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The series finale to LOST was beautiful. Just wanted to make a post here honoring a TV show I've invested a third of my life into. I'm even more emotional then the series finale of Monk right now.
No. It was not beautiful. It sucked ass. It felt like being the unwilling recipient of a Christian bukkake session.

Allow me to explain myself further:
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LOST was an extremely philosophically complex show. Good versus evil was always a vague concept, if it existed at all. Okay, so it got completely ridiculous and out there beyond the ability to suspend belief, but it was a character-driven show that defied the flat concepts of good versus evil, forcing us to question who was right and wrong. What's more, it was all about unanswered questions; not just about the mysteries of the island, but about human decision. Unfortunately, introducing the Jacob-versus-the MIB fight totally destroyed this very real, human balance and forced a bull**** good-versus-evil debate over the entire thing. I kept holding out hope that the black-and-white crap they were pushing would turn out to be much more unclear than they were letting on, but in the end the writers took a giant Cleveland Steamer on my brain and made Jack into a Jesus character.

Oh, and the ending, where everyone turns out to be dead? That was a giant load of crap. It was a DREAM SEQUENCE. It DIDN'T MATTER AT ALL. They were dead and living in some kind of fantasy-land before moving on. It was a giant, dumbassed red herring.

See, I don't have that much of a problem with Christianity if that's your life choice, but you have to admit it makes for the world's worst plot basis. It makes sure that your characters, stories and endings are so painfully predictable that the whole story can be mapped out as soon as you have been introduced to the characters and premise. Trying to pull off a realistic story and then destroying it with such an overplayed story is even worse, because you trick everyone into watching what seems to be a good story and then let them down by revealing a painful lack of creativity.

There was SO much more that could have been done with the last two seasons and the ending. At the very least, the Island should have been destroyed in the end, thus bringing the flash-sideways into reality. Hell, that's what I was sure would happen: the Island would be removed from reality, and its hold over all of their lives and the world throughout history would have been broken. In the end, everyone would have been left to wonder if it was better or worse that the Island ever existed, and what its purpose ever was. That, to me, would be a far better conclusion.