LOST: The Final Season (Spoilers)

[Diamond Cross]

It's called paying attention to detail.

And people will be discussing these things for years to come.

Much like fans of Star Trek do.

 

[coyote6]

I think the horse she met while running away from the law was just a horse.

The horse she saw on the island was either just an escapee from the Russian guy's station that coincidentally looked like the earlier horse (and was thus the show's creators messing with fans), or it was Smokey trying to get into her head somehow. I don't believe the horse ever did anything significant on the island, so I kind of lean towards the first interpretation.

I don't think the horse needs a canonical explanation; I don't know how you would fit it in the show without it being hamhanded.

 

[dravot]

This guy does a pretty good job of answering the remaining questions.

Attempt to answer all of the remaining questions

It's based on the remaining questions video put out by College Humor.

 

[stonegod]

Two random sillinesses regarding the final. For the animal lovers.

First, all of LOST in 1 minute as told by cats.[sblock=Spoiler? Not Really][ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-DShnvNNv0]YouTube - LOST re-enacted by Cats in 1 minute.[/ame][/sblock]Second, another ending, this one involving dogs.[sblock=Spoiler if you haven't seen it. Sorta]

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[Felon]

Seriously? People still care about the frickin' horse thing?

Really?

I don't recal off the top of my head what the "horse thing" being referred to is, but even so I don't understand your incredulity. Abrahms asserted often that this show wasn't like the X-Files, that they weren't just scrambling to make things up as they went along, and that the island wasn't merely some magical fantasy island. In other words, you can't just say "a wizard did it".

So yeah, people want to know what all the random out-of-place stuff appearing was about. It's not totally unsreasonable.

 

[Fast Learner]

I remember Abrams saying that they weren't just making it up as they went along, but I don't remember him saying anything along the lines of "the island wasn't merely some magical fantasy island." Any idea where I might find something like it?

 

[Felon]

The Wikipedia references are what I used to use when I was initially considering watching the show. I wanted to make sure I wasn't about to start watching some lazy, stream-of-consciousness fantasy island that's all meaningless imagery with no substance or direction. They may have changed over time (or even recently, now that conjecture about forthcoming answers is sort of moot).

 

[Janx]

Nope. The island was real, those that left on the plane left very much alive, Hugo and Ben live out the rest of their days on the Island. Things really happened. They really mattered.

The Sideways world was the self-created Purgatory of the Losties, where they were able to re-connect by recalling their *real* experiences on the Island.

The conversation between Jack and Des before Des went down into the light brought up the question very clearly as to whether their actions mattered. Jack insisted they did. His father's explanation in Sideways world confirmed this (along with the long sought "Attaboy" Jack was seeking from Dad.)

by what proof from the contents of the show do you have that the plane crashed and there were survivors and stuff happened?

Did it matter, sure. Just as if you have a dream epiphany that changes your life, the events of the dream matter.

Given that neither you nor I are idiots, I either missed a detail, or the writers were unclear, given that I have a different interpretation of what I saw.

in my interpretation, it was implied that Hurley's new way was to discover how to end the purgatory cycle and move everybody out of purgatory.

The ending scene with the plane quietly sitting on the beach enforced that view.

So, by what do you discern that they were not all dead? Bearing in mind that I don't dispute that the events mattered. They were a journey for the characters, regardless of their reality.

 

[fba827]

i'm a firm believer in "the ending is how you interpret it yourself, so the ending may be different for different people..." Having said that ...

The ending scene with the plane quietly sitting on the beach enforced that view.

Not that you would have any way of knowing it from the context of the episode, ABC released a statement that the end scene of the plane sitting there was not part of the episode narrative, but rather something ABC/network had put in order to allow viewers to 'decompress' from the events that just unfolded before jumping to the next show/news/late show/etc.

Link to story here:
ABC clarifies that everyone on LOST was NOT dead the whole show | SCI FI Wire

 

[Fast Learner]

Christian tells Jack, "The most important part of your life was the time you spent with these people." Pretty sure he didn't mean a few hours sitting on an airplane.