We are. We think. Six equally fascinating and frustrating seasons of ABC’s hit drama came to end tonight with a conclusion that delivered gratifying codas for beloved characters, though it maddeningly side-stepped the show’s legion of unresolved enigmas.
Which we kind of expected when, during the special to preceded the finale, “Lost” co-creator Damon Lindelof summed up the drama this way: “The show is, at its heart and soul, a character study. We were fascinated as storytellers by what makes people the way they are.”
Or we can quote from the finale itself:
Sawyer: “Doesn’t sound like he said anything about anything.”
Hurley: “That’s kinda true, dude. He’s worse than Yoda.”
Lindelof and partner Carlton Cuse offered up the island's backstory in the recent “Across the Sea” episode, in which viewers learned that the castaways of Oceanic 815 were brought to the island so that one could become a protector of a mystical golden light, that the Man in Black became the Smoke Monster after twin brother Jacob threw him into the light, that both have some serious Mommy issues, and that C.J. Cregg will bean you with a rock if given half a chance. And that was about it.
(Cuse, in an exclusive interview with Alan Sepinwall, defended the polarizing episode by saying, "This is what an episode of 'Lost' that is about answering questions looks like. This thing is a big mythological download. Our belief is that the real resolution of the show and the one that matters is what happens to these characters." To which we say, that's what a crappy episode of 'Lost' that is about answering questions looks like.)
Too bad, then, for those of you who wondered what was the deal with Walt’s superpowers, what purpose did the so-called “tailies” or temple-dwellers serve, who shot at the castaways from the outrigger, how does Jacob get on and off the island, who built the four-toed statue, why doesn’t shirtless Sawyer get sunstroke, and whatever happened to the Russian in the Pine Barrens.
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