Jimmy Gilmore – Writer – Director

What I found to be a rather dis­ap­point­ing finale to ABC’s Lost is per­fect time for a lit­tle sen­ti­ment analy­sis fun using the social media mon­i­tor­ing tool Social Radar. What do I expect to see after the end a show that was much loved show?

I’m expect­ing to see a real dive in some pretty pos­i­tive sen­ti­ment over­all. Maybe not a whole­sale hate fest but some def­i­nite dis­ap­point­ment. So what does a quick analy­sis tell us?

First there are a lot of pos­i­tive things being said about Lost in gen­eral. Not sur­pris­ing. But there are still more peo­ple “dis­ap­pointed” than “sat­is­fied.” Seems I’m not alone but not every­one agrees with me either.

So now lets look at the con­tent of posts. Here the vast major­ity of ref­er­ences to “Lost” have pos­i­tive sen­ti­ment. That makes it appear that most peo­ple have some pretty good things to say about Lost over our allot­ted time period of  30 days.  Maybe I’m wrong. Peo­ple may have been pretty happy about the way the show was ending.

But then when we look the actual posts about Lost things start to get a lit­tle more mixed. So maybe I’m on to some­thing — peo­ple aren’t entirely happy with the way the show is wind­ing down.

OK. So now for the true test. How has the sen­ti­ment changed day to day. This shows a huge spike in neg­a­tiv­ity on the day the sec­ond to last show aired and then a more mixed but also more pos­i­tive take on the very last show.

This tells us there are more peo­ple happy about the end­ing of the show than feel­ing let down, like me. So way to go Lost writ­ers, you made most of blo­gosh­pere happy, just not me.