It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
- Isaac Newton

Almost two weeks past the finale and already the plot begins to fade, like all unresolved issues, from my mind.  I’ll finish today with the first mystery.  I’m sure I’ve missed some (pipe up and I’ll solve them for you), but the point of these posts was not to plug every hole, but just to show that it could be done.  There could have been a solution.  There could have been an end.  Instead the creators chose to stop dead (pardon the pun).  Narrative is about adding meaning to the universe which has enough mystery of it’s own thank you very much.

I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it.  ~Jack Handey

As the week since the finale has progressed I’ve seen many people begin to defend the show and say, “they gave me what I wanted.” That’s all well and good and I would not venture to take away another’s pleasure, but for me they didn’t provide what was promised.  The search for meaning and purpose in a chaotic world was brought up as a theme again and again.   In the end we are shown Jack finding his purpose, but what was it and why?

Everyone always complains about the weather, but no one ever does anything about it.

So the end of Lost was a disappointment.  The writers set a lot of plots in motion but couldn’t figure out how to tie them altogether, so they picked the ones that they knew they could wrap up and left all the rest a “mystery.”  Fine.  It’s their choice and maybe there was no way to tie all those different pieces together into something that would make sense and that people would care about…or maybe there was.  Here’s my attempt.