I haven't watched Lost since the first season, but your reaction to the finale is pretty consistent with what I've seen Lost fans say in general. Many were tearful, most noted that the finale did not tie up all the loose ends, but didn't really expect, or want, it to. When watching the first season on DVD, the possibility that they were dead occurred to me as well, but since I didn't watch the subsequent seasons, I more or less filed it away in the back of my mind and didn't look for it again until now.
So, they actually are dead...not that surprising, but not tiresomely predictable either. I've no real attachment to the show, but I will say that it's a good thing the show didn't go out like St. Elsewhere, trying for a jaw-dropper but instead delivering an eye-roller; nor did it attempt to use a variant of the it-was-clever-for-Newhart-but-not-for-anything-else finale of it all being a dream, like Roseanne.
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Date: 2010-05-25 04:56 am (UTC)So, they actually are dead...not that surprising, but not tiresomely predictable either. I've no real attachment to the show, but I will say that it's a good thing the show didn't go out like St. Elsewhere, trying for a jaw-dropper but instead delivering an eye-roller; nor did it attempt to use a variant of the it-was-clever-for-Newhart-but-not-for-anything-else finale of it all being a dream, like Roseanne.