SPOILERS BELOW

The episode is called The End. And that’s what it is. It’s the end of Lost. It’s the end of the survivors. They’re all dead now. If you’ve been following season 6, you’re familiar with the “sideways flashes” – they are  showing us our favorite Losties “getting ready to move on.” The sideways flashes illustrates the “after-life”, what happens after you die, but before you really move on. Everything on the Island happened. They didn’t die in the crash. There’s no hocus pocus here, they died when they died. Jack died on the island, in the last episode, watching the plane with Claire, Sawyer and Kate leave. Claire, Sawyer and Kate all died at a later time.(Unknown when, how, where) Hurley did too, the same with Ben.(also unknown how, where, when) This is pretty much explained by Jack’s father in his “Everyone dies some time, kiddo. Some of them before you, some of them long after” speech. The purpose of the After-Life is to realize that you are dead. To accept it, and to move on. Jack is the last one to do so.

Now, they’ve pretty much explained what happened to the people. But the island? Seriously? WTF?

Here’s a quick recap. The island has a cave in the middle of it. It is a life-giving cave, with a very bright light in it. In the center of the cave there’s a tiny pool where the bright light shines its brightest. This is the very heart of the island. This illuminated pool has a cork in its middle. Remove the cork, the island goes bye-bye – it’s destroyed. But if you hurry and re-insert the cork, the island will survive. Yes. A magnificent, glorious, magical Cork. Huh.

All in all, the ending was a decent way to say that enough is enough. It was six, more or less, great years. I liked the human aspect of the ending. Everything concerning the island itself was just silly. But in the end, the show is great, and I doubt that there will ever be such a show as Lost – that manages to keep me around for six long years.

Six seasons. Six years. The journey is what made Lost great, not its flaws,dead ends or unanswered questions. Lost is no more.

Thanks.

(If you disagree with my theory, I’d love to hear yours, so please leave a comment)