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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 7653090" data-attributes="member: 8835">If the island represents purgatory or limbo, and the protagonists are dead, then "leaving the island" doesn't necessarily mean you've actually escaped back to the real world.  Meaning that once in limbo, you experience what limbo wants you to experience.  If that's a "real world" that imposes enough pressure on you to make you choose to return to limbo, then that is part of the trial that limbo represents.therefore, in the They're all Dead theory, the Oceanic Six may have left the island, but they never left purgatory.At the end of the series, we don't see the escapees actually arrive home from the island.  the plane takes off.  then we're back to flash sideways which is really the rest-state for limbo before they enter the pearly gates.So, outside of the writers claiming otherwise, within the medium of just the TV episodes, is there anything to contradict the "They're all dead" theory?It's possible there's a detail that proves something one way or another (I am in the middle of re-watching the series, and I haven't seen it).but the problem with Lost (or as some folks perceive a problem) is that the process they used of making it up as they go along left the viewer with very little concrete definition as to what the whole thing was about.Now its possible the writers intended it to be vague, so the audience could decide for themselves.  I don't think as many people like that style of writing.  I'd rather a writer tell me what their idea is, and then I'll decide if I like the idea.  Rather than witness a lot of uncertainty and argue with strangers on the internet about whether everybody was dead the whole time or not.  I'd rather be wrong because I missed a detail and have you point it out to me, than this  "it's what you make of it" wishy-washiness that we got.</blockquote>

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