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Lost TV show (Season 6) -- includes spoilers on show nights

Zim is intent on ignoring everything that was revealed in this episode, so theres no point in trying to explain anything.

HitchHykr said:
The "sideways flash" was more like a flash forward by hundreds of years.
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Kind of, but not really, because Christian said there is no "now" where they were. Its just where everyone met when they died, and its outside of the laws of time for the living universe. Ben didnt go in because he wasnt ready to "let go" (probably waiting for Alex to 'remember' and go to the church), but everyone else found each other, which is what was holding them back from "moving on" to the afterlife the whole time they were in LA for the "sideways" flash.
 
NoSmokingBandit said:
Zim is intent on ignoring everything that was revealed in this episode, so theres no point in trying to explain anything.


Kind of, but not really, because Christian said there is no "now" where they were. Its just where everyone met when they died, and its outside of the laws of time for the living universe. Ben didnt go in because he wasnt ready to "let go" (probably waiting for Alex to 'remember' and go to the church), but everyone else found each other, which is what was holding them back from "moving on" to the afterlife the whole time they were in LA for the "sideways" flash.
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Sure, but hundreds of years must have passed for Hurley and Ben to be dead too.
 
zimv20 said:
actually, now that i thought about it a bit, i think the whole thing was simply Jack's hallucination. assuming that he did die in the spot where he landed in the pilot.

he briefly survived the crash, everyone else was already dead.

and i'm serious about that piece of music sucking.
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Now THAT would be an amazing ending!! But he wasn't wearing the suit :-/
 
HitchHykr said:
Sure, but hundreds of years must have passed for Hurley and Ben to be dead too.
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Yes, but the post-death events in LA dont really take place in a "time" it just kind of exists in its own completely separate universe, and is the only thing does does exist separately. Everyone showed up there at the same time, and i dont think Jack's soul or whatever woul djust be haning out or in stasis until the rest showed up. So it kind of does exist only after the last person of the group died, but it also existed as soon as the first person (Boon?) in the group died.

It exists at all moments in time, yet at no moment at all.
 
Well, if the island was real, that leaves us with a helluva lot of issues. They coulda done this story in one season. The atomic bomb, the statue, women not being able to have babies on the island, the whole electromagnetism thing, Walt's powers, Widmore, the "tailies", the time travel, and a lot of other stuff now just feel like filler.

This really isn't what I expected. For six years, whenever a character asked a question about what was going on, one of two things happened: he or she got some nebulous metaphysical bull**** response, or they got interrupted. That by itself was a joke. You could've made a drinking game out of that. But I'd have been willing to forgive that for a more satisfying conclusion.

I think emotionally it was a great ending. As someone else said, the "re-connecting" scenes were very dramatic. But as a cohesive storyline, it's even worse than the ending of The X Files. Like others, I took Christian's explanation to mean everyone died in the crash, so while the idea of "moving on" makes sense to me, what happened on the island doesn't.
 
Need a religious expert here, when jack walks in the church we have 6 symbols (like the oceanic 6) we have a wheel which is buddhist, a cross, an islamic cresent, a ying yang, and the star of david. I can't figure out what the symbol that looks like 3 pi with a dot on top means.
 
I'm not going to go into a detailed review of the last episode (but if you must know, I give it a 4/5), but I will say this: I think when Hurley spoke to Ben at the end saying "You were a good Number 2" and he responds "You were a great Number 1", I think that goes to prove that the sideways was in the future when everyone had eventually died (if you want to think in linear timelines) and that everything on the island actually did happen.

I think the sideways can best be viewed as Purgatory.

P-Worm
 
Zombie Acorn said:
Need a religious expert here, when jack walks in the church we have 6 symbols (like the oceanic 6) we have a wheel which is buddhist, a cross, an islamic cresent, a ying yang, and the star of david. I can't figure out what the symbol that looks like 3 pi with a dot on top means.
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I think you're think of an "Aum." (pronounced Ohm) It's Hindu I believe.

P-Worm

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Incredible. Beautiful. Stunning...

Now that was truly a great way to end this. I really did not think they could live up to everything they built up over the years. But this was just amazing.

It's all about the people, their relationships, what they meant to each other, how much they loved each other and depended on each other.

I think the other stuff is left ambiguous because it isn't really that important.

The sideways life makes perfect sense now. They were all reconnecting after each had lived his/her full life.

My guess is that the light is kind of the source of the spark that gives us all souls. It is, e.g. Prometheus' fire, Original Sin. What gives us the capacity to love, hate, desire, forgive. It needs to be protected because without it everything that's really important about us can't happen. We saw what happened when a negative person got too much of it.
 
I really didn't like that.

I wasn't expecting all, or many, answers. But maybe at least answer 1 or 2 things. Not only did they not mention anything, the finale was completely based on the last few episodes of Season 6 and really didn't incorporate anything from the previous 5 seasons.

We knew from like 5 episodes ago that they would try to unite in alternative universe. And we knew from like 5 episodes ago they would try to get on the plane and leave the island. It was just extremely predictable. =\

It was cool, but too predictable for LOST.
 
iSee said:
Incredible. Beautiful. Stunning...

Now that was truly a great way to end this. I really did not think they could live up to everything they built up over the years. But this was just amazing.

It's all about the people, their relationships, what they meant to each other, how much they loved each other and depended on each other.

I think the other stuff is left ambiguous because it isn't really that important.

The sideways life makes perfect sense now. They were all reconnecting after each had lived his/her full life.

My guess is that the light is kind of the source of the spark that gives us all souls. It is, e.g. Prometheus' fire, Original Sin. What gives us the capacity to love, hate, desire, forgive. It needs to be protected because without it everything that's really important about us can't happen. We saw what happened when a negative person got too much of it.
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yeah well said ...........
 
From what I got, everybody died, there is an afterlife, and ironically Jack positions himself like in the intro to the pilot episode in 2004 at the last minutes of the final, that's historical ocurrence at it's best! nice ending:)
 
NathanCH said:
I really didn't like that.

I wasn't expecting all, or many, answers. But maybe at least answer 1 or 2 things. Not only did they not mention anything, the finale was completely based on the last few episodes of Season 6 and really didn't incorporate anything from the previous 5 seasons.

We knew from like 5 episodes ago that they would try to unite in alternative universe. And we knew from like 5 episodes ago they would try to get on the plane and leave the island. It was just extremely predictable. =\

It was cool, but too predictable for LOST.
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I think that was kind of the point. Perhaps I am just seeing what I want to see, but I think the overarching theme was that, no matter the twists and turns life takes, no matter the mysteries that go unsolved or the battle between good and evil that we fight, in the end what really matterS are the people who mean the most to us. That in the end what is important isn't all that big of a mystery: it's people, and more importantly the people we love and those who impact our lives the most.
 
As much as it pissed me off not having any answers, in retrospect, the way it ended was just about the only way it could have ended.:eek:
 
I'm only on the start of season 3 and I watched part of the finale and had NO idea WTH is going on. And there was no way I was going to catch up in time for this.
 
I nearly cried. I don't know what the hell just happened, but I'm glad it did. I thoroughly enjoyed the ride. Love it or hate it, there's nothing quite like Lost.

BTW, the light at the center of the island is Steve's Reality Distortion Field.
 
Antares said:
Now I get it! Brilliant.

There are still unanswered questions, though. Like what that light actually is. Who built the structure inside the cave? What did that stone do? Why wasn't Michael and Walt in this episode?
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That's a big one.
 
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