I thought the crash scene was the remains of the Ajira flight( with Kate Sawyer Lapidus Miles Richard and Claire)
Since they were all dead. I thought they never made it to LA. We all should have guessed they would be dead. Do you remember every time Desmond would end a conversation he would say,"See you in another life ,brother or see
you on the other side, brother." No one picked up on that clue. I realized it when I reviewed a few older episodes after"the end "show. I still think the writers could have created a better ending with more resolve. How did Penny
die or Mrs. Faraday/Widmore die? They were never"flown"to the island. Too many loose ends. Whoopie G. said it
all on Tuesday's show. What the heck was all that about? Even Jimmy Kimmel was confused on his Aloha show. I
really liked LOST but was disappointed at the end. Sorry Guys you blew it!
Bill - 14 years ago
It was pretty obvious to me that it was merely an image of the set; the lean-tos created by the survivors were where they left them, dismissing any idea that no one survived the crash. I was too busy trying to sort through the last scene, so the idea of a "decompression" scene to let it all sink in wasn't bad, though the more traditional white text on black background would have been perfectly adequate.
Kevin - 14 years ago
Everyone is still LOST, which is good....
Briand - 14 years ago
Not only did I think it was a message, I interpreted it the same way your writer did. I'm glad to hear it wasn't. ABC has been playing fast and loose with previews for Lost for a long time...putting confusing and misdirecting cuts into them. When I rewatched the finale, it was obvious that the writers made it very clear that everything that happened on the island was real (they said it any number of times and ways). Thanks for a long restless night's sleep ABC
Me - 14 years ago
Didn't come across as part of the story to me any more than any other credit roll in any film/tv show I've ever seen.
I thought it was a nice touch.
Lillian - 14 years ago
I assumed it meant that everybody died in the initial plane crash and they had spent the last 6 years in denial, refusing to move on.....sort of a "group" haunting.
K S - 14 years ago
I even went a step further with the wreckage footage.
I thought it might have been attempt to have the audience consider that the plane Kate and Sawyer et al escaped on crashed and NOBODY left the island alive. So whether or not the island was a purgatory or not, or the events on the island happened or not, it becomes a moot point since nobody escaped. A kind of ultra-bizarre, 6 season-long Occurrence at Owl Creek. OR a 6 season naval-gaze at the question if a tree falls in the woods and nobody hears it, does it make a sound.
I was completely horrified with that, but I had to consider it.
I hated even considering that might be the meaning having invested so much of my personal life into this show, so to be honest I was rather relieved to hear the footage was not "planned" and I will be on of those doofuses that will pour over every DVD extra tidbit to hear those other answers.
The biggest unaddressed ones has to be the whole Walt deal and no babies being born on the island. At minimum that should have been addressed somewhat.
rob nesby - 14 years ago
Just watched the entire series again and i can say with all honesty that yes they died and they were in purgatory in both realities just the island is mistical and they were able to get to know one another in said Pergatory Im sure Jacob is still fighting his nameless brother. Waiting for the world to end or something. Too many mysteries left open wich would b ok if they only answered the really intriguing ones i.e. Walt, numbers, etc. but they didnt and never planned on explaining they just pulled the biggest con of them all and for that all I can say is they should B ashamed even J.J. for giving up b4 the final yrs. and bravo well done engrossing show, just too bad it was pretty much a waste of the characters, and viewers time. Like I said before we will all be thinking at the end of it all we will b feeling LOST, about all the time, money, etc. we all LOST. wILL not buy season 6 even if they do make up some new answers will just rent, the final image of the wreckage just basically ruined the whole show for me and im sure millions of others aswell. Great job ABC you just LOST some more potential money!
Rich - 14 years ago
I suspect that half of the people who are saying that "of course" they knew all along that it was just an incidental visual aid would have answered differently before ABC put out their statement.
The Dude - 14 years ago
WARNING: When Consuming Fiction, Please Check Your EXPECTATIONS at the Door. Thank You.
chris - 14 years ago
49% of people out there have no idea what happened over the last 6 seasons. lol
Dani - 14 years ago
I am surprised anybody considered it part of the story. I knew the 815 wreckage sets from the first season have long since been dismantled, so I thought it was pretty cool that they must have found old footage from the filming of the pilot that they never used. But I thought it was a nice touch showing archive footage from the first season era. Never crossed my mind that it had anything to do with the episode.
Ritt - 14 years ago
The piles of clothes, tents and footprints helped me conclude that it all happened. The Island continues...
Zachariah - 14 years ago
I also figured that it had been wreckage from the Ajira plane--that Fake Locke had only removed some of the C4 that Widmore had planted.
I took no meaning from Kate's "missed you so long" sentiment because Christian had earlier stated that time was meaningless in the sideways universe.
Adele - 14 years ago
My daughter and I thought the plane with Clare, Kate and Sawyer (that had just taken off) had crashed - we didn't think that was the Oceanic flight at all. We assumed they would take up with Hurley and their story would continue on the island.
jb - 14 years ago
ABC's denials are a crock. They produce the show. How is it possible for them to think that people would not interpret something from every bit of placement? I think this is sort of creating more lingering for the show. It's brilliant too. How would it not be run by Damon and Cuse that they were going to tag it on? It's possible that the whole series existed in the purgatory *both the island reality and the sideways reality* That everyone died at different times does not suggest that it's not purgatory. Christian's statements that everything that happened on the island was real doesn't preclude that the events on the island needed to happen in reality assuming the series treated purgatory as a real existence, just like heaven and hell and living now on the earth is real, etc..
Cyndi - 14 years ago
Like Nate and Matt stated before me - Since the footage of the wreckage on the beach came after the final LOST closing appeared on the screen, I did not think it was related to the story, but just a closing tribute to the show and where it began.
Colby Wright - 14 years ago
It reminded me of when you beat Super Mario World and they show all of the worlds at the end. Just some visual candy and a solemn reminder.
JSF - 14 years ago
I thought it was the Ajira wreckage; that the plane Kate, Claire, and Sawyer were on crashed after Jack saw them flying away. I mean, I wasn't positive, because Kate had said to Jack that she "missed him so much" implying that it had been a long time since they had seen each other. But I would have always wondered if that was the Ajira flight.
Matt Powers - 14 years ago
It was clear to me that this was a sort of final send-off... a reflection on how it all began. A memorial to the show that has thrilled us and made us use our minds while watching TV for once (well, at least some of us). Besides, anyone who watches the show should know that the episode is over when the LOST logo appears. After the logo appeared, anything after that didn't matter to the plot. I felt it was pretty clear.
BG 17 - 14 years ago
Just add it to the pile of stuff that was apparently included arbitrarily: the importance of Walt; the importance of Aaron; the detonation of Jughead; the ash that kept out Smokey; the sonic boundaries that kept out Smokey; the Dharma initiative; Pierre Chang's multiple pseudonyms; the pregnancies that couldn't go to term; etc; etc...
Carol McCarthy - 14 years ago
I just thought it was a small tribute to how the whole adventure started six years ago. I thought it was a lovely touch.
Nate - 14 years ago
With the scenes being after the Lost logo, I figured it was a final goodbye for the series. My wife definitely needed the decompression time.
jules - 14 years ago
Of course I assumed it was part of the story. All images have always been part of the story or 'a piece of the puzzle'. It wasn't conclusive to me that the wreckage meant they all died. It could have been another flight starting the whole cycle of the plane eating island. (I did not freeze the image to see if there were details to prove which flight it was).
As for ABC... if this wasn't part of the show provided to them, where did ABC get those images? I can't remember, but I thought they were actual film with waves in the background and not freeze frames.
Brian - 14 years ago
I can't say I *assumed* the wreckage was part of the story, but I wondered, and I did come to the conclusion that, if it was part of the story, there was a strong possibility that it meant that everyone had died in the wreckage. I also knew there would be people who would be much more "sure" of this than I was and would argue that everything in the show happened postmortem.
I thought the crash scene was the remains of the Ajira flight( with Kate Sawyer Lapidus Miles Richard and Claire)
Since they were all dead. I thought they never made it to LA. We all should have guessed they would be dead. Do you remember every time Desmond would end a conversation he would say,"See you in another life ,brother or see
you on the other side, brother." No one picked up on that clue. I realized it when I reviewed a few older episodes after"the end "show. I still think the writers could have created a better ending with more resolve. How did Penny
die or Mrs. Faraday/Widmore die? They were never"flown"to the island. Too many loose ends. Whoopie G. said it
all on Tuesday's show. What the heck was all that about? Even Jimmy Kimmel was confused on his Aloha show. I
really liked LOST but was disappointed at the end. Sorry Guys you blew it!
It was pretty obvious to me that it was merely an image of the set; the lean-tos created by the survivors were where they left them, dismissing any idea that no one survived the crash. I was too busy trying to sort through the last scene, so the idea of a "decompression" scene to let it all sink in wasn't bad, though the more traditional white text on black background would have been perfectly adequate.
Everyone is still LOST, which is good....
Not only did I think it was a message, I interpreted it the same way your writer did. I'm glad to hear it wasn't. ABC has been playing fast and loose with previews for Lost for a long time...putting confusing and misdirecting cuts into them. When I rewatched the finale, it was obvious that the writers made it very clear that everything that happened on the island was real (they said it any number of times and ways). Thanks for a long restless night's sleep ABC
Didn't come across as part of the story to me any more than any other credit roll in any film/tv show I've ever seen.
I thought it was a nice touch.
I assumed it meant that everybody died in the initial plane crash and they had spent the last 6 years in denial, refusing to move on.....sort of a "group" haunting.
I even went a step further with the wreckage footage.
I thought it might have been attempt to have the audience consider that the plane Kate and Sawyer et al escaped on crashed and NOBODY left the island alive. So whether or not the island was a purgatory or not, or the events on the island happened or not, it becomes a moot point since nobody escaped. A kind of ultra-bizarre, 6 season-long Occurrence at Owl Creek. OR a 6 season naval-gaze at the question if a tree falls in the woods and nobody hears it, does it make a sound.
I was completely horrified with that, but I had to consider it.
I hated even considering that might be the meaning having invested so much of my personal life into this show, so to be honest I was rather relieved to hear the footage was not "planned" and I will be on of those doofuses that will pour over every DVD extra tidbit to hear those other answers.
The biggest unaddressed ones has to be the whole Walt deal and no babies being born on the island. At minimum that should have been addressed somewhat.
Just watched the entire series again and i can say with all honesty that yes they died and they were in purgatory in both realities just the island is mistical and they were able to get to know one another in said Pergatory Im sure Jacob is still fighting his nameless brother. Waiting for the world to end or something. Too many mysteries left open wich would b ok if they only answered the really intriguing ones i.e. Walt, numbers, etc. but they didnt and never planned on explaining they just pulled the biggest con of them all and for that all I can say is they should B ashamed even J.J. for giving up b4 the final yrs. and bravo well done engrossing show, just too bad it was pretty much a waste of the characters, and viewers time. Like I said before we will all be thinking at the end of it all we will b feeling LOST, about all the time, money, etc. we all LOST. wILL not buy season 6 even if they do make up some new answers will just rent, the final image of the wreckage just basically ruined the whole show for me and im sure millions of others aswell. Great job ABC you just LOST some more potential money!
I suspect that half of the people who are saying that "of course" they knew all along that it was just an incidental visual aid would have answered differently before ABC put out their statement.
WARNING: When Consuming Fiction, Please Check Your EXPECTATIONS at the Door. Thank You.
49% of people out there have no idea what happened over the last 6 seasons. lol
I am surprised anybody considered it part of the story. I knew the 815 wreckage sets from the first season have long since been dismantled, so I thought it was pretty cool that they must have found old footage from the filming of the pilot that they never used. But I thought it was a nice touch showing archive footage from the first season era. Never crossed my mind that it had anything to do with the episode.
The piles of clothes, tents and footprints helped me conclude that it all happened. The Island continues...
I also figured that it had been wreckage from the Ajira plane--that Fake Locke had only removed some of the C4 that Widmore had planted.
I took no meaning from Kate's "missed you so long" sentiment because Christian had earlier stated that time was meaningless in the sideways universe.
My daughter and I thought the plane with Clare, Kate and Sawyer (that had just taken off) had crashed - we didn't think that was the Oceanic flight at all. We assumed they would take up with Hurley and their story would continue on the island.
ABC's denials are a crock. They produce the show. How is it possible for them to think that people would not interpret something from every bit of placement? I think this is sort of creating more lingering for the show. It's brilliant too. How would it not be run by Damon and Cuse that they were going to tag it on? It's possible that the whole series existed in the purgatory *both the island reality and the sideways reality* That everyone died at different times does not suggest that it's not purgatory. Christian's statements that everything that happened on the island was real doesn't preclude that the events on the island needed to happen in reality assuming the series treated purgatory as a real existence, just like heaven and hell and living now on the earth is real, etc..
Like Nate and Matt stated before me - Since the footage of the wreckage on the beach came after the final LOST closing appeared on the screen, I did not think it was related to the story, but just a closing tribute to the show and where it began.
It reminded me of when you beat Super Mario World and they show all of the worlds at the end. Just some visual candy and a solemn reminder.
I thought it was the Ajira wreckage; that the plane Kate, Claire, and Sawyer were on crashed after Jack saw them flying away. I mean, I wasn't positive, because Kate had said to Jack that she "missed him so much" implying that it had been a long time since they had seen each other. But I would have always wondered if that was the Ajira flight.
It was clear to me that this was a sort of final send-off... a reflection on how it all began. A memorial to the show that has thrilled us and made us use our minds while watching TV for once (well, at least some of us). Besides, anyone who watches the show should know that the episode is over when the LOST logo appears. After the logo appeared, anything after that didn't matter to the plot. I felt it was pretty clear.
Just add it to the pile of stuff that was apparently included arbitrarily: the importance of Walt; the importance of Aaron; the detonation of Jughead; the ash that kept out Smokey; the sonic boundaries that kept out Smokey; the Dharma initiative; Pierre Chang's multiple pseudonyms; the pregnancies that couldn't go to term; etc; etc...
I just thought it was a small tribute to how the whole adventure started six years ago. I thought it was a lovely touch.
With the scenes being after the Lost logo, I figured it was a final goodbye for the series. My wife definitely needed the decompression time.
Of course I assumed it was part of the story. All images have always been part of the story or 'a piece of the puzzle'. It wasn't conclusive to me that the wreckage meant they all died. It could have been another flight starting the whole cycle of the plane eating island. (I did not freeze the image to see if there were details to prove which flight it was).
As for ABC... if this wasn't part of the show provided to them, where did ABC get those images? I can't remember, but I thought they were actual film with waves in the background and not freeze frames.
I can't say I *assumed* the wreckage was part of the story, but I wondered, and I did come to the conclusion that, if it was part of the story, there was a strong possibility that it meant that everyone had died in the wreckage. I also knew there would be people who would be much more "sure" of this than I was and would argue that everything in the show happened postmortem.