So, it was purgatory then?
*gave up three eps into series 2*
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:56, 1 reply)

of sorts
Basically (never start an episode with basically) Everyone died in a plane crash. The island was a place where there souls mooched around until they were prepared to accept they where dead. 99.9% of the story and plot lines meant nothing.

I suspect that early on the story lines did have more meaning, but they made such a mess of it, to meet the need of endless episodes of people in mild peril, that by the time they came to write the end they were left with no choice other than “it was all a dream”
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Tue 25 May 2010, 14:30, closed)

Nope - I'm sorry but you are wrong. The island was real, not some weird form of Purgatory (As Jack's father said, "Everything that happened, happened").

The after-life was the alternate time line introduced in season 6.
(Heggy, Tue 25 May 2010, 14:53, closed)

Nope, you're wrong and I'm not at all sorry.
Who knows, you could well be right. Everything was left so open. I’m not sure there is a simple explanation that fits all the story lines because it was such a mess.

I like complicated story lines and not being spoon fed plots, but I’ve got a horrible feeling that this was an exercise in delivering viewers to advertisers rather than a coherent drama.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Tue 25 May 2010, 16:21, closed)

I originally thought you were right
and it would explain why Locke could walk, Roses cancer went away, in fact it explains a lot. Also did you notice that Jack died exactly where vincent found him in the very first episode. However the sideways (purgatory) world would not of existed if they had all crashed and died. What I think is that they had originally planned for everyone to have died in the original crash but due to the internet outrage they changed it around...The weird thing for me is that I can't work out whether it was a fitting ending or that I have been robbed of 119 hours of my life. I loved some things about the ending, anyone that wasn't partly moved has a heart of stone, yeah leave some mysteries but tie up the blatant loose ends
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Wed 26 May 2010, 15:21, closed)