I know it makes for dramatic tv but wouldn't a doctor tell everyone to get away from the plane as fast as possible?
I didn't notice it the first time around because I hadn't had a kid yet, but now that I do, I realized that a doctor would never say "How many months pregnant are you?" - they'd ask how many weeks.
The flash sideways being a sort of afterworld is comparable to some (mostly tribal and ignored) afterworld schemes where spirits take up residence for a while in a world very similiar to the one in which they left. Some Buddhist/hindu type religions feature something vaguely similiar, though my memory is more than a little hazy here.
Or purgatory...
Who or what was the 'seed' person/event for the creation of the 'flash sideways' realm? Jack? Hurley? I figure somebody must have 'changed the rules' so that deceased spirits were no longer trapped on the island, but instead had a way out. Probably Hurley. Maybe, though, it had something to do with the water cavern?
Jack for sure, he's always been the pivotal character of the show.
Additional thought: who put the plug in the water cavern to start with? And was it ever pulled out before, say at some point during Jacobs long reign? (he seemed to have some idea what was down there).
I think the answer is that it was created a long time ago, and that's all part of the mythology of the island that is supposed to stay a mystery.
I'm personally more interested in how Widmore seemed to know so much about what was down there. They seemed to make it clear that Jacob had never gone inside, so how would Widmore know?
Ok...so a few folks got away on the plane, and a few others remained behind on the island. Not exactly a tidy ending, everybody all split up like that. Did the plane make it back to civilization? Or did it crash (wondering about the fuel situation).
Spinoff?
Meanwhile, we also end up with a badly battered Desmond *still* stuck on the island, away from his beloved Penny. I have to wonder, given the way he behaved in the Flash Sideways and the way he connected back and forth so readily, just how much time he spent on the island after being pulled out of that cave. Did Hurley try dumping the Guardian job on him later on?
I'm guessing Hurley (as the new Jacob) helped him get off the island.
All in all...there might be material enough here for a movie or three, possibly a sequil series...
That was the original plan actually - a few seasons followed by a movie.
...I was hoping it would be for a grander purpose than "hey, we're all dead".
Definitely, I was waiting for the "We're going back to the island" or "We need to help our loved ones still alive".
I'd love to get a glimpse of how those two worked together on the Island, lol.
That can be added to the list of spinoff ideas. Also on the list: a Miles/Sawyer cop show.
On a far more negative note, I hated - absolutely HATED - that Sayid ended up with Shannon in the afterlife. Come on; Nadia was his true love, not blondie.
I agree 100%. I think the intention was to show what Christian(?) said - that their time on the island was the most important part of their lives.
And for crying out loud, if they could get Juliette, Shannon, and Boone back for cameos, then why couldn't they find a way to drag Mr. Ecko back to the set just for one appearance.
He left the show of his own choice, so it's possible he didn't want to come back for some reason.
Why was Walt so special? And why weren't women able to have children on the Island after the "Incident"?
I think those might be the two biggest questions that I think should have been answered.
The ending confused me quite a bit. Do Jack and Juliette have a son or not? Why was Penny in the church, she was never on the island? What about Sun and Jin's daughter? Was the pilot in the church?
Jack and Juliet's son was a little odd, I'm not sure what he was supposed to represent. Sun and Jin's daughter probably isn't dead yet, and Lapidus might not be either? We can add Desmond and Penny's son to the list too.
...but instead I'll note that Fish Burger....
Who?
