Can't wait to hear YOUR thoughts. Take your time, its always worth it!!

"I discovered as I was writing that the Part I/Part II structure wasn't working for me at all, and that concepts, call-backs and general ramblings I'd brought up at the beginning of the piece were ending up severed by the division."

Wow. How utterly meta when you look at the context of what you are addressing.

Shit makes no sense so i have to go back and retcon it all? Are you Cuse or Lindelof?

I'm really looking forward to the article, Morse. Your thoughts on Lost has been greatly appreciated.

Can't wait to read it. And Tue is a day I need activities for now.(haha) I'd also like to here your thoughts on the 14min of extra footage only being on the complete set which I think is a slap in the face to the fans.

Thanks Morse!

Was hoping to read it to get through these last hours before Mem Day, but I can wait.

Found this guy's take interesting, if a bit negative – http://bit.ly/apBqvF

I was really hoping this would be ready today, but I can wait. These columns are fantastic.

Take your time, I too love reading your recap/reviews, they are always extremely insightful. Please avoid the knee-jerk wankery of this site's owner…

Thanks for letting us know. I've been checking CHUD every few hours for the last few days searching for your column. Anticipating it muchly.

Also, I had found season 5 and 6 slightly lacking what made Lost, Lost for me. With the help of your spectacular writing and fanboyishness, you got me greatly invested again, and for that, thank you!

Can't wait to read this. I don't think I can make my mind up concerning the finale until I can incorporate your incredibly well thought out and well researched interpretation.

Cool – it'll give me something to do when I'm back at work Tuesday after the 3-day weekend. And going by previous installments, it should take me most of the work-day to read.

Worth the wait. So we wait. Cheers

This column matches my anticipation for the finale, and I'm positive that it will be just as complex and thought-provoking.

I know it will be worth the wait — can't wait to "geek out" with you 🙂

Take whatever time you deem necessary. I'll read it when you're ready.

#4, I agree wholeheartdly. Morse, it's been great having you do these write ups. I am going to have to go back and re-read them all; it's a shame that you only had season 6 to write them, while the show was still on (I know you wrote them for the previous seasons), it would have been interesting to see what your thoughts were at the time of the original air dates.

Let me guess Morse, you loved it.

I just wanted to say how much I have enjoyed reading your columns and am really, really looking forward to reading your thoughts regarding the finale.

I would just like to add, that I thought the finale was beautiful, (I live in Scotland and got up at 5.am to watch 'The End' and it has affected me ever since…) I have been trawling the internet everyday since the series finished and there is a lot of very negative feeling and confusion towards Lost's conclusion, although the tacked on and now infamous ABC plane wreckage scene didn't help, it transpired that the scene has absolutely NOTHING to do with the series, which was, honestly, my initial thought anyway. I can see why many people were disappointed, as there an expectation for the finale which was, in my opinion, too high. I think we were all secretly waiting for a 'Planet of the Apes' mind altering revelation that never really came. However, the sideways 'reveal' and that final scene with Jack gave me that 'Planet of the Apes' moment but instead it was emotional and not intellectual. I have watched the finale three times now and I have had a different experience each time. What I love most of all is that the Island is still as mysterious as it was when we first landed there and yes, I firmly believe that they crashed on the Island and everything that happended, happened; we were watching the end of Lost at the very beginning of the final season. Lost was a flight of visual poetry, "not a mathematical equation" it truly was a journey and not a destination, it will (hopefully) remain sheathed in mystery and at last, the writers have left us with something that we can reflect upon with our own imaginations.

Bound to be miles better than Devin's recaps. I believe Morse actually understands the show for one.

Looking forward to it. Your reviews have been invaluable in my enjoyment of the show. If the producers are smart, they would include your posts as part of the upcoming DVD's bonus features.

I feel silly asking, but what will you watch now? A sick pun, but I feel a little …lost. -Not just for the show, but I have so looked forward to your thoughts, that (in a totally NOT creepy way) I want to follow you to your next posts. What will you do next?

Looking forward to your thoughts on the finale.

Wow, everyone that has posted thus far is so patient and understanding about the delay. Screw that noise… I WANT IT AND I WANT IT RIGHT NOW! Seriously though, my LOST experience is incomplete without it.

You should be writting LOST. I mean, we can just pretend season 6 never happened and you do it all over again. I'll be up for that.

Morse, looking forward to your column on The End. I just finally got atound to watching it on Saturday, so I've basically avoided all other recaps and expressions of thought on the finale (figured they'd be negative, though.) I actually found the finale satisfying and am curious to read what you picked up on that I missed and if the things that we liked about it were at all similar.
@tmr (#20) – he's compiling a book of all his Lost writings, etc. So you've got that for a start. I'd read his recaps of just about anything, but honstly there are few shows on right now that are as complex and derserving enough of such analysis as Lost was. Maybe Fringe, but I say that based on seeing only two episodes.

Lets face it Morse you are a text book Lost fanboy, every episode is a "10/10" bar a few exclusive Kate episodes which all Lost fans hate.

You loved the ending despite the fact that it was a slap in the face to any other casual fan of Lost.

Only women loved the ending as it fed into their obsessive need for "feelings" and "emotions" but for the rest of us who considered Lost more than some sappy tv show it was a huge dissapointment.

Take your time to write your fanboy love letter, no doubt thats whats coming, whats funny is how long it takes for you to write it,i dont blame that on you actually,i blame it on the show you will desperatly try to defend.

@anon#24:
I consider myself to be a casual LOST fan. Meaning I've seen every episode, which I'm sure you have as well, but I'm not a "fanboy" in the sense that I spend flying around the internet looking for spoilers, recaps, etc. I'm only here because a friend told me about it. But I've never been part of the "Lost Community." Also, I'm not a "woman". I'm a guy who hates chick-flicks, I hated "the notebook", loved "Kick-Ass" and "Iron Man 2."

That said, I LOVED the finale. Awesome finish, a natural end for the show. Only morons like you couldn't comprehend that the island story finished and the sideways-story was a nice epilogue to it all.

Did my wife cry during the finale? Yes.

Did I? No.

But we both loved it.

Get a grip, tard.

Morse, give it a rest. The time it's taking for you to come out with an article about the finale shows even you are having a hard time making any sense of it.

Where is it!? I can't wait much longer. PJ

Wow. You guys don't have to hate on Morse. He is an outrageously talented guy who finds the subtext of the show. I won't deny that he generally sees the positives about Lost, but he gives viewers and readers such a deeper, more intellectual experience that we wouldn't have gotten otherwise. If you're not interested in the connections to literature and philosophical tie-ins to the show, then don't read his columns. Go read something more shallow, or better yet watch something on tv. No need to hate, to each their own.

Morse, keep on keepin' on. You're awesome.

So sorry for the delay, everyone. Tuesday involved my being slammed by work, and that resulted in the further delay of the column. It's been submitted and should be up shortly. My sincere thanks for your patience, for your kind words, and for your readership.

First. Mister Morse, fret ye not. As ever the wait for your waxings will be a million times worth it.

Second. Predictably, I lapped it up and barely suppressed the blubbing. I found it a far more satisfying finale than I’d ever dared imagine and, for me, a finale certainly at one and, dare I say it, at peace and of a piece with the series as an entity.

Perhaps spiritual is the word I’m really floundering for.

That said, I really do mean it when I say I can understand all the plot hole dissatisfaction felt by many. I do see why from their perspective the thing as an entity and the finale itself may have failed perhaps they might even say by quite a margin to deliver in the final analysis the goods it had appeared initially to promise the likes of him. I also see why some folk may have felt some of the action from the finale felt a bit naff.

So why then the huge disparity of reaction in how the likes of myself receive what I perceive as the unique splendour of Lost and how "others" receive it?

Well, apart from the obvious different strokes aspect which really does cover a multitude of sins I’d just like to home in on one particular thing some have referred to which was the fact that the writers could have written an infinitely finer piece of character based relationship drama if they hadn’t cluttered it with the sci fi/hocus pocus/religious/mythology stuff that became Lost’s signature.

Now perhaps the writers may well have been capable of pulling off such a feat. Perhaps not.

However, what I am pretty sure of is that whatever they would have written would not have worked in anything like the same way for those of us who were to become captivated by Lost’s spell. The fact is for the likes of myself there was something magical about Lost that is certainly hard to define yet incontrovertibly there nonetheless.

Be it the island setting, the presentation, the sprawling outrageous nonsense of a storyline that kept bursting at the seams with false trails, the philosophies both overt and concealed, the characters, the cute analogies. Be it the promise – if not the ultimate delivery – of enthralling mystery. I’m not sure.

Whatever it was, however, sucked in the likes of myself and never let us go. Warts and all we lapped it up. And let’s face it we’re talking here of hardened fans of other series that we all concur as constituting television’s great achievements.

For the likes of myself, however, none, despite their greatness, had that indefinable magic ingredient which Lost provided. Never have I ever enjoyed so much a weekly dose of television entertainment. Never before have I invested so intensely with TV characters as the Losties. And, I daresay – though hopefully I’m wrong speaking as the positive thinker I like to think I’ve always been and always will be – never am I likely to again.

The upshot, for myself at least, was that watching last night really was like the passing of an old friend. And I don’t say that lightly. Lost moved me like precious few things have ever done. And for that I bow with great respect to the fine folks who created it. You have tapped deep emotions and enriched the lives of those with whom you connected.

Third. Just a little sideways observation relating which I've not come across anywhere else – though I doubt very much whether it will have escaped your goodself.

When she was in the shaft with her MIB stepson she noticed the wheel and asked 'What is that?'

Now the Latin dialogue implies that the real mother was from possibly 500BC whilst the writers possible implication from the step mother's ignorance of the wheel is that she came from a pre-wheel era.

It seems the wheel first emerged in Mesopotamia around 8000BC. So it could be she was pretty pissed off with her tour of duty after a possible minimum of 7500 years.

Waiting for your post is like waiting for all the answers to lost. you said you would post Tuesday, here it is Wednesday. you do know the series ended already then get the post put up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1