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Post #416475

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xhonzi
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LOST
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25-May-2010, 4:02 PM

TheBoost said:

So, they blew up a bomb and created an alternate timeline that for an entire season was totally consistent with being an alternate timeline, including Desmond who we've seen since season 3 can travel through time serving as kind of an intermediary.

Then with four minutes to go they have Jack's dad say "no, this isn't an alternate timeline, it's the afterlife." and before we can say "that doesn't make sense!" there's a cast party and a cliche white light.

In my mind... those 2 minutes Jack's dad talked didn't happen. THEN the show has an ending thats happy, and doesnt' require a whole new level of reality to be added in the SECOND TO LAST SCENE OF THE FINALE.

  • The alternate timeline was created when they set off the nuke.
  • Desmond, who's electromagnetically special, was able to mediate between the two.
  • When a character was 'awakened' in the side-timeline, they were able to live out in peace the rest of their life in this better, island-less world, with full memories of the original timeline.
  • Jack died on the island, and ALSO got to live out his life with Kate in the side-step timeline.
  • Sawyer escaped the island with Kate and Mile, but ALSO got to be reunited with Juliet.
  • With their memories restored, all the Losties reunite at the church and have a celebration. THE END.

 

If it was heaven/limbo all along, why did it have a sunken version of the island? Why did Juliet say 'the bomb worked?' What does Jack's dad know about anything, since apparently every time we ever saw him it was really the Smoke Monster? Nope. F that.

 Yes, this is my biggest problem with the "purgatory" explanation.  It really messes with the ending of season 5, if you think about it.  Why go to all of that trouble to create an alternate reality if it didn't work.  Though apparently Juliet's line: "It worked!" was about the vending machine.

I imagine they decided to "create this place for them to meet up before going to heaven" and Hurley was like,
HURLEY: Dudes.  How about this?  We're all on Oceanic 8-15 together.  We're stuck on a plane for 18 hours and we can all find each other there. 
And then Locke or Jacob or somebody says:  
JACOB: No, wait.  What if we don't meet on the plane, but, like, we keep running into each other for a couple days afterward, and we're all like, What the Frink?!?! and then Sawyer can be a cop, and oh!  Miles could be his partner... and Kate, you can still be a criminal on the run... but this time, get this... YOU DIDN'T ACTUALLY DO IT!
JACK: Can I have a son?
SAYID: Sure, but I want to be with Nadia again.
JACOB: You can be!  But then Sawyer and Miles will come and bust your butt and throw you in jail!
SAYID: Why?
DESMOND: Oh, so I want to actually be working for Widmore...
HURLEY: Dudes... this is way too complicated.  Can't we just meet at baggage claim?