I was a hard core fan of LOST - I hung by EVERY episode through the fifth season. When the ISLAND took a turn for the Everyone is DEAD and this is purgatory until you can put your sole to rest before you move on to heaven, hell, or your final destination - they betrayed everything the producers promised fans during the first season. Did they forget saying "No they are not dead - this is NOT purgatory." :cry
You might want to keep watching, the island isn't purgatory.
I think you can make a pretty good argument that it is, starting with the pilot and that a commercial jetliner breaks up at 38,000 feet and floats gently enough to the ground that 48 people survive. I think (despite all assurances to the contrary by Team Darlton) that the producers always intended that and viewers figured it out too quickly so they denied it. The final proof is that they ended up in a type of small-P purgatory at the end, anyhow.
But that really isn't the same thing. Even if it was their intent early on, that isn't what they settled with.
To say they were dead the whole time is essentially to say that they all died when the plane crashed... then slowly died again in purgatory 1, then were reminded they were dead in purgatory 2. What's the point in that? How does that mesh with what Christian says about how they are all joined in the afterlife because the most importaint aspects of their LIFE was the time they spent on the island?
Sorry, I just don't see the evidence for it.
The characters contradict that theory, and the show runners say island = real world; how can I argue?
What is your connection between dead Christian and the island being purgatory?