This Much is True

Okay, I love Lost, the series. Great character development, cliffhangers, spooky, creepy, mindbending things. And the finale of Season 3, Through the Looking Glass was one of my favourite TV episodes of anything ever.  It was just brilliant.  From the beginning of the series and all the way through it, though, I kept thinking how are they going to explain all this? Really.  I’d never be able to write a series like this because the great thing about writing novels or short stories is that you can go back and change things once you’re finished. Instead of leaving loose ends, you can go back and take them out completely if you want. Or put a section in earlier that explains it. But the Lost creators threw so much into the story as they wrote, I can’t imagine how they could have explained it all. And no way to go back and cross off the whole Walt as important/mysterious in so many ways story bits, as but one example. So they left a lot of questions hanging, I’d forgotten many of them until collegehumor.com did this fantastic compilation. If you really liked the finale (and I was okay with it but a little disappointed–or maybe that was just the idea of no more Lost), be prepared to realize how very much was left hanging.

(Movieline attempts to tie up these loose ends in this great post.)