WHATNESDAY

[cleolinda]

Okay, what?

Someone explain to me what just happened. I mean, yes, I get it, Jack died. Was it just Jack? Was it everyone? What about his kid? Was Sideways World real? Was it all in his head? Was everyone happy and reunited in his head or was everyone happy and reunited in Sideways World or was everyone happy and reunited in heaven? What about Desmond back on the island after they fished him out of the glowcave? What about Ben and Hurley? WHAT ABOUT BEN AND HURLEY HELPING DESMOND GET HOME? Did the Ajira plane get back to wherever? Does none of this matter because it was or was not real? That last shot after the title card--did everyone die in the original crash? I don't? What? WHAT?

ETA: Yes, I know it was purgatory, MATTHEW FOX, WHO SPENT SIX YEARS SHOUTING AT PEOPLE THAT IT WAS NOT PURGATORY, I just don't understand how much of it was purgatory--was it all purgatory in Sideways World? Was Jack's Kid just totally imaginary? Was it not purgatory at all? Are we going to split hairs, MATTHEW FOX, and claim that it is not literally purgatory, it's just something where They Were Really Dead All Along WHICH IS WHAT WE ALL MEANT BY "PURGATORY"? I JUST WHAT I DON'T KNOW.

I actually really liked it. I'm just not sure what happened.

Oddly, it reminded me a little of the ending of Places in the Heart. Or that last shot of V for Vendetta.

However! There will apparently be three alternate endings on Kimmel in about twenty minutes? MAYBE ONE OF THEM WILL BE A NON-PURGATORY ENDING.

ETA: Okay, the clearest consensus I am getting--in case passersby are getting confused--is that everything on the island was real, and Sideways World was everyone getting ready to move on after they had died, in this weird kind of all-times-collapsed-together thing where people who had died and were dying and would eventually die all came together at the same time to move on. And lo, Christian Shephard (NO REALLY) led them all into the light. Or something.

ETA: Oh! Sideways World was Titanic Heaven! Now you're speaking a language I can understand.

Comments

[vega-ofthe-lyre.livejournal.com]

Sideways World was purgatory! Or a sort of mental-holding pen they mutually created so they could all move on to heaven together? If that makes sense. That totally all happened, the Ajira plane made it, Desmond got home - the Sideways World is kind of outside of time and happened later for some people and earlier for others? AUGH THIS IS INCOHERENT BUT IT MAKES SENSE IN MY HEAD.

Or you're right, and the post-title card stuff means they're all dead. I DON'T KNOWWW

[sizequeen.livejournal.com]

Yeah. This. Now I don't have to write it.

[greenwitch.livejournal.com]

No, it makes perfect sense.

[cran.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this is what I got out of it, too. Christian said that some people died before Jack and some after, but they all created the Sideways world so they could meet up... and it's not really happening at any specific time because there's no concept of time in purgatory (or whatever you want to call the Sideways).

It seemed from Ben and Hurley's short conversation outside the church that they lived on the island, protecting it, for quite a while after Jack died.

[connielane.livejournal.com]

Exactly. What happened on the island happened, and as Christian said, it was the most important time of all of their lives, which is why they constructed the other reality - so they could find each other again.

[magickaldreamer.livejournal.com]

No, I think I kind of lean toward what you said. Everything on the island happened, Sideways World was a precursor to heaven where everyone can live a good life, and is outside of time, so it all happens at the same pace once you're IN Sideways World, but in different points for everyone on the slow path.

And I think Ben waiting outside indicates that he's Jacob 4.0. Maybe he relieved Hurley or something at some point. I can see that.

I liked this. A lot. And the more I think about it, the more confident I am about my explanation.

[sirius20-81.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure that he's 4.0. I think he didn't move on because he couldn't. Not without Alex. They were all waiting for the people most important to them and the person most important to him was his daughter.

[arianadream.livejournal.com]

I think that makes a lot of sense.