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So, can someone please explain the ending of LOST?

Ross asked in Entertainment & Film over 2 years ago | Report

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    Pulling the island's cork put out the light that both bound Jacobs brother to the island and made him indestructible. This made the brother vulnerable to the bullet shot by Kate. After the brother died and to prevent the end of the world, jack put the cork back in and reignited the light. He then died from the knife wound sustained when fighting "locke"

    After dieing, the enlightened move on to the sideways world. This is a place out of the constraints of normal time. This allowed our group (at their death) to come together as a unit and move on to the next level of existence.

    Kip Waddle answered in Entertainment & Film about 1 year ago | Report
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    I don't disagree with the other posts here, but I haven't followed the series at all.

    My first impression was that the sideways "normal world" vinettes were taking place BEFORE the initial plane crash... but then it became more obvious that this was some sort of "Nexis", much as in Star Trek: Generations movie where it was a form of heaven or a "waystation" for those spirits to linger.

    O my captain answered in Entertainment & Film about 1 year ago | Report
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    From my perspective, the literal ending was that Jack went down into the glowy cave and put the rock back in the hole, then got spit out the other end somehow (same as the man in black after Jacob pushed him in after killing him). After Jack came out, he staggered to the bamboo field and in the moment of his death there, with Walt's dog next to him, he experienced the entire flash-sideways (essentially experiencing the entire alternate reality of season 6 in a single moment) and all the characters who had died in the past or would later die in the future, and who were the most important people in Jack's and each others' lives, gathered together one last time before "moving on."

    Basically, it was saying that the flash-sideways took place at some unknown point in time when all the characters were already dead. Most of the mythology and questions about the island were sorta left unanswered.

    I think it was a nice way for everyone on the show to gather, wrap up their relationships with each other (Sayid and Shannon, for example), and say goodbye, both as characters and to the viewing audience.

    Although you didn't ask it, I'll say I didn't adore the ending, but I didn't hate it either. It left a LOT unexplained; however, perhaps if they HAD tried to explain too much, it could never have lived up to people's imaginations, so they left all the mythology and island-strangeness explanations up to the viewers. As far as "planned out" tv shows go, I've seen better endings (Babylon 5) and worse endings (Battlestar Galactica), so I don't mind Lost sorta breaking even.

    Urgutha Forka answered in Entertainment & Film about 1 year ago | Report
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    basically, it turns out the producers' promise that it wasn't purgatory... well... was a total Lie.

    or if you prefer:

    Afterlife blah blah make-what-you-will-religion-wise blah blah probably-mostly-an-allusion-to-the-loss-felt-after-sept-11th blah blah "sexy actors in hot climate? hell it practically writes itself" taken literally blah yadda yadda

    Rev.Enant answered in Entertainment & Film about 1 year ago | Report
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