[HPLovecraft]

Originally Posted by GGG

My problem with the ending was it seemed self indulgent. For 6 years you tortured these people then you create a nice happy flash sideways world for what there lives could have been. To me that flash sideways is almost a cop out, that the writers wanted some happiness for the mains that they could never find on the island. For me it just didnt work.

I think there were much better options for the flash sideways but other than the flash sideways I did enjoy the Island part of the ending.

Its funny that i still have strong feelins that I could discuss the ending for hours

Spoiler!

The flashsideways isn't what their lives could have been, it's what their lives were in this realm that they all created together after death, which also happened to be timeless (see the episode where Richard Alpert talks to his dead wife through Hurley, when she says he's already with her -- foreshadowing the reveal of what the flashsideways really is).

I don't think it was a particularly happy world they all created together, either. Not until the very end, at least, when they had all finally gained peace with themselves. Before that, everyone was tormented by not having come to terms with themselves or what happened on the Island. Jack had to create a mini-Jack, Locke still couldn't walk, Charlie was all spazzed out, Sawyer couldn't stop looking for something . . . and when they all finally passed on to whatever lay beyond, Ben still couldn't come to terms with what he did and go with them.

And for photon, etc., you probably don't want to read through all the comments in here . . . I notice some spoilers.