Everyone needs to watch JKL.

I can accept the smoke monster because it's not an "answer" to anything. If "he's special" is the answer to a bunch of unanswerable questions, that's just lazy writing.

just so lame/too easy to go with a religious type ending

This. I thought it would be a minor miracle for me not to hate the ending and them to somewhat tie it together two hours into the finale.

What do you mean "fvcked up?"

It didn't. I mean did you think there was going to be a real life, logical explanation for everything that happened in the show? Are you new to the sci-fi genre?

this is correct

Mjw just said this to me and I think it has to be true if the alternate reality was purgatory. It wouldn't make sense to me any other way since the people that died after Jack wouldn't have been waiting for him.

I'm in this boat. The whole thing was so cheesy I was pretty done with it by 11pm. The writers really ran out of clever on this one.

Matthew Fox crying is making me cry.

<<<not gay fwiw

Jack gonna sell some Vitamin Water

That was clearly what it was.

This was only after Locke gained understanding of what was going on (that they had known each other in another life, and maybe even that they were in purgatory).

Jimmy Kimmel gonna Untouchable.

No it apparently was a magical island with a monster and special powers and a light thing and a 300 year old dude that didn't age and some stupid temple and dharma crap and electronicmagneticmagical stuff and a buncha BS

Can't be that simple.

If no light = no smoke, "locke" should have just dropped dead.

Man in black died and all that was left was smoke monster who can also reanimate corpses. So if no light means no smoke "Locke" shouldn't be able to walk around and just not turn into smoke, he shouldn't be able to walk around at all.


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Re: Kimmel:

Damn I hope they don't sit there and analyze the show for an hour. I hate that stuff. Let it speak for itself.

lol TC i can't believe you are so down!! - i have been down on LOST for most of S6 but i'm the first to admit when i'm wrong. the finale was pretty effing epic in my humble opinion.

i can step back and see that the show was ultimately just like the producers continually said - a character based show that explores the lives and important aspects of the main characters. in the end, that is all that mattered. ultimately, things like DHARMA simply weren't important to the end game, rather DHARMA played a minor role in moving along things like the Sawyer-Juliet romance, etc.

side note - i wasn't expecting it to be a love story type finale but i didn't hate it - i was choked up numerous times.

also - nothing was "purgatory". nothing was heaven, either. i know there is no way to prove / disprove this as the writers will not divulge, but my take is not that one of the realities was purgatory, etc. the realities to me were all different ways things could've played out - from the original O815 reality, to the flash forward reality, to the flash sideways reality, to the Island being underwater (smokey being successful reality) etc. the end game was that all of theses and maybe an infinite more # of realities happened and eventually everyone will die. the final / end game reality is not any time/place/location, etc, but rather just eternity - moving on to eternity.

i predicted a lot of the episode, granted only about 2-5 minutes before things happened, but i was also taken back by lots of it.

i think the wreckage could be interpreted a # of ways - as an homage to flight 815 or as Lapidus final flight crashing and everyone dying, etc. i think things like that, and why Ben doesn't enter the church, will be forever left up to us to speculate.

i'm sure i'm wrong about some stuff and missed others and i have more thoughts but am too tired - can't wait to read more on LOST in the upcoming weeks and i hope 24 can keep up with its own sick pace and the pace LOST set tonight.

So Desmond was the Grim Reaper?

100 percent on all accounts. The creators of the show have said pretty consistently that its about the characters and not about answering every question raised. As a "character ending" it was pretty awesome. As a sci-fi ending it was pretty meh.

And they were 100 percent in limbo.

As for Ben, its pretty clear that he just wasn't ready to move on. He had some issues to sort out and remained outside for a bit (minute...million years whatever). Locke forgiving seemed to be a step towards being ready to move on.

Not sure if this was covered but it was weird to see Sayid with the blonde chick and not his first Iraqi lover (awful with names).

it was all a setup, 6 years, just to make Jimmy Kimmel Live have the biggest ratings ever for a late night show!

I think we're gonna get a decent amount of answers right now.

ur not smart

guilty

first time watchin jimmy kimmel ever i think. hes jus an annoying douche from the man show and i'll never look past that.

really excited for alternate endings.

I don't think we'll get "answers," but I think the alternate endings might help push us in the right direction.

would you recommend a friend to watch all 6 seasons given this ending?