# LOST 6.17 "The End" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2010, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459 "2010-05-23T15:16:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/121 "2010-05-24T03:11:13Z")
> [@ataraxy22](#): > > I’m still holding out that Jack will become a white-colored smoke monster. I have to second this. If Jack ends up as the replacement Smokey I hope he doesn’t end up as the selfish ,malevolent force that Esau was. I don’t that it’s a given. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/122 "2010-05-24T03:12:04Z")
> [@Monstre](#): > > So the knife and the light is back. And Jack’s down there. Does this mean that he’s going to become smokified like MIB originally did? Jack had time to get out of there before the light came back – he didn’t have to just sit there. Well he is kinda dying… ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/123 "2010-05-24T03:12:30Z")
When did ALT-Ben get awakened? I don’t remember that (I remember him nearly crying in Alex/Danielle’s kitchen). ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/124 "2010-05-24T03:14:30Z")
15 minutes to screw up everyone’s lives once again. ---
**Author:** ![Rumor\_Watkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@Rumor\_Watkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rumor_Watkins)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/125 "2010-05-24T03:17:22Z")
omg… “you were a great #2” ? does that mean… ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/126 "2010-05-24T03:19:41Z")
Interesting figures in the stained glass - nothing I ever saw in my Catholic school days! (well, except for the cross). ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/127 "2010-05-24T03:22:39Z")
“Is this heaven?” “No. It’s Iowa.” ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/128 "2010-05-24T03:24:37Z")
So now this is an episode of _Ghost Whisperer_? ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/129 "2010-05-24T03:25:05Z")
Are. You. Shitting. Me. ---
**Author:** ![Rumor\_Watkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@Rumor\_Watkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rumor_Watkins)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/130 "2010-05-24T03:26:21Z")
ok I will be the first to admit. I don’t have the first clue what the hell is going on. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/131 "2010-05-24T03:27:08Z")
Island Jack going to lie down and die from his knife wound in the same spot he woke up at the start of the series? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/132 "2010-05-24T03:29:19Z")
That was … something. ---
**Author:** ![Meme\_Chose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Meme\_Chose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meme_Chose)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/133 "2010-05-24T03:29:30Z")
Well, i guess the Island is finally finished with me. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/134 "2010-05-24T03:29:54Z")
> [@Rumor\_Watkins](#): > > ok I will be the first to admit. I don’t have the first clue what the hell is going on. Ditto, though my weeping wife says she’ll explain it to me in a moment ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/135 "2010-05-24T03:30:43Z")
Whoever predicted that the show ends with a closing eye gets a gold star! I’m going need sometime to process this… ---
**Author:** ![fervour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@fervour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fervour)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/136 "2010-05-24T03:30:44Z")
That was the suckiest show I have ever seen. They almost pulled it off, but then went for pure shit. ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/137 "2010-05-24T03:30:45Z")
So, Vincent lives, right? ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/138 "2010-05-24T03:30:56Z")
Well, that was some kind of fucking bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/139 "2010-05-24T03:31:34Z")
I don’t get it, but I’m still bawling. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/140 "2010-05-24T03:32:16Z")
How did Jack get out of the Light Well? It didn’t seem to blast him out like happened to Smokey. Side-flashes not alternate reality. That’s the afterlife, or at least the start of it, so all our characters’ souls can find each other after they’ve died (some already, some much later, like Hurley). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459.md?page=8)