This guy watched so much Lost he started looking like Jack.

Even the camera gets confused

I spent my entire time watching with memories of people saying “they’re dead the whole time,” “so many unresolved plotlines,” “the ending sucked.” Boy were they wrong. Just finished it now. What an incredible show.

I just finished watching the series last night. This explanation is spot on! Everything that happened on the island... happened. Our protagonists took part in one of the most monumental events in human history… the struggle to keep the darkness at bay. The entire alternate storyline that took place (during the Final Season) following the safe landing of Oceanic Flight 815, was in actuality a shared purgatory; A waiting room where our characters continued to evolve until they were ready to shed the fears and weakness that anchored them to the human plane. By the end of the season, our core characters are ready to move on to the afterlife. But not all. For instance, when we meet Ana Lucia, she is a dirty cop, accepting a bribe. Hurley states that she "is not ready." Meaning she is still mired down in human weakness. Her time is yet to come. But, due to the strong human bonds (and loving relationships) that our core group formed during this struggle, they needed to wait for each other, and reunite so they could move on as a group. We see the gathering at the church from the perspective of Jack, most likely because he was their leader and sacrificed his life for the group. But purgatory is a reality that exists “out of time.” For instance, Hurley and Linus could have been the island's protectors for a thousand years after Jack died. The group that escaped the island probably went on to live full lives. We will never know their stories. But in the end, they all met at the church as a group, on a timeless plane, to make the final journey into the light.

Just like what Jack's father said: "Everyone dies sometime kiddo, some of them before you, some long after you. There is no "Now" here.

Christian explained it perfectly, they all died at separate times but that was like a meeting place for them, and it was definitely real

poor boone had to wait forever to meet them all in the afterlife

I live in Hawaii and ran Lost location tours for over 5 years. You have no idea how many times I explained this very point to people who misunderstood the ending. Literally HUNDREDS of times! The thing that always gets me is Christian Shephard explains the whole show to Jack in about 5 minutes before Jack joins everyone else in the church. Still the best show/story of all time!

I'll pretend to understand this. Gonna watch it agaim when im sober

great explanation... but that auto focus is killing my eyes!

You should travel back in time and fix the auto focus.

Since we're in lockdown I decided to watch it all again. I now feel part of the timeline.

When Jack’s eyes closed one and the “Lost” title came up on the screen, I bawled my eyes out. lost is such a beautiful story. It dawned upon me that Lost isn’t just some thriller action/adventure tv show about people trying to survive on a deserted island. Lost is about how each of those people are “Lost” in their own lives as well. They tied it together so well in the end. This show is one of the prime examples of “its about the journey, not the destination.” And I’m tearing up. I grew to love Jack, Desmond, Rose and Bernard, and even Ben Linus. Each character had a story and you sympathize for each even knowing all that they’ve done. Definitely the top 5 tv shows Ive watched.

Excuse me while I send this to just about everybody I know.

The show starts with a close up of Jack’s eyes open to see a plane crash and it ends with Jack seeing a plane take off before he closes them. Genius.

I love that Hurley lives for 300 years :’)

Never cried so hard at the ending of a show before either.

If only more people would understand this. So many people disliked the ending bc they didn’t understand it and thought that they had all been dead the whole time. Personally I think the ending was brilliant

i never thought drawing a couple lines would make something that seems complex, so simple.

Literally have been saying this for years haha...also in the last scene I'm pretty sure Ben and Hugo say something along the lines of "we made a good team" referencing how they took over gaurding the island :) the fact I still get excited about this shows says something about the writing, so awesome

All this explanation and im still Lost

so basically they all had to wait until the last of them all died in their own year and all finally met again at the church to move on to the afterlife

Even the comments section of a lost video makes my brain hurt.

thank you so much for creating this. This is the only video I have found that has made sense to me so far. straight forward and to the point

I think another reason why people think they were dead the whole time is because when John lock had to kill his dad; his dad said "this is hell and we are all already dead"

I just binge rewatched the series to see if I missed something and was so confused with the ending (Hurley staying on the island, Kate and Sawyer leaving) but now this has cleared everything up for me! Thank you so much for this!

People don't like things they don't understand, i'm glad to see someone who spend some time explaining things in such a simple way. Lost is a true phenomenon, something like it won't happen ever again. So.. ENJOY it!

The point of the whole story was pretty smart. Layers of mysteries, answers only leading to more questions without real resolution. We obsessed over the "why" and Jack obsessed over changing the fate of he and his friends. In the end, no resolution we got would have satisfied us. If we learned the original inhabitants of the island were from Mesopetamia, for instance, we'd say "why did they get there? When did they come? HOW DID THEY FIND ZE ISLANDAASXAAS" In "across the sea", mother cuts short the pregnant girl who is about to ask "where did you come from" with a "any answer i give will only make you ask more questions..." Paraphrasing of course. She's telling us and the woman to "let it go", just as Jack's dad said to him MANY times. "let it go, Jack." The last season's "flash sideways" is the only thing that happened after everyone died, in Christian Shephard's words "some died before you...some ... LOOOONG after." Jack lets it go and gives himself up to save his friends.This is the release and resolution for the show. There's the moral to LOST. It was stated plainly in the last episode that what happened on the island DID HAPPEN, and that it was the most important time in Jack's entire life.

As a child didn't pay much attention and lost interest. 10 years later held attention and got lost in the explanation. A month later watched this... Gg i'm finally full circle. Quick and easy, thankyou my good man! 🖒🖒

People are getting way to hung up on the hydrogen bomb. The hydrogen bomb had absolutely nothing to do with the end of the show. They lead you to believe that the H-bomb explosion caused the flash-sideways, but it didn't. The H-bomb story line is ultimately why the hatch included the timer and button. The main characters always played a key role in 'The Incident' which was mentioned in season 2 when they first enter the hatch. Drilling into the pocket, the shoot-out with Dharma, etc. That was always meant to happen. That WAS the incident. Once Jack and crew's role was done in the event, the island sent them back to 2007. It was about making sure that things happened always the way they were meant to. Now what happened with the bomb is unknown. Did it go off? Not sure, but probably not. What is interesting though is that it's clear that the entire event is the reason woman can't give birth on the island if they conceive there.

I’m fourteen and finished lost five days ago. I cried so hard because I realised it turned into my favourite show. My parents had once watched it so they were like why don’t we watch it together. I’m trying to get all my friends to watch it but because they never heard of it the say no 😭

Spend this last month and a bit watching the whole show for the first time with no expectations and loved it. I also interpreted the ending correctly with a bit of extra explanation afterwards to clear things up. Great video btw.

6 years dude, 6 years! thank you

Getting ready to rewatch the whole series. Glad you made this video

To this day I cannot believe how many people --Almost 15 years later, still didn't understand the show and its ending. Almost every person who didn't like the ending or disliked the last season were just those that didn't understand it (and/or have chosen not to understand it out of fear of being wrong or looking stupid).

My man whipping out a pen and drawing graphs like it's khan academy😂

I remember, years ago, trying to explain purgatory to someone, and how they weren't dead from the start. It was like talking to a brick wall. This video explains it really nicely though. Clean too. Very good job. Defiantly deserves more views.

I can't believe how difficult viewers made the sideways. It's so clear. Thank you for taking the time to educate them.

see, my first time watching lost this video is exactly what i thought. it was explained in the end and everything. hurley said ben made a good partner in protecting the island. the only thing making lost so confusing is the fanbase that are trying to prove their own theory right

At one point I've started having this idea in my mind that the guardians of the island are not immortal or young forever, I think that a guardian lives outside the bounderies of time, that the guardian doesn't see the time as a straight line, it can move ahead, it can move backwards, it can even appear somewhere after its death. And I think it can do that because that's the real power of the island. When you think about it, coming in contact with the island somehow unlocked this ability in Desmond to do a very similar thing, like a reducted version of the Guardian's power, since Des seems to be able, even if he doesn't control this power, to see his OWN time alive not as a straight line, moving his conscience through it, both backwards and further ahead. Also, while Desmond doesn't have the ability to change anything, the Guardians DO. That's how Jacob chooses his candidates, he sees their lives, in their entirety to make sure those would be worse without the island and then he comes back at a certain point of their lives to "touch" them and give them their new destiny, making sure they'll get to the island. And what the Man In Black posseses is a corrupted version of that same power. Those are all powers that come from the Island since the Island itself doesn't exist costantly through time, it moves through it, that's why it can't be found. It's not that absurd of a theory considering that's exactly what the Observers did in Fringe, another JJ Abrams series.

Hats off to you for being a good "teacher" and breaking it down for everyone! I've always understood but have been somewhat unsure of how to explain it. From the day the pilot aired this has been my favorite show of all time. It's brilliant, and I'm ecstatic to see it's still relevant enough for videos to be made. 💙

Dude throughout my entire life I've watched Lost 4 times and after my last session I came up with the exact same explanation. Now that I watched your video it seems that it is the right explanation and I'm happy that I was finally able to find it out

I watched lost since 2005. I was a kid. 14year old. And then due to school and responsibilities, every episodes i have this on and off to catch it up till 2010 i stop watching it cos its too confusing. Then 2018, im 27 this year. My curiosity still sparks me on what really happen to jack, locke, sawyer, kate etc these are the characters the entertained me and excites me. I grew up watching them. Thanks to Netflix i finally got to know all the answers i finally have it. The best series stories ever told. Even its fictional, you can feel the impact of the how the storyline was given. Whats sad is how ive become now, just got to know the ending at the end. Its beautiful.

Thank you! I just finished watching for the first time with my mom and this was exactly what I took from it. Exactly! I need to show her this now and maybe then she'll be convinced.

Lost is my favorite show of all time...and I love the end. I wish Christian had addressed the island and/or the light specifically in the church. I always have looked at it as, because the purgatory world is timeless, all souls are essentially stuck there for eternity, unless one has a moment in his or her life that is powerful enough to allow them to remember and move on. I like to think that, without the moments on the island, this group of people may have never been able to move on. Also, there were two very bright lights in the finale...one being the heart of the island, and one being the light that filled the church. I find it hard to believe they weren't meant to be connected. Right after Jack fixes the island and turns the light on, we see the light fill the church. Maybe the island has a connection to the afterlife that is bigger than just the Oceanic 815 survivors? Maybe if Jack hadn't fixed that light, no soul would ever be able to move on. Remember Hurley saying that they would all go to hell if the MIB left the island? So basically, if the MIB left the island, the light was out for good. So, if the light goes out for good, they all go to hell. If we take that literally, then the light certainly has a connection to one's fate after death in the LOST universe. So I dont think it is far fetched to say that the light that filled the church was the heart of the island.

Point is Miles was right at the end of season 5. Using the bomb at the Swan station was actually “the incident” Jack thought he could avoid by using the bomb itself

OMG there's a LOST reference in the music video of Why Not by LOONA its so good go check it out!!!!

I just finished watching Lost. My third time. Best show ever. And I still found things I missed from before. Great explanation of the ending.

Turn off your autofocus next time

I actually loved the ending. LOST was never about explanations, it has always been about people, about choices and about life. People tried to logically explain it, but we're talking about a place where a crippled man walked again, where a lady got rid of cancer, etc. Locke explained the island on season 1: "This is a place where miracles happen". End of story, no logical explanation.

1. They weren’t dead the whole time 2. The flash-sideway was the bridge between their death and heaven. They had to amend/deal with their regrets/struggles. Jack had to be a father so that he could experience what his father went through and finally forgive him. Sayid helped Nadia’s husband because he blamed himself for her death in real life. Ben helped Alex with her Yale application because he blamed himself for her death. After they dealt their complexes, finally they arrived at the church 3. Even though they died in different times, they all met at the heaven as if they just died. There was no waiting in heaven. When Kate said to Jack at the concert, “I missed you so much”..she meant that she lived a lonely life after his death. 4. The bomb didn’t work. Ben wasn’t on that plane. Still he was a part of the flash sideways. So the “plane didn’t crash because the bomb go off” theory isn’t correct. 5. Richard’s curse was over. He wasn’t immortal. His hair turned grey. 6. Ben couldn’t let go off the guilt/regret of Alex’s death. That’s why he didn’t enter the church. Also there’s a chance Ben tried to betray Hurley after he replaced Jack. When Hurley said, “Ben, you were a great number 2”, I felt like Hugo was trying to forgive Ben for something 7. Dr chang was the host of the Dharma initiative videos. He was the also host of the charity concert. Maybe he found redemption too 8. Jacob’s death was little undercooked. The only way someone could kill him if the person stabbed him before he could speak. But before dying, Jacob had a full conversation with Ben.

I really don't understand why ANYONE ever thought they were just dead the whole time considering that Christian LITERALLY tells Jack that everything he and they experienced did actually happen in the series finale..

People saying "they were dead the whole time" did actually watch the show? I never understood how that became a "thing". People got mad at the show because their own incapacity to pay attention to the story. Nice video man!

Most underrated ending ever

Can’t believe I finally looked this up!! Perfect explanation, and 🙏 thank you!

I knew that they weren’t dead the whole time but I didn’t know how the flash sideways fit on the timeline so now seeing that it literally doesn’t go anywhere on the timeline makes infinitely more sense and the story now fits in my head perfectly. Cheers, and see you in another life brother

I still get actual fans telling me that they ''really liked the show but just telling us they were dead the whole time made the story seem pointless''. I don't understand how anyone actually watching it doesn't get it. It's not like one of the mysteries, they literally tell us everything that happened, happened.

Lost has the most beautiful ending I've ever seen on a show. I don't know how people don't get it

Thank You so much for this. I've always been lost about Lost. This explains it all.

That makes sense. Especially when Jack asked his dad if they’re all dead. His dad says everyone dies sometime: some before Jack and some long after. So that explains them all reuniting only once they’ve all actually died which could’ve taken hundreds of years in Hurley’s case. Anyway, still lots of questions but less than before I watched this video lol.

Just finished binge -watching - it was one of the best shows I've ever seen. Already knowing the ending made it so much easier to enjoy, but from what actually takes place, the ending through me for a loop because it actually showed that they did experience everything on the island and it was all real. That made the whole experience much more jarring.

haha I have watched Lost for the 3rd time now because I am studying Michael Giacchino's use of Leitmotif in the series. And I am also writing my thesis on the use of leitmotifs in Lost!! I just love Lost, and this video made so much sense!!

bro i have watched it like idk 20 times, i knew they werent dead the whole time but i didnt explain myself how or why. That lines and dates explain them perfectly, thank you!!

Just finished the show and had a decent understanding of what was happening (surprisingly) but this helped solidify that! Thank you very much!!

You forgot to mention that their nuking the site to prevent the incident *is* the incident, so they kind of doomed themselves. It also creates the time distortion for the candidates, so that once the implosion releases that energy again, and then Ben tries to move the island, everyone starts moving around in time.

Just a little clarification for the people who are asking how come Juliet is not remembering them from the 70s. I might be wrong, because I haven't watched the episodes for years, but in time loops what counts is the personal proper time of the person. For example, Juliet has been born say in 1970, she lives on the Island, then the plane falls in 2004, then they do whatever they do until the time loop and then her older self goes back to the 70s. So basically, knowing them in the 70s, in 2004 is in Juliets's future , not in her past. So there is no way for her to recognise them. Just my 5 cents. I also thought the ending was dissatisfying but it was ok, because the series was so complicated, I can't see a rationally satisfying way to end it.

Just finished the show, this cleared all my doubts, thank you

I've been screaming this at my unappreciative family members for years! Frustrating that people say the ending sucked just because they didn't understand it. Awesome video

I couldn't figure this out after binge watching it; I don't know how anyone could get this by watching it once a week for 7 years.

love this. i wasnt really confused to begin with. i was just hoping someone else caught on and had the same ending

Thanks man, good explanation of the time loop. I just finished my 9th rewatch of Lost and I can gurantee every Hater - every question has been answered and No - they weren´t dead the whole time.

I've just finished rewatching and searched for an explanation to see the various theories, but every sensible video sticks to this one and it makes perfect sense. I guess all of the "they were already dead" people never actually finished watching the whole thing.

So it's possible that Sawyer lived another 40 years and was nailing Kate every single day? If so, he OWNED Jack at the Purgatory Parade to Paradise.

Brian... This is what I think that after watching Lost on its regular run 9/22/2004 - 5/23/2010 I still consider "Lost to be the greatest story to ever be told and today 2/25/2018 it is still as captivating as it was almost 8 years later. I have just two days ago began watching from the beginning on my Blu-Ray collection and have already re-watched two seasons and cannot wait to continue my journey... No matter what anyone believes or doesn't believe about it...The fact remains that there never has been any story that even comes close to capturing the hearts and minds of anyone that has immersed themselves into it and I doubt there ever will be because it is a story of people that whether you love /hate them you become "Lost" with them on their journey.

THANK YOU!!! THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED! We were lead to believe it was an alternate timeline but it was purgatory after they died.

Sir, I can not explain how much this helped me

Been trying to explain this to everyone I know the EXACT same way and they still don't get it. Guess I don't need to make a vid (like I ever would). I like to think Hurley ruled the island for thousands of years but that's just me.

Get off this video, WE NEED TO GO BACK!!

YES!! This dude gets it. This should be played at the end of the series. Minus the auto focus. Bravo dude!!

This is how I interpreted the whole thing! I'm so glad this video exists! ♥️

I have been trying to tell everyone I know what you just showed us. Thank you for showing and for being totally right on this. Spot on dude and thanks again.

I loved, watched and flowed this story from the beginning on TV. And this is the best explanation I have ever seen and is exactly what I think. Awesome work man.

I've never seen the show, but I feel like that's about the best explanation I'm gonna get with or without watching it

I just completed watching it and my mind blew up after seeing the ending but now i got it. Thanks dude

This made me remember why I loved the show so much. I know people hated the ending, but I thought it was beautiful.

Just watched the show once more, 4th time now? Love it. The whole show needs the last talk between dad and jack, everyone should understand at this point what is going on.

Thanks a lot for this. I finally understand it now! This always confused me so much...

This was very clear in the show. They all lived their lives and died at different times. I'm glad you are putting it in plain English for the people who didn't seem to get this for some reason. So many people don't pay attention or listen.

Your voice and body-type sort of resemble Jack's so I found myself subconsciously imagining that this video was narrated by Jack Shepherd.

Luckily for me I never saw any videos related to the show before I finished it. I always liked every part of the show including the ending. When I first heard people saying that the ending was bad, I was shocked and I thought about why people hated it, I couldn't get any answers. I thought maybe they just didn't like how all characters reunited at the end? But how could someone hate that? Then I realized the reason why some people hated it is that they thought the whole story was based on an afterlife of these characters? I was then surprised by how stupid and misunderstanding some people could be.

Love this, I don’t know why more people didn’t get it

What i thought was weird is that in the flash sideways world things are so much different. Jack had a kid with juliet, sawyer is a detective, etc. I think it would have been better if the purgatory started right after the plane lands, and everyone on board was there for their original purposes.

I easily understood it on my first watch. I watdhed it years afterwards, always heard some people say they didnt understand the ending and that they were dead the whole time. I was so baffled by those people once i saw the ending myself. how did they not get it?

Brah I’ve been tryna figure out this show for years even after it ended still messes with my head to this day

I was a big fan of the show back then and got very frustrated with how the series ended, but still liked the series overall and always talked about it with my partner. A couple of years ago she asked for us to watch it, and reluctantly I accepted. Oh Boy, was I wrong. The show is amazing, including the finale. What I realized at last is that all my disappointment back in the day was due to the crazy expectations and theories we all had during the lost experience thing (which was amazing). I was just frustrated back then, but having watched the show again at a more mature age with better understanding made the show whole for me again.

This is a great explanation ❤❤

I like to think this guys family is behind the camera trying to eat their thanksgiving dinner

The purpous of the flash-sideways was to show that meeting each other was their destiny. I think that the problem was that LOST started being much more like a sci-fi and mistery series, and ended being much more like a spiritual series, and this may have been the reason why so many people got disappointed...

Yes, it makes sense! Thank you so much. I am watching the whole series again. I am now in season 6 episode 13, 20 minutes into episode 13

I feel like people who don’t get Lost, just don’t understand time travel. If it was actually possible to travel back into the past, anything you did to try to change things would always have been part of the timeline. Kate and Leopold gets close to doing time travel correctly, but it makes the mistake of having elevators start disappearing in the present. If Leopold was always going to go back to the past and Kate was always going to join him, then him inventing the elevator was still always going to happen. The only show - besides Lost - that has done time travel correctly is the first season of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (2016). In that, the people traveling through time cause everything to happen that they were trying to prevent. Like he explains in this video, it’s a time loop. The only way an alternate timeline could exist (in Lost) is if it exists outside time as we know it. That could be in the 4th dimension or on a spiritual plane - whatever actually happens after we die. Lost helped me understand a lot of theoretical science, but also reconcile science and spirituality.