[SPOILER ALERT] So, raise your hand if you’ve spent the past three days obsessing over what was purgatory, what was real-life, for the past six Read the full post.
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On the Canadian feed we didn’t even see this, so I was completely confused when everyone kept talking about the credits!
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People are looking so hard for meaning in every little scrap of the show that they’re ignoring the simple facts. It was made abundantly clear in the final moments of the show that the time on the island actually happened, and that the sideways reality was their otherworldly meeting place. To reverse that based on images shown during the credits is sort of embarrassing.
XSE,
Glad to see you are so perfect- Keep on keepin on…..
this show drives me nuts because the viewers have to over-analyze everything and nothing is made clear by the writers. quite frankly, the whole show would make much more sense if they were all dead from the plane crash on, then all the crazy unrealistic crap that happened over 6 seasons WOULD make sense… that it’d be more like “the imaginarium of dr parnassis,” like it’s all in someone’s mind. in fact, i think that’s what i’ll choose to believe, thanks EW.
Auds, I have no way to back this up, but I have felt for a long time now that maybe that was Darlton’s plan at the beginning. (The plane crashes and they’re all in purgatory scenario.) Then, two or three episodes in, all the fans guessed “Purgatory,” so the writers switched their story plan. Again, I have NOTHING to back this up. Just a thought,
Abbey, I’d like think your half right. Given the allusions to Dante’s levels of hell, I felt the island was a level of purgatory, a living purgatory or a purgatory on earth (some souls, like Michael’s, were stuck there). The sideways world was the next level of purgatory, a spiritual level. This would also mesh well with the whole humanist/spiritualist dichotomy of the show. Just a thought.
Also something to keep in mind, if you look back at those shots, they could never have been “evidence everyone died” because there are visible sneaker footprints in the sand in a couple of those panning shots.
The writers got us used to studying every detail for clues. So it’s a good thing I saw those footprints in that last scene, because it definitely looked to me to be part of the story.
also i figured there would be dead bodies both inside and outside of the wreckage, if in fact everyone died.
Naw: By now the polar bears would have gotten them.
I love the posters who are saying things like “DUH, how could you NOT have realized it was just filler?” Because Lost has suggested there is meaning in what the characters EAT for god’s sake… it was not surprising that so many (including myself) assumed that showing something so significant as the wreckage of the plane that started the whole series would mean something.
Well we are glad you love us because you annoy us with your overanalyzing, Doc Jensen kool aid drinking posts.
Lost has never suggested there is meaning in the minutiae. They have always maintained that this is a character-driver show. When have you ever heard them bill Lost as “a show where you are supposed to figure out what every little detail means”? That particular monster was fan-created, and if you bought into it, that’s your doing, not Lost’s.
Exactly. Doc Jensen didn’t help with his over the top analytical articles.
Can’t agree here. Yes, it’s a character-driven show, but they have OFTEN intentionally played with the minutiae. They’re called Esater Eggs. How about Hoffs/Drawlar as a way to say it’s a Flash/Forward, and the Dharma logo on the shark, and the microwave in Brooklyn having the same sound as the hatch buzzer, and the…and the…
@XSE Drake – EXACTLY. It was the fans who created all the confusion and assumed deep meaning and answers in the details. The show just neglected to give any answers to the questions they posed.
I’m so glad I am not the only one who has been absolutely obsessing about Lost the past few days… I seriously am struggling- it doesn’t make any sense why I feel this way.
Ha! I’ve been wondering about myself the same way. I’m way more into it now then I ever was before. Serious Lost withdrawals… May need a support group… lol
If I had any kind of web design skills at all, I would create lostsupportgroupdotcom
Either a support group or one heck of a big wake.
Christian explains to Jack at the end of the episode that everything Jack experienced really happened and the sideways world is fake. Jack was told some of his friends died before him and some died long after he was gone. Now lets assume some things. Since some of Jack’s friends died long after him, I would like to think Kate moved to Austrailia with Clair to help raise Aron and died of old age in that Country. Sawyer probably reconnected with his daughter and was in her life till the day he died. I understand that the island life was real and the sideways world was a way station for everyone moving on together, you only have to listen to what Christian told Jack.
Thanks Kevin, why is that so lost on everyone? I just posted something similar before I saw that you had written this. They explained it very well in my opinion, and leave us to assume things like you mentioned above.
Wouldn’t Kate end up in jail after getting back, that is where she was headed in the beginning? I think the fans should make a “Lost–what if?” fansite.
Kate already had her trial the first time she came to LA. The problem I see was that Kate was told never to leave LA, so I guess they could get her on that. But what if the plane doesn’t land on US soil, then she wouldn’t have to worry about that violation.
Kate had already been acquitted of those charges, when she returned to the US as part of the “Oceanic Six.”
Don’t forget that Miles would have loads of cash from the diamonds that he snagged. Also, depending on how Hurly ran the island, he could always appear (How Jacob was able) in the real word and give some cash to those who needed it. My bigger hope was that Desmond Sailed home on fLocke’s Sailboat
You’re right Kevin. I don’t understand how people are misinterpreting this.
And what’s making me mad is how people who (a) never watched the show or (b) stopped watching after a couple of seasons, saw the last episode and say that they were in purgatory and died in the plane crash. ABC showing the wreckage during the credits didn’t help.
If Kate died at old age with Sawyer and Claire wouldn’t they have crossed over in their “old” bodies???
ABC should have known that us Lost fans are a meticulous bunch….six seasons of us batting metaphysical and theological arguments at one another and they don’t stop to think that the scene they showed would get pulled apart! Guess they really know the fans, eh!
I didn’t think for a second that those images had anything to do with the “explanation”. I just took it to be a reminder of just how far the show had come. I never would have connected them with the overall answer if not for this very article.
Yes! Something I got right
Well, I thought the creators did it on purpose and here’s why… Jack is dying in the same spot where he woke up originally on the island. In the pilot, he wakes up, runs out to the beach, sees the burning wreckage. Now, he’s dying, so the camera takes you to the beach to see the wreckage as it lies now after years of sitting in the tropical climate rusting away. I thought it was a fitting end to the show and glad that it was totally incidental and not intended to mean anything.
Didn’t the survivors burn a lot of it and then watch the rest get washed away early in the seasons? Considering all the analysis of the show, it was either a really dumb thing to do or they just wanted to cause more confusion as it makes no sense.
I don’t know why everyone keeps saying sideways world was purgatory. As I interpreted it when Christian told Jack it was a way station that the passengers created, that he was implying that there were things they needed to wrap up in their own minds before they could proceed to heaven.
No where in the show was heaven or purgatory mentioned. So I agree, I don’t agree with those words being thrown around like it was some sort of fact.
eh – i dont know that it was purgatory – but it was definitely purgatory-like, at least for jack. it seems like he spent much of his time trying to make amends for various reasons. he had his fake son, it seems that he was created to atone for the bad relationship with his own father. and he was still a “fixer” – as we see with john locke, only in sideways world, he is successful in his fixing. i dont think this was the case for every character on lost, but for jack, i think it was.
But isn’t “a waystation” where the occupants “wrap things up before they could proceed to heaven” virtually the dictionary definition of purgatory or limbo?
Um, yes. Yes, it is.
It seemed to me as though the viewer was presented with an “empty stage,” in other words, we were shown the wreckage of the original crash without the people, indicating that the story was over.
Way to go ABC.
I just thought it was an image to show during credits, and not part of the show anyways. But now, another thing for the fans to debate.
Way to go ABC.