WHATNESDAY

[cleolinda]

Okay, what?

Comments

[sigma7]

The sideways is purgatory. Everyone eventually dies and ends up there.

Sweet Jesus, people, BSG is not a template for how to end a series.

[nb2000]

THIS, around the halfway point I had this horrible sinking feeling that they were gonna go and blow it in the last few minutes like BSG did. God damn it.

[oceans_heart]

That's where I'm leaning.

[islandofwords]

THIS and I don't even regularly watch Lost.

[hippydippymama]

I DON'T EVEN KNOW I AM TOO ANGRY TO PUNCTUATE

ALL I WANTED WAS TO KNOW ABOUT KATE'S MOTHERFUCKING HORSE

[xelegantusagix]

THIS! WTF HAPPENED TO THE HORSE

[missyjack]

And the bird that called Hurley's name!

[suitcasegnome]

THIS! I was hurtin' for some Hurleybird.

[trazan]

Rose and Bernard might have been alive too. We can safely assume that they were alive when Locke, Ben and Desmond left for the Light Cave, since Desmond wouldn't have gone with Locke and Ben if they weren't, and, at least from what I remember, they weren't shown to die during the tremors, so there's a possibility they survived.
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[vega_ofthe_lyre]

Sideways World was purgatory! Or a sort of mental-holding pen they mutually created so they could all move on to heaven together? If that makes sense. That totally all happened, the Ajira plane made it, Desmond got home - the Sideways World is kind of outside of time and happened later for some people and earlier for others? AUGH THIS IS INCOHERENT BUT IT MAKES SENSE IN MY HEAD.

Or you're right, and the post-title card stuff means they're all dead. I DON'T KNOWWW

[sizequeen]

Yeah. This. Now I don't have to write it.

[cran]

Yeah, this is what I got out of it, too. Christian said that some people died before Jack and some after, but they all created the Sideways world so they could meet up... and it's not really happening at any specific time because there's no concept of time in purgatory (or whatever you want to call the Sideways).

It seemed from Ben and Hurley's short conversation outside the church that they lived on the island, protecting it, for quite a while after Jack died.

[connielane]

Exactly. What happened on the island happened, and as Christian said, it was the most important time of all of their lives, which is why they constructed the other reality - so they could find each other again.

[xelegantusagix]

I'm just...I'm so mad