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[buttfacemakani]

Lost

so I don't know how to feel

Like I was ecstatic up until the last 5 minutes and then, I don't know.

Comments

[curry23]

oh yeah and not only was there no michael or walt, but also no Mr. Eko.
So apparently they don't want no black folk in their "heaven" : /

[justblieve]

Walt probably wasn't dead, Michael probably wasn't ready to move on and I think this purgatory was only a place for the people special to each of the survivors. Same way Daniel and Charlotte weren't there because they needed to find the people important to them to move on. Also we don't know that Eko didn't move on when he died because he had seen his brother and talked to him and was overall very religious.

[curry23]

NOOO MR. EKO!!!! ;3;

I have no idea why they weren't there - maybe you're right X D

[amanda_now]

I agree. Also I think Walt the actor is probably way too old and grown up at this point to fit into the role.

[phoenixblaize]

Wow. That was...

They're such liars. People were saying all along that they were already dead and they're all like, "oh noes!"

Tired cliche is tired. All the stuff about time travel, numbers, bombs, EMPs, Dharma Initiative, all of that stuff was irrelevant. Hell, the Jacob/Smokey epic grudge is irrelevant to Jack's journey of self discovery into the afterlife. Pffft.

So, yeah, that was dumb. I wanted it all to be a a story written on a computer screen by a monkey smoking a cigar and it ends with him typing "the numbers." Or it was all Vincent's dream and you see the dog twitching in his sleep.

[karyyu]

but... they weren't already dead.

The flash-sideways was apparently like an afterlife/purgatory meeting place for the losties. They all died at their separate times: the Kwons and Sayid in the sub, Jack in the jungle, Charlie when he drowned etc. Hurley and Ben probs guarded the Island for who knows how long, and Alpert, LaPidus, Miles, Sawyer, Kate, and Claire probably lived the rest of their lives out off the Island.

Then they met up during the afterlife in order to pass through to "someplace" together.

So yeah they were all dead in the end, but not throughout the whole length of the show like some people thought.

[curry23]

and yet either way it was still a cop-out on the writer's part. X D

[novangla]

It's not really a cop-out, because the sideways world wasn't meant to EXPLAIN anything. As someone I watched it with said, "It's an epilogue." They knew what they were doing from the time they invented sideways-land, and sure, maybe they fooled some of us into thinking it was an alternate reality instead of the next life

[redreh_esila]

Honestly, this is what I got out of it: two different endings

[redreh_esila]

...of course, now that I've said I'm leaning toward Ending Number Two, I find myself NOW leaning towards Ending Number One, XD

I think it's just one of those endings where your perception of it will change over time.

[duare]

There are mysteries in this world that cannot be explained, and you shouldn't attempt to explain them, whether they be the mysteries of an island, or the mysteries of death
Oh! I like it^^ Mind if I quote you? ;p

[redreh_esila]

Not at all, thank you :)

[atomiclava]

So, the Alternate Time Line was a limbo for the group of survivors whose most important times of their lives occurred on the island. And the people that didn't show up in the ATL didn't because the important times of their lives and the connections to the people they shared it with didn't happen on the island? So, like, Walt didn't show up because he went on to have a life off the island and everything important to him happened elsewhere. So, then he would have had his own kind of ATL when he eventually dies so he can meet up with his loved ones to move on together with them? Yikes, what does that mean for Aaron then, since he was a baby again when they all gathered together? Do you get more than one then? Is there another where Sayid meets up with Nadia instead of Shannon? Oh God, my head is going to explode

[redreh_esila]

I actually thought that was why Ben stayed there, waiting.

Hurley, the No. 1, would help take the first group onward, and Ben, the No. 2, would take those who came after, those who were not yet ready to leave, in the second group.

So the group with Kate, Jack, Sawyer, Juliet, Charlie and Claire, etc. etc.--those were all those who had found their strongest completion on the island. And it was mostly the couples too, if not only couples. People who's loves and lives had flourished on the island.

[average_fan]

Ooooh I love that idea!
I'm gonna stick to that and sell it to my friends as my own ;)

[verdhandi]

So what about the statue with the four toes? Was that ever explained? And those two stones (black and white) or whatever that were found with the corpses in some kind of cave?

I stopped following Lost when this whole time-travelling business started because I had forgotten so much stuff from previous seasons and got waaay too confused :[

[minnoh]

The statue was of the Egyptian goddess Taweret, who was usually depicted as a bipedal hippopotamus. Hippos have four toes.

And the two stones were explained, although you would've missed the introduction of those characters if you stopped watching before season 6. They're Jacob's mother and brother, and the stones are playing pieces of a game they played as children.