How Lost Could End

As this is being written, the series finale of the television show Lost is only a few hours away so I decided to write about how the show might end.

Or, depending on when you're reading this it could be how the program could've ended so here we go.

They could go the whole St. Elsewhere route and make it that the show was just something taking place in the mind of an autistic child.

This is how I would end Lost.  The characters are actually on an alien spaceship and the story has been playing out in each of their minds as they are unconscious but the beings have been able to watch it on a big screen, just like we have on television.

Hmmm, that sounds like the plot to a certain Star Trek episode.

The most logical ending though is that somehow there will be a massive explosion which in turn re-sets the time space continuum and the show will conclude with the characters waking up aboard Oceanic Flight 815 and the airplane never crashes in the first place.

The most bleak and saddest finale would be that John Locke a.k.a. the sadistic smoke monster kills everybody, gets off the Island and ends the world because he is in fact the devil.

But, if this awesome show ends like most great TV programs do, in a very disappointing way then it will be Hugo "Hurley" Reyes imagining the whole thing while he's locked in a rubber room at that mental hospital he was supposedly at in season 5.  

Hey, that sounds like the St. Elsewhere plot line!  

Oh well, television networks usually lack creativity when it comes to series conclusions so that is what will probably happen, or did happen, depending on when you're reading this.