LOST: Was It Good For You? SPOILERS!

[maggiedr]

It's misleading to say I've been a total geek for LOST. More like a partial geek. I've followed the series faithfully since summer of 2005, when I caught the first season in reruns. I nearly gave up on it during season 3 but then the second part of that season came back with the announcement that the series would end after another three seasons.

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[araken]

I agree that it was brilliantly done on a character level, and that I have some plot quibbles as far as the mysteries go that I can live with. All told, Lost was an excellent story.

I have a different interpretation of what actually happened though. At the end, Jack's father says something to the effect of "Everything that happened, happened." and "Some died before you, some after you." To me, this means that the Island is "real" (or as real as anything in a fictional universe is real), and the sideways universe from this season alone is some form of waiting area or Purgatory. So Boone's there because he died in Season One, Jack's there because he died in the last scene of the finale...and Kate, Sawyer and Claire are there because they made it off the island, lived out their lives, and then eventually died, as all humans do.

It's the final trick of time: we start with flashing backward, then flashing forward, and finally we end with flashing to no time at all: because eternity has no concept of "past" or "future".