Official LOST Thread - SPOILERS

The baby becomes the Cloverfield monster.

I suppose that the people like Charlotte and Farady were really there, as they played roles of varying degrees to share in that construct, but not so much as everyone at the church (The same Church Eloise told them how to get back in, btw) in that they didn't leave with them. Faraday and Charlotte continued living in this purgatory until they probabaly had a connection (hinted at? I believe) and left together, or something to that effect.

But that's how most of the Losties remembered Aaron, so I'll let that one go.

And I took the others that weren't in the church but in their amalgamated consciousness as actually them passing by yet not moving on with the ones that mattered most to them. Up for speculation.

So that's not really Aaron? Will they meet him in real heaven (or where ever)

I assume that everyone who didn't end up in the church is really there, but since this isn't their tour bus to Heaven, they never "woke up." After helping spring the Losties, Ana Lucia may have gone to a gym where she spots for some chick, and they both touch the weights at the same time, and she remembers her lesbian love affair from before going to the Island, and then thye go off to THEIR Heaven together. That's the problem with ancillary characters that didn't show up. It makes you wonder what happened with them that was so different from those we DID see.

Aaron enters as a baby, but presumably, gets to grow up. On the other hand, I don't think Jin and Sun ever get to have their baby in heaven. Yeon, in real life, barely knew her mother and never knew her father. I seriously doubt HER heaven would be hanging out with them and their friends.

What bothers me is that the most important thing in Boone's life, for example, was the month he spent on an island with some strangers. Or was it Shannon? And then, the most important thing in HER life was Sayid, and the most important thing in HIS life was the Losties. Like, seriously, it feels like Boone's just tagging along on this one.

I think it's true love, for Shannon and Sayid. Not the island, but each other, and that's how they knew each other, obviously.

^ But Boone and Shannon became better than what they were. They found out who they were. Shannon dropped her Paris Hilton b.s., Boone learned to become his own man and not a tool all the time.

You could take that as their problems were more simple than the rest of the Losties.

Paroxysm wrote:Ben is waiting for Alex and Danielle, I believe.

That's cool with me.

I gave up a respectable career as a neursurgeon to protect a light... from a cloud. Srsly.

Hm... Some IMDb reviewer on the final episode-

"a DREADFUL waste of 6 seasons of my watching time. No answers to important questions. pointless alt story and stupid the way it ended (everyone is dead, WHAT!?) Very disappointed. Why all the drama in the alt universe, if they are dead and just want to meet up then why all of the nonsense in between. I know why....the writers didn't have a clue how the show was going to end. The writers should be really ashamed at how such a wonderful creation has ended in such a horrible way. They never had any idea where this was going and it feels like they only discovered how the show was going to end on the day of filming. A terrible, awful, let down. Goodbye Lost, and good riddance."

ChrisToPhenom wrote:Hm... Some IMDb reviewer on the final episode-

"a DREADFUL waste of 6 seasons of my watching time. No answers to important questions. pointless alt story and stupid the way it ended (everyone is dead, WHAT!?) Very disappointed. Why all the drama in the alt universe, if they are dead and just want to meet up then why all of the nonsense in between. I know why....the writers didn't have a clue how the show was going to end. The writers should be really ashamed at how such a wonderful creation has ended in such a horrible way. They never had any idea where this was going and it feels like they only discovered how the show was going to end on the day of filming. A terrible, awful, let down. Goodbye Lost, and good riddance."

LOL, that is a perfect example of a person that just didnt get it.

^ Exactly.

Sandman wrote:I personally would have loved to have seen Mr. Eko again. and Mike and Walt...it seems all the black characters got the shaft! I was half expecting Eko to be up front in the church with his Jesus Stick!

Adewale supposedly burned his bridges with the producers. That's why we never saw Eko playing Hurley in chess in season 4.

TENIME_art wrote:

Adewale supposedly burned his bridges with the producers. That's why we never saw Eko playing Hurley in chess in season 4.

From Lost to G.I. Joe...good career choice.

^ Burn.

Denim wrote:

ChrisToPhenom wrote:Hm... Some IMDb reviewer on the final episode-

"a DREADFUL waste of 6 seasons of my watching time. No answers to important questions. pointless alt story and stupid the way it ended (everyone is dead, WHAT!?) Very disappointed. Why all the drama in the alt universe, if they are dead and just want to meet up then why all of the nonsense in between. I know why....the writers didn't have a clue how the show was going to end. The writers should be really ashamed at how such a wonderful creation has ended in such a horrible way. They never had any idea where this was going and it feels like they only discovered how the show was going to end on the day of filming. A terrible, awful, let down. Goodbye Lost, and good riddance."

LOL, that is a perfect example of a person that just didnt get it.

I'm not sure I can COMPLETELY disagree with what that person said though. Without any explanation on the cosmology of the afterlife within LOST having purgatory be "Live your entire lives again with the exception of a plane crash unless you happen to remember who you were before" doesn't make any sense.

My views on the afterlife, etc, being what they are I have been working on coming up with an explanation that isn't what I said above.

A divergent timeline collapsing on itself as the inhabitants realize the false nature of the world around them.

The island giving Jack, as he is dying, a view of a world where he wasn't responsible for the lives and deaths of people who became his closest friends, he was even friendly with his ex wife.

It doesn't work as a "True" alternate timeline, because of how it ended, so despite all the hope I had for a crazy super science finale that didn't happen (if we destroy the M'Kraan crystal we can end this AGE OF APOKALYPSE!).

I didn't hate it, and there are only a few unanswered questions that bother me. The more I think about it though the more meh I am about it.

I think the whole series took place within a second, it was between when Jack opened his eye in the very first episode of season 1 and when he closed his eye in the very last episode of season 6. Everything that happened in between was in his mind and took place instantaneously. He died as a result of the crash, his subconscious just filled in a life for him made up of various people he met on the plane and in his life before.

I liked it , I felt it was a touching finale that mostly left questions that really weren't all that important. It would have been nice to find out the answers but it's good to keep people talking.

(._Y_.) wrote:I think the whole series took place within a second, it was between when Jack opened his eye in the very first episode of season 1 and when he closed his eye in the very last episode of season 6. Everything that happened in between was in his mind and took place instantaneously. He died as a result of the crash, his subconscious just filled in a life for him made up of various people he met on the plane and in his life before.

That's kinda what I was thinking.

It seems like there is about a million ways to take the ending of the series, it all depends on how you look at it. I'm sure we'll see books written about it in the coming year or so.

I've fallen into post-lost-depression.

^ I know, right? Next year's gonna be weird with no Lost to look forward to. At least we still have Dexter, says the guy who doesn't have Showtime and has to wait for DVD like a chump.

Seriously, though, I think I'm going to watch a lot less TV now.

I love the ending. IMO they answered all of the questions I had. Those who can't let go of nagging questions have missed the bigger picture of what Lost was about. Faith vs Science was always one of its main themes and it continued to the very end. Remember that Jack said Locke was right all along. I think that is where Jack begins to gain some acceptance. I'm going to watch that last episode a few more times. It is one of those things that every time you see it you find something new.

(._Y_.) wrote:I think the whole series took place within a second, it was between when Jack opened his eye in the very first episode of season 1 and when he closed his eye in the very last episode of season 6. Everything that happened in between was in his mind and took place instantaneously. He died as a result of the crash, his subconscious just filled in a life for him made up of various people he met on the plane and in his life before.

comicgeekelly wrote:

(._Y_.) wrote:I think the whole series took place within a second, it was between when Jack opened his eye in the very first episode of season 1 and when he closed his eye in the very last episode of season 6. Everything that happened in between was in his mind and took place instantaneously. He died as a result of the crash, his subconscious just filled in a life for him made up of various people he met on the plane and in his life before.

That's kinda what I was thinking.

It seems like there is about a million ways to take the ending of the series, it all depends on how you look at it. I'm sure we'll see books written about it in the coming year or so.

How can anybody think this? How can anybody think there's more than one WAY to take the ending.

In the final moments of the show, Christian says "I like having cereal for breakfast." Why is everyone trying to make that mean that Christian was a cannibal who killed and ate his wife?

The Island was real. Everything that happened on the Island happened. Some people were still alive as of the end of the show. The flash sideways was in purgatory. Everything that happened there was the result of characters not being willing to let go. Everyone could be there, whether they were dead or alive to the best of our knowledge, because even if they were alive, they'd die some time.

THEY TOLD US THIS IN PLAIN ENGLISH!!!

"Hi, my name is Jason Kerouac. I write for PoP!"
"I bet his name is actually Gowlon 12 and he's an intergalactic conqueror here to enslave us."

Mnemosis wrote:

(._Y_.) wrote:I think the whole series took place within a second, it was between when Jack opened his eye in the very first episode of season 1 and when he closed his eye in the very last episode of season 6. Everything that happened in between was in his mind and took place instantaneously. He died as a result of the crash, his subconscious just filled in a life for him made up of various people he met on the plane and in his life before.

comicgeekelly wrote:

(._Y_.) wrote:I think the whole series took place within a second, it was between when Jack opened his eye in the very first episode of season 1 and when he closed his eye in the very last episode of season 6. Everything that happened in between was in his mind and took place instantaneously. He died as a result of the crash, his subconscious just filled in a life for him made up of various people he met on the plane and in his life before.

That's kinda what I was thinking.

It seems like there is about a million ways to take the ending of the series, it all depends on how you look at it. I'm sure we'll see books written about it in the coming year or so.

How can anybody think this? How can anybody think there's more than one WAY to take the ending.

In the final moments of the show, Christian says "I like having cereal for breakfast." Why is everyone trying to make that mean that Christian was a cannibal who killed and ate his wife?

The Island was real. Everything that happened on the Island happened. Some people were still alive as of the end of the show. The flash sideways was in purgatory. Everything that happened there was the result of characters not being willing to let go. Everyone could be there, whether they were dead or alive to the best of our knowledge, because even if they were alive, they'd die some time.

THEY TOLD US THIS IN PLAIN ENGLISH!!!

"Hi, my name is Jason Kerouac. I write for PoP!"
"I bet his name is actually Gowlon 12 and he's an intergalactic conqueror here to enslave us."

Until the series creators come out and say "Hey, this is exactly what we meant." I won't be convinced that there is only one way to see the ending. You see it that way; great. A lot of other people see it in another way.I might need to watch the episode again, but to me it never seemed like they flat out explained everything. They gave the viewers what they needed to piece together their own meanings.