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Lost finale creates much debate
Tuesday 25 May 2010
The final episode - which was aired simultaneously in eight countries on Monday morning and screened on RTÉ last night - saw all the characters reuniting for what appeared to be their own funeral, with a parallel lives theme in the final series.
Read our thoughts on the final episode here.
Chris Seay, author of The Gospel According To Lost, said the show "wasn't what I hoped".
Pointing to the pledge from Lost producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse that the island wasn't a purgatory for the victims of the Oceanic airliner crash, Seay suggested that the outcome of the series amounted to "sort of a misdirection".
In reference the finale's closing scenes in an LA church, he said: "It was the most compelling part of the show - people that you love being present together."
He added: "But now, many of us are going to be having conversations about who died when, and what was the island. These were questions you would hope we would have gotten a little further down the road on."
On the other hand, Nikki Stafford - the author of Finding Lost - "absolutely loved" the finale.
Stafford argued the plane really crashed on the island, the castaways survived, and went on to have all the experiences viewers saw there.
But in her view, the sideways world is their purgatory. And since "there is no 'now' here," in the words of Jack's father at the church, all those gathered there had died, at one time or another, after living their own respective lives.
"They reconverged for Jack's sake and this purgatory was an afterlife scenario, shown through Jack's lens," Stafford said.
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