Haha – I watch the first season and really got into it, by the middle of season two I wanted some answers to anything! and thought they might drag it out for years.. So stopped watching and just waited to read the show synopsis once it finished. THANK GOD I DID! What a load of crap! I would be seriously pissed off if I had wasted all that time watching!

I agree. After a few episodes into season 1, my wife and I said, “There are already so many loose ends that there can be no rational way to tie them all together. Either they will have an omnipotent character that has arbitrarily made everything just so, or they are in an alternative ‘place’ that has a arbitrarily-tweeked systemic laws that make everything just so. Or they won’t even go that far and do something stupid. In any case, it’s not going to be satisfying.” I don’t even know how the series finished. We saw the possible end-games and stopped watching in season 1.

Though it was posted 2 weeks after the season finale, I thought Ben Witherington’s thoughts were great in this article.

Seriously Randall? You never watched the show but you come on to pronounce your judgment of it and the finale? Your opinion means nothing. You didn’t watch the show. When you, and all the other people who have offered up their pearls of wisdom despite never watching the show, actually DO watch it, then by all means, feel free to come back and bless us with your thoughts. Otherwise, you all need to shut your fingers down and refrain from commenting. You’re doing nothing but talking out your rear.

You summed it up well at the end – they got paid. That’s all it was about…making money. Thankfully, I didn’t waste any of the last 6 years on even part of one episode. Perhaps many will take this as an object lesson in the vacuity of virtually all “so-called” entertainment created by our fallen society.

I had the same feeling at the end of the Lost finale that I had watching the finale of Twin Peaks: an ABC series that captivated the not-so-faint of heart section of NA in the early nineties; it was on Sunday nights, if I recall correctly… BTW, my feeling is similar to so many others: “Huh?” (annoyance and bewilderment)

Edward T. Babinski: “And you even called me one of the “new atheists.” I’m agnostic.”

Whatever. You were a co-blogger for “Debunking Christianity” with atheists.

Here’s a recent post discussing your work:

Excerpt: “Ed Babinski is a man on a mission. His godless-given mission in life is to recruit as many professing Christians as possible to share his pointless outlook on life. After all, there’s no point to a pointless life unless you can get others to share your pointless point of view.

That’s what gives meaning to his meaningless existence. To be is to be meaningless. And his meaningless beingness would be utterly vacuous unless he could convert some others to bask in their equally meaningless beingness. That way, everybody can pool the collective nullity of their sorry existence, of which no greater nullity can be conceived.

Why, isn’t that enough to make you brave the tropical rainforests in search of headhunters who labor in darkness without your gospel of godlessness to illumine their lives?”

Jaime,
Except they weren’t dead the whole time. The only people who were dead during the show were the people who actually died during it. The only part where the entire cast was dead was the side flashes and the end. There was no need to explain it further, because it wasn’t the most vital part of the finale. Jack was alive the whole series, until he died. The killing of the smoke monster was the point of the finale.

I think the end is good, its was obvious since episode 1, although it had me and many more doubting for 6 years.
There are many ways to reveal this ending, sort of like “I see dead people”, Others(the movie), , The Lovely Bones, etc. where surprisingly the expectators notice the heroes of our story are dead . The writers could have taken an other season to properly unfold the inescapable thruth… they were all dead.

Edward,
Your measurement of time isn’t exactly unequivocal. Is a 3-hour movie short, because it’s only a micro-micro-micro-micro-blink in time? Measurements can be relative, depending on what they’re measured against. A 400 ft. building is pretty tall; but next to a 700 ft. building, it’s pretty short. Of course when you put the length of your life against all of time, it’s tiny.

You should think about the length of your life in actuality of what you’ve been given, or will be given. Let’s say a person lives to an average of 70 years old. That person would have had over 36 million minutes, or over 600,000 hours, to decide if there is a God, and will that person follow Him. Or to make it more practical, say you work 45 hours a week and sleep 9 hours a night, you would still have 60 hours every week to make that decision.

How we use our time doesn’t minimize the time we’re given.