Lost Fan Simon Pegg 'Loved' the Show But Has at Least One Idea to Fix Its Ending

Shaun of the Dead prima Simon Pegg has said helium "loved" ABC's 2000s TV amusement Lost, but he's got astatine slightest 1 thought that helium thinks would hole its ending.

The Mission: Impossible and Star Trek histrion gave his thoughts connected the classical – and arguable – bid during an quality connected the food-focused podcast, Dish. Toward the extremity of the episode, the unit had a question for Pegg: "If you could rewrite the extremity of a movie oregon TV series, what would you choose, and however would you rewrite it?"

Judging by his speedy response, he's enactment a batch of thought into Lost and its divisive ending.

Simon Pegg. Photo by John Nacion/Variety via Getty Images.

Warning! Spoilers for Lost follow.

"I would rewrite the extremity of Lost, and I'll archer you why," helium replied. "I loved Lost. In fact, erstwhile (director and enforcement producer) J.J. Abrams called maine astir (Mission: Impossible 3), helium had conscionable finished the archetypal play of Lost, and helium sent maine the full play connected idiosyncratic DVDs, earlier it was connected TV, to ticker it, to spot his stuff, to cheque him retired arsenic a director.

"But astatine the extremity of it, it just… spoiler alert if you haven't seen Lost, but, you know, they were dormant each along. I was like, 'But that's what everyone thought successful the archetypal series?'"

Lost premiered successful 2004 and was rapidly hailed arsenic 1 of the all-time large TV shows earlier its progressively analyzable last seasons started to gully disapproval from fans. Time travel, resurrected characters, and tattoo explanations had galore tuning retired arsenic Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Locke, and the remainder of the marooned gang's communicative came to an end, but fewer moments caused a disturbance rather similar its ending.

Flash-sideways plotlines and a credits series showing abandoned level wreckage had galore viewers convinced that each quality was really dormant the full time. Despite its prominence arsenic an accepted explanation, there's rather a spot of grounds to backmost up that this is not the case.

Showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse person outright denied the "they were dormant the full time" mentation ever since the finale premiered successful 2010. Dialogue wrong Lost itself besides backs up the thought that the passengers of Oceanic 815 truly did past that archetypal level clang (and the 2nd one, too).

Losties person spent the 16 years warring backmost against this misconception. Unfortunately, it doesn't dependable similar Pegg got the memo.

"What they started to bash toward the extremity was they had this weird happening wherever they'd flash sideways," helium continued. "They'd ever flash backmost to the characters successful the existent world, disconnected the island, and you'd larn astir them arsenic people, and that would bespeak however they were connected the island. But then, they did this happening wherever they started flashing sideways into an alternate universe.

Pegg past shared his thought to hole Lost's ending: "I thought it would person been truly bully if, successful bid to get disconnected the island, they had to dice connected the island, and past they would beryllium transported to the alternate universe. So, there'd beryllium this astonishing melodramatic irony, due to the fact that they'd beryllium desperately trying to survive, but we'd cognize that you've got to dice to marque it.

"And then, yet you'd extremity up with Jack, you know, Mattew Fox, and helium would beryllium warring for survival, but past he'd die. Then, they'd each beryllium successful this alternate beingness successful antithetic roles. I conscionable felt similar determination was thing absorbing there. That's the atrocious mentation of that idea, but instead, it was conscionable like, 'Meh, dormant each along.'

"I was like, 'This was 7 years of my life, and it's that?!'"

Comments connected the video have, of course, already filled with those who privation Pegg believed that they weren't dormant the full time. Others who inactive travel the theory, however, rather similar his idea.

IGN gave Lost Season 6 a 9/10 reappraisal erstwhile it arrived backmost successful 2010. For more, you tin spot Michael histrion Harold Perrineau spill the beans astir the co-star who inactive won't speech to him. You tin besides cheque retired our database of the 8 astir divisive bid finales successful history.

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