Dude they were dead the whole time lmao

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>it wasnt purgatory! they were just in a temporary holding zone where they had to atone before moving on to the next life...

How did this belief get started? It's like at some point since the finale everyone who half-remembers the show from its heyday all collectively changed to believe "EVERYONE WAS DEAD THE WHOLE TIME".

Its sad that it is impossible to actually discuss it with people because they all think it was purgatory and none of it matters.

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So what was it?

your premise is partly correct since the show is a piece of shit and doesn't matter in any way irl

I've never seen this show should I get into it?

An overwrought concept that basically amounts to purgatory

They only went into "purgatory" whenever they died, regardless of the moment. Everything that happened was real. Purgatory timeline was only introduced in S6.

go clap to game of thrones or something

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I don't get it either. Christian tells the audience exactly what is happening. Everyone that doesn't like the ending completely misunderstood it.

>Everyone that doesn't like the ending completely misunderstood it.
Wrong, but everyone who completely hates it has. Season 6 was by far the weakest season, but nowhere near as bad as everyone says it was.

Watch at least the first season. That one is worth it the most.
Very good characters and use of flashbacks.

I have and I'm up to the 3rd season, just don't know if it's worth finishing but I really want to know all the secrets

>smoke monster that can assume human form for no apparent reason
>god like figure who assembles random group of ziltches to fight this "monster"
>on an that island moves through time via magic donkey wheel (????)
>you can also travel through time via h-bomb
>island also cures cancer/paralysis
fuck, imagine actually "understanding" this shit

None of that has to do with understanding the ending

>your'e a brainlet LOST is 2deep4u
>doesn't actually argue how so
every single thread

>everyone in the series finale funeral scene died in a plane crash on the island
>not everyone who died in a plane crash on the island was in the last funeral scene
i know they couldn't hire everyone back just for that one scene but yikes

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indeed it does, because it means all that stupid shit was actually sold as really happening, an infinitely worse explanation than the island itself being purgatory, which it was very obviously intended to be INITIALLY
then the showrunners realized the audience had already snuffed out the premise ten minutes into the pilot, so they spent the next 5 odd seasons taking out their butthurt on an audience they thought was beneath them

the island is some kind of gateway to a supernatural divine power, that's it
I don't need any more explanation than that, just like I didn't need an explanation for the Force to enjoy Star Wars

the last funeral scene was about everyone important to jack, how can zoom zooms still not understand the lost ending

>I didn't need an explanation for the Force to enjoy Star Wars
sup damon, i really admire your determination but just admit you were pulling shit out of a hat for 5+ years and be done with it

It's the best bait ever posted.
So good, it made it's way into the general public and gets thrown around by unsuspecting normies that haven't even watched the show.

You can't even muster up an argument, no wonder you have no imagination to fill in the blanks of the supernatural in movies.

I still think the last season's execution is bad, regardless of how much they explained about the mystical powers, that's the least of it's problems for me

>that one episode with the two nobodies who were integrated into the show and did something that made them frozen like dead bodies and got buried alive by the others.

N I G H T M A R E

Season 1 or 2 when they discover the other group is on the island
>the group going through the woods
>gets to a cliff/ravine
>everyone gets into a line and daisy chains their gear up the hill
>camera gets up close, tight and claustrophobic
>afterwards someone realizes one of the members is gone
>they shout for them with no reply

I had to drop this show right there, 2spooky for 10 year old me.

The last season has flash forwards to the afterlife which is a place out of time. The present day stuff is till happening and some finally got off the island. For them, they lived full lives and then died which is where the flash forward pick up for them. For those like Charlie, the flash forward picks up right after season 3 ends.

The fact that people watched it and still honestly think they were dead the whole time is baffling. It must really be a high concept big brain show.

>LOST premiered September 2004
>It was on the air for 6 years with the series finale airing in May 2010
>May 2010 was 9 years years ago

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Just post some Evangeline for fucks sake

>because it means all that stupid shit was actually sold as really happening, an infinitely worse explanation than the island itself being purgatory
What's wrong with the island having some sort of mystical properties? There is no reason to explain every mystery especially when it could ruin the story.

> which it was very obviously intended to be INITIALLY
They played with the idea but doesn't mean that it was definitely going to be purgatory all along.

>so they spent the next 5 odd seasons taking out their butthurt on an audience they thought was beneath them
Now you're just making stuff up

Is Yea Forums just for neo-nazi's and people who haven't watched tv since Breaking Bad ended and so still think shows like LOST or House M.D. are relevant? Hey guys, have you heard of this new Julia Louis-Dreyfus show called VEEP that HBO are doing?

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/teevee/ is for sneedchads and maskchads fuck off

>You can only discuss what's relevant

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LOST and Breaking Bad are part of the zeitgeist and will remain relevant

Fair point

what happened to the other people who were in the crash but weren’t major characters? the extras wandering around in the background

They mostly all died during the fire arrow raid

I love how all the criticism of the show are either
>I don't get the ending
>they didn't answer the question

even though the show answered almost every question. unless you got triggered over jack's tattoos.

>writer strike during season 4
>season 4 is the best season

really makes you think

>Ending shows all the characters at a funeral in a heaven-like dream scenario
>Literally cuts to Jack dying immediately after the plane crash
>"Wooow how could you ever think that they were all dead you didn't understand the end lmaooo"

people die at some point in their lives, but because they were important to each other they share a kind of simultaneous afterlife thing to move on (these are the flash sideways)

everything that happens on the island is real

some blow up at "the creek"

Reminder every single person defending the conclusion along the lines of "It was really about the characters all along" is a defensive brainlet.
Good shows, films, etc. handle character and plot development at the same time. That's called elegant writing. To pretend you have to chose one over the other is to admit you can't actually defend the crappy ending.

You might be surprised, but most people, especially those that consume movies and television, are extremely stupid.

>great scenery
>TRULY diverse cast with brits, americans, aussies, and a couple of non whites and not a gay nigger drama we would probably see today
>mysterious plot
>divine message
if you don't think this show is the GOAT you should go fucking hang youself

I literally stopped watching season 4 1 episode in I thought it was so boring so I guess I dodged a bullet there

Purgatory is a place on Earth, like in Dante's Divina Commedia
They were alive and in purgatory

Did anyone else only watch the Pilot?

That's impossible

The entire show has nothing to do with understanding the ending. It's ass-pull magic and sudden nonsensical mysticism that doesn't fit in its own universe.
The series went to shit after the first season. All the time travel, Others, flash-sideways bullshit. It just reeked of writers desperately trying to cobble things together on the fly, and worst of all, it shows. It's blatant hackery from the first and maybe second season onward.
You'd think that after 20+ episodes per season there would be some solid idea of where it was all heading, but no. Blue balls in a cloud of smoke all the way, never satisfying.

>Very good characters and use of flashbacks.
Writing by flashbacks is literally the worst storytelling device, maybe ever. Fuck this bullshit.

>stories should only be told linearly
You're just wrong

That's not what I said. One or the other well placed flashback can do wonders. But literally writing by flashbacks and masturbating all over it is lazy and gay.

How so?
The show stops using flashbacks after all the characters are established, then it moves on to flash forwards and flash sideways.

>then it moves on to flash forwards and flash sideways.

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But come on, they spent 20+ episodes on characters the entire first season; they're established, and they're the only ones left by the end.
The writers didn't make sense of the island, and instead chucked in a load of mystic supernatural deus ex to try to make up for it. It's a poor writing exercise at best.
Q: How do you make this character-intensive series better?
A: NOT TIME TRAVEL

The time travel was perfectly fine for anyone who isn't a brainlet. Where they fucked up was the Jacob/Smokeman storyline.

Time travel is a hack writer's easy get-out. There was no need for such nonsense when the series was already grounded in reality. I can't speak for anyone else, but it certainly made me check the fuck out.
It could have been real, but no. They just had to go that route and it was awful.

>But come on, they spent 20+ episodes on characters the entire first season; they're established, and they're the only ones left by the end.
Right, then they stop doing the flashbacks

>The writers didn't make sense of the island, and instead chucked in a load of mystic supernatural deus ex to try to make up for it.
What sense didn't they lack? The mysteries are all answered in a satisfying way. What deus ex are you referring to?

The time travel was handled fine for the most part. All it really did was show you the various inhabitants of the Island. Typically time travel ruins shows/movies but it wasn't the case here.

>The mysteries are all answered in a satisfying way.
No, they were not.
L O S T

>the various inhabitants of the Island
The island that everyone seems to know about? A bunch of Americans lived there for years and years, so it's not mysterious any more. Turns out, the island is quite well-known and visited often.
It could have been REAL, a real character drama without vague supernatural rubbish and ass-pull explanations. The island can travel through time and space, and has an end boss cork? Get fucked, you hack writers.
>What deus ex are you referring to?
The island itself. The most convenient plot device possible. It can be a real place, it can travel through time and space, be a host to supernatural twins and their mother for some reason. They ran out of character development, then went crazy. It could have been so good.