Finished my second watch since 2010 this past week. Cried like a baby at the end and I am not ashamed. When everyone started remembering... ugh I was just balling lol what a great show I think people have a hard time for some reason believing that everything that happened on the island, actually happened. I can’t stand when people think they were dead the whole time. That makes no sense!
I finished the last episode today and it was my first time watching Lost... It was literally a roller coaster of emotions And when they remembered i cried badly too :‘( I loved this series !!
yes i almost forgot about my current life during that journey of 6 seasons. i felt like i need to erase my memory and watch it again at the end. i really needed to be with them forever
Also, the purpose of the flash sideways was to show what was the survivor's purpose of being brought to the island. They were brought there to destroy the smoke monster so that the monster would not get off island and send everyone to hell. (Refer to Hugo's comment at the end of 6x9.) They were to protect the light, which is the gateway to other lives and heaven. ( Refer to Desmond and Jack conversation on 6x17.)
Christian said it himself 'time has no meaning here' or something to that effect. So whenever they died in the past present or future, they wake up in this 'reality' living the lives they would have had the plane not crashed. Micheal became a whisper, and Walt probably STILL is watching over the island with Vincent. Which is why they arent there.
“There is no now, here. This was a place that you all made together so that you could find one another. The most important part of your life was the time that you spent with these people:”
I don’t think Walt ever went back. I don’t think Hurley would have caused Walt to return or at least I hope not. Walt was in school living a normal life... normal as possible. And yeah that actor grew up so quick, even his acting was night and day once he was older. And Michael... ugh. He doesn’t deserve to be in the church I’m kinda glad he wasn’t there TBH
The ending is clearly explained in the show itself by Jack's father.... Everything is real...all are dead but at different times.. living with these people is important part of your life they needed you and you needed them that's why they're all here.
Well, for me are they dead the whole time or hot, it does not matter, and like u said christian spells it out,, what matter and what explain which still i did not understand, if their plane really crashed (as he said it everything was real) then why the hell in the end the plan did not crashed and land it safely to L.A and how dazmond the hatch guy was in the plan !!! and the folks dont know each other !!! what the hell is going on !!!
In the Flash Sideways, they are dead. They cannot remember each other until they are ready to move on. Desmond is on the plane because the Flash Sideways shows alternates to sets of events. For example Anthony Cooper is not a bad guy and it was Locke who made a mistake and got Cooper into a wheelchair. Similarly Sawyer says he had to make a choice between being a criminal or a cop and chose cop. In the normal timeline, he obviously chose criminal. Basically the Flash Sideways brings everyone who died together... They died at different times, but ended up there together at the same time. Because as Christian says, they now exist beyond time. For example, Boone died in Season 1 and Jack died in Season 6, but they reach this alternate reality at the same time. They continue to live in this alternate reality until they're ready to move on, which happens when they remember their past connections. The church door seems to be a point of no return, so once in, you commit to move on. Some people can't move on. Micheal says he's trapped on the island because of guilt of what he did. These are the voices which used to be heard. Ben choose not to enter the church, likely because Alex doesn't remember him, meaning she's not ready to move on. Hope this makes sense now.
If the final episode is showing a time where everybody’s dead, where were the dead ones all this time? Not everybody died at the same time. Why were there (almost) only people that were on the island and no family members that are also dead? Why did they not remeber each other at first? What was Jacob, how did he get his ‘powers’ and what were his reasons for bringing people to the island?
I love this video. This is what I’m constantly having to explain to people all the time!! Especially when I tell them this is will always be my number 1 favorite series ... although 12 monkeys is super close in that regard. 12 monkeys has a more well written from the beginning type of ending, all mapped out, which I think Lost could have benefitted from that type of attention to detail, but STILL, has such a special place in my heart, I still rewatch the series, and that finale omg. I freaking LOVE it so much!! People who spread the purgatory lies prevent others from deciding to give it a watch. They think it’s been spoiled for them cuz they “all died in the end”. Like surprise bozos! EVERYONE ON EARTH DIES at the end of their lives. I love the way you explained this !!! Much love!!!
Well said! Very clear and concise explanation. In essence, the "flash sideways" IS a flash forward - just a flash WAY forward. :-) It's funny, when I watched the finale live, I - like many - didn't care for the show's ending and resolution. But over time, I came to truly appreciate and even love the ending. It even became my favorite episode, and I learned to play the final scene's "Moving On" theme on the keyboard. LOST will forever be my favorite show. (And John Locke, my favorite character.)
Good video dude! I think you explained the ending really well. I agree that it's very simple. I think a lot of people either overthink the ending, or didn't pay attention throughout the series. It's definitely a show that requires your full attention, but if you can give it that, the finale is a great send off.
Well said. I've been hearing about the potential for a LOST "reboot" (or, more accurately, "rejuvenation") lately. Damon Lindelof has stated that he wouldn't be a part of it but has no problem with a reboot. There have even been some stories floating around. One of them that I read online talked about a sort of "prequel" in which a bunch of people find themselves stranded on the island. The eclectic set of characters quickly find one another. By the end of the first episode (I think), viewers would realize that the people are all from different time periods when the island had jumped through time (but was no longer jumping...perhaps after the creation of the underground wheel). The new series would explore the deeper mysteries of the island that were ignored by the original series. In addition, one of the characters would be a young girl (with parents) from mid-21st century Canada who would grow up and end up being the "mother" of Jacob and the Man in Black. Apparently, there was an island caretaker at that time too. There were also inhabitants of the island already there. The origins of the Smoke Monster would be explained -- how the Smoke Monster is actually an evil entity banished to the island. It can only take the human form of dead people. When this happens, it assumes the form but also much of the memories are merged with it in its new form. In other words, the "Man in Black" was dead and the Monster assumed his form. It wasn't the Man in Black so much who wanted to leave the island (although those memories are there) but the Monster who wanted to leave in order to wreak something sinister and evil (even apocalyptic). I hope that this plot is partially true. In fact, I think that this is the only type of story that could actually work within the existing LOST universe/story. I've even read that the new show would explain why the mother killed people who landed on the island.
Chris M omg, I sincerely hope something like this happens! Also, LOST is based deep in mythology especially Norse Mythology, however I like that they used Egyptian hieroglyphs to express the mythology in a more mainstream and recognizable fashion
They already explained how the smoke monster was created in season 6. Jacob made him that way when he tossed the MIB into the heart of the island and was reborn as the smoke monster.
I can't imagine how a reboot could ever happen. The whole mystery of what the island is and what's happening to the characters is already revealed. We already know about flash forwards and about the "flash sideways". The show can't work if the audience knows everything already.
Great explanation and this was exactly what I thought happened. Although what was disappointing was the audience not knowing how they lived their lives after the island. In the last episode when Kate and Jack profess their love for each other, Kate leaves the island. Jack dies at the end but we don't know what happened to Kate in the real world,whether she married someone else or ended up with Sawyer. We know they eventually would of died but not how they lived or for how long. And in the flash sideways,all of a sudden Jack and Kate are reunited. What if she married in the real world?
Before that scene of Jack with his father and the way everyone remembered eachother I actually thought that maybe the explosion in 1977 created another parallel universe where the plane never crushed
I think that's what they wanted the audience to think for that entire season before revealing that it wouldn't even matter if these people lived completely different lives with different events. In the end, they would still need to move on from the same baggage inherent to their individual destinies. But love and faith are still there to help them move forward.
The thing that annoys me is that people only go on about the flashsideways and judge everything on whether or not they enjoyed that revelation. Nevermind everything else. I really wish there was no flashsideways, just so people would stop going on about it and discuss the actual plot itself.
It's exactly my issue. All conversations are about the purgatory, flash sideways or other nonsense that show introduced in the last seasons but nobody talks about the actual plot, loose ends (hyrogen bomb? numbers?) and before all that, what was the point of the whole purgatory bullshit
@@Victorius The Hydrogen bomb was explained, though. - Military brought the bomb to the Island initially in the 50s. - Daniel Faraday tells the Others to bury it. - In the 1970s, the core of the Hydrogen Bomb is detonated near the swan station, causes "The Incident". (Unstable energy pocket that must be rendered inert every 108 minutes.)
The Twist at the end of season 6 was it a twist, it was a beautiful send off. Thanks for making the video. It's baffling that people still misunderstand the ending
I just finished the show,right now and I totally agree with you, there were some other mystery that they failed to explain but the ending you got it right.
Yeah, they were all united and content in that very final scene. "I have made death a messenger of joy to thee. Wherefore dost thou grieve?" ~ Baha'u'llah, Baha'i Faith
That's great - too bad that season 2, episode 18 presents the possibility (that cannot be refuted) that the entirety of Lost occurs in the mind of Hurley, who has been in a coma in Santa Rosa since long before the plane crash - the plane never crashed, man - it's all in your head, man. You're brain blew a gasket and you've been stuck in your own private Idaho, inside Santa Rosa. After all, the episode ends with a flashback to Hurley talking to "Dave" in the asylum, while Libby (also in the asylum) rocks in the background and SHE is the one who convinces Hurley (and us) that if Hurley jumps from the cliff, he would die in reality as opposed to waking up in Santa Rosa to the realization that "NONE OF IT'S REAL, MAN".
you are absolutely right sir, thats how i interpreted it too but i have one more question...did the bomb they threw into the hatch in Season 5s finale actually do something? I sent them somehow back in the present, but i always thought that THIS change in the past also caused the "parallel" dimension and allowed them to reunite with everyone in the "afterlife". Or didnt the bomb have anything to do with the side dimension?
great question, I'll just share my point of views 1. the bomb they threw in the hatch did go off after Juliet hitting it with a rock repeatedly and it was the incident that was mentioned in the show that happened in the year 1977 and before dying, Juliet said it worked because she believed that she stopped the incident by causing the bomb to explode. 2. the bomb didn't go off and they traveled through time while Juliet is hitting the bomb with the rock repeatedly and Juliet believed that the bomb exploded right before the white flash appeared and brought them back to 2007. now to the important thing is they already mentioned that no matter what we do we can't change the past, whatever happened, happened. the only thing that bomb did was confuse Juliet to make her believe that they changed the past but in reality, that's what happened from the beginning and that was the incident they were talking about on the show the bomb did what it was supposed to do, most of the people thought that the incident was releasing electromagnetic energy at the Swan site or the bomb blast caused by jack and the group but in reality the incident was both the things they mentioned, first there will be a leakage in pocket of energy and then the bomb blast. this is just my point of view though, the bomb might not have set off or maybe it did but whatever happened is what it was supposed to happen in 1977
@@chaitanyachaitu2020 sounds plausible, this "parallel dimension", their afterlife would have happened no matter what. It probably had nothing to do with the bomb. And whatever the bomb had an effect doesnt really matter, maybe it was the incident, maybe it wasnt. I think it simply sent them back to the future somehow, because of uuuh the island lol I think Juliet believed it worked is because she was dying at that moment, maybe she "jumped" back and forth from the afterlife to the real life, and so she believed she saw their alternative life.
@@pepcool110 I agree with most of your argument, what happened in 1977 at the swan hatch was supposed to happen, the electromagnetic energy did leaked and they threw the bomb in the hatch too and this is what happened in 1977 and that is what supposed to happen too, that is the past and no matter what we do, we can't change it as per the show but Christian Shepard actually mentioned that they created a place where everyone from the island could meet like a sanctuary or something in afterlife and it is highly unlikely for Juliet to travel to afterlife and come back from the dead and remember it, Juliet words might not mean anything as the show we're talking about is "lost" and they obviously left out many things unanswered and mysterious LoL
@Pralay Aryan I have a feeling that you'll just share another ridiculous theory so I'll just share the link here czcams.com/video/B5chCMRsEVo/video.html Watch it from 6:20, Damon lindelof clearly answers it to the interviewer.
The bomb did go off And did what entering the numbers dose But stopped it fo a few years time enough for dharma to set up the numbers Which is a small nuclear explosion every 208 minutes
Finally I found a person rreally understood the show , because some people thought all died in the season 5 but the answer is no , they still alive in season 6 when all in the island not the sideways timing , so when jack died in the end of the show , he imagine all the sideways .
End of season 5 explosion just sent them all back to the correct time line on the island. The sideways is limbo, or purgatory. A whole season of limbo, while the real events are still happening on the island.
So I rewatched season 4-6 after like 8 years and even though it has been my favorite show this whole time I realized I was wrong and they weren’t dead the whole time (simply because I was basically a kid when I watched it and I didn’t really think what was going on I was just enjoying the view and mysterious authenticity😂) and then I found this video confirming it so thank you brotha😂🙏🏻
I think the writers want to say there’s an after life (part of it) when people lives what they wanted to live in their first life , like a second chance , before going whether to heaven or hell according to their actions.
Ok made more sense after explanation but there are just a few questions running through my head for a long time 1)why was Charlie mother seemed worried when asking dasman about taking his child somewhere ??? 2)during the end at that concert if they were dead , why was Claire having a baby ??? 3) did jacked really fixed lock ? Thanks for your time !
1) nothing in the Sideways timeline is real, except for the main characters. they're living a normal, somewhat idealized version of the lives they'd like to have. I guess part of that is Charlie having family members who care about him. 2) it's just part of this fictional purgatory-like world they're in, and having the baby is what helped her to remember her real life 3) once Locke remembered his real life, he was able to walk again
I just finished the finale today (first watch) And I was hearing the show ends badly and I was cautious. But I absolutely loved it. But at the end it shows a plane on the beach Is that the plane from the first ep? Or the one that Frank Lapidus was flying with Kate and sawer and all of them? Regardless Every1 died Ik But I was just curious
@Family Friendly Daddy Blog - you're absolutely spot on 100% with your explanation here of course. I'd just like to add that if you're not religiously empathetic in any way, then you may not appreciate how the whole thing concludes. Damon Lindelof has been reluctant to explain that he intended to say that they all moved on to Heaven at the very end because he was concerned that that would upset the atheists. Also, the generic stain glassed window showing many different religions was him trying to be unbiased and not move the meaning of 'Lost' towards any particular religion. To this day, I don't believe he has said what he REALLY meant had happened at the end, but personally, I think Lindelof is a Christian and his intention was to show that they all moved into Heaven at the very end of the final episode.
No, it didn't kill them, nor - technically - did it end up preventing the incident. Despite what they expected, by detonating the hydrogen bomb to counteract the pocket of energy, that action ended up BEING the incident (or at least part of it). However, what they did was necessary. Without it, the pocket of energy that the Dharma Initiative tapped into (the electromagnetism that was sucking everything metallic in, pulling Juliet in in the process) would presumably have destroyed the whole island - much like would've happened with the hatch at the end of season 2 if Desmond hadn't employed the "fail-safe" device. So what Jack and the others did with the bomb ended up being the incident or part of it - but it saved the island. Meanwhile, it didn't kill them, but rather returned them to their proper time 30 years in the future. I believe Richard told some of the others that he saw them all die 30 years ago. In reality, Jack, Kate, and the rest vanished when the bomb went off, and so everyone logically assumed they were killed (vaporized or something).
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When Jack sees his Dad in the flashsideways, it lost people when Jack said he died too. People automatically thought the flashsideways was purgatory. The flashsideways was not purgatory because Richard told Jack on the island that Jack was dead in that timeline. This happened in 6x9. What I mean is that the flashsideways is just much a life as the island timeline was and there were previous timelines or lives before the island timeline. Here are examples. In the first episode, Rose says the monster sound was familiar. Maybe because of a previous life? Michael tells Jack in season 1 that he was a construction worker in a previous life.If you think I am taking that out of context, Nadia writes to Sayid in 1x9 that she will see him in the next life. So multiple lives is a thing on the writers minds even in season 1. In 4x11, Richard visits 6 year old Locke and asks Locke after putting out items on the table which items is his ALREADY? Seems Richard is trying to see if Locke remembers something from another life. Maybe that is why Locke drew the monster at age 6. Remember Desmond told Jack in the final episode that entering the light will take him to the flashsideways. And Mother told Jacob in 6x15 that the light is life, death, and REBIRTH. This shows the light leads to multiple lives and that the flashsideways is not purgatory.
Sorry, but all your points are invalid. 1- Richard told Jack he is dead and they are in hell, because that's what Richard thought at first when he came to the island. The whole Richard epiosde was about explaining Richar's tragic life and how he was manipulated by Smokey to think he was in hell and he had to kill the devil (Jacob). When Richard told Jack theybwere dead, it was Richard's moment of weakness out of frustration for having a long life and not knowing what the purpose was. I mean the whole Ab Eterno episode is about explaining Richard's mental state at that time, so how could you forget the entire episode and stick to one sentence he said and build your whole hypothesis on it? 2- Rose says the Monster's sound is familiar because the mechanical ticking sounds are very similar to some sort of Taxi meter ticketing in New York where she uswd to live. It was sirt of an inside joke of the showrunners because they actually used the Taxi meter thing sound to produce the monster sound effect. There's nothing else to read in to that. 3- Micheal saying he used to work in construction ... so? I am not sure he says the words "in a previous life", but if he did, it's a figure of speech, we all use these terms when talking about something in a distant past and we changed a lot after that period. 4- Nadia telling Sayid see you in the afterlife... well, yeah? That's what most religious people believe. That when they die, they pass on to some afterlife.... which is EXACTLY what the show ends up doing. 5- Richard tells young Locke "what items belong to him already", is because a few years earlier, older Locke visited him in the other's camp in 1954, and told him he will be born in a couple years. Thus sending Richard on a quest to find out who and why Locke is special and if he has to get him to the island. Saying Which items belong to you already, is becaise Locke ALREADY appeared to him... again, you are taking figures of speech which are used cleverly in the show to give us hints and what Richard is thinking, and making them to mean something else entirely in order to fit a very unlikely hypothesis. Finally, I have no idea why some people like to create some theories that don't fit at all with what the show actually tells us, in literal terms. I mean Christian spells it out yo Jack at the end, uou are dead everybody is dead, some before you so long after you... and this place has NO TIME (i.e. is not a normal timeline event), and now that we found each other, we LET GO AND MOVE ON. It's simple easy to understand, explained multiple times by the showrunners themselves.... But hey, everybody is wrong, let's just see what Rose said in S1 Ep1 about the ticking sound... even though that was the PILOT episode, and the showrunners themselves still had no idea if the show will be green lit for production, and when they themselves still haven't made out what the ending will be with 100% precision.
My only doubt is about time travel and the bomb. After the bomb detonation in 1977 they come back to present, namely 2004? Or did the bomb go off in the first place? And what's the effect of the bomb and in what year, 1977 or 2004, the bomb had its effects?
It’s insane - I’ve literally sent someone the interview with Damon Lindelof (the moment, not even the whole interview) where he directly shuts down the argument that they were dead the whole time. This person refuses to watch it and still thinks they were dead the whole time and that the finale sucks because of it!
My question is how did sawyer kate claire and leopidis get off that Island on the plane without knowing the bearing? Would they not have had "side effects" like they guy on the freighter said? Also when Micheal says the whispers are the dead trapped on the island then how come there are whispers before John and Shannon see walt in the jungle after he's left the island? Also if hurley was immortal for taking on the role of Jacob, I wonder how he died?
I understood the ending but was frustrated since it didn’t answer some key questions. It made the Walt storyline so special then after he left the island we saw very little of him. The writers should have brought him back to island 🏝️ when Jack, Kate, Charlie, and Ben returned. I am sure he could have gotten a fake passport to travel back. Then the show showed Michael still trapped on the island 🏝️. He didn’t mean to kill anyone but was trying to get his kidnapped son and nobody knew in the hatched they were being watched and the Others had spies in both camps. Parents will do desperate things for their children and Michael already lost his son once to his ex girlfriend he supported while she was in law school, but after graduation she moved overseas to prevent Michael from seeing Walt which was extremely cruel.
The Rickest Rick Me too, I get the general idea of them being there after they die or whatever but I dont understand why everything is different. Why does jack have a son with Juliet? Why do they all work near each other? Why is sawyer a cop!? My view on it at the moment is that this timeline of the flash sideways is a timeline of events made up of the characters new mindsets after being on the island and experiencing everything that happened, changes they needed to make, what’s really important to them etc
The flashsideways is actually just another life that is just as real as the life the Losties lived in the Island timeline. The flashsideways is not purgatory. It's another life in the vein of reincarnation. Jacobs fake Mother said in 6x15 that the light in the cave is life, death, and rebirth. Desmond told Jack in the final episode that when he goes into the light he will go into another life and that Desmond had seen Jack on Oceanic and it never crashed in that life. The flashsideways shows what the light is. What confuses people is the bomb blowing up at the end of season 5, but all that happened is a higher force that some call the Island moved the Losties from that moment and placed them back to 2007. I imagine what happened was that the bomb actually saved the island. The electromagnetism that was going to burst out the ground was going to be catastrophic, but the bomb, in my opinion, did something to where the electromagnetism didn't kill people like Radzinsky and Dr. Chang because they built the Swan hatch. Also, the bomb reacted with the electromagnetism so that the Dharma Iniative could have time to build hatch. The purpose of the bomb was to get Jack to stop fixing things on his own (Jack was blowing bomb up to change the past) and to learn to let go and eventually have faith in Jacob. That faith is what led him to know that that dynamite in 6x7 with Richard would not kill him. Jack needed that faith to face a being like the monster. Why was his purpose to destroy monster? So the monster wouldn't get off the island and take humanity to hell as Hugo tells Richard in 6x9 and so humanity wouldn't cease to exist as Widmore told Jin in 6x10. The monster wanted to prevent humanity to reaching heaven, which happens after you reincarnate so many times. So the purpose of the flashsideways shows why it is important to kill monster, which is the Losties purpose to come to the island. Also, the flashsideways reveals the higher power many call the Island. Actually, the Island was a red herring for God. That's why you see all those religious symbols in the church. If you pay attention especially in the first 3 seasons you will see clues about a god being the higher power in the show. In 1x4, Jack says they need to burn fuselage. Sayid is against this and says they should take people's religions into consideration due to getting rid of remains. Jack says we don't have time to sort out everyone's god. Charlie then says I thought we were all just made of time. This is also a reference about Mother telling Jacob and MIB that all mankind has a little bit of the light from the cave inside them. The light is time also. It is what Mother says, "It's life, death, and rebirth." Also, Ben tells Jack in 3x5 that he thinks God brought them to island. In 3x7, Karl was brain washed and the screen said God loves you as he loved Jacob . This shows Jacob worked for God. Another clue is Illana said that Jacob was the one who was in the shadow of the statue. What was the statue? An Egyptian god! There are more clues throughout show, but for the last episode there were clues. After Jack became new Jacob, Sawyer asked what did the burning bush have to say? In same episode, Rose said to Desmond that only God knew when they were. At the end of the show, in the flashsideways, Jack realize d he was dead. However, Richard told him that he was dead and in hell on the island in 6x9. Keep this in mind and refer to season 1 and you will see evidence of previous lives. Rose says in the first episode that the monster sound sounded familiar. Maybe from previous life? If you think I am exaggerating. In 1x9, Nadia wrote to Sayid that she will see him in the next life. Michael also tells Jack he was a construction worker in a previous life. In 4x11, 6 year old Locke showed signs of being in a previous life. He drew the monster and Richard put things out before Locke and asked which of these are yours already. I believe Richard said Jack was dead on island because Jack died in previous lives. This is why flashsideways is not purgatory. Jack says to Christian that he died because he is remembering his past lives before going to heaven. Another fun thing to point out is that Christian told Sawyer in flashback in 1x16 that they were in hell. Rewatch show and you will see these clues plus more.
What I think happened is more complex you know how Eloise said time always corrects destiny? Well I think they were in an alternate timeline and then when they realized they weren’t supposed to go through that they met up with the current timeline of them being dead like faraday explained
This was explained by Carlton Cuse as an unfortunate add by ABC due to a few second shortage in the finale edit. However, call it what you want, unfortunate, stupid, whatever. Just because we saw a plane for a few seconds doesn't mean we should assume they were all dead...i have no idea how people reach that far? Now if all of their bodies (Jack, Kate, etc. In their flight 815 clothes) littered the sand, then the audience would be right to go there.....but that didn't happen.
So when Jack dies and it shows him just like on the first episode, but opposite, with him closing his eyes, was he the last one to die, when people tell him that they were waiting for him? He died on the island sometime that we don’t know when?
@beztet09 Oh wow, thank you for your answer, that is very interesting. A lot of people say that once we die, there is no time controlling the universe, so a 100, or a million years would be the same, so it didn’t take anything for them to wait one another. Nice perspective.
@beztet09 Well, I liked the end too, it made me cry and back then it made sense for me too. I’m not religious or spiritual anymore, but I used to think that we come back, now I don’t really think so, but it would be great to see something else if there is after we die. I think that where we are is hell already. But I am glad that it makes sense to you to believe in all that! :)
Did Hurley also cause people to crash there so they can take his place...? I assume Hurley and Ben would be near immortal like Jacob and Richard were and could never die of old age
Agree with most of it, ALTHOUGH . . . 1. Everything on the island happened; after all it was a sci-fi/fantasy show. 2. The last episode is about the acceptance of death. when you accept the peacefulness and tranquility, you'll move on with those you loved during your existence; none of the problems and fighting matters, only the journey you shared. 3. Heaven and time are infinite; it doesn't matter when you come to term with life, death and existence, your love ones will be there to greet you. 4. The island still awaits "lost" souls; people who needed something to live for, beyond just themselves; they needed to learn to share life's hardships and journey, and not go it alone.
What about the theory that if they blow up the island, the island will not be there in the first place and no one would end up on the island. Juliette hit the bomb and blew it up. After Juliette died Miles told Sawyer Juliette said it worked. The sideways event at the church was was them meeting up to move on to their previous lives. When they walk through the door that existence will have never happened. They will still be alive living their lives, never knowing anything else had happened. The flight doesn't crash. What ever was going on in the lives of the travelers will not change. Regarding getting off the island Sawyer said to Kate something like there isn't nothing worth going back to. They would be better off staying. Rose was dying of cancer. On the island she survived. She didn't want to leave the island. They died but, I don't think they died, the flight never crashed. Ben said dead is dead you don't get to come back from dead. For every rule there is an exception. I think it was Jack, it might have been Locke, who said on this island we are all getting a second chance. Best case scenario the people on that flight land alive and things eventually work out for the best for all of them no matter what the difficulties they would be facing.
Nice video. Couple things, though: Jack died in 2007, not 2010 (yes, that's when the episode aired, but Island time it was 2007). And we never actually saw how Sawyer, Kate, Claire, etc. died, yet they were at the Church because in the Afterlife (or Purgatory, or whatever you want to call it) time has no meaning. It's why in Christian religions we say God is "All Seeing", "All Knowing", and/or "Beyond Time and Space". Everyone also sees each other as they remember them on the Island, which is why Aaron is an infant in "Purgatory". He got off the Island and grew up, as did Ji Yeon.
The only question I have is what actually happened to Christian’s body? I know MIB stole it but he still has a body right? He stole Locke’s body but we still see Locke dead in the coffin.
The flash-sideways is real. This much is said to be true by Damon and Carlton post series finale in interviews. It is not "purgatory" or limbo or the afterlife. It is just as real as the flash-backs and flash-forwards. A real timeline. People only get hung up on that last episode because of Christian coming back from the dead and Jack's son disappearing. But in Jack's mind, he's dying. What we see are his memories and mind bringing everyone together (including Christian). His life "flashing before his eyes". When Jack and everyone are engulfed in white light, Jack's eye closes and he let's go. Simple. It's a mixture of his memory and dying mind bringing everyone together before his mind dies. And of course they wanted to give it a spiritual touch so they ended it with everyone in a church. That's it. But maybe someone can answer this. Rose on the island wore her husbands ring around her neck and she specifically says she wears it because her husbands fingers get swollen while flying. So she always wore it around her neck for safe keeping until they landed. Yet, it all her flash-backs, it is never once around her neck... How do you explain that?
I heard this theory, but right before Juliet dies she says, "it worked." She says the exact same thing during the side flashes when she's with Swayer at the vending machine to seconds before she dies. If it was Jacks memories, then how can Juliet share them when she's the one that dies first? .... No, i agree with this video 100%
Please provide me the Damon and Carlton interview you're talking about. It kind of clashes with this one... czcams.com/video/B5chCMRsEVo/video.html&ab_channel=TheVerge Go to time code 6:15
@@bafmd That is one of interviews. How does it clash? He specifically says all the stuff that happens in the flash-sideways is whatever YOUR INTERPRETATION is. He then says "I'm not going to talk about what OUR INTENTION is." He continues "But that is what YOU WOULD DEFINE as "Not having happened" Because a lot of people were confused by the flash-sideways and ASSUME it's purgatory and "not having happened" BUT that is wrong. Clearly.
@@shaungerald23 Ok, you're not hearing him correctly. I'll try to explain, see if we're on the same page. You say that the flash sideways is real. It is real in the sense that each character experiences it, but only after their deaths. It is not real in the same sense as their real lives, when they were alive and experienced time on the island. Damon says, "The flash sideways, where nobody knows each other, and the plane never crashed. That is whatever your interpretation is, I'm not going to talk about what our intention is, but that's what you would define as, 'not having happened'. But everything we ever showed you, anything that takes place on the island in LOST, happened." When he says "your interpretation", he's talking about people's individual interpretations of what limbo or purgatory or afterlife would be. He's saying that they were not going to force viewers to believe in one specific version of what limbo or purgatory should be. The interviewer thinks that none of it happened, that they were dead the whole time. Damon is telling the interviewer, that it all happened except for the flash sideways. The flash sideways is "what you would define as not having happened." The interviewers' definition of not having happened is them all being dead. So Damon is correcting him and saying, the island is when they were alive, the flash sideways is when they were dead. So, again, even though the flash sideways is when they're dead, it doesn't mean it wasn't real. They experience it, just after death. Your theory of the whole flash sideways being Jack's mind is incorrect. Jack never knew Nadia, why would his dying mind see Sayid, his brother and Nadia's story? He never saw Charlie's "Not Penny's boat", so why would he dream Desmond see that on Charlie's hand when he forces the car into the water. Why would he see Desmond and Widmore's interactions? Jack never knew Mikhail, why would he dream about him? There are a thousand more of these examples. The answer is, he wouldn't. The flash sideways is not in Jack's mind. It's a separate storyline that takes place after Jack's death. I can understand the confusion a bit, especially since the church door opens "at the same time" as Jack closing his eyes and dying. But we only see that in the non-linear timeline of editing the show. In reality, they meet at the church and move on, way past the events of the island and Jack's death. I think part of the problem is that the term "flash sideways" got coined and is still used. I mean, I still use it. But it was a way to through the audience off. It's more accurately a flash forward. It happens after they're all dead. We know that Claire, Kate and Sawyer all leave the island on the plane. They go live out the rest of their lives and die their own deaths somehow, someway. Hurley and Ben stay on the island for some amount of time, and then eventually die too. Once they're all dead, they meet up in the "flash sideways" and move on to the afterlife together. You also mention Christian in the church at the end. This scene is by far the best reason to recognize what the "flash sideways" is. He spells it out for the audience. Here's a link to that scene. I recommend you watch it carefully a few times. "Where are we dad?" "Well, this is a place that you all made together so you could find one another....to remember, and let go." czcams.com/video/dL26K6T3IOw/video.html&ab_channel=GeorgeFinch Hope this helps.
because that's probably how Jack remembered him, the same as everyone else would look the same as he remembers them...dunno, just throwing it out there?
Just finish it.. again. Yup, I agree with you. Never dead but we do have some interesting episodes like, yeah “they all dead” but also it could be in hurley’s mind. That was an episode too so.. who knows..
Michael's fate was explained in the conversation between Hurley and Micheal in S6, he said he's one of the people who CAN'T MOVE ON, because of the guilt of what he did. So he is stuck in between worlds, thus couldn't be reunited with the others in the church. However, we see in the Epilogue, that Hurley and Ben (now island protectors) ask Walt to come back to the island (to potentially replace Hurley), and also to HELP HIS DAD even though he is dead. Meaning probably Walt helps Micheal move on in his own sideways timeline. As for Echo, the actor was killed off in S3 because he didn't want to do the ahow anore because he hated living in Hawaii where the show was shot. So they couldn't bring him back. But in the episode where he dies, the last image of the episode is Echo and Yemi as children, hugging each other and walking in to the sunset. Perhaps that's their own purgatory aideways timeline, as Echo's greatest attachment was mostly to his brother.
@@alyssaalbach2276 We don't know it. Maybe they crash and never come back to home. We know only that they all died sooner or later. But when and how? We don't know.
Thanks for this! I just finished rewatching Lost tonight. When I first watched it I thought they were dead the whole time but I didn’t get that sense this time. Still cried my eyes out during that last episode though. One of the best series ever for me!
I have a question, what women that adopted Jacob and man in black was doing on island for there is no man in black or big smoke monster to keep from getting out of island at the time that she was there?
The Man In Black is not the only one who is a threat to the island. She was protecting the island from being settled by humans who will try to exploit the resources on the island. As she predicted, in the future Dharma and other groups came to the island and did exactly that - trying to use the Island's powers to benefit themselves, and through mistakes/accidents/conflict risking the existence of the Island and putting the source of the light at risk.
It kills me that so many people still don’t understand the ending of Lost, I was a stupid 18 year old when the finale aired and I got it on the first viewing, the whole “they’re dead along thing” just makes me facepalm
Great explanation, so just to confirm... - what happened on the island, HAPPENED. - flash sideways did NOT happen in reality, it was in fact the afterlife years after they all died? - “moving on” and the church scene, was this showing them moving on to a sort of heaven after the afterlife? I just assumed the afterlife WAS heaven. - What the hell happened to Vincent? Lol - Surprised Richard wasn’t in the church either
Why would they need to remember if they didn't forget first? With the alternative events happening it makes more sense that the act of purgatory would be remembering what actually happened since the reiterated that they couldn't change what happened in the past. I don't think they died in the plane crash but purgatory and the alternative timeline could be the same thing and moving on would ultimately be the dharma initiative in truth if your into Hinduism.
@The Red One - Desmond was sent back home to recover and spent the rest of his life with Penny (his girlfriend). You heard Ben tell Hugo to help Desmond get back home (as Hugo was now in charge of looking after the island and therefore had the power to do do things like that).
O-9- Team Yes, Desmond was chosen to remove the stone from the water pool inside the cave with the light because he had the ability to survive the tremendous amount of magnetic radiation that had to be endured upon the removal of the stone. Jack was willing to risk the radiation levels when he volunteered to replace the stone after Locke became human again and was no longer a smoke monster. Jack eventually died from the stab wound that he received from Locke, but it's possible that he may have died eventually anyway from the radiation.
O-9- Team OK, but also there is the not at all irrelevant section of the sideways timeline where the losties all meet up after death to rejoin in the church at the end and now that they have all redeemed themselves, move onto the afterlife (or 'Heaven' as Christians would call it).
Damon Lindelof has admitted in interviews that he doesn't wish to let on what he was REALLY thinking about his views on the ending, but has left it deliberately open at the end regarding the spirituality (or otherwise) of the conclusion. This is why we see the plate glass window showing all sorts of different religious symbols. Now my personal feeling on this is that Lindelof is in fact a Christian believer and did in fact mean that they all moved into the afterlife called Heaven at the conclusion. My view is that he is very reluctant to admit to this as he doesn't wish to upset the atheists and cause any further rumpus regarding the ending. People will disagree with this view of course, but we won't know 100% unless Lindelof some day in the future talks about his personal thoughts on the ending.
He speaks like faraday😂😂
Yeah😂😂
Honestly true though
wtf. exactly
Yessssss
Honestly
2019. any one else?
Forhad Hossain yep
Still it's a shit ending followed by Dexter and now GOT
Sen Lkr can’t believe it ended like that it’s just a shame. I liked the season but they could of easily made a better ending.
yessir
I am
Finished my second watch since 2010 this past week.
Cried like a baby at the end and I am not ashamed.
When everyone started remembering... ugh I was just balling lol what a great show
I think people have a hard time for some reason believing that everything that happened on the island, actually happened. I can’t stand when people think they were dead the whole time. That makes no sense!
Manuela Station it’s definitely one of my top 5. My #1 and 2 are X Files and Buffy the vampire slayer. But can you see the similarities haha!
Me too rewatched it and cried like a baby too
I finished the last episode today and it was my first time watching Lost... It was literally a roller coaster of emotions
And when they remembered i cried badly too :‘(
I loved this series !!
blueangelss 88 it is so good right! Whenever you watch it a second time, all those feels are still there :) such good character writing!
yes i almost forgot about my current life during that journey of 6 seasons. i felt like i need to erase my memory and watch it again at the end. i really needed to be with them forever
After finishing the show years ago, I’ve finally began to appreciate the ending. This is an excellent explanation as well.
Thank you, my friend.
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Who were the others?
@@richardkenny7555 Just inhabitants and Jacob’s followers
Also, the purpose of the flash sideways was to show what was the survivor's purpose of being brought to the island. They were brought there to destroy the smoke monster so that the monster would not get off island and send everyone to hell. (Refer to Hugo's comment at the end of 6x9.) They were to protect the light, which is the gateway to other lives and heaven. ( Refer to Desmond and Jack conversation on 6x17.)
Christian said it himself 'time has no meaning here' or something to that effect. So whenever they died in the past present or future, they wake up in this 'reality' living the lives they would have had the plane not crashed. Micheal became a whisper, and Walt probably STILL is watching over the island with Vincent. Which is why they arent there.
They just dropped the ball with Walt imo. The only explanation I've heard from showrunners is they didn't expect him to hit puberty so quickly
“There is no now, here. This was a place that you all made together so that you could find one another. The most important part of your life was the time that you spent with these people:”
I don’t think Walt ever went back. I don’t think Hurley would have caused Walt to return or at least I hope not. Walt was in school living a normal life... normal as possible. And yeah that actor grew up so quick, even his acting was night and day once he was older. And Michael... ugh. He doesn’t deserve to be in the church I’m kinda glad he wasn’t there TBH
@@HeatherHolt Watch ‘The new man in charge’ on CZcams, it’s the epilogue and alludes that Walt does return
See you in another life brotha
The ending is clearly explained in the show itself by Jack's father.... Everything is real...all are dead but at different times.. living with these people is important part of your life they needed you and you needed them that's why they're all here.
How people didn’t understand the ending when Christian Shepherd literally spells it out is beyond me!
Good point.
Yeah, he stated it very clearly.
I know!!! I understood right away what was going on!! I loved it‼️‼️‼️‼️
Well, for me are they dead the whole time or hot, it does not matter, and like u said christian spells it out,, what matter and what explain which still i did not understand, if their plane really crashed (as he said it everything was real) then why the hell in the end the plan did not crashed and land it safely to L.A and how dazmond the hatch guy was in the plan !!! and the folks dont know each other !!! what the hell is going on !!!
In the Flash Sideways, they are dead. They cannot remember each other until they are ready to move on. Desmond is on the plane because the Flash Sideways shows alternates to sets of events. For example Anthony Cooper is not a bad guy and it was Locke who made a mistake and got Cooper into a wheelchair. Similarly Sawyer says he had to make a choice between being a criminal or a cop and chose cop. In the normal timeline, he obviously chose criminal. Basically the Flash Sideways brings everyone who died together... They died at different times, but ended up there together at the same time. Because as Christian says, they now exist beyond time. For example, Boone died in Season 1 and Jack died in Season 6, but they reach this alternate reality at the same time. They continue to live in this alternate reality until they're ready to move on, which happens when they remember their past connections. The church door seems to be a point of no return, so once in, you commit to move on. Some people can't move on. Micheal says he's trapped on the island because of guilt of what he did. These are the voices which used to be heard. Ben choose not to enter the church, likely because Alex doesn't remember him, meaning she's not ready to move on. Hope this makes sense now.
I love the show. And I honestly thought it was pretty easily to understand the show.. one of the best show ever
If the final episode is showing a time where everybody’s dead, where were the dead ones all this time? Not everybody died at the same time.
Why were there (almost) only people that were on the island and no family members that are also dead?
Why did they not remeber each other at first?
What was Jacob, how did he get his ‘powers’ and what were his reasons for bringing people to the island?
Greedo Kenobi lol did you even watch the show? Because all of your questions are answered if you watch it
@@greedokenobi3855clearly haven’t watched the show have you, idiot
2023, anyone else?
When you still have to explain your show 7 years after it ended...
just finished rewatching the show last night. It's so good and the ending was beautiful, not sure why people despised it
Thank you
Lost was always about the Journey and the life of the characters. They all became something and changed for the better because of the island.
I love this video. This is what I’m constantly having to explain to people all the time!! Especially when I tell them this is will always be my number 1 favorite series ... although 12 monkeys is super close in that regard. 12 monkeys has a more well written from the beginning type of ending, all mapped out, which I think Lost could have benefitted from that type of attention to detail, but STILL, has such a special place in my heart, I still rewatch the series, and that finale omg. I freaking LOVE it so much!! People who spread the purgatory lies prevent others from deciding to give it a watch. They think it’s been spoiled for them cuz they “all died in the end”. Like surprise bozos! EVERYONE ON EARTH DIES at the end of their lives. I love the way you explained this !!! Much love!!!
👏👏👏 Applause good sir!! This is by far the best and most accurate explanation if seen! Don't think I could have said it better myself! 😊
Well said! Very clear and concise explanation. In essence, the "flash sideways" IS a flash forward - just a flash WAY forward. :-) It's funny, when I watched the finale live, I - like many - didn't care for the show's ending and resolution. But over time, I came to truly appreciate and even love the ending. It even became my favorite episode, and I learned to play the final scene's "Moving On" theme on the keyboard. LOST will forever be my favorite show. (And John Locke, my favorite character.)
Good video dude! I think you explained the ending really well. I agree that it's very simple. I think a lot of people either overthink the ending, or didn't pay attention throughout the series. It's definitely a show that requires your full attention, but if you can give it that, the finale is a great send off.
My friends constantly argue with me when I try to explain this to them
This was actually very helpful! Rewatchting the show right now :-)
Well said. I've been hearing about the potential for a LOST "reboot" (or, more accurately, "rejuvenation") lately. Damon Lindelof has stated that he wouldn't be a part of it but has no problem with a reboot. There have even been some stories floating around. One of them that I read online talked about a sort of "prequel" in which a bunch of people find themselves stranded on the island. The eclectic set of characters quickly find one another.
By the end of the first episode (I think), viewers would realize that the people are all from different time periods when the island had jumped through time (but was no longer jumping...perhaps after the creation of the underground wheel). The new series would explore the deeper mysteries of the island that were ignored by the original series. In addition, one of the characters would be a young girl (with parents) from mid-21st century Canada who would grow up and end up being the "mother" of Jacob and the Man in Black.
Apparently, there was an island caretaker at that time too. There were also inhabitants of the island already there. The origins of the Smoke Monster would be explained -- how the Smoke Monster is actually an evil entity banished to the island. It can only take the human form of dead people. When this happens, it assumes the form but also much of the memories are merged with it in its new form. In other words, the "Man in Black" was dead and the Monster assumed his form. It wasn't the Man in Black so much who wanted to leave the island (although those memories are there) but the Monster who wanted to leave in order to wreak something sinister and evil (even apocalyptic).
I hope that this plot is partially true. In fact, I think that this is the only type of story that could actually work within the existing LOST universe/story. I've even read that the new show would explain why the mother killed people who landed on the island.
Chris M omg, I sincerely hope something like this happens! Also, LOST is based deep in mythology especially Norse Mythology, however I like that they used Egyptian hieroglyphs to express the mythology in a more mainstream and recognizable fashion
They already explained how the smoke monster was created in season 6. Jacob made him that way when he tossed the MIB into the heart of the island and was reborn as the smoke monster.
I can't imagine how a reboot could ever happen. The whole mystery of what the island is and what's happening to the characters is already revealed. We already know about flash forwards and about the "flash sideways". The show can't work if the audience knows everything already.
So finally we are LOST!
Not finally, everyone was lost from the beginning only and watching the explanation via these videos are not helping at all.
Great explanation and this was exactly what I thought happened. Although what was disappointing was the audience not knowing how they lived their lives after the island. In the last episode when Kate and Jack profess their love for each other, Kate leaves the island. Jack dies at the end but we don't know what happened to Kate in the real world,whether she married someone else or ended up with Sawyer. We know they eventually would of died but not how they lived or for how long. And in the flash sideways,all of a sudden Jack and Kate are reunited. What if she married in the real world?
Before that scene of Jack with his father and the way everyone remembered eachother I actually thought that maybe the explosion in 1977 created another parallel universe where the plane never crushed
I think that's what they wanted the audience to think for that entire season before revealing that it wouldn't even matter if these people lived completely different lives with different events. In the end, they would still need to move on from the same baggage inherent to their individual destinies. But love and faith are still there to help them move forward.
That's what they wanted us to think. But the huge twist was that it was the afterlife
I would hate that ending
So basically jack and kate couldn't be together the whole time!!! they just moved on together!
I know, but I suppose they are together now in this afterlife or wherever!
The thing that annoys me is that people only go on about the flashsideways and judge everything on whether or not they enjoyed that revelation.
Nevermind everything else.
I really wish there was no flashsideways, just so people would stop going on about it and discuss the actual plot itself.
It's exactly my issue. All conversations are about the purgatory, flash sideways or other nonsense that show introduced in the last seasons but nobody talks about the actual plot, loose ends (hyrogen bomb? numbers?) and before all that, what was the point of the whole purgatory bullshit
@@Victorius The Hydrogen bomb was explained, though.
- Military brought the bomb to the Island initially in the 50s.
- Daniel Faraday tells the Others to bury it.
- In the 1970s, the core of the Hydrogen Bomb is detonated near the swan station, causes "The Incident". (Unstable energy pocket that must be rendered inert every 108 minutes.)
Yes I knew this!! I loved the ending!!☀️☀️☀️☀️ Thank You ‼️
no one lived , no one left the island , everyone died there
The Twist at the end of season 6 was it a twist, it was a beautiful send off. Thanks for making the video. It's baffling that people still misunderstand the ending
Well said.
I just finished the show,right now and I totally agree with you, there were some other mystery that they failed to explain but the ending you got it right.
Yeah, they were all united and content in that very final scene. "I have made death a messenger of joy to thee. Wherefore dost thou grieve?" ~ Baha'u'llah, Baha'i Faith
That's great - too bad that season 2, episode 18 presents the possibility (that cannot be refuted) that the entirety of Lost occurs in the mind of Hurley, who has been in a coma in Santa Rosa since long before the plane crash - the plane never crashed, man - it's all in your head, man. You're brain blew a gasket and you've been stuck in your own private Idaho, inside Santa Rosa. After all, the episode ends with a flashback to Hurley talking to "Dave" in the asylum, while Libby (also in the asylum) rocks in the background and SHE is the one who convinces Hurley (and us) that if Hurley jumps from the cliff, he would die in reality as opposed to waking up in Santa Rosa to the realization that "NONE OF IT'S REAL, MAN".
David Cheely Good one too I like that one
That is easily argued and wrong
Explained it very Clearly
you are absolutely right sir, thats how i interpreted it too
but i have one more question...did the bomb they threw into the hatch in Season 5s finale actually do something?
I sent them somehow back in the present, but i always thought that THIS change in the past also caused the "parallel" dimension and allowed them to reunite with everyone in the "afterlife". Or didnt the bomb have anything to do with the side dimension?
great question, I'll just share my point of views
1. the bomb they threw in the hatch did go off after Juliet hitting it with a rock repeatedly and it was the incident that was mentioned in the show that happened in the year 1977 and before dying, Juliet said it worked because she believed that she stopped the incident by causing the bomb to explode.
2. the bomb didn't go off and they traveled through time while Juliet is hitting the bomb with the rock repeatedly and Juliet believed that the bomb exploded right before the white flash appeared and brought them back to 2007.
now to the important thing is they already mentioned that no matter what we do we can't change the past, whatever happened, happened. the only thing that bomb did was confuse Juliet to make her believe that they changed the past but in reality, that's what happened from the beginning and that was the incident they were talking about on the show the bomb did what it was supposed to do, most of the people thought that the incident was releasing electromagnetic energy at the Swan site or the bomb blast caused by jack and the group but in reality the incident was both the things they mentioned, first there will be a leakage in pocket of energy and then the bomb blast.
this is just my point of view though, the bomb might not have set off or maybe it did but whatever happened is what it was supposed to happen in 1977
@@chaitanyachaitu2020 sounds plausible, this "parallel dimension", their afterlife would have happened no matter what. It probably had nothing to do with the bomb. And whatever the bomb had an effect doesnt really matter, maybe it was the incident, maybe it wasnt. I think it simply sent them back to the future somehow, because of uuuh the island lol
I think Juliet believed it worked is because she was dying at that moment, maybe she "jumped" back and forth from the afterlife to the real life, and so she believed she saw their alternative life.
@@pepcool110 I agree with most of your argument, what happened in 1977 at the swan hatch was supposed to happen, the electromagnetic energy did leaked and they threw the bomb in the hatch too and this is what happened in 1977 and that is what supposed to happen too, that is the past and no matter what we do, we can't change it as per the show but Christian Shepard actually mentioned that they created a place where everyone from the island could meet like a sanctuary or something in afterlife and it is highly unlikely for Juliet to travel to afterlife and come back from the dead and remember it, Juliet words might not mean anything as the show we're talking about is "lost" and they obviously left out many things unanswered and mysterious LoL
@Pralay Aryan I have a feeling that you'll just share another ridiculous theory so I'll just share the link here
czcams.com/video/B5chCMRsEVo/video.html
Watch it from 6:20, Damon lindelof clearly answers it to the interviewer.
The bomb did go off
And did what entering the numbers dose
But stopped it fo a few years time enough for dharma to set up the numbers
Which is a small nuclear explosion every 208 minutes
Finally I found a person rreally understood the show , because some people thought all died in the season 5 but the answer is no , they still alive in season 6 when all in the island not the sideways timing , so when jack died in the end of the show , he imagine all the sideways .
End of season 5 explosion just sent them all back to the correct time line on the island. The sideways is limbo, or purgatory. A whole season of limbo, while the real events are still happening on the island.
So I rewatched season 4-6 after like 8 years and even though it has been my favorite show this whole time I realized I was wrong and they weren’t dead the whole time (simply because I was basically a kid when I watched it and I didn’t really think what was going on I was just enjoying the view and mysterious authenticity😂) and then I found this video confirming it so thank you brotha😂🙏🏻
Happy to help you today!
Greatest show ever
Yeap, lots of weed...
I think the writers want to say there’s an after life (part of it) when people lives what they wanted to live in their first life , like a second chance , before going whether to heaven or hell according to their actions.
I just didn't like how it ended I wanted it to be a parallel world, ah well.
You should write your own show and make it happen your way. And then people will complain about your ending and say it should've been some other way.
@@bafmd lol yes
This is exactly what the Bible says, we will recognize each other in heaven
Ok made more sense after explanation but there are just a few questions running through my head for a long time 1)why was Charlie mother seemed worried when asking dasman about taking his child somewhere ??? 2)during the end at that concert if they were dead , why was Claire having a baby ??? 3) did jacked really fixed lock ? Thanks for your time !
1) nothing in the Sideways timeline is real, except for the main characters. they're living a normal, somewhat idealized version of the lives they'd like to have. I guess part of that is Charlie having family members who care about him.
2) it's just part of this fictional purgatory-like world they're in, and having the baby is what helped her to remember her real life
3) once Locke remembered his real life, he was able to walk again
I just finished the finale today (first watch) And I was hearing the show ends badly and I was cautious. But I absolutely loved it. But at the end it shows a plane on the beach Is that the plane from the first ep? Or the one that Frank Lapidus was flying with Kate and sawer and all of them? Regardless Every1 died Ik But I was just curious
@Family Friendly Daddy Blog - you're absolutely spot on 100% with your explanation here of course. I'd just like to add that if you're not religiously empathetic in any way, then you may not appreciate how the whole thing concludes. Damon Lindelof has been reluctant to explain that he intended to say that they all moved on to Heaven at the very end because he was concerned that that would upset the atheists. Also, the generic stain glassed window showing many different religions was him trying to be unbiased and not move the meaning of 'Lost' towards any particular religion. To this day, I don't believe he has said what he REALLY meant had happened at the end, but personally, I think Lindelof is a Christian and his intention was to show that they all moved into Heaven at the very end of the final episode.
I'm gonna have to watch that again.
so what im confused about is when they detonated the nuke did that just kill them and prevent “the incident” or?
No, it didn't kill them, nor - technically - did it end up preventing the incident. Despite what they expected, by detonating the hydrogen bomb to counteract the pocket of energy, that action ended up BEING the incident (or at least part of it). However, what they did was necessary. Without it, the pocket of energy that the Dharma Initiative tapped into (the electromagnetism that was sucking everything metallic in, pulling Juliet in in the process) would presumably have destroyed the whole island - much like would've happened with the hatch at the end of season 2 if Desmond hadn't employed the "fail-safe" device. So what Jack and the others did with the bomb ended up being the incident or part of it - but it saved the island.
Meanwhile, it didn't kill them, but rather returned them to their proper time 30 years in the future. I believe Richard told some of the others that he saw them all die 30 years ago. In reality, Jack, Kate, and the rest vanished when the bomb went off, and so everyone logically assumed they were killed (vaporized or something).
Rocky2418 thank you
@@williamtwallaceIII No problem. It's certainly not the clearest situation by any means. :-)
2020 anyone?!
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2020 and I still need to get clarification on this show
When Jack sees his Dad in the flashsideways, it lost people when Jack said he died too. People automatically thought the flashsideways was purgatory. The flashsideways was not purgatory because Richard told Jack on the island that Jack was dead in that timeline. This happened in 6x9. What I mean is that the flashsideways is just much a life as the island timeline was and there were previous timelines or lives before the island timeline. Here are examples. In the first episode, Rose says the monster sound was familiar. Maybe because of a previous life? Michael tells Jack in season 1 that he was a construction worker in a previous life.If you think I am taking that out of context, Nadia writes to Sayid in 1x9 that she will see him in the next life. So multiple lives is a thing on the writers minds even in season 1. In 4x11, Richard visits 6 year old Locke and asks Locke after putting out items on the table which items is his ALREADY? Seems Richard is trying to see if Locke remembers something from another life. Maybe that is why Locke drew the monster at age 6. Remember Desmond told Jack in the final episode that entering the light will take him to the flashsideways. And Mother told Jacob in 6x15 that the light is life, death, and REBIRTH. This shows the light leads to multiple lives and that the flashsideways is not purgatory.
Christopher Nash
Very well explained👌🏻
Sorry, but all your points are invalid.
1- Richard told Jack he is dead and they are in hell, because that's what Richard thought at first when he came to the island. The whole Richard epiosde was about explaining Richar's tragic life and how he was manipulated by Smokey to think he was in hell and he had to kill the devil (Jacob). When Richard told Jack theybwere dead, it was Richard's moment of weakness out of frustration for having a long life and not knowing what the purpose was. I mean the whole Ab Eterno episode is about explaining Richard's mental state at that time, so how could you forget the entire episode and stick to one sentence he said and build your whole hypothesis on it?
2- Rose says the Monster's sound is familiar because the mechanical ticking sounds are very similar to some sort of Taxi meter ticketing in New York where she uswd to live. It was sirt of an inside joke of the showrunners because they actually used the Taxi meter thing sound to produce the monster sound effect. There's nothing else to read in to that.
3- Micheal saying he used to work in construction ... so? I am not sure he says the words "in a previous life", but if he did, it's a figure of speech, we all use these terms when talking about something in a distant past and we changed a lot after that period.
4- Nadia telling Sayid see you in the afterlife... well, yeah? That's what most religious people believe. That when they die, they pass on to some afterlife.... which is EXACTLY what the show ends up doing.
5- Richard tells young Locke "what items belong to him already", is because a few years earlier, older Locke visited him in the other's camp in 1954, and told him he will be born in a couple years. Thus sending Richard on a quest to find out who and why Locke is special and if he has to get him to the island. Saying Which items belong to you already, is becaise Locke ALREADY appeared to him... again, you are taking figures of speech which are used cleverly in the show to give us hints and what Richard is thinking, and making them to mean something else entirely in order to fit a very unlikely hypothesis.
Finally, I have no idea why some people like to create some theories that don't fit at all with what the show actually tells us, in literal terms. I mean Christian spells it out yo Jack at the end, uou are dead everybody is dead, some before you so long after you... and this place has NO TIME (i.e. is not a normal timeline event), and now that we found each other, we LET GO AND MOVE ON. It's simple easy to understand, explained multiple times by the showrunners themselves.... But hey, everybody is wrong, let's just see what Rose said in S1 Ep1 about the ticking sound... even though that was the PILOT episode, and the showrunners themselves still had no idea if the show will be green lit for production, and when they themselves still haven't made out what the ending will be with 100% precision.
Thank! You!
My only doubt is about time travel and the bomb. After the bomb detonation in 1977 they come back to present, namely 2004? Or did the bomb go off in the first place? And what's the effect of the bomb and in what year, 1977 or 2004, the bomb had its effects?
It’s insane - I’ve literally sent someone the interview with Damon Lindelof (the moment, not even the whole interview) where he directly shuts down the argument that they were dead the whole time. This person refuses to watch it and still thinks they were dead the whole time and that the finale sucks because of it!
Humans are nuts sometimes.
My question is how did sawyer kate claire and leopidis get off that Island on the plane without knowing the bearing? Would they not have had "side effects" like they guy on the freighter said?
Also when Micheal says the whispers are the dead trapped on the island then how come there are whispers before John and Shannon see walt in the jungle after he's left the island?
Also if hurley was immortal for taking on the role of Jacob, I wonder how he died?
NOW it makes sense!!! :D
Thanks a lot!
I understood the ending but was frustrated since it didn’t answer some key questions. It made the Walt storyline so special then after he left the island we saw very little of him. The writers should have brought him back to island 🏝️ when Jack, Kate, Charlie, and Ben returned. I am sure he could have gotten a fake passport to travel back. Then the show showed Michael still trapped on the island 🏝️. He didn’t mean to kill anyone but was trying to get his kidnapped son and nobody knew in the hatched they were being watched and the Others had spies in both camps. Parents will do desperate things for their children and Michael already lost his son once to his ex girlfriend he supported while she was in law school, but after graduation she moved overseas to prevent Michael from seeing Walt which was extremely cruel.
Thanks for that
Thanks for your explanation, but can tell why michael and walt they weren't in the church?
You’re a genius brother
Thanks!
I’m still confused about the flash sideways🤦🏼♂️
The Rickest Rick Me too, I get the general idea of them being there after they die or whatever but I dont understand why everything is different. Why does jack have a son with Juliet? Why do they all work near each other? Why is sawyer a cop!? My view on it at the moment is that this timeline of the flash sideways is a timeline of events made up of the characters new mindsets after being on the island and experiencing everything that happened, changes they needed to make, what’s really important to them etc
The flashsideways is actually just another life that is just as real as the life the Losties lived in the Island timeline. The flashsideways is not purgatory. It's another life in the vein of reincarnation. Jacobs fake Mother said in 6x15 that the light in the cave is life, death, and rebirth. Desmond told Jack in the final episode that when he goes into the light he will go into another life and that Desmond had seen Jack on Oceanic and it never crashed in that life. The flashsideways shows what the light is. What confuses people is the bomb blowing up at the end of season 5, but all that happened is a higher force that some call the Island moved the Losties from that moment and placed them back to 2007. I imagine what happened was that the bomb actually saved the island. The electromagnetism that was going to burst out the ground was going to be catastrophic, but the bomb, in my opinion, did something to where the electromagnetism didn't kill people like Radzinsky and Dr. Chang because they built the Swan hatch. Also, the bomb reacted with the electromagnetism so that the Dharma Iniative could have time to build hatch. The purpose of the bomb was to get Jack to stop fixing things on his own (Jack was blowing bomb up to change the past) and to learn to let go and eventually have faith in Jacob. That faith is what led him to know that that dynamite in 6x7 with Richard would not kill him. Jack needed that faith to face a being like the monster. Why was his purpose to destroy monster? So the monster wouldn't get off the island and take humanity to hell as Hugo tells Richard in 6x9 and so humanity wouldn't cease to exist as Widmore told Jin in 6x10. The monster wanted to prevent humanity to reaching heaven, which happens after you reincarnate so many times. So the purpose of the flashsideways shows why it is important to kill monster, which is the Losties purpose to come to the island. Also, the flashsideways reveals the higher power many call the Island. Actually, the Island was a red herring for God. That's why you see all those religious symbols in the church. If you pay attention especially in the first 3 seasons you will see clues about a god being the higher power in the show. In 1x4, Jack says they need to burn fuselage. Sayid is against this and says they should take people's religions into consideration due to getting rid of remains. Jack says we don't have time to sort out everyone's god. Charlie then says I thought we were all just made of time. This is also a reference about Mother telling Jacob and MIB that all mankind has a little bit of the light from the cave inside them. The light is time also. It is what Mother says, "It's life, death, and rebirth." Also, Ben tells Jack in 3x5 that he thinks God brought them to island. In 3x7, Karl was brain washed and the screen said God loves you as he loved Jacob . This shows Jacob worked for God. Another clue is Illana said that Jacob was the one who was in the shadow of the statue. What was the statue? An Egyptian god! There are more clues throughout show, but for the last episode there were clues. After Jack became new Jacob, Sawyer asked what did the burning bush have to say? In same episode, Rose said to Desmond that only God knew when they were. At the end of the show, in the flashsideways, Jack realize d he was dead. However, Richard told him that he was dead and in hell on the island in 6x9. Keep this in mind and refer to season 1 and you will see evidence of previous lives. Rose says in the first episode that the monster sound sounded familiar. Maybe from previous life? If you think I am exaggerating. In 1x9, Nadia wrote to Sayid that she will see him in the next life. Michael also tells Jack he was a construction worker in a previous life. In 4x11, 6 year old Locke showed signs of being in a previous life. He drew the monster and Richard put things out before Locke and asked which of these are yours already. I believe Richard said Jack was dead on island because Jack died in previous lives. This is why flashsideways is not purgatory. Jack says to Christian that he died because he is remembering his past lives before going to heaven. Another fun thing to point out is that Christian told Sawyer in flashback in 1x16 that they were in hell. Rewatch show and you will see these clues plus more.
@@christophernash8166 I think it could be reincarnation and they finally lived the life they wanted so they could move on into nirvana.
How many times have you watched this show?
Me too Rick. The Island and wheel being turned in the Island I never understood what that had to do with the finally.
What I think happened is more complex you know how Eloise said time always corrects destiny? Well I think they were in an alternate timeline and then when they realized they weren’t supposed to go through that they met up with the current timeline of them being dead like faraday explained
Okay I absolutely agree. But, what does it mean when at the end the crashed plane is shown and nobody is alive. What the hell does that mean.
Elene Tsiramua it means that’s what happen in the “real” world
This was explained by Carlton Cuse as an unfortunate add by ABC due to a few second shortage in the finale edit. However, call it what you want, unfortunate, stupid, whatever. Just because we saw a plane for a few seconds doesn't mean we should assume they were all dead...i have no idea how people reach that far?
Now if all of their bodies (Jack, Kate, etc. In their flight 815 clothes) littered the sand, then the audience would be right to go there.....but that didn't happen.
what crashed plane at the end? I didn't see that?
I need you to stay calm
I am thankful for this video. It’s 2023 now 😂
So when Jack dies and it shows him just like on the first episode, but opposite, with him closing his eyes, was he the last one to die, when people tell him that they were waiting for him?
He died on the island sometime that we don’t know when?
@beztet09
Oh wow, thank you for your answer, that is very interesting.
A lot of people say that once we die, there is no time controlling the universe, so a 100, or a million years would be the same, so it didn’t take anything for them to wait one another.
Nice perspective.
@beztet09
Well, I liked the end too, it made me cry and back then it made sense for me too.
I’m not religious or spiritual anymore, but I used to think that we come back, now I don’t really think so, but it would be great to see something else if there is after we die.
I think that where we are is hell already.
But I am glad that it makes sense to you to believe in all that! :)
John said they've been waiting for him because he was the last to remember not the last to die
Well said 👏👏🏝
Did Hurley also cause people to crash there so they can take his place...? I assume Hurley and Ben would be near immortal like Jacob and Richard were and could never die of old age
How about right before Jack closes his eyes he gets to see the plane of his friends who survived leaving the island finally and he smirks
The thing that bugs me the most is when Desmond says Anna Lucia isn't ready yet.... what does that mean ?
ok then what happened to island? did Hugo choose someone else as the protector?
Agree with most of it, ALTHOUGH . . .
1. Everything on the island happened; after all it was a sci-fi/fantasy show.
2. The last episode is about the acceptance of death. when you accept the peacefulness and tranquility, you'll move on with those you loved during your existence; none of the problems and fighting matters, only the journey you shared.
3. Heaven and time are infinite; it doesn't matter when you come to term with life, death and existence, your love ones will be there to greet you.
4. The island still awaits "lost" souls; people who needed something to live for, beyond just themselves; they needed to learn to share life's hardships and journey, and not go it alone.
What about the theory that if they blow up the island, the island will not be there in the first place and no one would end up on the island. Juliette hit the bomb and blew it up.
After Juliette died Miles told Sawyer Juliette said it worked.
The sideways event at the church was was them meeting up to move on to their previous lives.
When they walk through the door that existence will have never happened.
They will still be alive living their lives, never knowing anything else had happened.
The flight doesn't crash.
What ever was going on in the lives of the travelers will not change. Regarding getting off the island Sawyer said to Kate something like there isn't nothing worth going back to.
They would be better off staying.
Rose was dying of cancer. On the island she survived. She didn't want to leave the island.
They died but,
I don't think they died, the flight never crashed.
Ben said dead is dead you don't get to come back from dead.
For every rule there is an exception.
I think it was Jack, it might have been Locke, who said on this island we are all getting a second chance.
Best case scenario the people on that flight land alive and things eventually work out for the best for all of them no matter what the difficulties they would be facing.
Nice video. Couple things, though: Jack died in 2007, not 2010 (yes, that's when the episode aired, but Island time it was 2007). And we never actually saw how Sawyer, Kate, Claire, etc. died, yet they were at the Church because in the Afterlife (or Purgatory, or whatever you want to call it) time has no meaning. It's why in Christian religions we say God is "All Seeing", "All Knowing", and/or "Beyond Time and Space". Everyone also sees each other as they remember them on the Island, which is why Aaron is an infant in "Purgatory". He got off the Island and grew up, as did Ji Yeon.
So like..when Jack operates on John - that was all in purgatory, right?
Martin Zander did u watch the show
Correct.
The only question I have is what actually happened to Christian’s body? I know MIB stole it but he still has a body right? He stole Locke’s body but we still see Locke dead in the coffin.
Polar bears got hungry
Amen
We have to go back
The flash-sideways is real. This much is said to be true by Damon and Carlton post series finale in interviews. It is not "purgatory" or limbo or the afterlife. It is just as real as the flash-backs and flash-forwards. A real timeline. People only get hung up on that last episode because of Christian coming back from the dead and Jack's son disappearing. But in Jack's mind, he's dying. What we see are his memories and mind bringing everyone together (including Christian). His life "flashing before his eyes". When Jack and everyone are engulfed in white light, Jack's eye closes and he let's go. Simple. It's a mixture of his memory and dying mind bringing everyone together before his mind dies. And of course they wanted to give it a spiritual touch so they ended it with everyone in a church. That's it.
But maybe someone can answer this. Rose on the island wore her husbands ring around her neck and she specifically says she wears it because her husbands fingers get swollen while flying. So she always wore it around her neck for safe keeping until they landed. Yet, it all her flash-backs, it is never once around her neck... How do you explain that?
I heard this theory, but right before Juliet dies she says, "it worked." She says the exact same thing during the side flashes when she's with Swayer at the vending machine to seconds before she dies.
If it was Jacks memories, then how can Juliet share them when she's the one that dies first?
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No, i agree with this video 100%
Please provide me the Damon and Carlton interview you're talking about. It kind of clashes with this one...
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Go to time code 6:15
@@aka4god Each person is unique. To Juliet, it did work. She saw a timeline in her memory (parallel timelines) where it did in fact work.
@@bafmd That is one of interviews. How does it clash? He specifically says all the stuff that happens in the flash-sideways is whatever YOUR INTERPRETATION is. He then says "I'm not going to talk about what OUR INTENTION is." He continues "But that is what YOU WOULD DEFINE as "Not having happened" Because a lot of people were confused by the flash-sideways and ASSUME it's purgatory and "not having happened" BUT that is wrong. Clearly.
@@shaungerald23 Ok, you're not hearing him correctly. I'll try to explain, see if we're on the same page.
You say that the flash sideways is real. It is real in the sense that each character experiences it, but only after their deaths. It is not real in the same sense as their real lives, when they were alive and experienced time on the island.
Damon says, "The flash sideways, where nobody knows each other, and the plane never crashed. That is whatever your interpretation is, I'm not going to talk about what our intention is, but that's what you would define as, 'not having happened'. But everything we ever showed you, anything that takes place on the island in LOST, happened."
When he says "your interpretation", he's talking about people's individual interpretations of what limbo or purgatory or afterlife would be. He's saying that they were not going to force viewers to believe in one specific version of what limbo or purgatory should be.
The interviewer thinks that none of it happened, that they were dead the whole time. Damon is telling the interviewer, that it all happened except for the flash sideways. The flash sideways is "what you would define as not having happened." The interviewers' definition of not having happened is them all being dead. So Damon is correcting him and saying, the island is when they were alive, the flash sideways is when they were dead.
So, again, even though the flash sideways is when they're dead, it doesn't mean it wasn't real. They experience it, just after death.
Your theory of the whole flash sideways being Jack's mind is incorrect. Jack never knew Nadia, why would his dying mind see Sayid, his brother and Nadia's story? He never saw Charlie's "Not Penny's boat", so why would he dream Desmond see that on Charlie's hand when he forces the car into the water. Why would he see Desmond and Widmore's interactions? Jack never knew Mikhail, why would he dream about him?
There are a thousand more of these examples. The answer is, he wouldn't. The flash sideways is not in Jack's mind. It's a separate storyline that takes place after Jack's death.
I can understand the confusion a bit, especially since the church door opens "at the same time" as Jack closing his eyes and dying. But we only see that in the non-linear timeline of editing the show. In reality, they meet at the church and move on, way past the events of the island and Jack's death. I think part of the problem is that the term "flash sideways" got coined and is still used. I mean, I still use it. But it was a way to through the audience off. It's more accurately a flash forward. It happens after they're all dead. We know that Claire, Kate and Sawyer all leave the island on the plane. They go live out the rest of their lives and die their own deaths somehow, someway. Hurley and Ben stay on the island for some amount of time, and then eventually die too. Once they're all dead, they meet up in the "flash sideways" and move on to the afterlife together.
You also mention Christian in the church at the end. This scene is by far the best reason to recognize what the "flash sideways" is. He spells it out for the audience. Here's a link to that scene. I recommend you watch it carefully a few times.
"Where are we dad?"
"Well, this is a place that you all made together so you could find one another....to remember, and let go."
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Hope this helps.
Why was aaron a baby in the church?
because that's probably how Jack remembered him, the same as everyone else would look the same as he remembers them...dunno, just throwing it out there?
Because the writers had no clue what they were doing!
Just finish it.. again. Yup, I agree with you. Never dead but we do have some interesting episodes like, yeah “they all dead” but also it could be in hurley’s mind. That was an episode too so.. who knows..
Thanks!
Why all of them are exactly the same age after they died as they were at the island?
That's a nice hat.
my only question is where was michael, walt and echo in the final episode?
Michael's fate was explained in the conversation between Hurley and Micheal in S6, he said he's one of the people who CAN'T MOVE ON, because of the guilt of what he did. So he is stuck in between worlds, thus couldn't be reunited with the others in the church. However, we see in the Epilogue, that Hurley and Ben (now island protectors) ask Walt to come back to the island (to potentially replace Hurley), and also to HELP HIS DAD even though he is dead. Meaning probably Walt helps Micheal move on in his own sideways timeline.
As for Echo, the actor was killed off in S3 because he didn't want to do the ahow anore because he hated living in Hawaii where the show was shot. So they couldn't bring him back. But in the episode where he dies, the last image of the episode is Echo and Yemi as children, hugging each other and walking in to the sunset. Perhaps that's their own purgatory aideways timeline, as Echo's greatest attachment was mostly to his brother.
what happened to the survivors who left the island with ajira flight ?? where did they go ?
They got off the island and lived the rest of their lives wherever they lived in the world.
@@alyssaalbach2276 We don't know it. Maybe they crash and never come back to home. We know only that they all died sooner or later. But when and how? We don't know.
Got off the island
Lived there lifes
Died of old age
Met in the flash sideways
I understood this the first time I watched it. Do people really think they were dead the whole time? Fascinating.
Thanks for this! I just finished rewatching Lost tonight. When I first watched it I thought they were dead the whole time but I didn’t get that sense this time. Still cried my eyes out during that last episode though. One of the best series ever for me!
Yess
I have a question, what women that adopted Jacob and man in black was doing on island for there is no man in black or big smoke monster to keep from getting out of island at the time that she was there?
The Man In Black is not the only one who is a threat to the island. She was protecting the island from being settled by humans who will try to exploit the resources on the island.
As she predicted, in the future Dharma and other groups came to the island and did exactly that - trying to use the Island's powers to benefit themselves, and through mistakes/accidents/conflict risking the existence of the Island and putting the source of the light at risk.
It kills me that so many people still don’t understand the ending of Lost,
I was a stupid 18 year old when the finale aired and I got it on the first viewing, the whole “they’re dead along thing” just makes me facepalm
Still to this day there's people who finish this show and just think they're all dead the whole time. lol
I want to know why the plane crashed? Is it because Desmond didn't hit the button within 108 minutes? Or , Jacob ended them all up in the island?
Great explanation, so just to confirm...
- what happened on the island, HAPPENED.
- flash sideways did NOT happen in reality, it was in fact the afterlife years after they all died?
- “moving on” and the church scene, was this showing them moving on to a sort of heaven after the afterlife? I just assumed the afterlife WAS heaven.
- What the hell happened to Vincent? Lol
- Surprised Richard wasn’t in the church either
Its what we called "reincarnation"...all of the scenes really happened to them in different time frame...
Why would they need to remember if they didn't forget first? With the alternative events happening it makes more sense that the act of purgatory would be remembering what actually happened since the reiterated that they couldn't change what happened in the past. I don't think they died in the plane crash but purgatory and the alternative timeline could be the same thing and moving on would ultimately be the dharma initiative in truth if your into Hinduism.
The flash sideways and only that part is purgatory up to the moment Christian shepherd opens the doors then that is them moving on to the after life
What happened to Desmond in the finale scenes when Ben and Hurley took command of the island???
@The Red One - Desmond was sent back home to recover and spent the rest of his life with Penny (his girlfriend). You heard Ben tell Hugo to help Desmond get back home (as Hugo was now in charge of looking after the island and therefore had the power to do do things like that).
O-9- Team Yes, Desmond was chosen to remove the stone from the water pool inside the cave with the light because he had the ability to survive the tremendous amount of magnetic radiation that had to be endured upon the removal of the stone. Jack was willing to risk the radiation levels when he volunteered to replace the stone after Locke became human again and was no longer a smoke monster. Jack eventually died from the stab wound that he received from Locke, but it's possible that he may have died eventually anyway from the radiation.
showmoke thank you
O-9- Team OK, but also there is the not at all irrelevant section of the sideways timeline where the losties all meet up after death to rejoin in the church at the end and now that they have all redeemed themselves, move onto the afterlife (or 'Heaven' as Christians would call it).
Damon Lindelof has admitted in interviews that he doesn't wish to let on what he was REALLY thinking about his views on the ending, but has left it deliberately open at the end regarding the spirituality (or otherwise) of the conclusion. This is why we see the plate glass window showing all sorts of different religious symbols. Now my personal feeling on this is that Lindelof is in fact a Christian believer and did in fact mean that they all moved into the afterlife called Heaven at the conclusion. My view is that he is very reluctant to admit to this as he doesn't wish to upset the atheists and cause any further rumpus regarding the ending. People will disagree with this view of course, but we won't know 100% unless Lindelof some day in the future talks about his personal thoughts on the ending.
That is deep.
I still dont get how the ending was so difficult to understand. It´s not science, people (no pun intended).
Ppl not understanding why it was written so bad I think