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Originally Posted by CosmicPal
I thought it was a good ending. There was redemption, forgiveness, love rediscovered, and the recognition of mortality: Ben apologized to Locke, Richard Alpert discovered his gray hair, Claire and Charlie found each other, as did Rose and Bernard, Jin and Sun, Desmond and Penny, and Sawyer and Juliet. Most importantly, Jack saw his father who told him why it all happened.
The only problems I had with it was the "some people are dead and some people are alive" bit. WTF? Either they should all dead or they are all alive.
The other thing was Ben refusing to go into the church. Is he resorting to his old ways now that everyone found peace? Is he planning on going back to the island to rule it with his old ways of cunning and mischievousness?
I really loved how they had Jack go back to where it all started. Nice ending. And of course, the eye closes...
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The Island wasn't purgatory, the Flash Sideways was. The people who died in the story, died in the story. Those who didn't went on to live lives of different duration in stories not shown. For example, Hurley and Ben went on to protect the island for a period as the show stated [you WERE a great #1, and you WERE a great #2]. Eventually, all of them passed on, and it came to Desmond to round them up in purgatory/sideways, and get them to realize that they'd lived another life and move on to 'elsewhere' on the other side of the church doors.
What's kind of disappointing, though, is that all of those epiphanies, all those happy reunions, were for spectral remains, not people on the verge of a reunited life, rather an reunited afterlife. Who knows if in this world if they ever saw each other again.