LostFirst off, don’t carry on reading if you haven’t watched every episode of Lost yet. This will spoil it. OK? Here I’ll be writing about the ending of the TV series ‘Lost‘…

Right, first things first. I’ve loved watching Lost. It’s been a seminal series and some of the best TV drama I’ve watched for absolutely years. It’s been as influential on everything that has come after it as X-Files was in its heyday.

However (and this is a giant ‘However’), although brilliantly done (as ever) I was left completely unsatisfied. And I’m sure I’m not alone…

Although my opinion may alter on reflection, I feel ultimately that although they have always insisted otherwise, the writers didn’t have a real idea where they were going.

Here’s my first batch of questions, I hope someone can set me straight on some of this…

Q. If they are all dead, did they die on the place in the crash in the first episode?

Q. If they did die in the crash, are we to assume that everything on the island is a ‘limbo’ between this life and the next?

Q. If the island is purely a limbo world, why do they need to find each other in the future, as their only shared experience is as people inheriting this limbo land? For example, are they suggesting they fell in love in limbo land only?

Q. If you’re already dead (as presumably you are if you are in limbo on the island) how can you die again? Such as Mr Ecko. Ana Lucia, Libby etc

There is of course the alternate possibility that the people who survived the plane crash really did survive and then lived on the island. That would explain how they could then actually die, share emotion, fall in love etc and makes the finale feel a bit less like Bobby Ewing getting out of the shower in Dallas (under 30 year-olds won’t know what I’m talking about here – move along, it’s not important) – but then opens another can of worms .e.g.

Q. What is the black smoke? A manifestation of Jacob’s brother’s anger/bitterness?

Q. Where did Walt go and why did people keep seeing him in the forest? Michael (Walt’s Dad) presence was explained – he’s the whispers on the island, he can’t move on because of murdering Libby. But then is the island a reality? Or a limbo between our world and the next – or are we supposed to believe it is both at the same time, or even every time (in the multiverse way of thinking)?

Q. What were ‘The others’? More people in limbo? Did they crash on the island? Are they natives?

Q. What the feck was the Dharma initiative all about? How did they find the island? If Ben murdered them (he used nerve gas to kill them all, including his Dad remember?), was he serving Richard, who in turn served Jacob? If so, Jacob is hardly a Mr Nice Guy is he?

Q. Ben moved the island with that big wheel and then ended up in a desert – what the? I mean seriously – what???

And many more Q’s. What’s with the hatch? Pressing the buttons? The one-eyed Russian? Daniel Farraday (and his weird Mum who sent them back to the island), Charlotte etc – how did they find the island?

Q. How does Richard Alpert leave the island to go and test Locke etc? Why (and how) does Jacob go and visit each of our losties – presumably before they have died?

Q. What or who is Jacob anyway?

Q. Ben/Widmore duel – what the hell was that about? ‘You changed the rules when you killed my daughter’? Really? What rules are they? Someone throw me a friggin’ bone here!

If season 6’s sideways reality/alternate reality where Benjamin Linus is a teacher, Sawyer is a cop etc is the afterlife they have made for themselves and the fulfilment of what they would like to be, why do they have to ‘remember’ the people on the island to enable them to move on? Or is it supposed to be a Buddhist style scenario (a la Groundhog Day)where they keep having their life (in various permutations) repeated until they figure themselves out?

Of course, there is also the distinct possibility the writers just made it up as they went along.