Lost - The Final Season (Spoilers)

[Louis]

Wasn't Lloyd Braun the guy who cost David Dinkins the mayorship of NYC when he suggested to Dinkins that he should ask that everyone in New York wear name tags?

JTS

I think Lloyd Braun is the guy George Costanza had a computer selling contest with in his dad's garage.

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

I think Lloyd Braun is the guy George Costanza had a computer selling contest with in his dad's garage.

I think you are right...

 

[Louis]

I think you are right...

Serenity now!

 

[jefftheshark]

I think Lloyd Braun is the guy George Costanza had a computer selling contest with in his dad's garage.

Yeah, that's the guy!

I've always wondered what became of him.

JTS

 

[Gaddabout]

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[Matt L]

"You never could compete with, LLOYD BRAUN!"

 

[devilalum]

After season 1 they all said, "No, the Island is NOT purgatory."

Guess what, THE ISLAND WAS PURGATORY!!!!!

This would be fine if I hadn't thought all along that the island wasn't purgatory, that there was gonna be some other explanation. I enjoyed the show a lot but this knowledge killed any desire I might have had to ever watch any reruns.

 

[green machine]

After season 1 they all said, "No, the Island is NOT purgatory."

Guess what, THE ISLAND WAS PURGATORY!!!!!

This would be fine if I hadn't thought all along that the island wasn't purgatory, that there was gonna be some other explanation. I enjoyed the show a lot but this knowledge killed any desire I might have had to ever watch any reruns.

Umm no, the Island was not purgatory. The sideways world in Season 6 was, but the Island was real.

 

[earthsci]

THE ISLAND WAS PURGATORY!!!!!

The island wasn't purgatory. If anything the flash sideways dimenson kinda was. Purgatory is for the dead. The people that left on the plane went back to the real world. They weren't dead so they weren't in purgatory ergo the people that they were interacting with weren't in purgatory.

 

[Chaplin]

After season 1 they all said, "No, the Island is NOT purgatory."

Guess what, THE ISLAND WAS PURGATORY!!!!!

This would be fine if I hadn't thought all along that the island wasn't purgatory, that there was gonna be some other explanation. I enjoyed the show a lot but this knowledge killed any desire I might have had to ever watch any reruns.

Nope. It wasn't purgatory. I'm not sure how you could come to that conclusion.

 

[Russ Smith]

Wasn't Lloyd Braun the guy who cost David Dinkins the mayorship of NYC when he suggested to Dinkins that he should ask that everyone in New York wear name tags?

JTS

Exactly what I thought of when I saw that name. Seinfeld ruined everything.

 

[devilalum]

Nope. It wasn't purgatory. I'm not sure how you could come to that conclusion.

The white light
They all had to be ready to go
Jack back in the first scene of the show in the bamboo
The religious symbolism

Purgatory

1 : an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification; specifically : a place or state of punishment wherein according to Roman Catholic doctrine the souls of those who die in God's grace may make satisfaction for past sins and so become fit for heaven

 

[JerkFace]

The white light
They all had to be ready to go
Jack back in the first scene of the show in the bamboo
The religious symbolism

Purgatory

1 : an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification; specifically : a place or state of punishment wherein according to Roman Catholic doctrine the souls of those who die in God's grace may make satisfaction for past sins and so become fit for heaven

Purgatory implies that they were dead......which they weren't.

 

[PDXChris]

The real ending of Lost. Click here if you dare.

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[devilalum]

Purgatory implies that they were dead......which they weren't.

OK, if they weren't dead then what was that white light? The mother ship?

 

[JerkFace]

OK, if they weren't dead then what was that white light? The mother ship?

Exactly which white light are you referring to (there were a few).

 

[D-Dogg]

The white light
They all had to be ready to go
Jack back in the first scene of the show in the bamboo
The religious symbolism

Purgatory

1 : an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification; specifically : a place or state of punishment wherein according to Roman Catholic doctrine the souls of those who die in God's grace may make satisfaction for past sins and so become fit for heaven

The ATL, or the Sideways flashes, was the Limbo world. The island was reality.

Regarding the bamboo, the shoe hanging in it was old and tattered. In the pilot it was new. Unless you think the plane landed on Desmond and Ben and Juliet and Penny when it crashed, the lostaways were alive when the plane went down - those people wouldn't have been there at the end if they were dead on the island.

The producers were clear...they weren't dead on the island, and the island isn't purgatory.

 

[Pariah]

I'm amazed at how many people still insist on creating theories that involve the island as a non-reality. When Jack's dad said to him "everything that happened on the island was real," he wasn't so much talking to Jack as addressing the audience almost directly.

 

[Cheesebeef]

yeah... I thought it was almost black and white that the island was real and the purgatory wasn't.

 

[Gaddabout]

Just confirming ABC, not Lost producers, adding images in credits ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/26/lost-finale-abc-added-end_n_590609.html

 

[JerkFace]

I'm amazed at how many people still insist on creating theories that involve the island as a non-reality. When Jack's dad said to him "everything that happened on the island was real," he wasn't so much talking to Jack as addressing the audience almost directly.

I agree, everything seemed pretty clear to me, I am amazed at the people who just 'didn't get it'.

 

[devilalum]

If you paint a picture that looks just like a car and tell me its a bear I'm still gonna say its a car.

It was real?!? Really?!?!?

An atomic bomb explodes and instead of everyone dying they're all launched into not one but two alternate realities?

I do have to admit that the scene on the beach that was "erroneously" shown at the end had a part in my belief that they were all dead all along but there is still plenty left to back that theory.

The big doors in the back of the church lead to the afterlife or some junk like that. Right?

They were all ready "to move on."

Occam's razor

 

[Chaplin]

If you paint a picture that looks just like a car and tell me its a bear I'm still gonna say its a car.

It was real?!? Really?!?!?

An atomic bomb explodes and instead of everyone dying they're all launched into not one but two alternate realities?

I do have to admit that the scene on the beach that was "erroneously" shown at the end had a part in my belief that they were all dead all along but there is still plenty left to back that theory.

The big doors in the back of the church lead to the afterlife or some junk like that. Right?

They were all ready "to move on."

Occam's razor

Something happened when Juliet hit the bomb, but did it really go off? Or did what she do just "push" everyone back to the current time? We never actually saw an atomic explosion. And the island being underwater wasn't real--it was part of Jack's purgatory.

And as far as alternate realities, there aren't any. The island stuff in Season 6 was real, the "flash sideways" was purgatory. That's it. There are no alternate realities.

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

Something happened when Juliet hit the bomb, but did it really go off? Or did what she do just "push" everyone back to the current time? We never actually saw an atomic explosion. And the island being underwater wasn't real--it was part of Jack's purgatory.

And as far as alternate realities, there aren't any. The island stuff in Season 6 was real, the "flash sideways" was purgatory. That's it. There are no alternate realities.

This...

 

[D-Dogg]

If you paint a picture that looks just like a car and tell me its a bear I'm still gonna say its a car.

It was real?!? Really?!?!?

An atomic bomb explodes and instead of everyone dying they're all launched into not one but two alternate realities?

I do have to admit that the scene on the beach that was "erroneously" shown at the end had a part in my belief that they were all dead all along but there is still plenty left to back that theory.

The big doors in the back of the church lead to the afterlife or some junk like that. Right?

They were all ready "to move on."

Occam's razor

When the producers explicity state they aren't dead on the island, and the island isn't purgatory, and then in the finale they insert dialogue that says "everything that happened on the island was real" then you have your answer.

These guys, several times, have used characters to talk DIRECTLY to the audience. The Hurley/Miles discussion on time travel, Mother saying "every question I answer will just lead to another question." etc. Christian Shepard basically told everyone the scoop, the island was real, people died at different times, some beforer jack and some after, in the Sideways limbo time doesn't matter, they have been waiting for Jack so all of them could move on together, and the time they spent together was the most important of their lives so they created this place (limbo) to meet up.

Occam's razor indeed. The writers/producers went to great lengths to show you that the island was real.