hmm… awesome brain powers, maybe I'll rent the dvds. I had seen the first half of season 1 of fringe, but it seemed too lost-like, with tons of unanswered questions. so I stopped watching.

Fritzy-poo, that's it exactly. Take a Stephen King book, or any other book (Agatha Christie, or insert favorite writer here). Cut out the final third of the book, where they reveal the answers, but leave the last few pages. That's the series finale of Lost.

I hate Everybody loves Raymond. And I'm bitching about this so much because this always seems to happen. On all the great seminal shows with Sci-fi elements - Lost, X-Files, even the Prisoner, they cop out on the ending because they can't figure out how to make it work. This one just happens to be the worst for…

"What I'm trying to say is great stories use the relationships within them to take us somewhere else. Lost pretended to take us somewhere else then went back and said, no, the only thing that matters is the relationships."

Here's another thing that frustrates me. To everyone who is talking about how it was the characters and connections that matter:

A commenter above, BigK, put it best. Even the emotional, character-based ending was a copout, because it assumes that all these characters FOUND NO ONE ELSE at the end. That they just would ignore those other people in their lives as they traipse off into the afterlife. This episode was enormously lazy writing…

I think the PS3 is the best deal - with free online (for now) and built-in blu ray. However, I wouldn't get one just for this game. RDR on the PS3 has a huge amount of pop-in and glitchy graphics, including stuttering framerates. It's actually a little disappointing. I've heard the game is better on 360.

Again, disillusioned with tv. The ability of writers to wrap a mystery coherently. I guess I should have made my original comment clearer…what can I say, I was just taking cues from lindelof and cuse.

To apologize this finale, and insist that it was all about character - many of whose stories were told to completion THREE FUCKING YEARS AGO (ahem…Kate) is patently absurd. The driving force of this show was the mythology, from Charlies "Guys…where are we?" to a season-long time travel arc. To just ignore it in the…

St. God - disillusioned with tv, you douchebag.

Even in the last five minutes, I thought that the church was Eloises church, and they'd all go to her lair to do some voodoo to merge back to the island. Anything but the fucking purgatory bullshit they dropped.

Yes. I wasted 6 years on this show. I had faith till the very end. I'm going to be a huge fucking baby about it. Plus, tonight's breaking bad sucked. So I'm pretty annoyed.

False. The show was about a fucking magic island that the people had to deal with. It's easy to write characters losing and gaining relationships; it's difficult to wrap up a mystery in a satisfying way. At some point, darlton said fuck the mystery, let's make it seem like that was never the point. It's a shitty…

False. This was a series ending. As such, it blew. If characters mattered so much, why did they ignore michael, walt, eko, and other major drivers of the first few seasons? If characters mattered so much, why did they end most episodes with a five minute mythology dump? It was to keep people watching.

This was passable as a finale of season 6
As a finale of the series, it failed miserably and fucking sucked. I've been processing it for 45 minutes now, and I'm angrier now than when it ended. The sideways world was secondary at best to what they had been driving toward the whole series. And yet the finale was all…

I thought this episode kinda sucked
The movie in the show was absolutely retarded. It's impossible for me to suspend disbelief that this would actually make any money. The thing that kept this from the "D" grade was Ted's last line, something like, "ok, you got to go." that was funny.

potatosolution - given that Russell won 'america's vote' for Sprint player of the season, I think your opinion is in the minority.

Ah, but see, potatosolution, that's where I think Russell's brilliance shines through. Tyson may have made a dumbass move, but Russell, through sheer force of will, convinced him to do it. Tyson making the game-changing move was exactly Russell's plan, and though it was largely luck (luck in that Tyson would be that…

I hate to be that guy, but as I mentioned above, in the episode where Walt confesses his meth involvement, I thought FOR SURE he was going to tell her that he was a bookie / gambler. It would have been the perfect out with the cell phone and the money.

And by 'he' above, I meant Walt.