I was satisfied with the LOST ending. At least enough for it not to be #2 behind GoT. I know it was polarizing but its not even in the same league as the mess of GoT.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The problem with the LOST ending was, it wasn't planned. They wrote themselves into a corner.

I'm good with the ending, too. I'm also good with people roasting them for it. And I'm also good with situations like in FROM where Harold Perrineau said he wouldn't work with them (same people) if they didn't have the ending pre-planned in advance. They even poke fun at the LOST ending in one of the early episodes, implying it won't go that way.

[–] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 5 minutes ago)

All fair. But the LOST ending didn't ruin the entire series, like GoT's did. Like, the ending of GoT retroactively made the rest of the show unwatchable, whereas ive watched all of LOST a couple times, and it's still great.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I never understood the hate for the Lost ending either. Made sense to me.

off the top of my head at least Battlestar Galactica should be on the list instead.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago

I completely agree on both points. BSG is one of my favorite shows but yeeeesh that ending is not a point of pride.

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

I watched Lost well after it came out (during the pandemic) and I thought the ending was fine. It wasn't a great ending, but it didn't ruin the show. It doesn't make the rest of the show terrible, just makes the ending weird but ok.

Similarly the ending of How I Met Your Mother, if you just ignore the last episode then the show is still great. Sure the ending is bad, but the show isn't ruined.

Now that's not true for Game of Thrones. That show builds to the ending and when that ending goes nowhere, or character motivations are completely wrong, that is a failure.

Now Dexter is weird. While the last season was kind of a mess, had Dexter just gone off into the sea and died, I guess that would have made sense. But really the whole season was rough, so anything they did wouldn't have worked. BUT! They left the door open. Recently they followed up. The newest Dexter has been pretty entertaining.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I actually think it is in the same league. It was a total cop out ending.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

what was the cop out? the entire "flash forward" world was built to set up that ending.