I haven’t watched the show since I gave up on it the first season, but the new commericals have me a bit curious. Back when the the show was new, one of the most prevalent theories I heard as to where they were was a guess that they were dead and in purgatory or even hell. This was a long time ago, no more than half a dozen episodes in.
Leaving aside anything people might have heard about the new season - I don’t care about spoilers, but I bet a lot of people here do so let’s be sensitive to that - what are the current theories about what’s happened to them? Do viewers still think they’re in the afterlife or has another theory superseded that one?
The last episode of season 3 (not spoilering since it aired months ago) included not a flashback but a flash-forward to what seemed to be the present. (In the timeline of the show it is still the end of 2004.) Jack and Kate (at least) have gotten off the Island and returned home but Jack is convinced that they made a mistake and need to go back.
So definitely no afterlife; they are in the real world.
Well it’s not the networks decision, that’s just how many episodes they produced before the strike hit.
I figure we have ~6 weeks for the strike to settle, if it happens in 6 weeks hopefully it will give the cast and crew enough time to startup production of the last 8 episodes of this season.
I’m starting to get excited, I just don’t want to be crushed in 2.5 months when there are no more episodes because of the strike.
On another note apparantly the directors guild renegociated their contract and just signed it. There is talk that might jump-start the writers contract negogiations.
WGA is reporting they’re going back to talks as soon as next week. does a happy Snoopy dance
But as far as I recall, TV actors shoot a script in about a week or so (9 to 10 pages a day, with a typical TV script running about 50-odd pages). So assuming the strike settles before the month is out, they’ve got until March 20–eight weeks–to write and shoot eight episodes. They might be able to do a rush job on the first one and then knock out seven more, but I’m not sure.
TV Guide listed their top moments for the year, and for Lost they say “More than six months later, many of us Lost-ies still haven’t let go of the ABC drama. But we can all take a note or two from the show’s spiritual two-and-a-half-hour series finale, in which Jack learns from his dad, Christian, that he and all of his island-mates are, in fact, dead in the sideways world. In denial at first, Jack eventually accepts this truth, as a white light bathes the group and we see Jack’s final living moments end in the blink of an eye. Don’t even get us started on Vincent.”
So, they were dead after all, all protests to the contrary?
Correct; they did not die in the crash. One of the storylines in the final season was a parallel timeline that was revealed to be an afterlife of sorts. But the characters in it had all died in their own time and manner, and the events occured at some indeterminate future point, or “outside of time” or some mumbo-jumbo like that.
This, as fas as I can tell, is unequivocally false.
