WHATNESDAY

[cleolinda]

Okay, what?

Comments

[zahavah]

the sideways isn't purgatory. everyone there is dead, but they all died at different times -- the ones we saw died, died that way. the ones we didn't see die, died later. and they all ended up in a place they all created where they could live the lives they needed to live before they could move on. together.

[xelegantusagix]

I think it was also a place to work through their issues together? at least that's what I understood from Ben saying he's not ready to go yet.

[zahavah]

yeah, i think the "togetherness" part is crucial. and i think ben has newly-rediscovered alex guilt, and the most to work through out of any of them.

[cherrymaryberry]

This makes the most sense out of everything. To me anyway.

[teaberryblue]

I just got sent here via quizzicasphinx because she said we posted the exact same thing :-P

Everyone died. The idea, though, is that the alternate universe is like a magical fantasy world they created in their dead collective subconscious so they could all meet up after they died. Jack died where we saw him die, but some people might have lived long and happy lives. I have decided that Sawyer goes back to Australia and re-opens the shrimp stand, and Kate dies from a well-deserved punch in the face.

[notemily]

LOL at Kate's death.

[sparklylulz]

This.

LMAO at Sawyer and Kate's future. Maybe you should've written the finale?

[teaberryblue]

Richard becomes the first man to get a modeling contract with Covergirl.

[nb2000]

Okay, the biggest problem I have with this, if I'm interpreting it right that they're all dead in sideways verse...

didn't Ashes to Ashes pull the SAME THING last Friday? I haven't watched that (I've been meaning to) so I'm just going with what I've read online.

Other than that I liked a lot of it, I was squeeing at a lot of the character moments.

[nb2000]

My apologies if I just blew Ashes to Ashes for anyone

[fadeintodawn]

Yeah it pretty much did. That annoyed me more than anything else - two series ending in basically the same way in one weekend! AUGH.

[melpemone]

Yeah, you kinda did.

[poinsley]

I think that Jack died on the island and once he was able to grasp that in sideways world, he was able to let everyone move on to heaven or something. Not that everyone died at the same time, but they all eventually died and Jack was able to move on after that happened. I think.

[wearejustducky]

1)I cried a lot.

2)It's not that the Sideways Universe is purgatory. It's that these people were so strongly bound together by what happened that they created some sort of metaphysical space for them all to gather and reconnect before moving on to whatever's next. People like Ben and Ana Lucia, I guess, aren't ready to move on yet. Ben knows what there is and doesn't feel worthy of it, and Ana Lucia hasn't keyed in to what is going on.

3)That damn dog. I was managing to calm down til they brought in the dog.

[xelegantusagix]

3) same. the damn dog. I was a freaking mess

[redcurrantbasil]

3) Thank jesus I am not the only one I bloody well lost my mind

[elvensapphire]

3) ME TOO. They did that because they knew the dog would break everyone down.