The ending to me was acceptable. All the way through the show I wanted the show to be plot driven rather than character driven but the show always was about characters thrown into a crazy plot. In the end they resolved the characters lives and gave them the redemption each one sought.
My problem with the show though was thematically from the beginning it is inconsistant. The whole Man of Faith Man of Science was kind of lost in the last few seasons and in the end it was the primary theme in the last episode.
Also Jacobs comments at the end of last season "It always ends the same, eveything else is just progress" really didn't pay off for me. I much perferred the cyclical ending where MIB and the Caretaker on sitting on the beach at the end with the Losties being sent to the AR. I wanted a Dark Tower ending where the end of the show is just the start of the next battle with the initial conditions changed slightly.
To me the island being an eternal struggle between good and evil fit better with the show than Hurley's happy land island.
The show didn't punch me in the stomach though and have Hurley wake up from a dream or the them all being dead in the first plane crash. I was about to throw something at the TV until Hurley said you made a great number 2 ben and I realized that the lives on the Island were real and the AR was purgatory.
I think the whole AR was a waste of story time this season and a self-indulgent homage to the characters. Also the Star Trek fight between MIB and Jack was terrible. All that was missing was the music and a two handed punch.
In the end I it was as about as good as I expected and more importantly it is done.
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