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This thread is almost sure to be filled with spoilers, so read at your peril.
I liked a bunch of stuff. I'm still not sure how satisfied I feel about this ending. Am curious if others have been watching. What did you think?
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I've never seen a single episode of the show, but I've heard enough about it from my boss that I find myself curious to know how it all ends.
From what I've read, it almost sounds like none of it was ever real and that the whole thing was Jack's "vision" or whatever after the crash.
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It's all a bit Ashes to Ashes. Or Ashes to Ashes is all a bit Lost. Thinking about it Lost's ending was probably a mite more satisfactory.
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"It's all a bit Ashes to Ashes. Or Ashes to Ashes is all a bit Lost."
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that. Weird that they both had such similar conclusions only a couple days apart.
"From what I've read, it almost sounds like none of it was ever real and that the whole thing was Jack's 'vision' or whatever after the crash."
That's not even remotely true. In fact, they even took the time to (rather heavy-handedly) explicitly say that it was "real".
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If I understood it right, the "alternate timeline" thread, the one where everyone's lives are different and the plane never crashed is the afterlife, or at lest a place without time where they could all gather after their respective deaths before moving on together. The island was real.
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I just watched the finale on-line (for some reason). I actually cried. Particularly when Vincent came running up to him.
I agree that they intended the island part to be real and the people who were in the alternate timeline who weren't dead yet where those who died "long after" Jack did.
I guess I'm just confused as to why, after the series focused so famously on last-minute twists, revealed connections, and an implied larger design at work for them being on the island, the whole thing, in the end, boiled down to Jack going to Heaven. I mean... did they ever really answer anything?
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The thing is, they answered all the questions that nobody really cared about. We still don't really know what the island is beside some metaphor of a cork keeping evil from escaping. We don't know what the light really was (aside from "bright, yellow and electro-magnetic") who put it there and how "mother" got to be the guardian before Jacob.
Sure you can say it's Atlantis, Eden, the entrance to Hades or a very large Pandora's box but it's never addressed or explored in any meaningful way.
"We still don't really know what the island is beside some metaphor of a cork keeping evil from escaping. We don't know what the light really was (aside from 'bright, yellow and electro-magnetic') who put it there..."
I suspect that any answers they might have come up with to those questions would have felt unsatisfactory. We all would have said "Six years of build-up, and the island turns out to be that? Seriously?"
We should just assume that the island light was the same thing that was in Marcellus Wallace's briefcase, and leave it at that.
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