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Originally Posted by blackshirtboy

I realize they directly state that the island was real but if you look at it another way then the entire show becomes about Jack accepting his death. From there it isn't hard to be able to assume the entire events of the show were in his head as demonstrated by when he puts the cork back in (accepting his fate) and reappears by the riverbed, from there he walks into the forest and lays down exactly where he woke up in the first episode. He then closes his eye to mirror it opening in the first episode.

You could assume that the entirety of the show takes place between him opening and closing his eyes right there in the space of seconds.
This is also pointed to by Desmond when he says "there's a place we can go where we can see everyone again" or something similar. Desmond has been trying to get Jack to move on for the whole series while the character of Locke has been continually challenging his beliefs and keeping him on the mortal plane. Only when Locke is revealed as the embodiment of this (when he's possessed by the black smoke) does Jack realize that. Jacob offers him salvation and other people are other aspects representing his life and his mind I'm sure if you think about it hard enough.

That's a very odd way of looking at it, because it totally discounts every other character in existence. It not only forgets that we've followed the POV of characters other than Jack, it also ignores that every other major character had a flashback scene, and therefore had lives and existed before they crashed on the island.

As a side note, Locke was not "possessed" by the black smoke. Locke died. ("Dead is dead. There's no coming back from that, not even here.") The smoke monster just took his shape.

But there's just as much evidence pointing to the island being real! It's that final scene with the abandoned crash site that throws you off!

The final scene with the abandoned crash site had nothing to do with the writers. ABC added that themselves. http://www.starpulse.com/news/index...._lost_added_by

In Canada they didn't get that shot at all.

Also in relation to what you said about questions being answered: I had none! That's what pisses me off. They spend this whole season answering everything and then at the end when you're expecting something big and awesome and possibly DHARMA/ sciency related the writers are just like "pffft, whatever, it's heaven." It just feels like such a cop out.

You and I have totally different ideas about "big and awesome" then. Them being in the afterlife was totally unexpected to me, but at the same time it made a lot of sense upon retrospect. It gave the series a strong sense of closure while at the same time leaving it open for further adventures (Richard off the island, Hurley/Ben protecting it, etc). I thought that reveal was amazing and it fit the show, given how the characters could suddenly remember even their own deaths.

I liked the Battlestar Galactica ending, it wasn't great but it was ten times more satisfying then Lost was.

What is Starbuck? How'd she get a Viper? Why did THAT SONG awaken the Final 5, and where was it coming from? What was with Starbuck's dad?

LOST at least attempted to answer some of those questions. BSG just says, "God did it." That's literally the answer to any question you have about BSG. What is Head Six? God. What is Head Baltar? God. What is the opera house? God. How does resurrection technology work? God.

etc etc