xhonzi said:

TheBoost said:

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... this is way too complicated. Can't we just meet at baggage claim?

They created an afterlife where Sayid's girl was married to his brother, he hated himself, where Jin was captured and beaten, and Sun was FREAKING SHOT.

And how lame is Jack that his idea of heaven is to have a cordial relationship with his ex-wife and to slightly improve his tense relationship with his estranged son?