Lost Ending - Lost Finale Explained

"The island is a cork of a bottle keeping the evil from spreading throughout the rest of the world"

or so, said Jacob to Richard.

The Lost Finale (episodes 17 & 18 of season 6 aka Lost S06E17) disappointed most spectators who were highly in the expectation of answers to remaining enduring mysteries or connecting the dots. The screenwriters Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof chose to leave connecting the dots or filling in the blanks to the loyal Lost fans, according to me, they also gave the rest of us a choice to tolerate the contradicting metaphors or what I would call otherwise absurdities which are explained below. This could also be considered the making of a proof that they did not plan what was to come along as the story went on, neither the finale.

Jacob was there to protect the "light", an intense source of electro-magnetic energy at the "heart" of the island. The same energy - when uncontrolled - would cause passing nearby planes to crash to the island. The same energy which turned his brother into a smoke monster which is invincible, reads people's minds, kills the characters which he no longer likes or those that the island is done with, he can also disguise himself using the bodies of dead people.

The light coming from the energy field hidden in an underground chasm is supposed to be left alone never to be visited according to Jacob's late mother who thanked her rebellious adopted son for killing her. However, as explained in the Lost Season 6 Finale (Destiny Found) when Desmond Hume and Jack Shephard went there on a sacred mission to disable the unbeatable smoke monster's powers - however they didn't turn into smoke monsters themselves for entering the cave and being exposed to the electro-magnetic power of that great source of energy! For them it was just a switch-board to turn on or off the island's power, when turned off the island would start rambling and to slowly sink into the ocean.



Talking about the smoke monster aka the man in black, who could manipulate unsuspecting souls whose only wish in his entire life was to leave the island. After the Oceanic 815 crashed on the island, the smokey chose Christian Shephard as his favorite body form as disguise to tease Jack. And in season 4, the MIB (man in black aka the smoke monster) took Claire, dwelled in a mysterious hut which would change its location as it would please (why and how never ever explained - not even in the long-awaited Finale of Lost) and fooled Ben Linus and John Locke that he was representing Jacob to tell them to move the island in order to prevent Charles Widmore (whom Jacob would later invite back to the island to bring Desmond Hume along with in Lost season 6) from sending more mercenaries to the island. In order to move the island, all one needs to do is to go to the Orchid station built by the Dharma Initiative and turn a wheel in a cold tunnel down the station. Instead he chose to stay until he could find a loophole to get someone to kill Jacob (because he can't do that himself, it's against the rules - what rules? Sorry, those rules are never explained in the Lost Finale, besides, Ben Linus finally broke it by shooting Charles Widmore to his death in the Finale. See you in another life, brothas.)

The smokey (aka the MIB) knew how this works, and at some point in season 5, he led John Locke to do it in order to teleport him to Sahara Desert from the island in a mission to bring the Oceanic 6 (otherwise known as Jack, Hurley, Kate, Sayid, Aaron and Sun) back to the island. However the smokey who is able to take any dead human's live form cannot think of doing the same for himself to leave the island - or it is Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof who can't think of such a fact or alternatively a fact that the series' spectators such as me, myself and my friends who bothered watching Lost for 6 seasons could think this was simply possible without having to kill Jacob first.

Any of this make any sense to you? Yeah, Lost, a great show. Greatest of all times with an awesome finale. OK, I admit I didn't expect the Lost finale to explain every mystery introduced earlier, but I certainly expected that the absurdities otherwise what I call "the contradictions" had a sensible explanation.

So what we've got? To summarize: some sort of bullshit never thoroughly planned from beginning to the end.

The Lost Ending, the Lost Finale or whatever you may wanna call it, at the end of 6 seasons simply sucked with proof with the crappy flash sideways which were explained as some kind of parallel universe where the Losties are already dead to encourage people like me to believe that detonating a hydrogen bomb on an island killed everyone on the island and sent them to a purgatory and others to believe whatever they want to make out of the contradiction.

Speaking of contradictions, I think I listed many of them above which proved that Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof never really planned how to end the story - they were probably following the Lost fans forum posts to change the storyline of Lost (since season 1) from what was predicted to the something unpredicted as to how they ended up with messy contradicting outcomes.

It was fan speculations which made Lost a success not the writers' method for artificial unpredictability.