As with Battlestar Galactica, I wanted to stop watching Lost over the years but just couldn’t pull myself entirely away and (mostly) stuck it out until the unsatisfying end. And these two journeys have reinforced my preference for movies over episodic TV. With the former, they’ve generally got the entire story arc nailed down before filming and the cast doesn’t generally bail along the way due to legal issues or puberty. Plus, there’s no network to artificially extend a story while milking additional advertising revenue.
Having said that, like BSG, we made up for Lost plot craziness with much MST3k enjoyment during the last season. To leave this post largerly spoiler free (we’re the DVR crowd), I’ll just offer you two innocous finale tweets I fired off as Lost concluded:
Wait, where are the Cylons and is this Earth? #
What a letdown. Seriously, no singing Ewoks?? #
OK, maybe one more – dedicated to Sayed: If you can’t love the one you want, love the one you’re with.
So have at it in the poll below. Which was the lesser of finales, BSG or LOST? And please sound off in the comments if you feel I’m off my rocker, that Lost provided a satisfying wrap.
Thanks to Twitter pal Feech1 for the poll suggestion. Stay tuned for the Lost Island Reunion Show in 2011!