LOST final season.

[99Soulz]

Series finale for 24 tonight and that has been a must watch series for us too, but that one jumped the shark a few seasons ago IMHO.

Are you going to be taping it since your Flyers are on the doorstep tonight

OF COURSE Bro! Actually I am on the train back from your next of the woods (DC) and will miss about half of the first period!! I was trying to end my meetings early but missed the train that would have gotten me home in time. I've got the DVR all set so by the start of the 2nd period I should be caught up!

[mindflipper]

Two series finales (LOST and 24), both two hours long, across two nights. It's just two much!!!

[NaCler]

Pardon me if it is a stupid question but did they ever explain the shoe nailed to the tree? I noticed it in the pilot episode when Jack woke up in the forest then again when he went there to "die." Was it just to show that there was life on the island before Jack and friends?

[MW1218]

Pardon me if it is a stupid question but did they ever explain the shoe nailed to the tree? I noticed it in the pilot episode when Jack woke up in the forest then again when he went there to "die." Was it just to show that there was life on the island before Jack and friends?

I think it was shown in the finale to display that Jack had come circle on the island, and he was laying down to die in the exact spot where he woke up. As for why they were there?

"After his father's death, Jack Shephard felt that the corpse did not need new shoes, and instead gave his father an old pair of white tennis shoes that he had. Jack later attributed this to the fact that he didn't think his father was worth a new pair of shoes. These shoes were on Christian's body in the coffin aboard Oceanic Flight 815. ("316") "

[mindflipper]

Also, the shoe is hanging from tree by it laces, not nailed.

[NaCler]

Also, the shoe is hanging from tree by it laces, not nailed.

sorry...

MW1218 - Thanks, I figured someone would know. However, I thought it looked like a ladies shoe style and its smaller.

[mindflipper]

I thought it was too - a woman's shoe. If you watch th pilot, wasn't Shannon missing a shoe?

[horizons1]

So my problem with the sideways world being the afterlife is why did Claire need to have her baby again, and why did she have the baby with her in the church? Presumably Aaron grew old and died in the original timeline, having be left at home by Kate. So if Claire was to be reunited with Aaron in the church wouldn't it have been him as an older man?

I guess the problem is we would not have known who he was if they just got some stranger there. But explain the logic of that to me!

[mindflipper]

So my problem with the sideways world being the afterlife is why did Claire need to have her baby again, and why did she have the baby with her in the church? Presumably Aaron grew old and died in the original timeline, having be left at home by Kate. So if Claire was to be reunited with Aaron in the church wouldn't it have been him as an older man?

I guess the problem is we would not have known who he was if they just got some stranger there. But explain the logic of that to me!

Honestly, I had problem with the whole Claire pregnancy once I found out the sideways/alternate reality was the afterlife. But as everyone entered this part of the afterlife the age/condition they were in when they on the Oceanic Flight 815, I guessed the same applied to Aaron. After all, Locke was walking on the island, and yet in the sideways he was back in the wheelchair, just like he was when Oceanic Flight 815 originally crashed.

[MW1218]

It was Jack's version of the afterlife. He only knew Claire as pregnant/a new mother.

[horizons1]

It was Jack's version of the afterlife. He only knew Claire as pregnant/a new mother.

Well if that were true then Penny wouldn't have been there since he never met her.

[mindflipper]

Or maybe as they entered this particular point of the afterlife (regardless of when and where you died in life) was aboard Oceanic Flight 815, they were as they were originally when they boarded - same clothes, with the same people, etc. So if you were pregnant when you boarded the plane in life, you were pregnant when you boarded it in the afterlife. Same for Locke: you may be walking around in life, but when he died and made it to that part of the afterlife, he was in a wheelchair because that's the condition he was in when he boarded originally Oceanic Flight 815 in life.

[NaCler]

Man, you guys are confusing... now do you see why I chose to believe they all died on impact of the island?

[mindflipper]

Man, you guys are confusing... now do you see why I chose to believe they all died on impact of the island?

Simpler, true, but according to the finale, wrong....the real answer is probably that the writers had no idea either....

[Dr. Ravenscroft]

And this is hilarious, how lost should have ended: