7 TV Show Endings With Disturbing Implications You Totally Missed

6. Lost - What Happened Before They Died?

Although certainly divisive among fans, Lost's ending is intended to be something of a happy-ish one, with the characters at least finding a sense of peace. And for the most part, ignoring how it's achieved, they do accomplish that.

However, while the characters would all be reunited in the afterlife, it's what comes before that's in question. Since we see them all back together, there's an implication that, although many of them would go on to lead full lives, they never made other connections beyond those with the people from the island.

Obviously the Oceanic 501 crash was a huge moment in their lives, but the finale marks it out as the single most important experience they'd have, and that it's the people they met there and relationships - both friendly and romantic - formed that are all that really mattered to characters such as Sawyer and Kate, while also implying that Christian had a lot of control over their fates too, so what the show is saying is that while they could have had decades to live beyond that moment, they achieved very little of note, met no one and loved nothing enough that it meant more to them than the crash. Which is pretty sad, when you think about it.