Lost season 6 with spoilers beware

[maboot38]

I loved the stained glass window in the sacristy when Jack sees his father again at the end. Had all the emblems of all the major faiths on it, even though it was a christian church on the outside.

Great statement that no matter what your faith, there's only one answer to all of it.

 

[Kerr Avon]

I was a fracking basket case with all the refreshed memories scenes.

But okay, let's get this straight, just so I got it right. The "Flash Sideways" was some kind of spiritual construct that the souls of all the people who intersected in a deep spiritual connection due to the presence of the island used to come together again? So, not really an alternate reality created by splitting timelines from setting off the bomb, but something that is technically still a flash forward to a point at which all the people have died. Right?

The last show that had such a fine ending for me was "Sleeping in Light" from "Babylon 5" Don't get me started on Moore's BSG.

 

[moffeaton]

I think the crash really happened, and that only the flash sideways was Purgatory, They all died "eventually", as Christian said. Some lived longer, some didn't.

Along that line of thinking - how long were Hurley and Ben #1 & #2? Could have been hundreds of years! I need to sleep on all of this...

 

[jt001]

If Michael died in the explosion, why wasn't he in the church? Wait. I think got it. Michael told Hurley to tell Libby that he was sorry for what he did, so he "might" have been absolved and "moved on" earlier to "Heaven".

Why Desmond told Faraday's mother he was not going to take him with them? Why was he spared?

 

[Kerr Avon]

Counting the minutes until the kids go to bed.....:wacko

Sorry I didn't have time to tell this to you before the situation, but for the future remember this phrase:

"Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?"

Works great to pick up a date too.

 

[Egon Spengler]

Great ending! Not everything was answered and I like it that way. Sometimes not knowing is better than knowing. The prequel trilogy is a good example of how mysterious characters and events can be ruined by knowing too much. Ha.

Everything they experienced on the island was real. Smokey, Jacob, all of it. Even the time travel stuff with the 70's.

They all died eventually, some sooner than others. It was a great ending and a nice wrap up.

 

[Kerr Avon]

I think the crash really happened, and that only the flash sideways was Purgatory, They all died "eventually", as Christian said. Some lived longer, some didn't.

Along that line of thinking - how long were Hurley and Ben #1 & #2? Could have been hundreds of years! I need to sleep on all of this...

I don't think it's technically Purgatory even. It's just a holding place that they were all collecting in waiting for everyone before they move on, but so they could move on together. Purgatory suggests some kind of punishment to me, I think it was just them not wanting to move on without all their friends.

 

[protokev DMD]

At first i was a bit WTF, but the more i thought about it the more satisfied i was with it.

It was terribly moving television, it will be hard to top.

I cant believe im losing two favorite shows this week.

 

[Clutch]

So they all died in the first episode and the whole series has been some kind of fantasy land? Ehh?

 

[Mr Fett]

OK, nerd talk:

Jack easily got 3-4" of a 7" SOG SEAL knife blade into his intestines. He managed to climb back up the hill, hike through the jungle, go down a rope (and fell partway down landing right on the side with the stab wound) and lift and drag a heavy stone piece (which alone requires a lot of ab/core strength - pushing his intestines out the hole), pull himself out of the water and hike through the jungle again before finally falling down....quite a while after being stabbed. He would have dropped a lot sooner than that I think do to blood loss or the toxicity of the stab into his intestines getting into his blood stream.

But yeah, I liked the show. Great ending that got me choked up and sniffly.

 

[Moviefreak]

I did not like it!! IMHO

 

[Guri]

I :cry every time someone remembered something. :lol (except Jack)

The ending was extremely satisfying on a character by character basis... it felt like each of them had an appropriate and moving end.

The explanation of the origins and source of the island, why smoky was created, why the cork worked etc I think was best left as a mystery. Any more explanation and I think it would be easier to pick it apart the plausibility.

It looked like there was hieroglyphics on the 'cork', so maybe they do have some other ideas they left out.

Maybe we'll get some more ideas during the other alternate endings.

 

[SmilingOtter]

So they all died in the first episode and the whole series has been some kind of fantasy land? Ehh?

No, they all died when they all died - some earlier (Boone for example) and some later (Hurley and maybe Ben.) But everything in the flashes sideways were the waiting room for the afterlife.

 

[protokev DMD]

So they all died in the first episode and the whole series has been some kind of fantasy land? Ehh?

Not in the slightest.
The sideways verse was the only part that wasnt real. As each person died they ended up there until they could reawake each other before moving on.

 

[Moviefreak]

Thes better ending would have been.... they're in the church, the doors open, and in walks Ashton Kutcher and looks at the screen and says: You've been punked!! You wasted 5 years on this story!!

 

[sycor]

Overall I'm pretty happy with the ending. I can't think of any unanswered questions that really bother me other than the Faraday stuff. I don't see why he didn't get to go. Or even Miles and Anna Lucia. Why were they not ready yet?

 

[Darth Detori]

When you think about it, the ending is genius. It chooses faith over science, and those who don't like the ending seemed to have wanted some big scientific end-all answer. Yet if you watch the entire series carefully the themes of science vs. faith are HUGELY prevalent the entire time. They tell you THE WHOLE SHOW to trust in faith. And if you did, if you just went with it and had faith they would end it well then you would be totally satisfied.

 

[DARTH SABER]

You know what this means??!

"LOST : The Hurley Years"

DS

 

[IndyBlues]

Great wrap-up, and I always thought they were lost souls.
One question(so far, lol):
Why in hell was Penelope there?!?
Mike

 

[Kerr Avon]

So they all died in the first episode and the whole series has been some kind of fantasy land? Ehh?

No.

For the moment, ignore ALL FLASH SIDEWAYS from this last season. Pretend it didn't happen.

Everything else that happened was real events that continued to happen after the bomb was detonated at the end of season 5.

At the end of season 6, Hurley is the island guardian, and Ben is his second. Jack dies, the people on the plane flies off and presumably makes it back to civilization.

At some point, ALL of the characters have died. For everyone but Hurley and Ben, say 50 years later. For Hurley and Ben, we have no idea how long they might have lived afterwards. But, they all eventually die.

Now.. back to the Flash Sideways. Those events are a spiritual construct the souls of the people in the series made so they could be together again after everyone has eventually died for whatever reasons they die. They come together due to the deep bond forged by the events when they met on the island, etc. In death, they come together and take one last journey together beyond whatever is after death.\

Get it?