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[Wes]

:lol people confused

 

[Spire]

i don't see hand waving with fucking IT WAS ALL GOD's PLAN.

An entire season of side ways universe retelling the most important connections and relationships is a fitting end of the show.

THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER BSG's bullshit ending.

I was more referring to feeding us this overly religious bullshit.

 

[neoism]

Before this episode I hated Kate and this episode has redeemed her. Seriously amazing.

No Jack. Noooooooo.

awesome...

 

[Zeliard]

The island wasn't purgatory. The alt timeline was. They all were there waiting. They couldn't move on without being together

We're really getting down to semantics now. They were basically "waiting" on that island, and they had to die there to go on to "heaven". The alt timeline was essentially the bridge (or is "heaven" itself). The island was purgatory (notice how Michael is still stuck there). Outside of the island was the real world.

I don't mind it. It's fine. But that's what it pretty much is.

 

[big ander]

Spectacular.

Just spectacular.

I cant think of other words right now

 

[Cipherr]

That was absolutely great.

Some questions and things were left unanswered, but they did a GREAT fucking job ending the show.

They really outshined BSG, which ended with questions but didnt manage to pull it off as well. This was done REALLY well.

 

[Brinbe]

Best finale ever. And some weren't there because they weren't ready yet. Kind of weird that they went with purgatory since that was speculated for a long time.

Watching the news and Jesus fucking Christ are people dumb. They didn't die in the crash and not from the start, gahhhh

 

[Deadly]

You could see it coming when Hugo told Ben that he was a good #2 and that Hugo was a good #1. Damn what a freakin legendary ending.

 

[will123456]

Amazing ending. Loved it.

 

[blame space]

I'm bawling my eyes out right now. It was fucking perfect.

so much, this.

 

[Y2Kev]

I don't get why people think it's Purgatory. Everything on the island happened but this fake reality/heaven was created so they could all find each other after they died.

Yeah I don't think it's purgatory. I think everything that happened happened and season 6 was just Jack's consciousness forming a heaven.

 

[Beowulf28]

Wow that was fucking unbelievable. For me LOST just ended with its best episode ever and holy fuck the ending made me actually cry :'(

 

[Zombie James]

The island was real, the flash-sideways stuff was purgatory. Seemed pretty clear to me.

 

[Dead]

BEST EPISODE OF LOST
BEST END TO ANYTHING EVER

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Seriously

I never expected an ending as perfect as this.

Im so happy, yet I'm still in tears

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

I AM SERIOUSLY IN AWE.

I AM HOLY SHIT I AM IN SHOCK.

 

[SolidEyeSystem]

Loved it.

 

[Kuroyume]

What does ABC have to replace Lost now? :lol

 

[LiK]

:lol people confused

i know right. Christian explained it so clearly.

 

[Patryn]

Yeah, let me clear things up for people:

The island was real.

You hear me?

THE ISLAND WAS REAL.

It was the X-Verse that was the afterlife.

So, in the real world we had Lapidus, Miles, Richard, Kate, Clair and Sawyer flying off to civilization. Did they make it? Who knows?

Hugo was left in charge of the island. Who knows how long his reign was?

But, once again:

THE ISLAND WAS REAL. THEY WERE ALIVE ON THE ISLAND.

 

[Preble]

Where's Micheal and Walt? Black folks don't get no love.

 

[DoomGyver]

Best. Ending. Ever.

 

[bill0527]

No, only the flash sideways was purgatory, everything else actually happened.

Yep this is exactly what I just told my wife while walking up the stairs to get on the computer to see the forthcoming meltdowns.

 

[Alfarif]

The eye closing was about perfect.

It was absolutely the best way to ever end a show... that was fucking amazing. Holy shit.

 

[SS4Gogita]

I'm bawling my eyes out right now. It was fucking perfect.

Pretty much.

Lots of tears for me

 

[Druz]

Makes me wonder what the hell Desmond was doing. HE IS THE MASTER OF NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES.

 

[Azwethinkweiz]

Jack's father told him that the most important part of his life is the part he spent with those people. Obviously the island was real.

 

[bachikarn]

i don't see hand waving with fucking IT WAS ALL GOD's PLAN.

An entire season of side ways universe retelling the most important connections and relationships is a fitting end of the show.

THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER BSG's bullshit ending.

This is the exact same ending. The ending didn't do anything to explain mythology. Hell most of the "mysteries" of Lost can be explained by Jacob did it. How is that any different than God did it? I really liked them both.

 

[soldat7]

:lol people confused

Then enlighten everyone.

 

[2Good4u]

so...it was purgatory?

well, locke's father already mentioned that

 

[Apoc29]

What about the polar bears????!

J/K. That was a great finale.

 

[Subterranean]

I'll admit, I cried, a lot.

Awesome ending to a amazing show that will always have a special place in my life.

 

[Jon]

Fantastic episode until the last 15 minutes! Whyyyy!!?! Of course Lost couldn't end without raising one more question :lol

Still, a great series, and that was about as good a finale as I could have hoped for.

 

[The Omega Man]

They were waiting for each other, beautiful ending!

 

[ErasureAcer]

So, can one assume the last shots of the plane debris while the credits ran insinuates that they all actually died during the crash?

Everyone keeps saying "no, the island was real" but then why in the world did they show that last shot?

People die in your timeline all the time but in yours you are still alive. They're all still alive though brotha...I fucking guarantee it.

 

[Plinko]

I was more referring to feeding us this overly religious bullshit.

:lol

And here come the butthurt "But this entire show has scientific explanations!!!!" crowd.

 

[The Hermit]

Man, that was really great. The tears finally came.

Yes...the agonizing death of Jack was too much to take... ;_;

 

[Kitschkraft]

Ben didn't "move on" with them because he still felt that he had repentence/atonement in the "purgatory/alt world". I'm guessing that he wants to live that life with Alex for awhile.

Maybe Ben is the one that wakes up some of the people left behind?

PERFECT ending!

 

[Keylime]

Fantastic.

They made us relive and re-experience all the great moments and characters in a way that didn't feel forced or fake at all.

The entire time I was holding my wife I was fighting back tears.

Great job, guys.

 

[The Elite]

Loved it.

But, I can't discuss what I want to discuss with anyone right now. Any brits out there know what I'm talking about?

Seriously, if you do - PM me. I want to talk about it.

 

[dorkimoe]

Christian said "Some of them died before you, some long after." They didn't all die in the crash, the whole show wasn't purgatory. I expect this post to be ignored.

i read it, thank you.

 

[SimleuqiR]

FUCK!
That last scene, the bamboos, jack, vincent...the plain, the eye closing!! sO FUCKING EPIC!!!

 

[WillyFive]

Are you being sarcastic? Please tell me you are being sarcastic.

Heck no. Season 2 was awesome. So what if it was slow, it was very good. It definitely gave the most impressions considering all the great shirts and posters that came from it.

 

[Wes]

Like Christian said "there is no now".

Whenever they died in real life they entered this purgatory/alt-timeline. Before they could all go to Heaven they had to wait for everyone to remember and meet up.

 

[Van Owen]

I thought it was very good. In a lot of ways, it WAS like The Sopranos' ending.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

You could see it coming when Hugo told Ben that he was a good #2 and that Hugo was a good #1. Damn what a freakin legendary ending.

I saw it coming when Kate said "Leaving". I absolutely lost it.

 

[jett]

I loved the finale, pretty much redeemed the entire season for me...until the weird twist. Oh well! Goodbye Lost, it was great.

 

[LevelNth]

Without question one of the best series finales I've ever seen.

Using the sideways as an allegorical remembrance of the series is so brilliant I'm astonished. And I'm super happy they didn't retcon the entire show.

And best of all, Jack fulfilled his desire to fix something with no regrets or remorse. Best written character arc on TV in a long, long time.

Once shock and awe wears off, this finale will go down as one of the best ever, calling it now.

 

[Grecco]

Perfection. Simply perfect.

 

[neojubei]

No! Everything that happened after the crash happened!

The characters that died, died.

Hurley and Bens conversation implies that they went on as a team for some time.

The heaven that they were in was years ago, after ALL of them had died.

oh snap.

 

[neoism]

PARTING WAYS

YOU WIN SOLO

Its was the series anthem... sooo fucking incredible