One Lost Star Never Even Watched The Finale
During the summer of 2010, fans of the TV series Lost were deeply divided about the show’s final episode. Some thought the more spiritual ending was appropriate, but for many of those hoping for answers, it ruined everything that came before it. But when it comes to one Lost cast member, he had yet to actually watch the series finale all together.
In 2013 interview with the Huffington Post, actor Dominic Monaghan revealed that he hadn’t watched the Lost series finale yet. It isn’t because of the overall fan disdain for the finale; he just blames working on another project.
Dominic Monaghan admitted, “I didn’t see the end, I was working at the time. I was doing a film called ‘I Sell The Dead,’ which was a kind of period-horror movie, and I’m very susceptible, in that sponge-like brain part of me, to taking on board characteristics of friends or certainly characters that I’ve played. And I didn’t want to watch Charlie, because I knew if I watched Charlie I’d be much more like him and the character I played in this film ‘I Sell The Dead’ was nothing like Charlie.”
For what it’s worth, Dominic Monaghan’s Charlie had died earlier in the series in the famous (for then) “Not Penny’s Boat” scene. So he didn’t factor in to the finale season of the show.
But he did appear in the finale, in the flash-sideways timeline. His character is seen performing at a concert with his band, Drive Shaft. He notices Claire in the audience and they share something of an emotional reunion, even regaining some of their memories of the island.
Considering the Lost series finale was (at the time) almost three years prior, Dominic Monaghan was asked if he ever planned to watch the finale. He dodged the question and saif that watching the show again would be too time consuming. “No, because then I’d have to watch it all again — I’d have to go all the way back to season 1 and just kill myself watching it all again.”
The idea of dismissing an entire TV series because of one episode seems silly, but Lost had problems with its narrative long before the series finale. One episode wasn’t going to fix anything.
Let’s just be glad a TV series like Lost existed and was as popular as it was back in 2010. Looking back at the series as a whole, it’s pretty amazing that the writers pulled anything off, let alone six seasons of quality TV.
And even though he hadn’t watched the finale yet, Dominic Monaghan still defend the controversial ending, saying, “You can’t please all the people all the time.”
