What I'm thinking is that the island was real, all that stuff happened, and the flash-sideways was after everyone had died. There was no "now" in that timeline, so people survived (Hurley & Ben on the island, the plane people) but eventually died (everyone dies sometime!) and then they went to the sideways purgatory to party down. Lapides and Miles weren't there because they didn't have any LOVE CONNECTIONS to the other people so they weren't important.
Ben was invited inside but he declined. He was still working through some stuff and I guess wasn't ready to "move on". Also, he probably wanted to tap Rousseau again.
i dvr'd the Jimmy Kimmel show afterward and Jimmy had a pretty good theory about the end. he said that the whole show was about Jack's journey to the other side and he had died while on the plane. everything that happened on the island was somehow a test as to where his afterlife would take him.
i'm not sure if i buy that theory cos i also think that what happened on the island was also real.
Dude, I still feel like I need to go back and look for some clues. It can't just be that simple, can it? I mean, there's no way they would give you a cop out ending like that unless they had a good reason. Gah!
it's a freaking cop out ending! i think the story got too convoluted as they went along and they had to figure out a way to get the happy ending and wrap everything up all nice and neat. it still left many things unanswered, but someone mentioned that the same had been done for the ending of Six Feet Under. so this is what we get.
I keep on believe Juliette did make the bomb go boom, they all died then and what happened in the last season is everyone's subliminal projection of what reality should be but they are all dead and refused to acknowledge it.
It just seemed so boring Judeo-Christian. And before anyone gets angry with me I don't have a problem with other's religion, it's just that it seemed the easy and less interesting way out. The show prided itself on imagination, interesting plot twists and suspense and to get to the ending and it's all "everyone is dead and gets to go to Heaven :)" - feh.
nobody's gonna get angry with you. this is LJ not uptight ass Facebook! i save all my shit talking for here. i should talk about the dogs in downtown next!
and yes, i agree with you on the ending. hence why i was yelling "booo!" at the end. we went through 2 hours of the finale for the touchy feelie ending? sic polar bears!
The whispers were people who died on/around the island and couldn't move on until the task was finished. Remember when Michael appeared on the island and told Hurley that? Which makes me think that the island itself was real, their interactions on the island were real, but they died before any of them made it off the island? Because Walt got off the island and grew up, right? And he wasn't in the church, neither was Michael.
I don't know I'm still confused about what we're supposed to think happened... but I think they wanted it that way.
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Ben was invited inside but he declined. He was still working through some stuff and I guess wasn't ready to "move on". Also, he probably wanted to tap Rousseau again.
Also, Widmore is definitely totally dead.
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i'm not sure if i buy that theory cos i also think that what happened on the island was also real.
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and yes, i agree with you on the ending. hence why i was yelling "booo!" at the end. we went through 2 hours of the finale for the touchy feelie ending? sic polar bears!
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I don't know I'm still confused about what we're supposed to think happened... but I think they wanted it that way.
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