'Lost' finale broadcast live in eight countries, but Australians outraged

“5:30 here in Italy, and I'm ready for #lost,” one person wrote on his Twitter wall.

“I'm from Ireland an it's 5:50am. Up watching Lost,” LeighanS posted on Twitter, explaining that she’d only had three hours of sleep and would need to run to school following the episode.

International reviews were upbeat. “The final episode, all two and a quarter hours of it, for which, being in Britain, I had to get up at five o’clock this morning, was terrifically exciting,” The Daily Telegraph columnist Michael Deacon wrote, though he added that the ending was “not entirely logical.”

Many fans expressed sadness that the show has ended. But 'Lost' ratings have dropped since the show began in 2004. Season One ranked 15 on television and averaged 15.69 million viewers per episode, according to statistics released by ABC. This held steady until Season Four, when viewers dropped to 13.4 million, and then to 11.05 million in Season Five.

ABC provides the 'Lost' finale for free on its website only in the United States, although numerous web pages have sprung up to help international web users access the episode via proxy servers. And iTunes offers the final season for a price.

One man in Italy apparently missed the television broadcast and was frantic to download it from the Internet.

“Nobody ruin LOST for me! I am in #Italy and impatiently waiting for it to download!”

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