LOST: The End (POSSIBLE SPOILERS)

**LindenCy** · 05-24-2010, 07:35 AM

Originally Posted by ripvdub

Here are the alternate's in case anyone missed Jimmy Kimmel

YouTube - Jimmy Kimmel Live: LOST "Alternate Endings"

Thanks for posting that.

Originally Posted by bos

I liked how the "cork" in the cave was the same setup roughly as the one in Ben's hidden room where he unleashed the smoke monster. Pull the plug, the water drains, and then something happens.

Good parallelism.

**everyyard** · 05-24-2010, 07:37 AM

Originally Posted by RayShimley

A couple people asking why Michael wasn't in the church. Didn't his "ghost" tell Hurley his spirit was stuck on the island because of the bad things he did there. Perhaps that is why he wasn't at the church. I'm guessing Walt wasn't there for logistic reasons...or maybe he hadn't died yet.

I thought it was because they left the island.

**LindenCy** · 05-24-2010, 07:45 AM

Originally Posted by RayShimley

A couple people asking why Michael wasn't in the church. Didn't his "ghost" tell Hurley his spirit was stuck on the island because of the bad things he did there. Perhaps that is why he wasn't at the church. I'm guessing Walt wasn't there for logistic reasons...or maybe he hadn't died yet.

Originally Posted by everyyard

I thought it was because they left the island.

The Hurley and Michael exchange went something to the effect of "the whispers are those who can't move on."

**cycloneworld** · 05-24-2010, 07:45 AM

I thought the storytelling was amazing for this episode. When Jack asked Christian "How are you here?" and Christian said "No, Jack, how are YOU here?", that was a great twist.

I could have used more on-island resolution but as someone said, that really isn't the point of the story.

We didn't get a lot of answers but I feel very satisfied (and yet sad) that its all over.

**everyyard** · 05-24-2010, 07:47 AM

Originally Posted by LindenCy

The Hurley and Michael exchange went something to the effect of "the whispers are those who can't move on."

yes, I think michael was toast and didn't get to move on, at least in a good way. But, I think Walt left the island. Then he led his life and since he was so young and he left so early it probably wasn't the greatest impact on his life as it was the others.

**cycloneworld** · 05-24-2010, 07:47 AM

Originally Posted by isucyfan

I think Christian basically said that time didn't matter (paraphrasing here) where they were.

Agreed. Jack asked "when is now?" and Christian responded "It doesn't matter".

Also, Matthew Fox said on Jimmy Kimmel that everything on the island definitely happened so that answers that for anyone who was thinking otherwise.

**iowast8fan** · 05-24-2010, 08:12 AM

OK, for the record, I get the whole premise of the show and that the alternate timeline is purgatory. However, focusing on the island myteries alone, there were obviously several unexplained events. This thread is to list the things people feel were never explained well enough. And to answer them in case someone asks a question and missed the answer during the series. Here are a few of mine:

Why were the others so interested in Walt and his special abilities?
Why weren't women able to live through childbirth on the island?
What was the special "box" used to bring Locke's father to the island?

**CloneIce** · 05-24-2010, 08:15 AM

Originally Posted by iowast8fan

OK, for the record, I get the whole premise of the show and that the alternate timeline is purgatory. However, focusing on the island myteries alone, there were obviously several unexplained events. This thread is to list the things people feel were never explained well enough. And to answer them in case someone asks a question and missed the answer during the series. Here are a few of mine:

Why were the others so interested in Walt and his special abilities?
Why weren't women able to live through childbirth on the island?
What was the special "box" used to bring Locke's father to the island?

Walt was never answered because he grew a foot overnight and they wrote him out of the show. In the end not too important to the story line after Season 2.

2nd one was never really answered, though it was likely something to do with the accident with the Dharma initiative releasing all the electromagnetic energy on the island or something.

Don't even remember the last one, I thought he was just brought there when Sawyer killed him, don't remember any special box.

**CloneIce** · 05-24-2010, 08:27 AM

Originally Posted by RayShimley

A couple people asking why Michael wasn't in the church. Didn't his "ghost" tell Hurley his spirit was stuck on the island because of the bad things he did there. Perhaps that is why he wasn't at the church. I'm guessing Walt wasn't there for logistic reasons...or maybe he hadn't died yet.

Yep Michael was hanging out in the jungle whispering, the actor that played him even confirmed that on the aftershow. He died on the freighter at the end of Season 4, however it doesn't matter "when" you die as the place they were meeting was timeless.

**sunnysideup** · 05-24-2010, 08:29 AM

Originally Posted by iowast8fan

OK, for the record, I get the whole premise of the show and that the alternate timeline is purgatory. However, focusing on the island myteries alone, there were obviously several unexplained events. This thread is to list the things people feel were never explained well enough. And to answer them in case someone asks a question and missed the answer during the series. Here are a few of mine:

Why were the others so interested in Walt and his special abilities?
Why weren't women able to live through childbirth on the island?
What was the special "box" used to bring Locke's father to the island?

There's way more than just these three questions to be answered about the island. In the end it looks like the island was just a setting and the real story overall was Jack and his progression to the point where after his death he accepted everything that transpired.

**LindenCy** · 05-24-2010, 08:30 AM

Originally Posted by everyyard

yes, I think michael was toast and didn't get to move on, at least in a good way. But, I think Walt left the island. Then he led his life and since he was so young and he left so early it probably wasn't the greatest impact on his life as it was the others.

That is a good way to look at it. Although I would have liked more resolution with Walt.

**iowast8fan** · 05-24-2010, 08:30 AM

Originally Posted by iowast8fan

OK, for the record, I get the whole premise of the show and that the alternate timeline is purgatory. However, focusing on the island myteries alone, there were obviously several unexplained events. This thread is to list the things people feel were never explained well enough. And to answer them in case someone asks a question and missed the answer during the series. Here are a few of mine:

Why were the others so interested in Walt and his special abilities?
Why weren't women able to live through childbirth on the island?
What was the special "box" used to bring Locke's father to the island?

BOOO!! for merging this into the other thread. I wanted it in its own thread so not to get mixed with the other crap!!!!

**3TrueFans** · 05-24-2010, 08:32 AM

Originally Posted by iowast8fan

BOOO!! for merging this into the other thread. I wanted it in its own thread so not to get mixed with the other crap!!!!

Who would want the Lost discussion to get mixed in with all that other Lost discussion.

**CloneIce** · 05-24-2010, 08:34 AM

Originally Posted by sunnysideup

There's way more than just these three questions to be answered about the island. In the end it looks like the island was just a setting and the real story overall was Jack and his progression to the point where after his death he accepted everything that transpired.

I thought there were very, very few unanswered questions of any significance.

Also, some of the questions some people feel are unanswered were never really posed in the first place. I see people worked up over the statue, well I thought it was obvious that the shots of the statue were to inform the viewer that the island was ancient and the struggle has been going on long before Jacob even. We don't need to know who built it thousands of years ago.