"The End" Live Commentary

[Klaus]

No, they all died at various times in their life. Jack died on the Island like we just saw. Frank rescued people on the Ajira plane, but they all died at some point after living their lives. Hugo and Ben died at some point after watching over the Island.

But they all went to the Alternate Reality (Afterlife) and found each other!

That is the best summary right there, and i am going to go with this theory for right now, cause it makes the most sense. So everything did happen. I'm going to side with your summary, I like it.

Hugo confirmed it when he said Ben was a good #2

I agree with that analysis whole-heartedly...

 

[Brent]

Which still leaves so many questions about the Island though.

The show isn't about the Island. It's about, as I've been saying all season, the survivors of Flight 815.

But all that stuff happened on the Island right, so what is the Light? What is magical about the electromagnetic properties? What was Jacob and what was his "mother", and who built everytihing there, and on and on and on......

 

[PKerr]

That was awesome!

Whats up with Ben though? What does he need to work out?

I think they were alluding to Ben not going to Heaven?

 

[pookha]

a lot of way back in the first season guessed it was purgatory.
they denied it but in the end...

 

[Gertch]

Thank you. This is why I love you people. Now I understand the ending. It actually was very good.

 

[The Super Brando]

The alt universe/ flash sideways turned out really awesome, but they still didn't explain what the heck the island is. That's the biggest question of them all!!

And what was up with Walt?

 

[Samurai8472]

They invoke the final star trek reference

"They're dead Jim"

 

[Brent]

a lot of way back in the first season guessed it was purgatory.
they denied it but in the end...

Which is false, because the entire show was not purgatory, only the flash sideways in S6 were.

 

[RoJoHen]

You people are all wrong. The alt-universe is a real universe, not the afterlife or anything. They're just remembering their entire lives until their deaths. Hurley says "you were an awesome number 2" to Ben and he returns the favour. Likewise, everyone remembers their lives on the island from start to finish.

As for Christian... he's Smokey?

That's how I prefer to look at it.

I don't even understand this explanation, to be honest. Rather, I'm not sure I understand how it's not the same as my explanation.

Yes, they're remembering their real lives on the Island, but they're still dead in the Flashsideways. They came right out and said so. That makes it an afterlife.

 

[Brent]

The alt universe/ flash sideways turned out really awesome, but they still didn't explain what the heck the island is. That's the biggest question of them all!!

And what was up with Walt?

Exactly, the Island is real, all that stuff there is real, we have NO answers about the Island.

 

[RoJoHen]

Which still leaves so many questions about the Island though.

The show isn't about the Island. It's about, as I've been saying all season, the survivors of Flight 815.

But all that stuff happened on the Island right, so what is the Light? What is magical about the electromagnetic properties? What was Jacob and what was his "mother", and who built everytihing there, and on and on and on......

It's unimportant to the focus of this story. The Island was a setting. A really weird setting with a crazy history, but still just the setting.

 

[DarthPipes]

So the stuff in the Alt-Universe didn't happen. Locke didn't get engaged, Hurley didn't have good like, etc. That was there way to find each other again.

 

[Capn Flukie]

I am a very satisfied Lostie.

Now to do something mundane like laundry.

 

[Brent]

The show isn't about the Island. It's about, as I've been saying all season, the survivors of Flight 815.

But all that stuff happened on the Island right, so what is the Light? What is magical about the electromagnetic properties? What was Jacob and what was his "mother", and who built everytihing there, and on and on and on......

It's unimportant to the focus of this story. The Island was a setting. A really weird setting with a crazy history, but still just the setting.

And I want to know more about that setting. They set up so much neat stuff, but then did not deliver on explanations for that stuff. I can appreciate it isn't primary to the "story", but I could also argue that all of it is indeed part of the story. Just depends how you look at it, me, it is all part of the story since it is there.

 

[ThunderAeroI]

How did Jack get out of the cave?

 

[RoJoHen]

So the stuff in the Alt-Universe didn't happen. Locke didn't get engaged, Hurley didn't have good like, etc. That was there way to find each other again.

Correct. But I mean, saying "it didn't happen" is weird and not really accurate. I'm sure those lives were just as important to the characters as their real lives before they died.

 

[Brent]

How did Jack get out of the cave?

The Light must have transported him, I mean the thing is powerful enough to move the island through time, so why not teleport Jack away.

 

[The Super Brando]

How did Jack get out of the cave?

Yeah!

Oh wait, he stopped being the Jacob replacement, so he couldn't see that glowing hole place anymore.

 

[DarthPipes]

Lost was definitely more about character than story.

Thank you, Lost. You were a great show, with a great cast and crew.

 

[melancholymecha]

JC's Titanic's ending...

thats all Im saying