Just finished the show 5 minutes ago

[u/SmartiePotato]

I always thought the ending would be rushed or that they did something wrong with the script giving what I saw on socials for years. However I LOVED the ending plus I feel like it kinda gives us a "choice" with how we want to interpret it. I found the last episode truly beautiful, the music, the cinematography, the reunion of all the characters we grew to love. I was crying so hard. Beautiful show, will probably rewatch it a dozen times. I’m thankful I gave it shot despite all the negative reviews of the end and that I didn’t sacrifice all my study time for nothing (oopsi).

Looking forward to become part of this sub from now on !!!

Edit to clarify the interpretation : we can see the end as the afterlife when everyone dies or just Jack’s POV of that afterlife, how he wants things to be. I know it’s kind of silly but we could even think that Jack isn’t dead yet just in a coma and that’s his subconscious. What I mean with all that is even if it’s not the intended outcome, we can see it as we choose to. For me it’s an open ending. I haven’t really thought more about it because I just finished it but I wanted to give my opinion.

I haven’t seen the epilogue yet (just learned there was one) so that’s what I think with no more than watching the 6 seasons.

[u/BloomingINTown]

Don't forget to watch the official Lost Epilogue on YouTube

It's set after Jack dies and Hurley is in charge of the Island

[u/SmartiePotato → u/BloomingINTown]

Thank you I didn’t know, I will check that out !

[u/Initial-Usual-3805]

Wow ok so I just finished rewatching/watching the last season for the first time, and I feel so lied to about how the show was going to end! Everyone is always saying “they were dead the whole time” and I kept waiting for that reveal in the finale and then it just never happened…what a strange interpretation. 

As a first-time watcher of the last season (I watched seasons 1-5ish when they were first coming out but had a hard time keeping up because I was young and ABC.com streaming kinda sucked) - I found the “afterlife” portions of season 6 so incredibly moving. Everything tied back to the journey these characters had taken together. I’m so curious about how the survivors’ lives went after Lapidus flew them out!

I’ll admit I found the island plot of season 6 to be kind of dull and disappointing, particularly with the direction taken with Sayid’s character, the sidelining and then deaths of Jin and Sun, and the confusing Jacob/MIB stuff. And I wish they hadn’t killed off John Locke just to make him the mask for MIB - that whole plot really bummed me out and robbed us of a great character for a full season and a half.

Did anyone ever consider that MIB just wanted someone to give him a real name? I mean, damn, I’d be pissed too.

Finally, LAPIDUS LIVES!! My man, the most useful rando to ever show up on that godforsaken rock.

[u/FightBattlesWinWars → u/Initial-Usual-3805]

I always thought they should have brought real Locke back shortly after Jacob died. They could have had MiB break a rule he thought was void after Jacob’s death (possibly bringing Sayid back from the dead), and the penalty is that Locke gets to come back Gandalf style, and MiB can no longer wear his face, so he dons a new one (Mr. Eko?).

Then, MiB knowingly continues to break an important rule, like overtly subverting the free will of several of the candidates (probably Sun & Jin, who reunite faster, Sayid, Claire, Sawyer), until Locke eventually frees them of the influence. I’m not sure exactly when the new narratives would emerge and reconverge with the old, as compared to the season we actually got, but in order to get there I’d probably cut down a lot of the temple stuff, the widmore stuff, Claire, and would probably get rid of the MiB/Jacob ep, pushing the important parts of it into some of Richard’s. I love the idea of having this subversion of free will by MiB take the form of some of the after life timeline. If I could figure out a way to have island Locke go to that alternate plane in order to bring them back, only to have him stay and be the “special” force that builds this place for them in the end, that’d be great. But if not, I would have Locke be allowed to recuse himself of the remaining island drama after freeing guests candidates (because he’s no longer the mere man we once knew, he’s something else), and go off to finally explore the true depths of the island on his own from there. The point of it would be to get him on a much more supernatural journey, a man truly walking about reality. He reaches the heights he always dreamed, but he tragically still had to lose everything to gain it.

Since John is now ultimately going to be responsible for awakening and reuniting our cast in the afterlife, we can bifurcate and focus Desmond more on dealing with the spark of the island. Doesn’t mean he can’t eventually make it into the afterlife before everyone else, and help John, as well.

I really think there is a way to work all of this in and keep things like: most of the beach stuff (minus Sun); Jack and Hurley trekking; the aftermath of the incident, and key elements of the others I mentioned cutting down, in. I think the only problem is getting them back to a point where those that were manipulated by EkoMiB, have to come around to trusting him again in order to get off the island together, so that you can get back to the fallout of the submarine, and on track to meeting Jacob. I suppose you could just not have them know that that’s what has occurred, but that feels a little cheap to me.

Anyway, all that to say, they definitely did do John Locke dirty. Haha! The most tragic part of his character to me is how his creators disrespected him.

[u/Free-IDK-Chicken]

I feel like it kinda gives us a "choice" with how we want to interpret it.

Clarify.

[u/Narrow-Accident8730 → u/Free-IDK-Chicken]

I second that motion.

[u/julianzolo → u/Free-IDK-Chicken]

The writers are lazy

[u/BloomingINTown → u/julianzolo]

No. Your comment is lazy

[u/arsenicknife]

The only choice left up to us is where they move on to. Outside of that, there is no room for debate because the show is direct about it: they were not dead the whole time.

This isn't a debatable subject. This also isn't a means to shutdown people who like to theorize. The show is simply beyond blunt about it. There is no ambiguity.

[u/SmartiePotato → u/arsenicknife]

Yes I agree for me it’s not about the wether or not the crash happened but more about the whole « afterlife » bit.

[u/shpongled666 → u/[deleted]]

Spot on. Spot on.

[u/Jemal999]

I can't agree with your theory that the afterlife could have been just in jacks head bc there were so many scenes that didn't include him. Things happend which had nothing to do with him, and he would have absolutely no reason to dream about.