LOST - Last Season (NO SPOILERS)

[caribear]

well,
some people believe that in heaven you appear at a certain age.
when people talk of "seeing" dead relatives they are at an age where you last saw them ( umm we won't get in a discussion, I hope, but certain mediums have said this is what happens.)

plus , as someone mentioned.... um ever see the ending of titanic.
OR Somewhere in time? or ghost & mrs. Muir? or other movies where people die, then they meet up as young again?
i LOVE those endings

I see what you are saying...and it makes sense. Everyone died at different times though, right?? and everyone in the room is actually dead? I guess you can say that everyone we saw in the sideways timeline is already dead also..just not ready to move on.

I was thinking maybe Ben didn't think he was worthy enough to meet up with the rest of the people in the church....after all he was evil for a long time and caused much pain among them. He somewhat redeemed himself in the end helping Hurley ...for however long....while on the island. I wonder if they sent Desmond home from the island as Ben has said there were other ways to leave the island...as we all know from previous episodes.

I wish the producers/writers would have podcast/show to explain their views on the ending....

Anyone try to log onto The Fuselage?? I can't seem to log on and when I try to re-register it will not let me. I want to read what everyone is saying on there!!

 

[Toad_Passenger]

I loved the finale. I can't believe how much whining I've seen on other boards about it, but, to me the show was never really about the mysteries, but about the characters. Everyone I know referred to episodes as "Jack" episodes, or "Kate" episodes, not, the "Hurley-bird" episode, so it is obvious how character-driven this show was.

I'm glad Christian explained the whole meeting place thing, otherwise I may have assumed everyone died on 815, but that was not the case.

As to the people who weren't there? I'm assuming it was because their most important connections never occurred on the island. Although, Aaron being there was a bit strange. Walt grew up away from the island, so him not being there is not surprising, as his most important moments probably happened elsewhere.

It's going to take awhile to digest the whole thing, but I thought it was a perfect way to end the series. These people worked together, through thick and thin, to basically save the world from becoming a darkened chaos. That experience, and the people you shared it with, would leave an eternal imprint on your life and your afterlife. It was great seeing them all share together again.

 

[wilma-bride]

I know this is slightly OT but I am confused about the time that various people saw this - I was under the impression that the final episode was being shown simultaneously around the World. It was shown here at 5am BST (so is that midnight EST?) - did we all see it at the same time as some people have posted here earlier than 5 am GMT

 

[AshleyW]

I know this is slightly OT but I am confused about the time that various people saw this - I was under the impression that the final episode was being shown simultaneously around the World. It was shown here at 5am BST (so is that midnight EST?) - did we all see it at the same time as some people have posted here earlier than 5 am GMT

If you saw it at 5am GMT, that's 3 hours later than we saw it here in the US. It was shown here at 8pm CST/9pm EST.

 

[elizke]

I loved the finale. It was all about the human connection, and to pass on to a greater place you need to have made that connection by truly being there for someone and by surrendering to the need for others as well. As some of you have already said, the sideways time line was about that. In that timeline, it was as if the island did not exist and was at the bottom of the sea, until they each experienced the realization.

And I agree that the people in the church were the people for whom the airplane crash and all that happened afterward, which was real, was the time in their lives when that all important connection was made. Some took longer than others to understand that, and because it was a group experience, they waited for each other.

The thing that's taking me the longest to grasp is that the island (the light, Jacob, MIB, the plug, etc.) was real. That means in the story there is an actual place on earth where one person protects the source of life. Disturbing thought.

 

[ICF]

The one issue I had was with Aaron being a baby because I assume he grew up and lived a normal life with his Grandma.

Wouldn't Aaron have grown up with Claire once Frank flew the plane off the island??

I heard that they are going to remake an old 80s sitcom with him, Claire and Kate and just call it "My two mom's"....

 

[caribear]

I guess Aaron was seen as a baby because that is how we saw him last on the island.

So now we know why Juliet said "it worked" as she lay dying in Sawyers arms...not because the hydrogen bomb went off, but because unplugging the candy machine made the candy fall out! Of course we also had the "go dutch for coffee" scene where Juliet had known that her and Sawyer would meet again.

I have been thinking about the finale a lot this morning....my mom is visiting who does not watch Lost and I was explaining some parts of the finale....and crying at the same time! I guess after devoting 6 years to this show...and loving every minute of it....I got emotionally involved with the characters.

I am okay with the sideways timeline as being the "waiting area" where everyone was waiting for each other so they could move on together...they were very important in each others lives....there were many sorrows and pain while on the island, but loves also...Sun/Jin getting pregnant & finally being happy in love, Sawyer meeting Juliet, Jack meeting Kate, Claire meeting Charlie, Sayid and Shannon....Hurley having true friendships and meeting Libby.....the list goes on.....I just wish Jake and Kate would have shared one more kiss when meeting up again in the sideways timeline!! When Kate said "Jack, I have missed you so much" I could feel the pain she felt as she had moved on with her life after leaving Jack on the island, but had waited for the day when they would be together again.....

I loved everyone's faces when they realized they knew one another and the flashbacks occured in the sideways timeline....I cried during each one of those too!

 

[Toad_Passenger]

I loved everyone's faces when they realized they knew one another and the flashbacks occured in the sideways timeline....I cried during each one of those too!

In light of the final moments, it is especially moving when you realize that not only were they coming to the realization that they knew each other, but that they also were aware of why they were now in each others' presence.

 

[DisneySaver28]

When Kate said "Jack, I have missed you so much" I could feel the pain she felt as she had moved on with her life after leaving Jack on the island, but had waited for the day when they would be together again.....

I forgot about that scene! I had thought that it was an odd thing for Kate to say at the time (before we saw the ending on the island), but it makes so much more sense now!

 

[gometros]

You also need to remember that while there is still a 2.5 hour finale, that doesn't include the hour of commercials.....ughh!!!

I started watching my DVR copy of the pre-show at 7:40 and caught up halfway through the final.

 

[GoodFairies]

Aaron is still a baby because it was centered around Jack's attachment to these people. Although it would probably have made more sense if Aaron was a 2-3 year old rather than an infant since Jack did help raise him up to that point.

 

[mtemm]

Aaron is still a baby because it was centered around Jack's attachment to these people. Although it would probably have made more sense if Aaron was a 2-3 year old rather than an infant since Jack did help raise him up to that point.

maybe because charlie was there and aaron would have been an infant?

 

[snowy76]

I was just reminded that Desmond said that some weren't ready. Like Ben.

I also keep thinking back to Christian telling Jack that the people waiting for him were part of the most important time of his life. So I think for those that weren't in the church, perhaps the island wasn't their most important time. Including some of the Oceanic passengers (like Ana Lucia and Eko, etc.)

 

[Planogirl]

I loved the finale. It was all about the human connection, and to pass on to a greater place you need to have made that connection by truly being there for someone and by surrendering to the need for others as well. As some of you have already said, the sideways time line was about that. In that timeline, it was as if the island did not exist and was at the bottom of the sea, until they each experienced the realization.

And I agree that the people in the church were the people for whom the airplane crash and all that happened afterward, which was real, was the time in their lives when that all important connection was made. Some took longer than others to understand that, and because it was a group experience, they waited for each other.

The thing that's taking me the longest to grasp is that the island (the light, Jacob, MIB, the plug, etc.) was real. That means in the story there is an actual place on earth where one person protects the source of life. Disturbing thought.

I keep wondering about the island too. What was it? And who protected it when Hurley's time was up? Did Desmond get off the island? And so on.

They really left a lot unanswered.

 

[monkeybug]

Why does everyone think the island was real? Was that confirmed somewhere or is that just the popular interpretation?
I felt like the whole thing, the island and the sideways flashes, were all a part of preparing to "go into the light" or whatever.
At the end when Jack closes his eyes, he is lying in the same place as when the plane first crashed and he opens his eyes right? I guess I kinda' felt like everything that happened was in that moment of him opening and closing his eyes, like and incredible journey of self discovery in just those last few moments of life.
The island being real doesn't make sense to me, but I just casually watched with my husband and am not nearly as well versed as the majority of you. I am probably just totally missing something.

 

[GoodFairies]

Why does everyone think the island was real? Was that confirmed somewhere or is that just the popular interpretation?
I felt like the whole thing, the island and the sideways flashes, were all a part of preparing to "go into the light" or whatever.
At the end when Jack closes his eyes, he is lying in the same place as when the plane first crashed and he opens his eyes right? I guess I kinda' felt like everything that happened was in that moment of him opening and closing his eyes, like and incredible journey of self discovery in just those last few moments of life.
The island being real doesn't make sense to me, but I just casually watched with my husband and am not nearly as well versed as the majority of you. I am probably just totally missing something.

Jack's father said it was all real.
Whatever happened, happened.

 

[Planogirl]

Plus the island was made out to be the place where the light was. Now the interpretation of what the light was and where it was varies but I believe that the light was clearly a real object.

 

[ICF]

Jack's father said it was all real.
Whatever happened, happened.

Which has been a theme of the story from the beginning....

Plus Christian also said that everyone was dead....some before Jack and some well after. That would imply that they didnt all die in the plane crash together. Plus, Juliet didnt die in a plane crash and neither did Desmond or Penny (who we can guess was never at the island)

 

[GoodFairies]

Which has been a theme of the story from the beginning....

Plus Christian also said that everyone was dead....some before Jack and some well after. That would imply that they didnt all die in the plane crash together. Plus, Juliet didnt die in a plane crash and neither did Desmond or Penny (who we can guess was never at the island)

Well not from the beginning technically. From when Dan Faraday was inserted into the story line.

 

[PixieDust32]

I think Aaron was a baby in the scene because that is the memory of Claire, when she gave birth in the Island and Kate helped her, she appeared pregnant again and give birth again with Kate by her side, that was the define moment when they remembered everything, then her holding the baby with Charlie.

The Island was real, all that happened, they remembered all of that and figured out it was time to move on. The scene at the beach had foot prints, to me it was just the end of the book, the closing chapter.

As for the Island being protected, I think it will continue forever, keeping a place from the nature of man, who tends to destroy everything, who has greed, etc. That's why fake Mom wanted to keep Jacob and MIB away from all that, that desire of MIB to leave, to be like the other people he met made him bad.