Lost

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Originally Posted by joeman

OK. They were on the island, right? But they died? Or did they die in the sideways universe place? And what happened to Hugo, Ben, and all the others who escaped or lived on the island? Are they alive? Is it a different afterlife too?

I've yet to put my head around it. Maybe I missed something.

The island was reality. The "flash-sideways" were looks into the afterlife, a purgatory, not an alternate timeline like many suspected.

Hugo, Ben and everyone on the plane went on and lived their lives. In the afterlife time had no meaning, people who died in different times and places were all able to come together and meet once more. That's why Hurley says to Ben "You were a great #2" and Ben says "You were a great #1". They lived their lives afterwards, we just don't see it. Hurley might have lived to be hundreds or thousands of years old for all we know.

Many, many people died in tragic ways so it was real nice to see that in the end they got what they deserved, a happy ending. Almost makes me want to believe in an afterlife.

For some reason I can't get the idea of Ben and Hurley dressed up as Gilligan and the Skipper.