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Originally Posted by ResAlien
I guess my issue with the ending is why bother with the other stories? So everyone is dead. OK, fantastic. Why bother with the Others. Why bother with the Dharma initiative and the whole electromagnetic angle. Why bother with the Jacob and Smokey backstory? People rising from the dead, the whispers, magic Walt. Time travel, Faraday, Richard, The Black Rock, all of it. What does any of that have to do with the endgame?
I'm sure someone out there knows more than I do, but at this point it feels like a big old FU from the LOST creators.
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I've come to the conclusion what happened on the Island was real, especially after reading that article. They weren't dead at the time they crashed. They all died at different times, in the future. Jack died shortly after laying down in the trees. Kate, Lapidus, Sawyer, Richard, and Miles all died later, maybe of old age, maybe of disease, who knows, when they arrived off of the Island. Ben and Hurley stayed on the Island. They helped Desmond leave. Eventually, they died, too.
The "alt" time-line really isn't alternate at all. That's the thing. They are DEAD in it. It's after they've all died. It wasn't created by the H-bomb. All the H-bomb did was send them ahead in time and create the "incident" that in turn created the need to build the hatch and press the button. They are all together in this timeless "waiting room" at this point because, like Christian says, there is no "now" in it. Time is a human construct. In this spiritual world of after-life, it doesn't exist.
Everything that came before on the Island mattered. It mattered, most of all, in the relationships it forged between these characters. That was the crux of the Lost story-line, not the mythology. The mythology itself is rich, and they gave us a lot of material in which to be able to form our own multitude of interpretations. But, in the end, it was about Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Desmond, etc., not the Egyptian hieroglyphs.
The "endgame" was these characters moving on, finally, into the after-life. Everything that came before that was just progress.