LOST *contains spoilers*

[LoveToStack]

Not quite sure what to make really, part of me feels it was a cop out part of me feels it was amazing.

So, what actually was the Island?

From what I gathered...

The island was a real island. They were all on the island up to the point where Juliet detonated the hydrogen bomb. At that point they all died. At which point, the alternate timeline was created, but it wasn't actually an alt timeline, it was a purgatory (I know right, they told us that's not what it was) where they could come together, or something..., before going to heaven, or somewhere...
That weak theory put forward by myself leaves millions of blanks, such as what was everything that happened on the island after the bomb went off.
Even the bit about the alt timeline doesn't account for Frank and co. escaping the island.
I was happy to see some character justification, and in that sense it was a good ending, but apart from that I had no clue what happened.

Right as I scour through forums and the infinite butthurt folks on /tv/, I'm beginning to make more sense of it.
From what I gather, after the Hbomb went off, they ALL DIED, everyone died. However life carried on, on the island while in the alt timeline they begun to make contact with eachother. The idea being that they needed eachother to go to heaven () in the alt reality and the island storyline was just something in between, while they found each other. Still doesn't make any more sense but whatever.

[samsaBEAR]

I never kept up with Lost, was the black smokey monster in the first series ever explained?

[LoveToStack]

I never kept up with Lost, was the black smokey monster in the first series ever explained?

I'll save you 6 years. Nothing was explained. They were all dead, or something.

[Simmzay]

Can someone explain to me the very last scene where Jack sees the plane fly over him? Is it some sort of warp back to 2004? A full timeloop? A different plane?

[Tintinnabulate]

From what I gathered...

The island was a real island. They were all on the island up to the point where Juliet detonated the hydrogen bomb. At that point they all died. At which point, the alternate timeline was created, but it wasn't actually an alt timeline, it was a purgatory (I know right, they told us that's not what it was) where they could come together, or something..., before going to heaven, or somewhere...
That weak theory put forward by myself leaves millions of blanks, such as what was everything that happened on the island after the bomb went off.
Even the bit about the alt timeline doesn't account for Frank and co. escaping the island.
I was happy to see some character justification, and in that sense it was a good ending, but apart from that I had no clue what happened.

Right as I scour through forums and the infinite butthurt folks on /tv/, I'm beginning to make more sense of it.
From what I gather, after the Hbomb went off, they ALL DIED, everyone died. However life carried on, on the island while in the alt timeline they begun to make contact with eachother. The idea being that they needed eachother to go to heaven () in the alt reality and the island storyline was just something in between, while they found each other. Still doesn't make any more sense but whatever.

Wrong. Island was real yes. They all went back to the "real time" just before the bomb exploded. The bomb is what sent them back to the real world. They were all still alive.

The bomb did not create the ALT. Its more of a flash forward, an afterlife. What Christian told Jack is very important. People died before you and after you. We presume Kate went and lived off the Island for quite some time. This is because she says to Jack she has missed him in the ALT.

[Lost_Addict]

Can someone explain to me the very last scene where Jack sees the plane fly over him? Is it some sort of warp back to 2004? A full timeloop? A different plane?

It's the plane lepidz was Piloting off the island with: Kate, Sawyer, Claire, Miles and Richard on it

Basically it was showing theopposite of the original openign scene of Lost:

Instead of Jack opening his eyes, Plane in wreckage (debrie) and vincent running away.
Jack saw the plane with his freinds on leave the island, Vincent came and lay next to him and he closed his eyes to end the fantastic show.

IMO that was the second sadest moment of the show with first being Charlis death.

[Simmzay]

I really should've pieced that together.

[Misawa]

I've watched three or four episodes of Lost in my entire life and worked out the conclusion in a passing joke yesterday. Shows how intelligent that show was.

[LoveToStack]

Its more of a flash forward, an afterlife. What Christian told Jack is very important. People died before you and after you. We presume Kate went and lived off the Island for quite some time. This is because she says to Jack she has missed him in the ALT.

That makes a bit more sense. I understand now why Hugo said to Ben, you were a great number two because when he said it in the show it was confusing seeing as how he literally just appointed him as his number 2 on the island.

So following that idea, and the whole people died before and after Jack, are we to assume that in the 'afterlife', everyone is always there but only when they become aware and have there yellow-hue flashback moment, do they become ready to move on? I assume that's the case because how could Kate have been there before Jack, since she was on the plane to safety while he died on the island below.

If you go back and watch the earlier episodes, they are worlds apart from the later season episodes. It started to go downhill after season 2 imo but I still watched it because we were promised answers. In the end they did not deliver and you can argue that it's about the characters but that is not why people were attracted to the show. It was about the mythology and none of that was explained.

[Tintinnabulate]

I've watched three or four episodes of Lost in my entire life and worked out the conclusion in a passing joke yesterday. Shows how intelligent that show was.

Millions of viewers didnt manage to do it, and its impossible you did it in 3-4 episodes. Yes the ending was crap but the show was amazing. Stop constantly boasting in this section of the site, half of what you say no one believes anyway, shows how intelligent your posts are.

Maybe because you think of yourself as some big movie director (yet I have never heard of any films you seem to make ... so it shows how intelligent those films are that no one watches them), you think all shows are awful. The fact its was listed as the most watched TV programme of recent times shows how good the show was. You may think the storyline was crap, but majority disagree with you.