# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/141 "2010-05-24T03:32:17Z")
Well … huh. Best part: Vincent was there. ---
**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, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/142 "2010-05-24T03:33:24Z")
What a bizarre way to close the show. ---
**Author:** ![Nan\_Sequitur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e36b37/32.png) [@Nan\_Sequitur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nan_Sequitur)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/143 "2010-05-24T03:33:39Z")
Well, son of a bitch, and bastards thereof. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/144 "2010-05-24T03:33:45Z")
Sooooo…they all died in the initial plane crash? ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/145 "2010-05-24T03:34:14Z")
I’m not sure how I feel about the 6th sense ending. I also don’t understand how it all ties together. What does it signify for the two alternate realities? Confused and sad. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/146 "2010-05-24T03:34:46Z")
> [@C3](#): > > Sooooo…they all died in the initial plane crash? What? 😕 No, but they did die eventually, and they found each other again. ---
**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, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/147 "2010-05-24T03:34:48Z")
I must object; Sayeed spends eternity with his one night stand Shannon, not Nadya? Booo, hisss ---
**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, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/148 "2010-05-24T03:35:29Z")
Personal reactions… The Island still exists. The ATL amounted to… I don’t know. Jack squat it would seem. Hurley’s the new Jacob, with Ben as his new ‘Richard’. There seems to be no new Smokey as I’m entirely certain what happened to Jack. He seemed to die in the clearing next to Vincent. This is about what I expected from the finale. I’m not sure if I’m happy or not yet. I liked the show but as an ending if left me wanting. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/149 "2010-05-24T03:35:48Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > What? > > 😕 > > No, but they did die eventually, and they found each other again. I took the last scene to be the wreckage of the plane crash, silent because there were no survivors. Hmmm. ---
**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, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/150 "2010-05-24T03:36:10Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > What? > > 😕 > > No, but they did die eventually, and they found each other again. Then what was with the debris on the beach? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/151 "2010-05-24T03:36:11Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > When did ALT-Ben get awakened? I don’t remember that (I remember him nearly crying in Alex/Danielle’s kitchen). When Desmond beat him up. ---
**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, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/152 "2010-05-24T03:36:23Z")
> [@Monstre](#): > > 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). Yeah, I mean i get that that was the whole pearly gates thang. but… huh? ---
**Author:** ![Yesterdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/d07c76/32.png) [@Yesterdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yesterdog)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/153 "2010-05-24T03:37:00Z")
Can somebody explain the light well to me? I stopped watching after Season 2, but started watching the episode tonight when Desmond was being lowered down the waterfall. ---
**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, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/154 "2010-05-24T03:37:27Z")
Second reaction… The Island is the afterlife. Everyone died on the initial crash. A lot of people called this on the Pilot and they would seem to have been correct. ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/155 "2010-05-24T03:37:43Z")
It was all a dream. “Bobby, Bobby, get out of that shower NOW!!” ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/156 "2010-05-24T03:38:35Z")
Once they detonated the bomb in 1977, it created an alternate universe. They lived their lives without the influence of the island, and finally, in death, found each other and remembered both timelines? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/157 "2010-05-24T03:38:38Z")
Get this - our local ABC affiliate totally forked up the transmission of the show. It was extremely pixelated, on and off, occasionally dropping signal. I thought it was just me (as I have over-the-air digital) but nope - they put up a notice about an hour in about how they have fucked up and will re-air it next Saturday. NEXT SATURDAY! My friends watching on DirectTV had the same issues. I have quite a headache right now. It was like watching television through a seizure. Well that plus I was crying at the end, although I’m not sure why. I think because Vincent was there. Dogs make me cry. ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/158 "2010-05-24T03:39:45Z")
> [@C3](#): > > Sooooo…they all died in the initial plane crash? That doesn’t seem to be the case. Hurley for example referenced a life we never see where he supposedly protects the island along with Ben. It’s the classic ghost story this ending. They all die (at different times) and then need to be told that they are dead. The sideway flashes are a sort of afterlife waiting room. ---
**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, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/159 "2010-05-24T03:41:18Z")
> [@Meme\_Chose](#): > > Then what was with the debris on the beach? Archaeological remains, basically. What was left of them all many years after the events took place. See also: ending of [Blackadder Goes Forth](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw0e8p0Tyo4) ---
**Author:** ![Amulet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4491bb/32.png) [@Amulet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amulet)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459/160 "2010-05-24T03:42:00Z")
The sideways/alt universe was where they all met after they died. I’m shattered. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-17-the-end/540459.md?page=9)