Lost

[Puck it]

Any one see the Kimmel show that they were talking about?

 

[Mildcat]

Did they die in the plane crash and the island was not real?

Christian said to Jack in the church that everyone dies, some died before him and some died after. They didn't die on the plane crash.

 

[Edd]

So this is my take on the two universes. The Island and everything that happened on it was real. Alt-universe is a sort of purgatory where people get ready to move on to whatever. Seems to be non-denominational, in the chapel when Jack is talking to his dad the stained glass window has a bunch of religious symbols. I saw, christian, jewish, islam. budist (yin yang?), hindu, and then a wagon wheel (what hell is that?). Faraday is not ready to move on for whatever reason. Notice Ben can't either because he was a bad mofo and needs more time in purgatory. There's a couple other times when they talk about folks not being ready. Hurley also tells Ben that he was a great number 2, so we have to assume they went on and took care of the island after Jack dies.

This is exactly how I saw it although reading around online I think some viewers are thinking the island wasn't real; I'm positive they are wrong. The nuke that Juliet tried to detonate didn't work. Life on the island continued. The island stuff last night ended logically (in the context of Lost, anyway).

The sideways story was compelling all season. The way they ended it would be my chief complaint although I'm just not that worked up about it. The sideways story as a whole was worth watching.

And when I look at the complete series it's so amazing what they pulled off. They had the flashback stories so dialed and then they went to flashforwards and then had the audacity to spend a season doing time travel finally concluding with the sideways story. Pretty damn entertaining show.

 

[drjeff]

They didn't die on the plane crash.

I'm not totally sure of that the way that the final shot of the wreckage of the plane on the beach insinuated - that's the great thing about the storylines in Lost, there's lots you can read into it, depending on what your viewpoint is.

Just a great job on the writing and then the layers of plot development in the show IMHO

 

[wa-loaf]

I'm not totally sure of that the way that the final shot of the wreckage of the plane on the beach insinuated -

I just took that to be a final goodbye to the beach shot.

Can we have a spin-off now of Hurley and Ben running the island?

 

[Puck it]

The Ben and Hurley Show - Sclemeel, schlemazel, hasenfeffer incorporated.