Lost Finale Theories Explained
Lost Finale Theories Explained – Lost finale left us with more questions than answers,the different theories that have since surfaced are more of a matter personal taste and believes than what was actually shown in the episode.
Let us see if can clear somethings up together.
Conventional thinking
Most fans and TV critics seemed to agree that all the things that took place on the Island really happened.
And that the alternate life/flash-sideways was just a collective dream or purgatory-call it what you want to call it.
If we do accept that premise we also need to accept the fact of having polar bears on a tropical island,smock monsters,eternal life,magical waters,you name it,we need to accept these things as totally rational.
But we have decided to take a different rout that seems to make more sense to us,you might disagree and that’s OK because a respectful intellectual debate is always welcomed.
What if … they all died after the initial plane crash?
We do believe that flight Oceanic 815 crashed and all of the passengers died right away but one. Jack the lone survivor lived for a short time on the Island.
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That brief period corresponds to the time he regained conscious from the river and walked to the bamboo field and collapsed next to the dog.In that sense Jack’s last minutes on the Island that we saw during the finale matched perfectly with the initial ones we viewed in the pilot episode.
The closing credits with the empty plane wreckage gave even more strength to that theory.
The island was just a place where Lost Souls met and those who passed the test were able to regroup at some kind of Universalist church in L.A. and ascend up to heaven or whatever you what to call it.
To add more meat to this position Jack used to see his dead father on the island,Ricardo saw his dead wife,Hurley saw countless dead people so did the Man in Black.
If as conventional wisdom put it, the castaways plotted to meet at the church , how come they did not remember one-another?
In conclusion Lost fans and TV critics try to read between the lines too much.
It was just a show about redemption for some characters who were not fortunate enough to find love and happiness during their life time.
The show became huge even too big for the writers who themselves got Lost along the way.
At least season 6 as a whole offered these same writers a path way to redemption.
Love it or hate it Lost will have you talking and dissecting theories for years to come.
Sean | May 24, 2010 | Reply
If they all died as soon as the plane crashed, then how did they all know each other? And why did Christian say it was all real?
Kristen | May 24, 2010 | Reply
I think they were dead the whole time, they all knew each other during life, but we never saw their “real lives.” Christian Shephard said they were their because they had all been important players in their lives-just sitting next to someone in a plane crash doesn’t make someone the most important person in your life.
I don’t think we saw their actual lives. All we saw was island time, where they were all helping their friends redeem themselves after death. All the rest of the realities, whether we’re talking about the island, flashback, flashforward, etc., were after their death.
The smoke monster, electromagnetism that prevents them from being rescued, immortal villains preventing them from leaving the island, any time there’s a sub or a plane it gets blown up before they can use it, etc. were all mental/spiritual conventions to work out their “demons.” Thought that by going back to their real lives they’d be happy, but that mental construct didn’t work either.
Both on island and off island flashbacks/flashforwards taught them what they needed to “let go” so they served the same purpose. They were basically in denial that they were dead so they invented these constructs as a way of karmic cleansing.
Christian said it was all real because it WAS all real. If you believe in an afterlife isn’t the spirit “real?”
Dave | May 24, 2010 | Reply
If they all died as soon as the plane crashed, how does that explain all the other people who came and lived and died on the island? There are too many holes in this theory. Dead people dont usually have babies either.
Siouxz | May 24, 2010 | Reply
All A BIG ACCEPT YOUR DEATH INTERVENTION…
the island was a supernatural place that hand picked “lost persons”. The people that were picked to lead were all severely neglected, abused and unfortunate and had violent tendancies. The non-lost souls “Boone” died and accepted their death. Remember Boone saying “It took me forever to get her to come from Australia” for the intervention. Survivors could choose between good and evil on the island. Everything happened up to the final parallel lives (which took place for eternity as all of them really died and could not accept it). As Christian said “some died long before you, some died long after you”. Sawyer, Kate, Claire, Miles and the pilot got away and lived out their lives; as Jack saw the plane flying overhead as he was dying. Hurley, Ben and Desmond lived out their lives on the island, along with Rose and Bernard and Vincent. The island was about moral choices between good and evil, violence or pacifism. I guess the folks that accepted their death could communicate in the afterlife and decided to stage an intervention on Jack, Kate, Claire, Charley, Hurley, Ben, Sawyer, Miles John and Sayid & boones sister. I think Boone, Christian, Desmond, Bens daughter, the female doctor (sawyers love)& the physicist staged the intervention.
Kris | May 24, 2010 | Reply
If they died in the initial plane crash, how do you explain the whole “flash forward”?
Dust | May 24, 2010 | Reply
And don’t forget, at the end, all the cast members go into the church and ultimately to the “light” except for 1 person – Ben. He does not go to heaven because of the sins he has committed.
B Rad | May 24, 2010 | Reply
bur n every piece of film and never play it agaian…unless you want more…
Derek | May 24, 2010 | Reply
Only problem is the smoke monster admitted to being in the guise of jacks father, ect. I think jacob’s younger self appearing to MIB, was his concious getting the best of him
Erika | May 25, 2010 | Reply
makes no sense, Jack was on the flight in a suit, and wakes up in the river in completely different clothes. Not the way it happened. The dirty shoe (that was bright white at first) also signifies time passing.
Siouxz | May 25, 2010 | Reply
okay, now I’ve slept on this and this is what I think, today, at least…
the island: some kind of force of nature between death and life, good, the white light. evil, the black smoke. people who died over or on the islands position could live on in limbo OR get on with their afterlife, “LET GO”
all the people on the island: either ended up there with the dharma i. or were dead…richard, jacobs mothers, jacob, his brother all the plane crash victims. the others. the dharma initiative were scientists who found the “place” between death and rebirth or afterlife.
the dharma initiative: a group of scientists who found the force between rebirths. i think they used buddhist philosophy in their name “dharma” because the people that were in between births were all tremendously suffering in their past lives. The Buddha believed that ego and clinging or the non-acceptance of impermanence were the key to all suffering and that life is suffering, which is why enlightenment means no rebirth. The people that went on to their afterlife were either mentally sound, non-violent and accepting into a “good” rebirth or enlightened and had no rebirth (according to buddhism anyway).
the survivors of oceanic: were not survivors at all, but all dead. the limbo so called survivors, our main characters, were so extreme in their huge power wanting egos and clinging to “what could be” instead of what was, that they were stuck in a collective eternity limbo (thus the time travel), which the dharma i. could witness and study. I mean, come on, they were so violent and clinging to “who is right, who is wrong” the others are bad, we have to save, save, save instead of just letting go. the violence really started getting on my nerves. like jacobs so called Mom shooting his real mom to cling to the fact that she never had kids. Rose and Bernard were the only accepting, non-violent ones on the island and they let go and wanted nothing to do with all the “groups”. still thinking on all of this.
Tony is dead, he was shot in the diner in front of meadow,,oh oh, wrong show, just kidding, had to lighten it up a little bit:)))
gconnection | May 25, 2010 | Reply
The Island is a gatway to Hell. Case in point: the mother told the twins they should never go there because it would mean a fate worse than death. Jocab explained it to Richard telling him releasing the cork would me releasing evil. Jacob was able to time travel and move the island using the wheel. this is how the polar bears ended up there and how he was able to set up his elaborate plan to kill smokey. The island was a place between the spirit realm and the physical, which would explain its properties. The smoke monster was either the devil or a demon released by the hatred in Jacobs brother heart. He wanted to leave but he had to be human to leave.
Jmoney | May 25, 2010 | Reply
If they all died, then what did “Mr. Eko” need to do there? I guess you could say that he needed to know about his brother… this actually might explain it the more I think about it. Didn’t Boone die right after his sister learned she could take care of herself?
Timmy | May 25, 2010 | Reply
Timmy…..timmy timmy….timmy?
Grrr….timmaaay….timmy timmy…timmy!!
Timmmy…
IsleWalker | May 25, 2010 | Reply
They didn’t all know each other when they first crashed. All of that–the getting to know the characters, the learning of the weird things on the island–was all part of a sort of group thought-creation of the dead 815 passengers. Those who had the biggest issues to deal with first created the whole exercise–the struggle for leadership, good/evil, smoke monster, the light at the heart of the island–as a forum in which they could interact with each other and play out their issues.
I don’t remember that Christian did say it was real. It was real in the sense that these “stuck people” (like Hurley discovered about the whisphering voices) had issues. When Christian answered “What is this place?” he did not mean the church–he meant this whole ball of wax–the crash, the timelines, the merging or not, the trying to save, all of it.
IsleWalker | May 25, 2010 | Reply
Flash forwards, sideways, anyway—all creations of their minds, in desperate attempts to make things “work out” the way they wanted–that they were alive, happy and at home. But they were all dead. Some accepted it more readily than others.
Digs | May 25, 2010 | Reply
How could a dog be stuck in limbo? Did it sh!t on the carpet maybe?
jeff | May 25, 2010 | Reply
i like the island is a collective thought and cumulation of fears idea. alot of people are saying that the polar bears were experiments, or were brought there when the island moved… i was always under the impression that walt brought them there through his imagination because of his reading the comic book he found that hurley brought onto the plane. it had polar bears in it. and why does the smoke monster throw trees? i think it just seems like something that would be an expected kind of fear from monsters on a seemingly huge remote ancient island.
DanF | May 26, 2010 | Reply
All we know started with Jack– I submit he was the only character and as he died (and we can’t even say why- plane crash, car wreck, cancer- he imagined an immense story which in the end brought him to terms with his death. All the characters were in his head – and named after points in his education perhaps although since NOTHING happened before we saw jack we can’t know anything -which makes the whole fantastic Island a fantasy needing no further explation in fact but a rich sorce for philosophic discourse.
Siouxz | May 26, 2010 | Reply
Why was Michael sent to the whispering limbo souls for killing, but Ben, who killed many, many more, had a chance to move-on to the “light” if he wanted What about Walt, they could have picked another actor since the kid grew up??? Why did Kate have a change of clothes before entering the church at the end. Why didn’t the french lady and her daughter show up at the church.
Seems like the people on the list could not be killed (a 2nd time), planes crashes, torture, drownings, c4 explosions, black smoke, brutal fights, shootings, stabbings, organ failures, nuclear bombs, jumping 200 feet into the ocean?
Lets campaign the writers to have a special or email chat to answer all of our questions.