I thought they were gonna make the islanders merge with there other selves

say everyone on the island got to the "light" and those @ the church when they open the doors they merge back into 1 and then move on

or as they flew off the island there's another "flash" and all their memories persons etc merge with those @ the church etc and they either get to live their life or have to move on etc

Dude.... are you serious? haha.. The alternate universe didn't exist at ALL. Period. Everything that happened in the alternate universe was just a CREATION to allow them to see each other again and move on. Jack never had a son, he was never married to Juliet, Sawyer was never a cop, etc etc. Everything that happened on the island DID happen. Jack died. Hurley and Ben became #1 and #2 protectors of the island (Hurley and Ben made references to this in the AU, indicating they were successful in doing so in the real timeline). Kate/Claire/Sawyer/Miles/Frank/Richard flew off the island in the plane, but it's open to our interpretation whether or not they actually made it back home. I like to think they did so that Kate could look after Ji Yeon, Claire could finally raise Aaron, and Sawyer could even find and be with his daughter Clementine.

The point of the alternate universe was so that all the Losties could be together again. Sort of like a non-denominational heaven. The alternate universe is not set in a specific time. Like Christian told Jack, everyone dies. You could die on the island, you could die off it. The plane carrying Kate and them could have made it back or they could have crashed into the ocean 10 minutes later. It doesn't matter. The entire point of the alternate universe was so they could find each other after death (hence the timeless aspect of it). Not everyone was in the church because not everyone mattered as much when it came to being part of the bigger picture I guess.

It's super cheesy when you think about it but the more I think about it, the more I've come to accept and even like the idea. Yes, the fans always suspected the show was about purgatory, but everything we saw on the island DID happen. It was only the alternate universe you could consider purgatory. Meh. Either way, I liked the last scene.

P.S. I saw the Kimmel aftershow and kinda relieved and bummed out that the alternate endings were actually spoofs. I guess it made sense since the writers said they always knew how the show was going to end.. wouldn't make sense to write real alternate endings

yeah i get that the alternate reality is just limbo; but that doesnt make sense as to why those who didn't die were there too (especially Hurley and Linus)


edit ohhhhh wait i totally dismissed hurley telling linus "you were a good #2" ok that makes sense now

They all died at the crash on the plane in season 1.

Their sprits stayed on the island because they couldn't get to heaven yet for one reason. They had no heaven. They were all unhappy and alone when they "came" to the island. They needed the island and the people on the island to move to heaven TOGETHER. They made their heaven to pass into. In other words, they used each other to move on and formed their heaven by being happy and accepting of what happened to them.

Jacob= God/Heaven
Man in black= Devil/Hell

Jacob didn't want anyone to leave the island because he knew the "survivors" would need the island to move on to heaven.

The flash sideways:

When on island: way of coming together and being happy and letting go.

When off island: denial, haven't came to realization yet.

The title of the show says it best. LOST. When they all came to the island they were all lost within themselves and lonely. In the series finale, they move on and are no longer lost. Which is why they move on to heaven.

Polar bear on island?

man in black way of trying to get people off island. making the island seem weird and crazy and therefore the "survivors" want to get off. Because the island was used to move on and accept death, thats why jacob didn't want anyone to leave.

How did the man in black become the smoke monster, yet no one else did?

Jack and Desmond were already dead when they went down there. Man in black originally got pushed down there long before anyone else and he was alive at time.


Is this their afterlife? Is it heaven, purgatory, or hell?

purgatory.

What is the island?

Way of accepting death. without the island, the people on the plane were "lost" and unhappy. island was a place to come together and accept death and fianlly be happy.

Who are the other others? (Leaded by the asian man who was drowned...introduced in season 6). Where did they come from?

there was no others. they were all make belief so it was easier to move to afterlife.

What is Daniel Faraday & his mom's connection to the island?

Can be viewed as disiples of god. helped bring them back to island and helped them all go to heaven.

How did Juliet have a flashback of herself dying, while she was alive?

when was this? i dont remember this.

Who is Charles Widmore? What excactly is his connection to the island?

I BELIEVE it is someone who has died and helps the "survivors" move on and unite through obsticales.


How was the island found by the Dharma iniative, if it couldn't be picked up by any satellites when the plane crashed?

Dharma was fake. It was a way of helping survivors unite and work together.


Why do pregnant women die on the island, except for Claire?

because Claire was already dead. she died in crash.


What is the significance of the statue on the island, with the missing foot?

I actually dont know. dont think its significant.

What is the fire pit in the hole of light that needs to be protected? The one that Jack "Plugged" with the rock? Is it Hell?

Hell. Yes.


In season 6, why were there 2 alternate universes on and off the island? Which was real?

When on island: way of accepting death. they are working together to move on to heaven.

when off island: denial of death. havent realized it yet.

How is Hurley in the final scene? Who is protecting the light?

No one. The island was a way to accept death and make friendships and be happy before passing on to heaven. all plane survivors were unhappy and lost before the crash.

Where were Michael, Anna Lucia, Alex, and others in the Final scene?

non existent, they werent on plane so they never died.

Where is Jin & Sun's baby?

Never had it, they died before the island. baby was a symbole of happiness that brought them closer.

Why didn't Ben go into the church at the end? Did he go to hell?

He never died in plane crash, he was already on island.


Did the show ever explain the numbers? (4 8 15 16 23 42). Someone mentioned the Valenzetti equation, can anyone elaborate?

I think its all biblical. I think maybe 4 8 stands for April 8th. Which was easter, which is birth of jesus. other numbers maybe represent a bible verse. havent dugged in to far.

rewatch Christian's scene with Jack and it should help. Jack asked Christian if everyone at the church was dead. Christian replied that everyone dies. Some have died before him (Boone, Shannon, Sayid, Sun, Jin), and some lived long after him (again, left for us to decide.. Perhaps Kate, Claire, Sawyer, Desmond, Penny, Hurley and Ben). The alternate universe is timeless. Could have taken place sooner than later, or could have happened 50 years after the real timeline.

I'm 99% sure that the writers of LOST have stated since the beginning that the Losties were very much alive on the island (The island-being-purgatory theory was the most popular theory at the time). The island was not purgatory. The alternate universe on the other hand, is.

so wut happen to richard alpert? he became human again when notice his grey hair?

yeah... faking scientific and logical explanations and then saying "afterlife!"

damn lazy retard writers.

So how was the smoke monster explained? Well, the dark hair kid got tossed into the light and he came out. I know what happened, but explain it logically. It's just made-up bullshit.

And what about the flash-sideways lives. So they're just not real? He really didn't have a son like Locke said to Jack?

Was it just Jack's way of getting closure? I know they're trying to say, "we see jack die on the island but everyone else dies at different times but all meet up here because there is no time here, since it's the afterlife, see, that's why kate says 'i've missed you for so long' alluding to the fact that she survived as Jack looked at the plane get away and lived a nice long life before dying herself and then meeting up with Jack int he place where there's no time."

Still, it's just fancy BS for no logical explanations for shit.

And yes I know how hurley and ben continued to guard the island for years afterwards.

But then again, explain that to us. Guarding the light or the source or whatever? What the hell is that anyway? just more made up crap.

Still, the show was great and directed well and executed nicely but the answers were not there and for writers who touted logical and rational explanations, they really did just fuck us in the ass.