The Lost Finale - What is the "Flash Sideways" of Season 6?

Before I get started I want to warn anyone who has yet to watch Lost not to read the rest of this article. You really must avoid all spoilers as much as you can to get the full experience of Lost. A lot of what makes the show so special is the wild surprising ride it takes you on, so there's no reason to ruin that by reading about what happens at the end of the show!

I believe that the final episode of Lost revealed the "sideways" reality of season 6 to be a place that wasn't really "real" but instead a place where the connected characters of the series could reach each other again before going on to whatever is next (the series leaves that part up to your own interpretation.)

To be clear, this means that what happened on the island was indeed real! This does not mean that they were "dead the whole time" as some people who were not paying close enough attention seem to think. Everything that happened in the first five seasons really happened. It is only the sideways reality of season 6 that is a sort of "post-life" world where these people went to try to find each other again.

It's also important to note that Christian (Jack's father) said there is no "now" in the sideways reality. This means that these characters see each other as they knew each other. Even though some of them lived on long after (for example it's implied that Hurley & Ben live long lives after the Lost timeline ends) while others died on the island (Jack, Sayid, Charlie, and many more) they come together in this alternate reality in the way that they knew each other at this very important time in their lives.

What's implied by this (and indeed implied by the entire series) is that these people have some sort of special connection to each other. They were meant to find each other in the real world and they must also find each other in this alternate world. And perhaps they will find each other again in the next world?

The characters were lost not so much on the island, but in their lives before the island. It is on the island where they find each other for the first time and it is in the sideways reality that they find each other again and remember how important it was to find each other the first time.

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