If you're like me you pretty much enjoyed the entire series of Lost up until about the last five minutes of the last episode. That's when you may have wondered what exactly was going on. They all go to a church and wait to die? Jack's father is still alive? Were all the flashbacks we saw in season 6 a complete waste of time because none of it was real? Were they supposed to be in some sort of limbo between earth and heaven or an alternate time line. To try to come up with a theory we have to go back to the end of season 5.
At the end of season 5 Juliet sacrifices herself to ignite the nuclear bomb. Jack believes it will reset history so that the hatch will never be built, the incident will not happen and they'll instead fly safely from Sydney to Los Angeles. At the beginning of season 6 we see that perhaps Jack's plan has worked everyone is on the plane from Sydney to Los Angeles. However some things are a bit off for example this time around Desmond is on the plane when the first time around he was not. After the scene concludes the camera goes down from the plane under the ocean to reveal that the island is completely submersed is water. Later in the episode though we find that everyone is still on the island but that time has shifted back to present day. Juliet though died in the blast. It's kind of weird, if the blast simply helped shift them back to the present day then Juliet should still be alive. So at this point it appears we have two different realities one in which the plane lands safely and one in which they still end up on the island.
This theory works pretty well up until the last episode. We get to see how the characters lives may have worked out differently had the island never been part of their lives. Later in the season we find that Charlie from the alternate reality has had a memory of the island. Soon Desmond has one as well, he then goes on a mission to help all those on the flight see what really happened. It seems seeing an important person or event that reminds them of something on the island will trigger it. What I found interesting though is that the characters left on the island don't ever have memories of anything from the alternate reality. This gives the impression that the alternate reality is not part of their true destiny but more of anomaly that wasn't supposed to actually occur.
In the last episode there are some things added to make you think that it is some sort of limbo between earth and heaven but I think that it can still be explained as a alternate reality. For example Hugo mentions how he enjoyed working with Ben on the island that they made a good team. On the island this had not happened yet. It is as if they not only had memories but also all their thoughts up until they died. Also, Jack's father is there at the funeral and he's not dead at all. So how can these things be explained as part of alternate reality? It's simple really, the alternate reality doesn't directly correspond to the island reality. Instead it exist outside of the real timeline because it is an anomaly that is not really supposed to exist. Once the light enters the church it signifies that those people will cease to exist. How though is Jack's father there he supposed to be dead right? Actually we never really know for sure that in this reality Jack's father is actually dead. Desmond and Hugo plan the entire event of getting everyone to the church and making sure everyone remembers the true reality. Desmond is even there to pick up the coffin as it's delivered. Jack's father tells Jack that he created this place so that he would have a place for everyone to meet and let go of the past. This is in fact true Jack created it with the nuclear bomb although it was not his intention at the time.
As the show ends we see three different things happen at the same time. The plane leaves the island and we can assume that they escape. Jack lies down in same spot where he woke up at the beginning of series and we see his eye close as he dies sacrificing himself for the others. Hugo and Ben take up the charge of protecting the island and the light. The characters in the alternate reality cease to exist as the light enters the church. The End.
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