Yeah, but Juliet said "It worked" right before she died. So if the alternate timeline was just them hanging around in the afterlife, what the hell did she mean if not that the nuke they set off prevented the whole thing from happening in the first place?
When you think about it, the ending of Lost is pretty similar to Titanic.
Endings usually suck whether it be art or real life. The end of ones life usually has sputum involved. That doesn't mean that ones life sucked. Think of life of when you were chasing skirts, not when you were sucking on an oxygen tank. Think of Lost as Hurley driving the VW microbus around the golf course that he built on the Island.
Way to go, Lost! It was a great six year adventure. But there were WAY too many commercials last night which almost made me turn off the tube.
I'm definitely disappointed in the way it ended but....what do you expect...its Lost. Of course it was going to screw with your head. I was expecting more answers and am tired as hell right now because I was tossing and turning all night trying to make sense of everything.
I am surprised at the number of people everywhere bitching about wasting 6 years of their life though. The series was amazing, kept you on the edge of your seat and thinking.
Reindog- I think I pretty much agree with your final thoughts. I did think the Target Lost-based ads were pretty clever (showing Smokey and the smoke detector, wild boars and BBQ sauce, and the Hatch computer and keyboards).
I can let most of the unanswered questions go but I REALLY wish they had delved into explaining the island/magnetic anomaly/"good" light a little more. MIB or Jacob could have handled that to my satisfaction with a minute-long monologue.
I watched from the beginning and was not disappointed. Still trying to piece all of it together though. Christian said that everything that happened to them was real, some died earlier, some died later. So this seasons off island scenario, was essentially afterlife correct? Island stuff actually occurred. So Hurley and Ben were on the island for many years beyond Jack's death right? I would like to hear again exactly what Christian was saying to him.
A satisfying one from my point of view is that everyone has a different frame of reference as they die. The church sequence was what happened from Jack's reference frame as it brought him closure as he died in the OT. It is doubtful that ghosts would have hung around in Purgatory just to listen to Christian Shephard pull a fast one. Hurley, for example, might have had a roast about what a great guy he was and would have a different set of friends as he moved forward.
The good/bad had been in play for many thousands of years before Jacob/MIB and will probably extend forever beyond Hurley (but who is the new MIB?). We saw signs of Egyptians but never learned anything about it.
I am at peace with the final Lost episode as it still requires intellectual thought to say goodbye to our friends from the past six years. As Sawyer said last night, "That sure was a long con". Typical James Ford/La Fleur/Sawyer.
The sideways timeline is purgatory. This is where you go to resolve issues and reconnect with those you love, no matter when they died, before going onwards into the Light. It is a place of resolution. Jack became a good father after having been a bad son. James Ford became a cop after having been a murderer and a conman. Hurley turned what he considered bad fortune into good fortune. Locke found love and healing after having his kidney stolen and thrown out of a building paralyzing him. Ben, Elizabeth Hawking, Daniel Faraday, nor Anna Lucia were not ready to move on. The Light is what emanated from the Island and is what Jacob meant that very bad things would happen if the Light went out. People would not be able to meet and move on. Desmond uncorked the bottle (extinguishing the Light) in order for Jack to kill Samuel (<-- MIB's name revealed) and then Jack recorked the bottle causing the Light to re-illuminate. It was then Jack's time to move along. Jack met Kate in the Church after she probably had lived a full Titanic life after escaping the Island. Damn I miss them all.
Pierre Chang is/was hardly a hippie. Plus the Dharma Initiative had semi-automatic weapons AND Dharma Initiative Beer as they cruised around the Island in their VW Microbuses.
I find the ending more satisfying as time goes by. Your imagination can fill in a lot of details and don't worry about the polar bears (which were explained BTW).
I think the freakin' writer's guild strike (whenever that was) screwed the show up more than anything. That was the season we got half a season, then waited 2 months, and then got another half a season (something like that). Seems like they kind of lost their rhythm after that. The next year they started that crap about the new season not starting until January of the following year.
I still greatly enjoyed the show, but it sure feels like they missed a lot of opportunities to make it significantly better.
