Lost begins its sixth and final season early next year (filming starts the end of August), and producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof revealed at a BAFTA event that the show will have a definite ending with all of the questions answered, but it won't necessarily be a happy ending. While the ending will be "fair," they say it will also be "bittersweet." We'll have to wait until the new season to see exactly what they mean, but how do you want the show to end?Do you want a happy ending for Lost?
Lost begins its sixth and final season early next year (filming starts the end of August), and producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof revealed at a BAFTA event that the show will have a definite ending with all of the questions answered, but it won't necessarily be a happy ending. While the ending will be "fair," they say it will also be "bittersweet." We'll have to wait until the new season to see exactly what they mean, but how do you want the show to end?
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7-06-2009 @ 5:11PM
Sarah said...
With Charlie alive and being a family with Claire and Turniphead.
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7-16-2009 @ 5:14AM
Pat said...
Yes, let's get Charlie (and maybe Eko and a few others back). Maybe they can all survive by making it never have happened (but then , what happens with the island? Dont' want Whitmore to get ahold of it). But if they do go back to before they crashed, there should be some 'self-correcting, so that our characters all wind up knowing each other in another context. And they all should find their own redemption too. The heart of LOST is not the island or the characters or the plot, but the philosophy and faith and mysticism behind it all.
7-06-2009 @ 5:32PM
CJ said...
Really... what the point of the story if there are no happy endings whatsoever? They all started out tragic, if they all end tragic it's just a huge waste of our time. I just want a reasonable climax and end to give a point to the whole story.
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7-06-2009 @ 6:32PM
Emma said...
CJ I totally agree with you, I think that I couldn't help but feel that my time had been wasted if the show ended in tragedy. I am not saying we have to have a Disney ending, but there has to have been some point to it all for the characters. The sci-fi/ fantasy element is all well and good, but don't forget about the characters, they are what made me love this show, the characters in the situation not the situation on its own. I think they lost that last season and, although I am still a fan, it is the first season that I wasn't really excited about week to week.
7-06-2009 @ 6:30PM
mjgoodson said...
I want the ending that makes the most sense story wise, which is probably a mix of happy for some, sad for others.
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7-07-2009 @ 11:00AM
nytheatreguy said...
Exactly what you said (and said brilliantly).
7-06-2009 @ 6:41PM
mj said...
I would like those who wanted to stay to do just that, and be happy. For those who wanted to leave, (cough, Jack,) I think they should be back home, and be sad. I personally would stay on the island, like Rose and Bernard. And Vincent. Just keep sending those Dharma food drops.
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7-06-2009 @ 9:59PM
josie said...
I would like to see some happy and some sad. I agree that those who found happiness on the island should get to stay and maybe recreate a new Dharma, i.e., Sawyer and Juliet. Jack and Kate deserve each other off the island. Rose and Bernard, Charlie, Claire, Jin, Sun and their children have to get there somehow, maybe Desmond and Penny will want to join, Hurley will want to stay with Charlie.
I don't know what to make of Jacob and that whole Locke ending, but I think if Ben truly has a human side like he showed in that episode, he could stay, and Frank the pilot can keep an eye on him.
I've loved the show from the beginning and can't wait to see how all these threads get sorted out.
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7-06-2009 @ 7:27PM
Jake said...
I want to see redemption from some characters (Sayid, Jack, etc) and some attrition of others (Ben and Charles come to mind). It would also be great of it ended with some type of resolution between John and Jack regarding the man of science vs man of faith argument. Also, Desmond and Penny must live happily ever after.
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7-06-2009 @ 9:19PM
Jimmy said...
Is the show about the island or the characters? It can't be both.
7-06-2009 @ 7:32PM
bruce said...
Clearly at this point, "getting off the island" is not the end game for all the characters. For Jin and Sun, and maybe a few others, they want to get back to their old lives. But for a lot of the characters, unlike in Season 1 and 2, this show is no longer about "getting off the island" ... 6 of them have already done that and they voluntarily came back.
So, whatever the ending is, I think it will focus more on general karma (darma karma) for each character, as others have said - redemption or getting what they deserve, having to make sacrifices... that type of thing. Some characters, like Sawyer, have already chaged a lot and have redeemed themselves (well, for the most part).
But the poll question sounds like it's written knowing what we knew back in Seasons 1 and 2, when getting off the island was the goal for all the Oceanic survivors. That's not their goal anymore. Getting back to the right point in time (back to the future) may matter to more of them than getting back to the mainland.
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7-06-2009 @ 7:58PM
Jay said...
I would say that "bittersweet" could possibly mean Oceanic 815's passengers arriving in LAX and parting away without realizing the relationships and struggles they had built in another life.
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7-06-2009 @ 8:18PM
Jimmy said...
The real question is if in the end, the story focuses on:
1. The characters, mainly the Oceanic 815 survivors.
2. The history of the island, past present and future.
Are the lives/deaths/relationships of Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Hurley, Desmond etc. the heart of the story, or is it Jacob, his nemesis, the Black Rock, the Statue, Richard Alpert, The Others, DHARMA, etc? Which of the two is more important in Darlton's storytelling?
Will there still be an island in the last scene of the last episode? Or will it be destroyed?
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7-06-2009 @ 8:31PM
gwen said...
I chose other. I think there is no happy ending in getting off the island at this point. I think the island wants them there and they'll never find true happiness in the outside world.
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7-06-2009 @ 8:47PM
Mark said...
The flight lands, a passenger, played by Patrick Duffy, awakes from his dream, and deplanes.
fade to black
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7-07-2009 @ 8:29AM
Vito said...
...and then gets in a cab driven by Matthew Abbadon.
7-06-2009 @ 10:03PM
John said...
Other: It's too convoluted to have anything but an unsatisfying ending.
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7-06-2009 @ 10:57PM
jffm said...
I don't "want" any particular ending. I'm watching to see the story the creators have to tell; becoming attached to one ending or another is pointless to me. As long as they tell a good story I'm happy and they've done a good job in my eyes.
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7-06-2009 @ 11:24PM
Darren said...
I just want good answers to all the questions that have arose during the past 5 seasons! If we can get good solid and meaningful answers then I'll be happy. Then some can stay, some can leave and all live happily ever after.
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7-06-2009 @ 11:30PM
HD said...
Jack wakes up on "Party of Five" and realizes it was all a dream.
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