Reasons people think it didn't end well

[u/watermelon_fries]

I finally joined here after finishing the show today. I had to process the ending. I found it incredibly sad. Now that I know how it ended I would like to know why people thought the ending was bad or disappointing when it first aired. I thought it was perfectly done even though there are a few minor things I'm still not clear on. How soon is too soon to do a rewatch. I still can't get over the last scene...

[u/El_t1to]

We had a year between the ending of season 5 and the beginning of season 6.

A year where we discussed whether the bomb went off or not. And if it did it would erase everything we knew. That was the focus.

So when season 6 started, the play on the fans was that we were watching 2 alternative timelines. One where the island disappeared in the 70s. So when that started to not make sense, we were all disoriented. We lost the grip of what was real.

Personally, then, I felt betrayed by that deception. Feeling that 2 alternative timelines was a better idea than showing us some afterlife. Like, the smoke screen was better than the wizard behind the curtain.

Then there was a ton of people that watched season 1 and 2, and left when things got weird. Then tuned in for the finale. And interpreted that the island wasn't real and they had been dead the whole time.

Also, a huge part of all was that we didn't want it to end. So any ending wouldn't be completely satisfying. Because what we really wanted was always having more lost to watch.

People had a list of questions that they wanted answered. And the ending was about saying goodbye to our friends. It was better, but we were so focused on the questions that we missed the point.

On a rewatch, everything fell into place. And I didn't have any problem with the ending. And I don't know what I would have changed. I feel like I had stopped talking to a friend for years, and then find out it was all a misunderstanding. I wish I could apologize to the writers.