The Lost Finale: Revealing the Ultimate Secret behind Lost, the Series

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Lost will be remembered as one of the all-time great dramas and will go down as one of the most influential TV shows ever. I was sort of waiting (hoping) for some really cool, mind-blowing, unpredictable explanation. For everyone who loved and followed the show, this revelation could be painful; but please read to the end. The clues are there and enough... I've read numerous Comments and Explanations on the Web regarding the meaning of Lost, and understand that no one wants to believe that they watched (for six years) caring about what happened to everybody on that island and loved a program that was, basically, just jacking with them. Although the program had a genuine, deeper significance (see below), it was business the creators/writers promised the network that they could deliver those enormous numbers for the finale Their fee for a 30-second commercial during the finale? $900,000. ** From the fans: Many people thought "Hey, something's not right here;" those people were basically told to shut up. The finale held true to the rest of the series and by that I mean, it didn't make any sense and had enough fancy moments to fool some people into thinking what they were watching was actually special.
[concepts and plot developments which had] ...inspired websites, books and much philosophical heavy breathing were basically

dropped as pointless. I feel like a moron. None of it was real 'None of this matters.' What an enormous waste of time. What a waste of six years. I'm sorry, I feel jerked around. I am very sad and disappointed that my seasons 1 thru 5 DVDs will now just collect dust. ... Where's the re-watch value? Insults our intelligence and mocks us for caring about the characters and the plot. Yes, ABC may have placed the shots of jet fragments strewn about the sand behind the final credits (watch for the post-credits ending of Pirates of the Caribbean, On Stranger Tides) for their own reasons, and not to imply that everyone died in the landing (clearly, no one could have survived such a complete disintegration, let alone 50-plus people on land and in the water). Because even that is not what 'really' 'happened'.... Was supposed to fake us out. To me it was a show about lost souls, both living and dead, trying to find meaning. It is a meditation on life, death, and the choices we make. Jack's purpose in life was to fix things. What's his ending? He fixes the leak of evil by plugging it up, thereby letting his friends get home. He dies in the same spot where he first woke up, a changed man. By the end of the series, he has let go. Granted, it took him going to heaven and doing stuff there to let go of everything, but it was done. That he truly had fixed something, just before taking his final breath. Pay close attention, now: Jack did not dream everything, which is another misread I'm seeing a lot. {However} His death was perfectly symmetrical to the first shot of the series.

But, Jack did not come 'back' to the stand of bamboo, to be joined there by loyal Vincent, 'as if' he had never left there. Jack had never 'left' that spot. Jack was never in that spot, in the first place.... 1. He did not remember how he got there. He 'found' an airline liquor bottle in his pocket, then found the 'wreck,' and 2. started 'saving' other people. Where is the plane? At the bottom of the ocean. "Lost" at sea. Where is this "island"? "At the bottom of the ocean," or not actually an island, at all; because, where is Jack? Somewhere in the water, under the water, here or there it doesn't matter; in the water somewhere. But not for the six years of this remarkable odyssey. It was all about Jack in the end. We never got closure on anything but Jack. It was always all about Jack. Had I known this, I wouldn't have invested so much energy on the series. When does the 'six years' of the series take place? outside of the stream of time, outside of the flow of causality and rationality.... All, all, all, during the three to six minutes it takes for a drowning victim's brain to die completely, while the person is fighting to live, striving to die at peace; and, in Jack's case, needing beyond all else to know that he'd done all that he could, and that his life meant something. If you prove yourself on the island... They saved the world. dying a heroic death. ** Jack saves the world and stops hell on earth. themes of the show of redemption, righting your wrongs That being said, it's a Christian church they end up in, complete with a statue of Jesus out front, a "Christian Shepherd" who leads them all to the next stage, Jack has a pierced side, bloodied hands, and stands almost on top of the water in that river scene, and sacrificed himself to save not just his friends, but basically the world. ...that the show was largely a Christian allegory.... The purgatorial experiences of everyone, and their coming together in that "church" in the foyer of heaven, has no bearing on the souls or lives or destinies of any actual individuals. The only soul affected by any of this is Jack's. This was Jack's story, his...Bardo experience of temptation and choice just prior to dying. [ Bardo: transitional state, the state of existence intermediate between...; when one's consciousness is not connected with a physical body, one experiences a variety of phenomena. These usually follow a particular sequence...from, just after death, the clearest experiences of reality of which one is spiritually capable. Wikipedia.] A place where they could ''let go'' and finally pass. now is the time to let go, and to move on.... needed to get to that point of readiness and be willing to let go and move on to find some peace. Christian Shepherd is also just a character in his mind, and, being so, can say absolutely anything whatsoever, none of which has any bearing on the world in which Jack's plane went down. The speech contained words Jack needed to hear. you find out it is something to do with Jack's dying, then I have to wonder if the reunions were just in his head. A clue: If the characters don't seem to remember one another, that is because they never met. From the fans: If the island timeline was 'real' in season 6, then why did the whole season take place with the island underwater (as shown in the season premiere)? Seems to me that that suggests the characters were dead in both timelines in season 6. Characters who have been contorted so much over six years that they're barely recognizable.

The characters go from being psychotic killers to normal people and back, from episode to episode. The characters are as flat and unrealistic as can be. Those characters...they did not act like real people. Their motivations are muddled. Their actions make no sense. Lost characters seemed to me in the last two season as mindless zombies, puppets who did not know what to do, had low IQ and asked stupid questions. I did not feel that any of the characters were strong enough and well developed. The characters [were] the way they were because of the fact that it was Jack's death and Jack's time to join "purgatory" and the whole thing was from HIS point of view. His way of reconciling in order to "let go" and become free to just love for love's sake and to never miss anyone. Maybe that is the reward we all desperately seek... Brilliant. Other Clues embedded in the show itself: The word, "Lost," floating slowly upward, hazy and blurry, as if through water. Flying over ocean. Nothing but ocean. In the season 6 premiere, as oceanic 815 was flying over the ocean, Jack sees an open expanse of blue ocean, and nothing else, outside the jet's window. Then we were shown the island sunk on the ocean floor or at least the mysterious statue, weed-wrapped and very old, on the bottom of the ocean floor. Perhaps Jack saw it as he floated, dying, in the deep ocean, and it created the set and setting for the odyssey which followed in his Bardo experience. People appearing suddenly in the water, as 'survivors;' camera shot of rising through water. Again, from the fans: We learn that the characters and plot we had come to love were the equivalent of a dream. We're supposed to ignore the fact that nothing whatsoever mattered on the island. In the end we would learn that nothing that happened on the island, or in any flash-forward or sideways universe, was real. We would learn that in reality, everyone died in the crash and everything we had seen was some form of afterlife. ...ultimately Jack's salvation. And again: why does everyone have to wait for Jack? Jimmy Kimmel's take seemed pretty good too: The entire show was in Jack's head as he struggled to come to grips with his own death. That it was all in Jack's head in the moments before he died. knowing he was dying and the existential aloneness of that experience. Was Jack imagining a place, a paradise if you will, where he was with those he loved as he experienced his final moments? ... from Jack's POV and those are the people he wanted or needed to see. [From] J. Marmo: It was all about Jack...the last 6 years all occurred in Jack's mind. As he lay dying after the plane crash, he invented this world with characters that acted out his conflicts on choice, good, evil, fate, destiny, etc...and allowed himself to fix what he could in others in the path to fixing himself and dying in peace. May 24, 2010 at 10:13AM EST.
But, for us, even though the series was not what it pretended to be about,

1. The spiritual significance remains, and, 2. Once recognized, the foundational (secret) basis of the story could very well be true, and that is something very profound to contemplate, although a little bit unnerving. When Jack said "all of it matters," he meant our actions as human beings and how we treat each other.

I'm not in the afterlife yet and my human hopes are still working. Like life, we can say of the series, What an amazing ride. [It] was supposed to fake us out. Yes, the island-reality had complexity and 'depth' and verisimilitude (the appearance or semblance of truth or reality; the quality of appearing to be true or real; something that has the appearance of being true or real.). The lesson here is that even if the complexity, depth, and verisimilitude of Earth is only an appearance, and not any more real than a dream, we can start out even from having nothing and make our lives as amazing, significant, valuable ,and meaningful as we possibly can. And, then, when one life is complete, The good news is that when one journey ends, another can begin. ** "I'm going to have to go back to civilization and see what my next adventure is," said Jorge Garcia, who played Hurley. ** That is how to live. That is how to die. Could any program have given us a more important message?

Remember. Let go. Move on.

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* Fan comments from:

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/lost-the-end-see-you-in-the-other-life-brother ** Additional remarks from the Blog, http://keninthecity.blogspot.com/2010/06/fantastic-journey.html