In my interpretation

BoardsUser836

Neither the island nor the flash sideways was purgatory, like most people choose to believe.

The bomb did create the flash sideways from the explosion, the reason why Juliet did not die when she hit the bomb was because the explosion went into the light creating this "flash sideways" where the island had sank, killing Jacob, the smoke monster and Richard, which is why he wasn't in the flash sideways he was dead in this new reality.

Everybody did die in the first timeline BUT because the flash sideways was created and without the influence of the island they all lived normal lives up until the point where Desmond "remembered" and set about "waking up" everyone, although that part I can't explain but I'm assuming it has something to do with "The light inside everyone" So they woke up in their own flesh and blood bodies which disproves the it's purgatory theory.

Even Daniel Faraday disproves it as being an afterlife

http://****yeahtvpicspam.tumblr.com/post/648317440/daniel-faraday-us-were-the-variables-people

The tricky part however that get's everyone is the Jack and Christian church scene, when Christian says certain things like "there is no now here" that doesn't necessarily mean the flash sideways itself, he is saying it because the island timeline didn't occur where they are now, because it is all in the past both in a literal and figurative sense. when the light shines in the church at the end that isn't heaven you are seeing, that's the LOST guys about to live the life they should have had also pay attention to the fact it is nighttime when they go in so when the light bathes the church it is like a "brand new day"

That's my two cents

Feel free to agree or completely unravel my theory lol

Niles

dodgemaguire wrote: »

The tricky part however that get's everyone is the Jack and Christian church scene, when Christian says certain things like "there is no now here" that doesn't necessarily mean the flash sideways itself, he is saying it because the island timeline didn't occur where they are now, because it is all in the past both in a literal and figurative sense. when the light shines in the church at the end that isn't heaven you are seeing, that's the LOST guys about to live the life they should have had also pay attention to the fact it is nighttime when they go in so when the light bathes the church it is like a "brand new day"

That's an interesting interpretation that I never considered. Though personally I'm sticking with the idea that the "Flashsideways" was a flashforward into purgatory.

Plus there's the fact that "Flashsideways" Jack has wounds reminiscent of being those he gained in the fight between him and the Man in Black, which occurred after Juliet's detonation of the bomb. So chronologically speaking the "Flashsideways" must take place after the Dharma-losties got sent back to the future. It's been a while since I watched the Finale but IIRC there is a bit where, on been "woken", Jack says something along the lines of "I died".

I suppose unless Darlton ever make an official statement on the matter we'll never "know" what the Flashsideways where meant to be.

Irritatingly I recall some reviews of the Finale where people said "I was right, I said the show was set in purgatory back in season 1"; whatever about the Flashsideways I think most would agree that the main timeline was most definitely not purgatory.

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One thing that I did wonder about though, if the Flashsideways are meant to represent purgatory (and I believe they are), doesn't that effectively make Desmond's "trip" to them a near death experience? (Considering he had just been blasted with electromagnetic energy I guess that makes sense in context).

Sea Sharp

I re-watched season 6 and came up with a new conclusion:

There's a running theme of Man of Science Vs Man of Faith throughout the whole series. Particularly with John Locke and Jack. Each of these characters represented different perspectives from the audience of the show.

John represented people who had 'faith' and thought that the whole series would come together at the end and make sense.
Jack represented the audience that maintained the logical, rational 'they always just answer questions with more questions' this isn't coming together perspective.
And Hurley was the guy who just sat back and said 'Yeah whatever dude'.

John's faith in the Island got him completely fcuked over, manipulated, used and discarded for no apparent reason. Which is what happened to all the viewers that had faith that the show would come together and make sense in the end.
Jack eventually gained faith in the island, that also got him fcuked over, manipulated, used and discarded for no apparent reason. That represents the people who watched the show for the first 5 seasons thinking 'this doesn't make sense, this is rubbish' but then towards the end started to have second thoughts and expected the show to pull itself together.
Hurley got the best deal out of the three, getting to presumably live for 100s of years and rule the magic island. He represented the viewers that didn't really care about whether or not all the loose ends would be tied up. This kind of viewer probably found the finale to be very entertaining and rewarding.

In summary: if you thought the story was going to make sense the writers fcuked you over like they did to John and Jack. If you didn't expect anything you were rewarded like Hurley was.

I think I might be onto something.
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