Here’s what really happened in lost season 6 episode 17.
We’ve all been taken for a ride. No definite exclamation point or period was written by the scriptwriters to provide closure.
It was two and a half hours long and featured many characters from the past and present returning to add closure to the series. Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse attempted to give us a fitting end to a show that changed the landscape of television forever. Whether or not they succeeded is up for debate…
Some websites say they were all in purgatory, waiting to move on, to pass on until the time that they realized the event that they shared.
Or, the whole thing could have been just from jack’s mind as a lunatic. I agree with another website that said “Personally I felt this ending was cheap and the easy way out because they never had a plan.” They were just merely adding on to the script as they went along.
The real ending for me therefore, was the continued loss of viewership. Had viewership continued to rise or maintain its heights, I have no doubt that there could have been a lost season 7 or 8 or 9.
There was never going to be even a season 7, they knew from season 3 and on that they were only going to have 6 seasons. There was a “plan” all along, whether or not it’s the one you like is up to you. The ending was the way it was because of the type of show it is, it was a mysterious show to begin with and they left the ending up to interpretation on purpose. Over the last 6 season’s the only thing you actually see from people is theories, so why not give an ending that actually does end the show, but also lets it live on threw other people’s theories? Personally I think that everything that happened on the island did actually happen in “real life”, but when Juliet blew up the bomb in the 70′s it destoryed the island, leaving no place for the crashies to actually “land” the plane, ergo, they died then. But there’s now two separate time lines. While the one where they land in Las Angeles is a purgatory based universe. Christian told Jack that all the people in the church had died during different times, some past and some future. After every single person that we knew of actually died (may have been hundreds of years due to Hurley’s new powers) they met up on the plane right after the “crash”. When they were on the plane they didn’t know about what happened so it took a near death experience to make them realize they were already dead. Just my two cents worth.