“Across the Sea”), mid-Atlantic (“Namaste”) (“Ab Aeterno”) and also the South Pacific at various points in its history. Its current location is unknown.”

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Island

What a douchebag post. Sorry for thinking a show that consistently advertised “What's the Mystery Behind the Island?” should, I don't know, actually KNOW the answer to that, or have some consistency to its own mythology. This isn't Brothers & Sisters, so can we please drop the whole “it's about the characters” BS? Every show is about the characters. The characters DOING something, like solving the mystery behind the nature of a supernatural island. It's called the plot.

Go fuck yourself. This is turning into atheism vs. religion. Both sides think undeniably that they're correct, but that's because one side has their head so far up their own asses they ignore all logic and just cling to their beliefs.