Right then, the 'Lost' finale...

James, Southampton on May 21st, 2009
He had faradays journal with him, and as he was forgetful faraday wrote EVERYTHING down in it, his entire plan so sayid just followed all of that, but he didnt seem too shocked that faraday was back, but would he care really?

Derek, Glasgow on May 21st, 2009
Anyone notice the continuity error in the finale with Sayed? How did he know about the 2 hours he hadnt met Dan since he came back to the island but he talks as if he knew everything?

Liam, Lincolnshire on May 19th, 2009
Elements of this series finale were good, brilliant even, others not so good! For me this finale was not a patch on last years brilliant ending - but then again that was three parts wasn't it?! This was however, in my opinion alot better than the series three finale. For me the highlights of the finale were within the first hour and the first few minutes of the second half. I really enjoyed seeing Jack and Sawyer fight properly it was about time especially as Jack and co. have now ruined Sawyer's new life. The Rose and Bernard scene I thought was a good deterant away from all the action and drama it also wrapped up their story nicely and of course all the scenes with Jacob were brilliant and Frank's scenes although they didn't add much were funny and helped lead to every character to that conclusion. For me Frank and Faraday were/are the best two from the freigther, I just hope Frank doesn't go south like Dan! The shoot out at the end and the nods to episodes past - the series two finale for instance were very interesting at further developing the story. The rest of the finale however felt slow (not as slow as the majority of the series three one though!) with many scenes added simly for filler - although thats how some appeared to me. For example; why put them on the sub, if they were just going to have to escape the next episode anyway? Sayid's retrun although predictable was sad as he was rarely used which was a shame. As for Kate she was annoying as per, and the very end of the episode for me left me thinking "What the hell was that it?" In all series five started out really well the got bogged down in all the off-island stuff but once they had returned we had a bunch of episodes that where bloddy brilliant ending with a watered down finale compared to the year. Hope we get those much needed answers. Role on series six!

morag and yasmin on May 19th, 2009
we have been watching lost for 4 years and still need to know where everybody is - back to the furure or still split up in the past. such a shame juillet lost her romeo - and jin never got to see his baby. keep us on a knife edge for 8 months is not fair more lost please now

Lissa, Birmingham on May 19th, 2009
Also, if the bomb works and they all get send back to LAX, then what is the need for Season 6? I dont get that

Lissa, Birmingham on May 19th, 2009
I thought the finale was totally confusing. But brilliant. I thought it was an excellent episode because it displayed everything we love about Lost. Personally, I'm gutted that Ben killed Jacob, because I'd have liked to see Jacob developed more. I also don't understand how Jacob's rival could have been an imposter of Locke, as Locke's body was in the crate. I wish Juliet hadn't of died, she was one of my favourites. I still don't get why Christian, Jack's dad, seems to be appearing on the Island? And that big statue, I've never seen it before. And also, where's Claire? I thought the ending was brilliant though, and I'm actually gutted we've got to wait another 8 months.

The Red Avenger, Southport on May 19th, 2009
Hang on - For those who say it's dropped into sci-fi territory - it was always sci-fi territory. Clue: 1 - Bloody great monster kills Plane Captain - and skins him alive within seconds. Now I don't know about you, but I don't know of any animal on this earth that could have done that. Clue 2: A completely paralysed man manages to regain all feeling and not only that becomes stronger (although we don't fnd out it was he, who was paralysed 'til a few episodes later) Clue 3: A bloody great Polar Bear rushes at them on a South Sea Island. Polar Bears normally found in the Arctic Region. Clue 4: A mysterious signal and number sequence which one of the party has won on a lottery draw - not the sort of thing you find when you've crashlanded on a remote island in the Pacific. And that's just the Pilot. So which part of Sci-fi are you having trouble with? It's always had fantastical elements from the Pilot episode onwards. As for the finale - well it was astonishing. We finally found out about the Statue (after only seeing its "foot" at the end of season 2). It's pointing towards Richard being from the "Black Rock" - something I've been saying for ages. It's very possible that Fake Locke is the man at the beginning of the Finale who is almost certainly the Black Smoke and has taken on many guises - Christian, Yemi etc... We finally met Jacob (hey it's Paul from Dexter) and he has a nemesis (hey it's Silas from Deadwood) so we have a good/light v bad/dark battle - which has been signposted also from series 1 (Locke showing Walt how to play Backgammon - "One is light - the other dark") How Ben has been manipulated all along and that "bad/dark guy has been looking for a loophole to kill Jacob. That Jacob has visted each of the Losties off the island (well the important ones anyway) Meanwhile back in 1977 - Daniel's plan is put into action by Jack who after a few violent disagreements the others help him but tragedy as Juliette is sucked down the hole (definitely on a par with the losses of Charlie and Jin in the emotion stakes) but then she's not dead and sets of the bomb (or does she?) What does Jacob's "They are coming!" mean - are the Losties hurtling back through time for the final battle? So many questions (as always), but we are getting answers as well, now. Roll on series 6. ... RA

Cheryl, Southamton on May 19th, 2009
As usual Lost ends with a cliffhanger with me asking lots of unanswered questions- is locke really dead... Is Christian really alive... Where is Claire... What is the black smoke... why is there a temple.. why has the feet of the big statue never been seen/ mentioned before... who is the woman who arrested Syed and now seems to be intertwined... Whats desmond upto... and so on.. so many i cant remember - not to mention all the longstanding ponderments and the whole crazy locke loophole issue sprung on us at the end!! I can't see how they will answer all of the questions in the next series alone. I for one hope they do a whole mega compact version for those who have watched it the whole time in order for all of the questions to be answered (i almost feel like reviewing all of the box sets to make sure they are all answered!). I didn't think i would enjoy it once the time travel aspect became apparent because i for one cannot abide programmes involving sci-fi but i am still as hooked as i was the first series (however weird its got!) I understand why some poeple can no longer watch as it has become a bit surreal. However i think if you have been an avid watcher the whole time it will be a shame when it finishes! I personally think that the bomb will not have worked (if all returns to normal i do not see how this would comsume an entire new series!) and think more that what the oceanic crew are doing is how history unfolds anyway- possibly it was them who created 'the hatch'/ killed the Darma/ created the 'black smoke' and so on.. I know full well i will get the series for Xmas (as i alwasy do!) and then watch it again avidly but roll on the final series!!!

Zed on May 19th, 2009
How many of you people complain about the time travel element, watch Doctor Who. I'm guessing a vast majority seeing as it regularly gets 10 million viewers. You complain about the have a small time travel element, but the vast majority of the last five years have been much more. Yet Doctor Who is complete time travel, but you watch that and vote for it at awards ceremonies. Hypocritial don't you think.

Brian, Bristol on May 19th, 2009
Matt, Newcastle - the question should be did YOU watch it?? Juliet was the only character to NOT be visited by Jacob in their flashback...

Louise on May 19th, 2009
For 4 seasons, Lost was amazing. It was a character-driven real-world based show about survival. Now it's gone to the extremes of sci-fi, and I rather wonder why I bothered. This season was AWFUL and the finale was too. I'll watch the first 2 minutes of S6 just to see the fallout from the bomb, but otherwise I'm done. I just don't care any more. Time travel, teleporting, now human cloning/morphing of dead people... God vs The Devil... The religious references have been there before, but subtle, like all the many other references to anything and everything, but now it's just obvious. I don't really care, but Juliet was never 'chosen' to come to the Island, as the rest apparently were, because Ben brought her there to serve his own interests. And if that awful Eloise woman knew she was going to kill her own son then Daniel always walked into the camp to ask for the bomb and she always gave it to them, ie, the Incident will have been the denonation of the bomb. Though it's complete nonsense. How the hell can they answer everything in just 17 episodes? Aside from the here and now of Charles Widmore, Jacob, Locke et al, what about the 20 or so original outstanding questions? - what happened to the kidnapped tailies, who was Henry Gale, where did the food drop come from, how did Yemi's plane even end up on on a Pacific island? Just to name a few. They've already admitted that Libby's story will almost certainly not get told after all. And the continuty this year has been appaling. It's a complete mess, and I wish they'd been honest from the start and said 'this is actually going to be a sci-fi show with a bit of religion thrown in'. To be fair, there were 3 things I liked about this season: 1, finding out how Ben came to be Alex's father, 2, Sun finding Charlie's ring at the beach camp, 3, Richard Alpert/ Nestor Carbonell wet and dripping ;) Sorry to rant, but there seem to be few comments from those who aren't enjoying it any more, though used to also be mega-fans, and there are plenty of us :(

Chester London on May 19th, 2009
I loved it ASL and Ben should shut up and stop whining

Matt, Newcastle on May 19th, 2009
Erm Henry... Juilet was visited by Jacob. Did you actually watch it?

Krodar on May 19th, 2009
Your first four paragraphs, show quite clearly why I didn't bother watching past season 2. I'm all for good intricate stories, great plots or ideas and nail biting cliff hangers. Sadly after two seasons of drudgery, not even the discovery of Elvis and Aliens on the island; could have saved this from being deleted from my planner.

Feed The Reaper, UK on May 18th, 2009
Elizabeth (Juliette) has been signed for S6 but not confirmed if it is a guest role (flashback) or full time role, and the Smoke Monster will finally be explained in the last 2 or 3 episodes of S6.

Ben on May 18th, 2009
ASL London have you reported the person who has held a gun to your head and forced you to spend 5 years watching the show. I presume that's what happened. It can't be you have only one tv channel, as Lost changed channels after Season 2. Unless you tv only had Channel 4, then co insidently changed to Sky One at the same time LOST left Channel 4. You say, you can't wait until it ends. Well surely it's already ended for you. Just don't watch the next season if you hate it, then it's ended for you. Watch one of the other 200 channels or do something other then watching tv. DVDs maybe. People that keep watching shows continually, which they don't like actually contribute to viewing figures and thus get the show renewed, then they complain they want it axed. If you stop watching, it's already axed for you, as your not seeing it. Why does it matter to you if it's still on or not, if you don't watch it. There's 200 plus other channels, or does your over inflated ego which gives you a high opinion of yourself make you think they should all be suited to you and the world revloves around you. If everyone who doesn't like a show stops watching it and viewing figures go down, then it may well get axed. But if you keep watching, then your improving viewing figures and thus making the show go on longer.

David, Yorks on May 18th, 2009
Loved it, thought it was ace. Not so sure that Juliet is dead... Surely if she is then everyone else would be? Or otherwise the plan worked and none of that ever happened...or something. It hurts my head to think about that

Nick, Liverpool on May 18th, 2009
i think the loophole may have been that jacob could only be killed by someone who he had made leader of the island hense why (dead) locke couldnt kill him and needed ben to do it

Andrew, Manchester on May 18th, 2009
Apparently Elizabeth Mitchell has only signed onto V as a guest star for the Pilot.

ASL London on May 18th, 2009
Rubbish episode and the series is full of so many wholes its unbelievable. The simple fact is that if we are to believe that both the past and present are running simultaneously, then anything they have done in the past will change nothing. otherwise the whole storyline with the present is totally immaterial and will never come to fruition. So there is no real cliffhanger with the past explosion as there can actually be nothing that has happened that has changed it as the people in the present ie Sun saw them in the photo from 1978 or whenever, thus their preesnt is running on from the past that involved jack sawyer etc. Convoluted but it makes sense. Basically the whole show is a pile of rubbish that has never really been thought out and when it ends all i can say is good riddance to absolute rubbish.

Ben on May 18th, 2009
Henry, seriously you need to grow a pair. Talk about going super fan. No other show would have that cliffhanger, because they don't bring people from the dead and keep them dead. Also some of the things your using to say it's the best show are ridcioulous, like LOST appering on the screen. It's the best show ever, because the shows title came up on screen, per-lease. As for anaylising eight month wait and comparing it to some number said on the show, you really need to get a hobby and are going over board. All shows have long gaps between seasons, trying to analyise and find a theory to it is sad. It's eight months wait because that's when the next time is they can fit it in the schedule, and write the scrip and film it. It's a TV SHOW! Trying to anaylise how until the next episode is broadcast is perfectic. I hope you don't watch 24, as every hour is covered, and with the show on the same time each week, one episode if bound to be set at the same time the show is on. You'd probably end up doing a 10 page dossier on it. Some people really need to learn the difference between real life and fiction.

Lynn Spalding, Lincs on May 18th, 2009
Great series finale, raised more questions......who or what is Jacob. Can't wait for season 6. Will miss my weekly fix of Josh Holloway.

Henry on May 18th, 2009
I think we can say Julliete died as she wasn't visited by Jacob, in her flashback so is not one of the chosen ones. Sawer and Kate may end up on the other side as they were told by Jacob not to do something, but both ended up on 815 as a result of doing what they were told not to do. Write the letter and behave. So they may not be on the side of good, or might end up dying. They could be the Adam and Eve skeletons as they did something Jacob/God told them not to do. Only thing now is how comes Hurley and Sayed were visited after the island and Jack, Jin, Sun and Locke before the island. Maybe it wasn't Hurley and Sayed's destiny as Jacob didn't visit them before, but something changed it, maybe Kate and Sawer meant two other people had to go. After all Hurley and Sayed were hunted off the island as the start of the season, but the other Ocianic 6 were not. So their destinay changed somewhere and their roles could be vital to change the course of history. The bomb going off has change the course of fate. Instead of white text over a black screen (light overcoming dark), it's not black test over white screen (Dark now over light). So maybe the bomb going off has caused a shift in power allowing the dark side to win. There's got to be some reason for the white background and that explains it best. Now nothing it laying in the shows of the statue either. Eight month wait is too long, and it's got to be some reason it's eight months and one of the numbers is eight. 16 is another number so sixteen episodes to go before we see the final one (episode 17.) Lost proved with that final, it's the best show on tv. No other programme could end of a cliffhanger like that and such a long wiat. No other show would you get so much answers and questions, what's coming, what's the thing with the two Lockes, where will the bomb take everyone, what's the meaning of white background and black text, who's good and evil. We've no idea how, where or when Season 6 will start, no other show has that. When the long eight month wait is over, it will then be sad as there will only be 17 hours worth of Lost left.

Ollie, London on May 18th, 2009
What a great season finale... I loved the fade to white and actually keep watching the last five seconds again and again... sad I am sure. I've been reading around the episode and trying to fit everything into some sense... I cannot wait for Season Six... Just really... cannot wait!

Ben on May 18th, 2009
Where's also this other guy is called Esau talk coming from, and "Locke" is smoke mosnter. Did I miss something. Just because someone in the Bible was called Esau, how does the mean the guy on the show was. Oh because of Jacob. Jacob's a common name, and not exclusive to the bible. Why do people think Lost is a bible story. Then I'm not really a super fan that has to analyise every aspect, and get "theories." Some people that it too seriously checking every detail. It just a tv show. People moan football coverage doesn't end after the match and they analyise, at least that's real. For these same people to make theories on a tv show is hypocritical. Still is was a great end of season, and good cliff hanger. Eight months will seem a long time. But that's all it is an end of episode, it doesn't need a full anaylisation. Some people even going into mass detail on why "LOST" was written in black on a white background at the end of the show, when every episode ends with the word "LOST" appearing on screen. It's that simple, the show's called Lost. You don't need to have a month of researching it.

Cameron, Lincoln on May 18th, 2009
The loophole is that Jacob could only be killed by his own descendant, his son. Non-Locke is Esau who couldnt kill him and so had to find the loop-hole which brought him to manipulate the real Locke and force him to die for him to take over his image and to manipulate Ben (Jacobs son) into murdering Jacob. "They are coming" refers to the descendants of Jacob rising up in vengeance against Esau's descendants at the End Of Days and it may be that Jacob has helped guide and protect his descendants through their lives by "touching" them at key moments in their lives (Kate, Jack, Sawyer, Hurley, Sayed) to protect them, guiding them towards the island ready for the End Of Days. This "touching" them may protect them from dying which would explain why Juliette who was not touched is possibly dead, but the others will survive the bomb. Dont be surprised if Charles Whitmore turns out to be the one that saves the day, is the good guy in it all and brings an end to the show ;) . Finally, the sailing ship during the conversation on the beach, is the Black Rock, later found full of dynamite on the island, one of its crew is a spanish sailor called Ricardo who is granted eternal youth in exchange for for a favour!

Adry, Italy on May 18th, 2009
I want Juliet back and alive in season 6. I don't care about V at all. Don't kill the best female character of Lost and the best love story (Juliet and Sawyer) of that show. I can't stand Kate!

Jack, Southampton on May 18th, 2009
lost!lost!lost!....there have been other season finales! while does ds/cult alway only ever review/fanw*#k about this pile of sh*te

Gareth, Hull on May 18th, 2009
As much as I love Lost....and I really do.....people taking on the form of someone else sounds like Heroes to me. Fair enough there is the smoke monster and we think he can appear as dead people such as Yemi but I wonder if this is a shark jumping moment. Lets hope it was all a dream. :D

Toby on May 18th, 2009
Great end to the series and can't wait until the final series! I have so many ideas for what could happen and now we'll have to wait and find out! But I think that Juliet is still alive and all the islanders are still stuck in the 70's and now they must find a way to get back to 2007??? And I'm wonder who is coming to the island? As Jacob told Locke that 'they are coming', but who? Is Charles Whitmore finally going to get back onto the island?

Jon, Sheffield on May 18th, 2009
I think the bomb having gone off *is* "the incident" .. thats how it always happened, and now they will build the swan to contain the 'mess' and the computer will be installed .. and hey presto, history as it always happened. I refer you to conversation between Jacob and 'Esau': "It always ends the same" "But it only happens once, anything that happens before that is just progress"

Katherine on May 18th, 2009
It was amazing! I hated Sawyer and Juliet together, but after this episode I loved them. But after she said that they weren't suposed to be together, I think its clear they're making Sawyer and Kate the endgame, thankfully. Jack and Kate would be too pedestrian for words. I think Locke being in the box, and Locke being in the temple confused me a bit, but it was a big shocker, definately. I think Lost showed everyone that it's still an amazing show, and still knows exactly whats its doing. I can't wait eight months for the next one!

Emma, NI on May 18th, 2009
As much as I like her, I'm pretty sure Juliet's a goner. Sayid I'm assuming will be fine. Only seventeen more eps to go :\

Dave Cool on May 18th, 2009
It was a bit 'meh', like most Lost finales. Kate and Juliet are such fickle girls - "oh noes I'm gonna change my mind" at every scene. Kate: "let's stop Jack from making da bomb go kabooo00om", 30 minutes later "yay, da bomb should go kabooo00om lolol". Juliet dying was good, not because of the 'emotional' scene between her and Sawyer but because the least convincing TV relationship since Parkman and Daphne has now ended.

Holly on May 18th, 2009
What an amazing episode!! I'm thinking that maybe Juliet isn't dead though, I mean, if she's dead, so is everyone else.

Dez, Cyprus on May 18th, 2009
I think that the finale was great! Real edge of your seat stuff with an almost mouth wateringly intriguing beginning and an agonising cliffhanging end. LOVED IT!!! Will be almost sorry to see the new season start because it means the final beginning of the end.

Shane, Surrey on May 18th, 2009
An amazing end to the season, and so many questions (again). Can not wait 8 months but have alot of theries, I think the bang would have taken the original 70's losties back to 2007 but still on the island!

RichardAM on May 18th, 2009
*Esau

Ryan, Lancaster on May 18th, 2009
Actually, in the Bible, Jacob's Brother is called "Esau", pronounced "E-saw", not "Easu" as you've written.