I think it has to do with Desmond being the key. Whatever it was with him he was the only one that could withstand going "into the light". I think that is what Widmore was doing with him with the electromagnetic testing.
So Desmond removed the plug thing allowing the smoke dude to be killed, but also destroying the island. When Jack went down the light wasn't technically on, he turned it back on, and saved the island in the process.
As for him lying in the light pool thing after he replaced the plug....I don't know why that didn't do anything to him....maybe that is what killed him, not the stab wound.
Just guesses
How did Widmore know that the ability to survive the electromagnetic blast is crucial so that one could withstand going into the light?
Yeah guesses is all we have left. The end was a success emotionally and "spiritually," but they did not bother to explain a single thing from the previous 5 seasons.
Walt being kidnapped by the others, statue and symbolism, why the island time travels, why did the purge occur, healing powers of the Island (could have saved Jack,no?), did Sayid die in the temple or in the bomb explosion, why was he killing people for Ben in the outside world, how could Desmond's conscience shift from dead to alive,...
Nothing was explained, it just "happened" but at the end it wasn't important why and how it happened, what was important were the characters and their group as a whole. They experienced it all because that was their purpose in life before they could all meet again for the last time. I guess...
PS So in a nutshell, the writers couldn't explain anything that happened on and off the island so they created a FS purgatory waiting room where the characters roamed aimlessly till life/death shifting Desmond brought them together so they could re-experencie the most crucial moments of their lives, remember and let go and die for good?
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this was posted on another forum i frequent, apparently originating from a writer on LOST. no way to know if it's actually truth but the explanations are very good and does a good job of summing up the big picture
Good write up, but the line of, "Forget the final image of the plane crash, it was put in purposely to f*&k with people�s heads and show how far the show had come", proves the person isn't an actual writer.
As posted previously, the images at the end of the ABC broadcast were put there by the network and were not part of the show.
"and the reason no one is in the church but for Season 1 people is because they wrote the ending to the show after writing the pilot"
After re-watching the finale, Desmond/Penny and Juliet were all in the church. Just more that continues to lower the credibility of whoever wrote that excerpt.
"and the reason no one is in the church but for Season 1 people is because they wrote the ending to the show after writing the pilot"
After re-watching the finale, Desmond/Penny and Juliet were all in the church. Just more that continues to lower the credibility of whoever wrote that excerpt.
Desmond was in season 1 in Jack's flashback in the stadium. Penny is tied to him, and Juliet is closely tied to Sawyer, so, regardless if the article is true or not, those three being in the church is still within the realm of reason.
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Desmond was in season 1 in Jack's flashback in the stadium. Penny is tied to him, and Juliet is closely tied to Sawyer, so, regardless if the article is true or not, those three being in the church is still within the realm of reason.
Desmond was never in season one. You're thinking of the first episode of season two "Man of Science, Man of Faith". That episode had Jack's flashback when we first see Desmond in the stadium.
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Btw, I think everyone is making too much out of who was in the AR, and who wasn't. I think what it comes down to is they could only contract so many former castaways to appear from past seasons. They brought back Libby, Shannon, Boone, and a few others because they were either part of the successful first seasons, or in the case of Libby, Desmond, or Penny they were loved by the fans, and played intricate roles in the plot.
If they had brought Walt, and not Michael it would of been a pretty sad ending. Well you made into "heaven", but your dad is still stuck on the island, sucks to be you.
Does anyone have a list of who was in the church, and who wasn't? I seem to remember Lipidus being there, but not Miles, or Charles.
kinda cool, this along with the segment where the producers answer some of the unanswered questions should be very interesting
Quote:
Hurley: "You know, you were a real good number two." Ben: "And you were a great number one, Hugo."
This brief exchange between Hurley (Jorge Garcia) and Ben (Michael Emerson) in the final stretch of "Lost" series finale "The End" suggested that a lifetime of adventures unfolded for the Island duo before they eventually moved on and reunited with their friends in the pre-afterlife. And fans will actually get to glimpse those adventures when season six of "Lost" arrives on DVD and Blu-ray.
"For those people that want to pony up and buy the complete 'Lost' series, there is a bonus feature — you could call it an epilogue, a lost scene," Emerson said during an appearance on G4's "Attack of the Show." "It's a lot, 12 or 14 minutes, that opens a window on that gap of unknown time between Hurley becoming number one and the end of the series."
The revelation was greeted with gasps of surprise from the studio audience. Additional answers had been promised for the "Lost" season six DVD release, but no details had been revealed before Emerson spoke. Asked if he regretted making the reveal, the actor replied with a smile, "I'm rolling over that in my mind."
The follow-up question, of course, is if this footage might hint at some kind of "Lost" spin-off, something that showrunners Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof have sworn time and again won't happen — at least, not with them at the helm.
"It's self-contained," Emerson replied. "Although it's a rich period in the show's mythology that has never been explored. So who knows what will come of it?"
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I'd love to stand up and be tough and say, "I trust that they told their story and wouldn't follow any additional movies/series/comics, especially if Lindelof and Cuse weren't involved" ... but ... I don't think I can say that and be truthful.
The end was good in isolation, but leaves a lot of loose ends. I liked Jimmy Kimmel's take that everything on the island was a test so that they could move on to the afterlife. Some people's tests were very hard (Jack giving his life for the island, Sayid giving his life for Jack, Locke finding faith, Jin and Sun falling back in love and dying together, Hurley becoming a brave leader, Ben finding peace, etc...). Other people like Charlie passed quickly and moved on. It makes it so the "why" doesn't matter as the "science" in the show was supernatural anyway.
However, then you consider Whitmore, Faraday, Miles, Ilana, etc..., the above theory does not make sense.
I remember reading at the end of the first season that the writers were not convinced the show would be renewed so they originally wrote it so that it could be finalized at the end of the 1st season if it had to. The show was renewed before the end of the 1st season and so they were able to start adding more stuff. The ending would seem to indicate that to me. It would have made sense before we learned about all the other stuff, most of which was just filler.
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Didnt know what to think ...finally got to see it a second time tonight!!! WOW how amazing i loved it all.im so happy ill see you in another life brotha
There's a really cool project a guy is doing where he creates a poster for every episode of the show ever created. The posters use stylized graphics and iconic images and tags from each of the episodes.
