{"id":1274,"date":"2010-05-20T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/05\/how-lost-will-end-the-biggest-spoiler-in-tv-history\/"},"modified":"2010-05-20T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T09:40:00","slug":"how-lost-will-end-the-biggest-spoiler-in-tv-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/05\/how-lost-will-end-the-biggest-spoiler-in-tv-history.html","title":{"rendered":"How LOST Will End: The Biggest Spoiler in TV History"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I have received from a reliable source a picture of what I believe really and truly is the final moment of LOST. If you do not like spoilers, do not read further. The picture below is likely to genuinely be the final frame ever of LOST, the real thing, the way the last episode of the series will end. And I am sure some may feel that the information it provides is something they simply do not want to know, as it may detract from the mystery and the enjoyment of not knowing with absolute certainty how it will end.<\/p>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none\"><\/div>\n<p>I am obviously risking a lawsuit by showing you this. But the satisfaction that fans who have doubted Damon and Carlton will get from this makes it worth the risk, since it illustrates that some things about how the series would end were truly decided even before the pilot was completed.<\/p>\n<p>So here it is. If you want to remain completely spoiler free, avert your gaze now!<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_BtqUSG7RCA0\/S_U7fYFKdVI\/AAAAAAAAAo0\/mQWsfhb-Zyc\/s1600\/EndTitle.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_BtqUSG7RCA0\/S_U7fYFKdVI\/AAAAAAAAAo0\/mQWsfhb-Zyc\/s400\/EndTitle.png\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5148644174930936631?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have received from a reliable source a picture of what I believe really and truly is the final moment of LOST. If you do not like spoilers, do not read further. The picture below is likely to genuinely be the final frame ever of LOST, the real thing, the way the last episode of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How LOST Will End: The Biggest Spoiler in TV History<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I have received from a reliable source a picture of what I believe really and truly is the final moment of LOST. 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