One Guy Comes to the End

Wow. Phew. Huh? Really?
Good ending. Deep, nuanced, intentionally ambiguous. Frustrating as hell.

a few thoughts:
1. Sideways = purgatory, but the pictures of random wreckage on the island makes you wonder...did they survive the wreck at all? OR, did they retroactively go straight to heaven?

2. You have to listen closely to what Christian said. He said the crash surivors made it so they could find each other in sideways world because they realized you and the time on the Island were the most important connections in your life.

3. No walt? no problem. Walt wasn't there because he got off the Island and lived a long full life with people that became more important to him than his time on the Island.

4. MIB turned into smokey when he hit the source because he was just a guy. Desmond didn't get turned because he is "special." Jack was able to go into the source because he was the island protector.

5. Or maybe we are being too judeo-christian and need to get a little more eastern. Maybe the point of the show was that souls travel together in different dimensions. Your "life" is really the continuing development of your soul as it travels through these dimensions. They all died in the plane crash. Their souls went to a different dimension (what we watched for six seasons). At some point in that dimension, everyone died somehow, and all reunited in the Sideways world dimension. At the end, they are all going to a new dimension for a new existence and new development. They may not remember their past lives in that dimension. Or some may. But their souls will continue to grow. It isn't "purgatory" with a final destination "heaven"- rather, it's just another existence in a dimension for some souls. Or, perhaps I'm totally wrong.

6. Jack = jesus. Died for the salvation of the island. stabbed in the side- pretty clear.

7. In retrospect, it seems that they forecasted/telgraphed this when Juliet said "it worked" and then died. her consciousness went to the group...

8. I need to go back and see who was or was not in the church..i didn't see Miles, I didn't see Michael, I didnt see walt....i think Michael was stuck on the island.

9. Rose's comment - it's ok, you can let go now- to Jack on the plane...she was already aware.

10. Alpert got to do it backwards- the island wasn't his purgatory... he was already dead. that's why he didnt age?

Whether you love or hate this ending, the show has brought me amazing joy. To those who read me, thank you for giving me a way to share my thoughts.
-Drew