The very long finale to ABC was deeply touching and ridiculous reports said. The episode started on a tremendous note, grabbing attention is always the show's true emotional core.

At the start of the two-and-a-half hour episode, the entrance of the father's casket back in Los Angeles and the rather jokey detail that his name was the symbolically fraught "Christian Shepherd" suggested that they were about to begin a requiem and not only old Doc Shepherd's but the show's, and with it all the solemn suggestions of life and death and rebirth and DVD sales.

The destiny of the island depended upon a large carrot-shaped stone that act as a kind of hindrance in the island's fiery pool of life. Forgetting it was apparently equivalent to sinking Atlantis by mucking around with the plumbing in the main spa.

People found much of the episode very interesting, specially the existential badminton played out between the characters' state of consciousness on the mainland. Even Jack and Locke kept being elucidating by unpredictable but joyous surges of bond to other lives.

According to the viewers the show was overall amazing. They can argue between now and forever about the mystery of the island. But the only thing to do is die and be sent to an island, resurrected, killed, possessed by an ancient entity and killed again.