And everything you witnessed throughout all five seasons, actually did happen. But no, they were not dead all along on the island after the plane crashed. So, to clear up the confusion: in the flashsideways scenes, these characters are dead. The flashsideways show what would have happened had the plane landed safely.Īll season long, viewers see the characters rubbing shoulders with one another in Los Angeles, unaware of the events of the past five seasons.Įventually, these characters are drawn together and begin to recall their time on the island, which leads to the final scene’s revelation: they are actually dead in the flashsideways, which is essentially a netherworld the survivors created in order to congregate so they can move on together to “whatever comes next”. The logic is that, should the hatch never be created, Oceanic Flight 815 will never crash on the island. These flashsideways scenes come after Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell), stuck in the 1970s, detonates a hydrogen bomb in the closing moments of season five in an attempt to prevent the hatch from ever being built. The final ever scenes of Lost are intercut between events on the island and an alternate timeline known as the flashsideways – scenes that replace the flashbacks and flashforwards for the entire final season. Upon its initial broadcast, the divisive two-parter caused a large number of disappointed viewers to (incorrectly) think: “Oh, so they were dead all along.”įortunately, we’re on hand to debrief you on what actually happened in that final episode so that the next time someone makes the above statement, you can roll your eyes and direct them to this (as well as this new oral history of the show featuring words from Damon Lindelof, Evangeline Lilly and Jorge Garcia).īEWARE – major spoilers for the ending of LOST follows. Lost, which ended 10 years ago tomorrow (23 May), has the most misunderstood finale of all time.
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