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Yes. A season finale which consisted of the Others taking passengers hostage - something they have done before;
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But never with so many main characters.
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With Michael pursuing his own agenda at the expense of his 'friends' - something he has done before;
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Only this time it came to an apparent conclusion.
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with various characters witholding information from each other for no good reason - something they have all done before,
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I think the basis for the series is to be 'secretive' and 'mysterious' - that fits in with it.
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and increasingly unlikely to be in any way realistic behaviour after the things they've gone through together;
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Why? Which of the central characters can honestly say they are friends with each other?
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and to cap it all, the absolute last frame of the film, the cliffhanger itself, rests not on something seeded throughout any of the previous episodes, but on a character only introduced in a flashback in the final episode.
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So the writers chose this way to introduce a new character - nothing wrong with that! And what a way to introduce her!
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It was hardly a big revelation, was it?
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Er, yes it was! We now finally see that someone in the outside world
seems to be looking for them! It's unlikely it will lead to them being found but it puts paid to some of the theories of the show ie that they're all dead, that it's just a dream etc