More LOST...and boo, hiss KGTV in San Diego...

Imagine my surprise on Monday when one of my co-workers came in and told me how disappointed he was in the LOST finale since they all ended up dead. And I was like, "WTF DOES THAT MEAN?"

And then I arrived late for a meeting where two other co-workers were discussing the final church scene and the opening of the door to heaven by Jack's father (Christian Shepherd...get it?) and how they were all dead.

And once again, I was all "WTF DOES THAT MEAN?"

Symbolism is lost on me, folks, and yes...I fully recognize the pun embedded in that statement. My take on LOST was that they were all given a second chance in the Sideways dimension to start their lives anew, that they had all found each other, and in doing so found the missing element in their lives that allowed them to move on. I never even considered for a second that they were all meeting in Heaven's waiting room to make the big move into their new celestial digs.

I still like my version better, but if I had actually seen the final shot for the show I would have felt differently. It seems like the final image showed that familiar sandy beach with the waves and oh, yeah...a crashed plane. Many people made a leap of no faith here and took that to mean they were all dead when the plane originally crashed. But according to Mike Bruno on EW.com, the LOST producers knew nothing about that scene being added: "Turns out ABC just threw those final scenes in there as a 'visual aid,' and they didn’t actually have anything to do with the show’s plot. The network – and not executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse — added those shots of the beach simply to soften the transition from the emotional ending of the series finale to the 11p.m. news and didn’t realize that viewers who had been obsessing over every detail of every scene of every episode might have considered the series’ final images as having some meaning."

WHAT?! Has the network been living in a cave the last six years? This show has been more minutely dissected than any in television history, and they were unaware that adding a scene like this would cause any discussion?

But it was all a moot point here in San Diego where the local ABC affiliate, KGTV Channel 10, just clipped off that scene to get right to the news. Because, you know, so many people were just waiting up for a lousy 10-minute newscast, waiting through 4 and 1/2 hours of LOST (including the 2-hour special from 7:00-9:00pm) just to see a news show that rehashed crap from an earlier broadcast. So KGTV, here's another reason why I don't watch you on a regular basis. Let's add disrespect for the viewers to the list that includes instantly forgettable on-air news talent, annoying promos, and a network that has nothing worth watching beyond LOST.

Comments

[alex]

You missed the official reason why they had to cut into programming, the GM felt that they had tell the people about some breaking news. Namely, the earthquake that most San Diegans did not feel and did no damage. Great news judgment there.