No, they weren’t dead from the start | Understanding the end of the Lost series

11 years ago, the last episode of Lost aired, shocking – and frustrating – many people with its explosive reveal, which ended years of fan theories and ended up becoming a meme of global proportions. After all, did people follow the show all the time to find out that the characters were dead? Well, unlike what has been posted on the internet, the ending makes it clear that they were NOT dead from the start. Check the text.

If you live on the internet, you must have heard of the controversial Lost series ending. Many even say that the ending is very bad because everyone was dead the whole time. What really makes some people miss the show because of this misunderstanding. They don’t even think about starting to see it because they already know the “bad ending”. However, this story of “everyone almost dead” is the result of a false understanding, which has become a false collective memory. Today, even some people who watched the show think everyone was dead since the first episode.

So understand once and for all the true ending of the series and why you should give this TV milestone a chance.

To begin with, we have to talk about how Lost was the pioneering series of theories and discussions on the internet. With each new episode, the online forums exploded with millions of theories and comments. Theories that producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof liked to spark with widely open references in the series itself.

These theories ranged from “the island is a science experiment” to “they are dead and the island is a purgatory”, and the producers always succeeded in sparking these and other crazy theories, but really that of purgatory was the more popular with them.

Were they dead from the start?

Lost has always been known to have innovated in the way of telling the story, whether it is with the famous flashbacks which show the events of the characters’ past and also the flashforwards, which innovated by showing the events of the future. However, in the sixth and final season, the narrative introduced the side flash, which showed a sort of alternate reality where the island lived underwater and the Oceanic 815 plane never crashed. And throughout the last season, we’ve been following this alternate reality alongside what was shown in “normal reality”.

The submerged island.

But the world and the people in those side flashes were totally different from what we knew. James Sawyer, for example, was a totally immoral con artist. In this “parallel world” he was a handsome policeman. We then realized that this reality was not a simple world where they did not fall on the island. Things were quite different.

It was then that the plot began to show the truth. Desmond remembers everything he has been through on the island and is on a mission to make sure everyone remembers. Then, in the last part of the last season, we are treated to beautiful and unforgettable moments of loved ones, but who were already dead, in the process of reuniting.

Charlie and Claire are reunited.

However, the flash-sideways were interspersed with the events of the present on the island, so throughout the final season we have two storylines:

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● On the island: survivors try to fight against the threat of “black smoke”;

● In alternate reality: Desmond bringing everyone together with the intention of making them remember.

We then discovered that alternate reality was nothing more than an afterlife, an “afterlife”. Not heaven, hell, purgatory or the threshold. It was common ground, a place where everyone could “move forward” together.

And that’s what happens in the last episode. At the same time as we literally accompany Jack by giving his life around the island and walking towards death, we have the same Jack in the afterlife who remembers everything with the help of “The Guide”, who is represented by the late father of the character.

Guide.

Jack asks if he’s real, and The Guide responds, “I’m real, you are real, everything that happened to you was real, everyone is real.”

Then Jack asks if everyone in the afterlife is dead and has the answer, “Everyone dies someday, Jack. Some before you and others after ”.

In other words, everyone on the island is alive, while those in the afterlife are dead. And the explanation for everyone being together at the same time is that there is no “now” in the hereafter.

These dialogues practically came to show everyone that everything they were experiencing on the island was happening. And the afterlife, which was introduced in the sixth and final season, was an afterlife.

So the whole theory that they were dead from the start fell to the ground, as everyone remembers the times they were on the island, and the guide’s talk to Jack is self-explanatory: all about the island really happened.

Even though we don’t see certain characters like Hurley, Sawyer, and Kate die, that doesn’t mean it won’t happen someday, as The Guide says, “Everyone dies someday.” So it can be assumed that Sawyer could die at the age of 100. But regardless of that, they will always end up there in the Hereafter.

In the show’s final scene, Jack is seen dying in “Island Reality.” At the same time, everyone in the afterlife gathers and hugs, sitting in a church to move on.

And despite being a church, Lost doesn’t determine which religion is correct, it’s up to you to determine where you go. Whether in the hereafter, in paradise or elsewhere. Then the series ends with Jack closing his eyes, making a parallel with the first scene of the first episode, where he opens his eyes and wakes up on the island.

The parallels between the first and the last scenes of the series

Many people did not understand this ending and made it known that everyone was dead, but the truth is that everything that happened on the island was real. All the seasons, all the happy and sad moments, all the mysteries and intrigues have happened. The autopsy is just one item introduced last season to end the series. Everything that happened … Well, it happened.

All six seasons of Lost are available on Amazon Prime Video.

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