Thanks, that cleared a lot up for me. It just got me all flustered because I was upset that Kate wasn’t with Jack on the mainland (Although she was with him in the end). The ending with them all meeting each other was sweet, but I don’t like how she had to live the rest of her life without him.

Anyone you didn’t see actually die during the events of the show die just like everyone on the planet eventually dies. How they died isn’t important. More than likely they all died of old age. Kate states that she missed Jack so much when she speaks with him in the flash sideways… Kate is referencing how much she missed him for the remainder of her life after escaping the island. As for others like Bernard, Rose, Hugo, Ben, and those that escaped on the plane all lived out their own individual lives. We see some Hugo’s and Ben’s playing out in the prologue “New Man in Charge”. The thing people need to understand is that the flash sideways doesn’t necessarily happen at the end of the show… with the understanding that that scene happens outside of time as we know it… to fully wrap our heads around we have to look at it with some sense of time. All you need to know to understand it is that the moments we see in the church and the flashsides happen after everyone (eventually dies). As Christian said to Jack, some died before you and some long after.

If all of the characters meet in the purgatory time and Kate, Sawyer, and Hurley were there, does that mean that they did not survive to reach the mainland from their plane? Or were they really the only ones who survived???

I don’t care that we never know what it meant, or what happened to whom, or what the island was really about. I love the show because it left me with questions. And because it moved me to tears in almost every friggin’ episode – especially the finale! Saywer and his dimples may or may not have also have contributed to my love for the show.

If you prefer your series on the logical, clear-cut, obvious side of things, stick to sit coms and cop shows. If you like to think deeper and ponder stuff, Lost will always be a good bet.

This series was maybe, and I say maybe as I cannot be sure of anything really, designed so we can all explain the meaning the way we see fit …I’m just saying.

Nevertheless, everything I was able to rad here is the product of one person imagination and can certainly not be taken too seriously.

Cheers !!!

If the bomb did explode and didn’t destroy all of the power of the Swan. Then it is also conceivable that Dharma learned for it, got another bomb, and used it as the fail safe knowing that it would at very least temporarily subdue the source of energy. As it may have done while Dharma built the station over it. There is evidence both ways. It’s very interesting and fun to try and wrap your head around.

The hatch sites didn’t match exactly simply because they weren’t shot at the same time. That’s all – a very real world reason. We know that things don’t travel with them as they time travel so nothing moved forward with them as they traveled back to the present. The fact of the matter is that probably the second time they shot the hatch they had to reconstruct it.

I may have to look this up in the Lost encyclopedia.

I found it. Well… there is the very real reason Echo died. He requested the leave due to disagreements with producers on what I believe was monetary issues. Either way Echo wanted off the show… so the writers were forced to kill him. I’ve always thought that it gave us a moment to learn more about the Smoke Monster than Echo. Was Echos name in the cave? That would be the true way to find out if he was in fact a candidate or just a means to aid Locke in his quest for faith. Either way Echo was one of my favorite characters… and it is quite possible that he denied his candidacy when he refused to atone for his sins. Though understandably so because of what he’d been through… it’s possible that he gave away his “second chance” when he refused to be sorry for all the horrible things he’d done. MIB cared not… but it’s possible that Jacob did. So it’s not impossible that Echo lost his candidate status that way.