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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 7653094" data-attributes="member: 8835">As others had posted earlier, there's indicators that the writers lied when they said they had a plan and weren't making it up as they went along.  I can't prove it, but there's reason to believe the writers are liars with regards to the show.And if you watch the show and ending without external information (ex. the writers' blog posts), then you may very well come away with the "they're all dead" conclusion.  I know that's what I thought when I saw the ending with the plane on the beach.As to disproving the "they're all dead" theory, once the island has been established as wierd and magical, all bets on what we see afterwards are potentially off.  Thus, if it really was purgatory, I can buy the Oceanic Six being show their life as escapees from the island.  And it would indeed be a test to see if they could be convinced to CHOOSE to come back.However, along that line of logic, any "facts" that predate the crash that define the island as a real place would contradict the "they're all dead" theory. So Hurley learning about the numbers from a radio operator who heard them come from the island.  The Black Rock crashed up on the island and its asssociation to the Whidmore family through the years (Charles Whidmore knew about the island through multiple vectors, not just the Dharma Initiative).  Alpert recruiting the baby research doctor whose name I forget.  These things appear to have happened before the Flight 815 crash and don't appear death or purgatory related.Now it's also possible that the Purgatory faked all this information or memory, but that gets further into the argument you're making.Suffice it to say, I don't believe They're All Dead, but I do see how the show did not help make that obvious.</blockquote>

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