Fuck I just typed up an entire summary for you guys. FUCK. Here we go again.
I've seen every episode and understand it pretty well.
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Okay.
What happened on the island, everything, all of it was real. It was NOT a dream.
When Sawyer held juliet after she detonated the bomb she said, "It worked! It worked!" Then she died.
We now understand that she was referring to this sideways universe. The bomb helped create this sideways universe.
The sideways universe is purgatory, the explosion provided the means. Purgatory was essentially created by the people on the island themselves. In their heads they created a place that they could ALL exist, TOGETHER. You only go to this place once you die though.
Jack's father said, "Nobody does it alone" which makes sense in the end because in the end everybody found somebody. Everybody had problems with their lives. Once they came to the island, the island created infinite possibility. Like John Locke walking, Charlie being tested (heroin or a girl with a child), Kate getting a new start in a place she wouldn't have to fear police. Jacob brought them all there because there was nothing for them on the outside (he even said that). But everything is possible on the island.
In the end everyone found somebody. Jack and Kate, Sawyer and Juliet, The physics guy and the redhead, Hurley and his girlfriend etc. If you examine all characters you will see EVERYONE FOUND SOMEBODY. Now even though a lot of people died, they were destined to be together so their minds created a place where they could find each other after loosing each other. People dying all the time was sort of a joke on Lost. We all thought that that's the best way to create drama and plot movement, but in reality nobody ever lost anybody. Even though they knew each other in real life for a short while, they created bonds that would last an eternity. (like hurley and his girlfriend). I believe that Jacob was some type of God, or Jesus, or Savior. He saw all these people that had troubles, all these people who were alone. Jacob set up the first dominoes to help these people. He helped them figure out who they were by a series of trials and events. And again, in the end they were not alone and had formed timeless bonds with each other.
An example of this trial was Jack trying to save Boone. He realized he couldn't save Boone's life, something difficult for Jack in the beginning of the series to understand. In the final scene we see Boone approach jack with a look on his face like, "I forgive you for not being able to save me, It's okay, I accept my death" and they embraced each other in this purgatory.
Before jack died, the dog came and lay next to him. Driving in the point of the show, nobody does it alone I THINK the dog was the spirit of his father. As the dog lay next to him, his father in the church touches his shoulder. Both the dog and the father were consoling Jack, and without words, telling him, "It will be okay."
Now the purgatory part is a little hard to grasp here we go:
In purgatory, there is no such thing as time. Purgatory, or this parallel world created by the explosion is a place where everyone can exist with each other OUTSIDE OF THE ISLAND. Where they can find each other after it's ALL OVER.
Everyone in purgatory is dead. Some died sooner than others, but because time doesn't exist (hard to grasp) they can all exist together at once.
When Hurley says to Ben, "You were a great #2" this suggests they already carried out a lot of time together on the island, ruling it, after Jack died. They could have been there 10 years, or 1000 years. That is up for speculation.
As Jack lay there watching Kate, Sawyer and the rest leave on the plane he died. He died in REAL life. Jack then went to purgatory which is timeless.
Now Kate, Sawyer and the rest probably lived out full lives. But eventually, like everyone does, they died. When they died they went to purgatory. When they went to purgatory they found each other again. When they saw the flashes in their heads they saw their entire lives flash before they're eyes. Suddenly they understood where they were, and what they were doing there. They were in a world they created in their minds, and they were all dead. They finally all understood the purpose of their trials and tribulations on the island. They understood they had to move on, which is why they all knew where to meet. They were not sad that they died, but happy that they had each other in the end.
What they were doing in the sideways universe was waiting for each other. They were waiting for each other so they could move onto the next step. Kate, (or was it Locke) said, "We've been waiting for you Jack" This signifys they were all waiting for each other.
In the final scene, everyone has found someone to be with. They have all been through some amazing stuff and will all move onto the next step in life with each other.
When you think about it. It's a beautiful story.
They were on an island, lost. But really they were lost souls. Looking for companionship. They didn't know who they were, what they stood for, what they were willing to do for another person or what meant life meant to them.
By the time they died, they understood life, they understood what mattered most to them, they fully understood THEMSELVES.
Again, Jacob realized they were Lost. He set up the event's that helped them find each other.
At one point in the show I believe it was mentioned that there had been an entirely different group of people on the island, living and going through their own trials and tribulations.
If there were other people like the Oceanic 816 survivors, that confirms what the Island is.
/\ That means that the Island is a place that exists somewhere in the world where people are brought by fate. On this Island, people who are Lost find each other. Desmond who is Lost in life crashes on the island while he is racing a boat across the ocean to impress the love of his lifes father.
The most beautiful part in the show I think is when Jack says to Desmond, "Well, see you in another life brotha."
Now do you guys understand how beautifully woven that story was?
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As for Ecko and Anna Lucia, they were just small character roles on the side that the show brought on to spice it up I think. They really had no connection to the other characters. They weren't really important enough to show in the end.
