[CaptainCrunch]

My thoughts . . . in white so I don't spoil anyone who's watching later.

The old saying that Locke used before is so apt here. Not with a bang but a whimper. I find that I was incredibly let down by the whole 2 and a half hour finale of the 6 year run of what to this point had been a ground breaking series.

Its almost like the writers and producers had no idea to sum up the whole series, and give us the answers that we so richly deserved.

The majority of this episode was of the players in the alternate reality to gain back their memories and reunite with the loves that they had gained on the Island. that would be fine, except that I felt that the makers of lost were after cheap heat, as people remembered and cried and made out and in one case delivered babies. but it was played to get a emotional reaction while getting people distracted from the fact that the way that they ended this series was incredibly weak. But hey we all cried.

The ending of the Locke Monster was incredibly disappointing, it seemed that as soon as Jack took over guardianship he changed the rules and made the Man in Black mortal, and then using the distraction of the plug being pulled by Desmond there was basically a 5 minute fist fight ala the fight between Kirk and Kluge in the Search for Spock on the Genesis planet where the ultimate evil who could snuff out all life by merely leaving the Island was shot by Kate and then kicked off of a Cliff to his death. The only thing missing was Jack kicking him off of the Cliff while screaming "I. . . have . . . had enough of . . . you". Now say that in your head like William Shatner and you'll get my drift.

Meanwhile the plan by the Man in Black was to get Desmond to pull the bathtub drain in the Islands inner plumbing to sink the Island while he floated away on his boat while twirling his mustache and laughing like a villain.

While we finally saw the inside of the cave you get the feeling that originally the writers had a concept to explain the origins of the Island with the skeletons the hieroglyphics and the elaborately carved plug.

But the biggest disappointment to me was the ending explanation that they were all dead on the Island, the alternate reality was a waiting room for them to gain their memories, reunite and walk into the light. The only thing missing was Aaron sitting in front of a static filled T.V. while muttering "Their here".

The assumption being that Jack was the last to die, and when he expired, they could all move on. The final scene showed the jet with the rest of the survivors flying over head. I guess we're to assume that minutes later Lapedius went flaps down sending all the passengers to their death.

Yes this is the end, they were all dead, the smoke monster was Barry Horowitz and thank god they walked into the light.

Emotionally they did a good job by setting atmosphere. We are left wondering if Ben, Hurley and Desmond are actually dead, but the whole damned thing in the end was one big build up to a poor ending where it because apparent that the writers were as the title of the show so accurately described as lost.

In the end this was like a 6 year date with a hot woman finally getting to the point of bedding her, and then 10 minutes later laying back and saying it was ok, but it wasn't great.

Lost might as well have been written by Stephen King. A nice beginning, a excellent build up, and then an easy to kill spider in the end.

Too bad. But with the hype that this final had, I doubt that too many people are going to be all that satisfied with the answers that they got.