What happens to those on the plane?

[Locutus of Bored]

What happens to those on the plane?

The longest and most intrusive TSA body cavity search ever and an extended stay on Guam.

Seriously, you have one parole skipping ex-con, a con man possibly wanted for murder, a man with either no or multiple identities, a pilot who was supposed to fly one crashed plane winding up on another, a girl with hair like the feral kid from 'Road Warrior,' a guy who disappeared on a boat expedition to the Island, and all riding an f'd up plane lost for weeks with most of the passengers missing.

 

[beneldon]

What happens to those on the plane?

The longest and most intrusive TSA body cavity search ever and an extended stay on Guam.

Seriously, you have one parole skipping ex-con, a con man possibly wanted for murder, a man with either no or multiple identities, a pilot who was supposed to fly one crashed plane winding up on another, a girl with hair like the feral kid from 'Road Warrior,' a guy who disappeared on a boat expedition to the Island, and all riding an f'd up plane lost for weeks with most of the passengers missing.

Ding ding! ding! ding! We have a winnah!

 

[Top41]

LOL, that's awesome, Locutus.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Frank touches down in Guam, walks off the plane without a word, goes on a week-long bender and forgets everything that happened. Goes right back to his regular life, never discusses it with anyone. However, his career as a pilot is over - too many unanswered (and unanswerable) questions.

Kate and Claire remain friends and Kate helps raise Aaron.

Unexpectedly, Sawyer and Miles also become friends, the kind who spend all their time ragging on each other. Their partnership in the afterlife was created by their subconsciousnesses as an expression of that friendship.

Richard, well I have no idea. Maybe he goes to work for the Dharma Initiative.

My real question is: did any of them try to tell the truth about what happened? There was nothing stopping them now, except the prospect of being tossed in the looney bin. They're going to be grilled, and there's no lie they could come up with that would make any sense, so what choice would they have?

Did anyone visit Hurley's parents and explain their son wasn't dead, but happily caretaking a magical island, with a psychotic killer as his second in command (but that part's okay, he's reformed!)

Did anyone even attempt to find the island again, if only to validate their wild story?

Did Sawyer, still guilt-ridden, ever visit Ji Yeon when she was grown up to explain how her parents died?

 

[Aragorn]

Didn't you watch Kimmel? There are snakes on that plane, and only Sawyer can save them!

 

[Python Trek]

I'm thinking spin-off! "The Ajira Gang"!

Ford---the Han Solo-type leader
Kate--his lover and 2nd-in-command
LePenis, oops, Lepidis---crusty pilot with a heart o' gold
Richard---mysterious 300-year-old man
Claire---nutty hot chick raising her son alone--is he "special"? is he "The Chosen One"?
Miles---hardboiled psychic detective, quick with a wisecrack

Tell me you wouldn't watch that fricikin' show!

 

[label]

They landed in an abandoned airfield somewhere......some of them chose to stay in contact, others not. They slipped away into their lives and eventually passed on until it was time to rejoin their real family in the end..............

Does anything more specific really need to be said beyond that?

 

[RoJoHen]

They lived their lives, and I'm guessing they lived them well.

When Jack finally started to remember his life, Kate said something like, "I waited so long for you," which leads me to believe she led a very long and full life after leaving the Island.

 

[Hober Mallow]

Live together, die alone... go to the afterlife together.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

The survivors came back to the Island and started a resort. Every once in a while visitors would make emergency landings (like the Globetrotters), or one of the characters would mysteriously have a son that never existed before (well, that happened anyway).

 

[McCoy]

I'm thinking spin-off! "The Ajira Gang"!

Ford---the Han Solo-type leader
Kate--his lover and 2nd-in-command
LePenis, oops, Lepidis---crusty pilot with a heart o' gold
Richard---mysterious 300-year-old man
Claire---nutty hot chick raising her son alone--is he "special"? is he "The Chosen One"?
Miles---hardboiled psychic detective, quick with a wisecrack

Tell me you wouldn't watch that fricikin' show!

Not without Ben.

 

[Delta1]

They didn't have Daniel Faraday or the Lamp Post to calculate an exit vector, so they flew through the time vortex around the island for several minutes, then nosedived into the ocean or back onto the island.

 

[DonIago]

^Explains how the Others got there to begin with.

 

[Delta1]

Maybe Richard built Taweret?

Seriously, the only way to get out of the island is to follow a precisely-calculated heading. But since the island drifts, that heading must also drift. There's no way to know for sure which heading Lapidus needed to get away from the island, or if even one would have been sufficient. He might have needed waypoints.

But let's assume Lapidus just reversed the course that got him to the island in the first place. That corridor was full of turbulence--tidal forces, or something--that crashed the plane. If he flies back into that corridor, the same turbulence will crash the plane again. This time, in the ocean. They will be food for Dharma sharks.

The series hit us over the head, again and again, with the idea that getting into or out of the island's airspace is extremely difficult and fraught with peril. We shouldn't forget that just because we want to have a happy ending. Or we can just say Hurley magicked them safely away. Wizard did it.

 

[RoJoHen]

It's possible that Jacob was the one who made the Island impossible to leave. With him dead, there was nobody actually keeping people trapped there.

 

[propita]

It's possible that Jacob was the one who made the Island impossible to leave. With him dead, there was nobody actually keeping people trapped there.

Kinda implied by Ben's statement, "That was Jacob's way." Of course, since Ben hadn't met Jacob until right before Ben killed him....

But I think Ben's right. The statement's between Ben and Hurley at the church imply they had a long and positive relationship as protector and assistant.

BTW, Ben said "I don't think I'm going to go in" or something like that. NOT, "go in yet"--right? So he didn't want to move on with the rest? Or did he want to spend a little sideways time with Alex and Danielle. If so, since there is no "now" at the church, why didn't he just join them? Did everyone wait for him--since no one was really making a move to follow Christian out the doors.

 

[McCoy]

I think he said something like "I'm going to sit here for a while", implying that he will eventually enter the church.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Didn't Ben also say he has things to work out? Gah, I need to watch the episode again. Good thing I haven't deleted it yet.

One thing he better work out is Michael being trapped on the island because of Ben's manipulations. If Michael can't forgive himself enough to go into the church, Ben certainly shouldn't be able to. Ben will walk through those doors only when Michael is with him.

 

[propita]

Ben was forgiven by pretty much everyone still alive--a shocking few.

Michael didn't really have a chance to be forgiven by anyone but Hurley. I'm not sure if Hurley forgave him. Knowing Hurley, he probably would've by then.

 

[McCoy]

It's forgiving yourself that helps you let go. If Ben can manage to do that and Michael can't, Ben will move on and Michael won't.