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Originally Posted by Brainiac
The only thing that really matters is that most people DO feel let down by a shitty end to a great TV show. The writers worked extremely hard over the years to create a very complex mythology, and they flushed it all down the toilet in Season 6. I would have been a lot happier with the show if they had ended it after Season 5 by telling us that Jacob and the MIB were timeless near-deities conducting an experiment about the nature of mankind. When the writers decided to tell the back stories of Jacob and the MIB they made them too ordinary.
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I don't know that "most" people feel let down. Certainly, I've not conducted a survey, but everyone I know in real life was profoundly moved by the end. I'd wager, at worst, the ratio is 50/50. Which Darlton predicted.
Personally, I was terrified that the show was going to tell us that Jacob and MIB were deities. That was the last thing I wanted to see happen. I was thrilled that they ended up just being dudes. Ordinary men in an extraordinary situation. Fallable. It really anchored their story for me, and made the ending much more powerful. Plus if it all been just some experiment about the nature of mankind, it would have really negated the seasons that preceeded it. It would have removed the focus from our losties and their journey. Which, to me, was the thrust of the show. That was the whole point. To remove that from the equation would have left the story impotent, IMO.