People literally do not listen to Christian's final words to Jack. He says it all there, clear as day. This guy is a muppet.

How stupid can one be to not understand that they didn't die during the crash.

The interviewer didn't have a damn clue, and he's mad at the writers because he didn't get it. Lol

See, what I think happened is during the finale Christian asks Jack "Why are YOU here?" and Jack realises he died. As soon as that happened, I think 80% of the audience starting shouting at the TV calling bullshit or saying they knew the island was purgatory the whole time, and didn't stop to listen to Christian literally explain that the island stuff was all real in the very next line.

IT DID HAPPEN, THE ISLAND STORY WAS ALL (REAL) LOST: SEASON SIX FINALE, EXPLAINED!! Okay a lot of people don't understand the ending to lost, so I'm going to explain it as simple as I possibly can. All the (Island Story) was REAL it 100% happened, okay so now we are clear on that, lets move on. The (Flash-Sideways) were a "Purgatory" world or in better terms (Heaven) and what ever happens in that world like for example (Sawyer) being a cop, (Hurley) has good luck ect is just what they have made, its like a world they have created for themselves until they finally MOVE ON. Now its not until everyone has finally died that they move on together in that church, that could have been 30 years plus depending on when they died, for example (Jack) died on the island at the end of season six, he then entered the (Flash-Sideways) world waiting for the rest to Pass Away so they can move on. Kate could have died 30 years after Jack did, so really the people in the (Purgatory) world could have been waiting a long long time. In the end they all move on together, the people who were not in the church has no (Redemption) or had unfinished business that's why they could not move on YET, Like (Michael) for example he was stuck on the island because he had to earn his redemption back for killing Anna Lucia and Libby. Desmond had to put out the LIGHT thinking it would stop the (MIB) and hoping it would keep the island from destroying itself, but really it was JACK that had to keep the LIGHT alive and keep the heart of the island SAFE, so he would not let John Locke's death be in vain. Jack now believed every word Locke was saying about DESTINY. Hurley and Ben take over the Island while in the meantime Jack, Claire, Sawyer, Richard, Miles, Frank, FLY AWAY on the plane. Now the MIB is dead JOHN LOCKE now remembers in the FLASH-SIDEWAYS world. Now when they touched each other they had a (FLASH) and that made them remember their best time in the past, and that happens to be the time they spent on the island. They remember each other and then realise they are in a Purgatory world. But yes everything that happened on the ISLAND did in fact happen it was all REAL,

[SPOILER] Well, i didn't find lost that hard to comprehend.. the flash sideways was a form of Purgatory..

So many people fixated on closing shot of the plane wreckage on beach as credits rolled thinking they were dead the whole time. They totally ignored the conversation between Jack and his father in the back of the Church as Christian explained that the Sideways/Purgatory or whatever you call it was a place created by the people who died as a place to heal and reconnect before moving on to what layed beyond the church door and the bright light - most before Jack died on the Island - others long after like Hugo, Ben, Walt, Bernard, Rose, those who 6 left Hydra Island on Flight 316 and even Vincent the dog. In the After Show - the series was about the characters. I saw myself in several of the characters - I learned alot about myself watching it. I hoped they would have used the 12 minute epilog where Ben and Hugo sprang Walt from the mental hospital and went back to the Island to launch a sequel series where they would recruit others to unlock the mysteries of the Island. And bring back some of those left on Flight 316 as well.

It is a terrible tragedy that people don't understand the ending of Lost.

this is how i understood the ending right then and there and all my friends claimed i didin't get it right and they were all dead from the crash. im glad finally someone confirmed it

00:44 "No..."

It’s crazy that Damon even had to explain this at all. Like, I can see why people thought the island was purgatory throughout the first season because that’s a totally viable theory. But for Seasons 2-5, did people actually think that they were still in purgatory while simultaneously creating stuff like The Hatch, Dharma Initiative, the Black Smoke, Widmores Freighter, Ben and the Other etc. Just use some common sense lol

The meaning of the ending was perfectly clear. It's wild people still misunderstand it so bad.

... Still, many people just won't understand. We have a smart show, and it gets underrated just because audiences are too stupid... Oh, well...

"With some help from Walt.....". I LOVE THAT!!! I never would have even thought of that!!!

has this guy EVER watched a show of LOST???? of course it was happening.... it was a battle between GOOD & EVIL!!! Jacob needed a new protector for the island which holds the light which is the GOOD in everybody.... Jack accepted his death & the plane that flew over him at the end were the survivors that left with the Captain... everyone else died!

Thank U This Is Exactly What I Thought Happened!!!!!

I don't understand what was so hard to understand about this ending. It's unquestionably clear that the island was all real, and the whole "Flash Sideways" thing was the "This isn't real" bit. Good God, people are monumentally stupid.

How did people not get this?

I cant believe people still think all the stuff that took place on the island didnt actually happen. I mean, Jack actually asks his father in one of the final scenes if all the stuff on the island wasn't real or didn't matter. Christian straight up tells him yes, it was real. That everyone in the church were the people he spent the most important part in his life with.

I'm glad you uploaded this...so whenever someone starts saying that it's all fake and the island was purgatory i can rub it in their face

People were so ready for a deus ex machina reveal that when they revealed the flash sideways at the very end people automatically applied that to the series as a whole. Seeing too just how many people still to this day believe that and that it's often the very first thing mentioned to discredit the series means that LOST's legacy has been unfairly and by error written off with people then never repeating or recommending the series.

I think people expected an ending that would make sense in a real world senerio like the island could never happen in real life so surly it was fake but they took the route of making an ending that fit the universe of Rv and fiction and well... Lost itself many shows have an ending that makes sense in a real life senerio that's why

i was just asking this same bloody question was the island purgatory

Wow, apeanas termine de ver el último capitulo, el 1 de diciembre de 2022, y me encanto, me confundió mucho, pero me hizó pensar , hasta encontrar una expicación a lo ocurrido en la isla y la parte de las vidas paralelas de la sexta temporada

Even if it was all purgatory all the events would still have meant something to me

I think it's the fact of questions, like why did the bomb not kill them? Why did time not just reverse time and they resume from the plane ( I guess there is no right or wrong when it comes to changing time by going back in time and stopping from something happening since no one has ever done it as far as we know) so part of their lives were that they went back in time it didn't reverse their lives but it reversed others lives, eg how could they be alive if they go to a time where they are not born yet, but then again what if Ben went back in time too, would his child version be alive? if so, did they age while they were back in time? What if they died before they were born? So many questions I could make

The show had actual plot holes that the interviewer could of addressed but instead seems like he got the cliff notes complaints from his confused grandmother.

whoa damon is so patient and polite. what a shitty interviewer that was, I would have snapped. Kudos to Damon for being such a class act and having explained thoroughly all this.

Finally, someone confirming what I've been saying all along. The only things that didn't happen were the flash-sideways in Season 6 where the island permitted them, once they died for real, to enter a mock world between death and life and find each other before moving on, even though Sawyer, Lapidas, Claire and a few others escaped the island. Jack never actually had a son, Sawyer never actually became a cop, Ben not a teacher, etcetera, etcetera. I hear a lot of people saying they don't like the ending, but I loved it.

I can see if you watched season 1, then skipped to the finale to find out "the answer", you would be confused and come to the interviewer's conclusion. But I cannot fathom watching the entire show, and being that confused at the end unless you A) just aren't that smart or B) didn't pay very much attention to anything (or C...both).

Stupid people don’t know they’re stupid, they think you’re stupid instead. Just a suggested title for this video

They stare in the dharma orientation that the island has paranormal qualities. Thàts one of their study focuses. Another thing is when Eloise sends her son and he says right when he dies my mother knew this would happen but sent me anyways is covered when Desmond goes back in time and she says no matter how you try to stop death life always equals it out. She understood she. Ciûlndt cha re it.

didn't the Flash Sideways began when the Hydrogen Bomb went off? Questions below: 1. Did everybody on the island die when the Hydrogen Bomb went off - NO should be an easy answer but why did Juliet say "It worked"? 2. We remember Desmond going into the flash sideways while on the island and explaining to Jack that the Oceanic 815 never crashed. Was Desmond alternating between the Dead Flash Sideways and real work and getting confused? 3. Jacob explained to Hurley that this island was the door between the darkness and the outside world. What strong reasons are there it isn't Purgatory?

LOST is a masterpiece, u literally are lost if u watch the show, u are lost at the end, and u are lost during the seasons , and in the final end u are just LOST, a big void in your head, 1000 questions... its a masterpiece

How does he not understand the ending.

what they didn't answer is y is the island significant? y does it need protection? what r the man in black's intentions? y is he tired of the island?.....

People being mad about the ending because they just didn't listen to what was says in the episode lmao

Idk if anyone's gonna see this comment. But for me the best moment was in the last episode sawyer and Julia kiss each other and see the flash and I cry so much.

I swear to god.. I'm no defender of Lindelof, but I share his frustration in this shit. Why is that so hard to understand... did I love the series end? No... Did I understand that very simple notion? Yes.

The flash-sideways was revealed to be a flash-forward. Not hard to understand

Pretty damn clear!

This was... pretty fucking obvious to me.

It was a good ending once you watch it again. It’s horrible to you if you don’t understand or never heard of purgatory. Most of us (Americans) are not Catholic so we don’t know what purgatory is. For example I am what’s called a Oriental Orthdox Christian. I grew up in the Greek Orthodox Church. We don’t believe in purgatory nor do any of the Protestants or most denominations who of Christianity that stemmed post separating from the Catholic Church. All of us who are not Catholic almost literally aren’t because of belief systems that men created like purgatory. In America we have separation of church and state. There’s no way we would have heard of purgatory in school here and especially not so because America was founded off foundations FAR from the Catholic Church. Once I started thinking about things and then I’m not sure what it was, but somehow purgatory came in my mind. I remembered that’s something the Catholics do and never paid it any mind. That’s when I was like, “GENIUS!” That’s how the writers of LOST were able to pull this off! Who the hell is Catholic? As an overall people (Americans) we’re not a Catholic nation. Then that’s how LOST finally made sense to me. I had to watch some KZfaq videos of exactly what Purgatory was. All the scenes of the LOST characters going back to their lives during the show. The ending where they were all waiting for each other in the church FINALLY made sense to me. They entered purgatory together because they all were on the plane at the same time. You give or take Ben and some who were on the island already weren’t but you notice Ben didn’t cross into the light when they did. It was a very good ending for those who want to understand it’s true meaning. I hope this helps anyone who still struggles with the show and the ending.

im not sure if anyone mentioned this since theres too many comments but the last season was two places the island and the world but if you remember what ben said to hugo that he can do things differently and at the end said he was a good leader and ben was a good number two. ben did not leave because he is in charge and was not ready to give up command since he had some more penance to do. And Hurley did things differently which means the parallel life was the new island. Instead of making the island the purgatory of sorts, hugo made it like the real life with everyone connected to find each other, with them all stuck until every last one of them realized that they were dead. I think they did a very good job but could have did a touch more explaining at the end. Hope this helps

FFS WE MUST GO BACK

Man, i got some real questions. 1. Why was MIB pure evil? He seemed like a normal dude that just wants to experience the world. Why did he turn into smoke? 2. How did the island and Jacobs mother get thier power? 3. Why did Jacob allow the others to kill the entire Dharma group? That seems pretty evil if you ask me.

I can't believe people think the Island was purgatory. Perhaps it was the clip of the plane on the island being demolished... that wasn't part of the script. But damn, people have no common sense.

What about the ones that got away on the plane

The island must be a secret lab base since the smoke monster an the giant polar bear

Lost was one of my favorite shows. I faithfully watched every premiere and hated when I would miss. But I think around 5 or 6 I started to miss to many episodes and got a bit behind and just got super confused. Then the finale happened and just didn't live up to the expectation. To this day... The whole show doesn't make a whole lot of sense and clearly it was because the writers were writing as they went. People get mad at other people for not understanding the ending when it's really the writers fault. They didn't expect the show to last as long as it did so they kept writing as they went. I'm sorry but this was one of the best shows but the writers fumbled with 6 and 7 season.

Spoilers lost..I disagree with those who say that in the sixth season left over the alternate reality. but if you say that, you put a 10 from the show, and also defend with longing not mythological part of it, i will raise my review series and send all my convictions to hell. moreover, had to be more purgatory in it or that transit go, even more spiritual journey and less island and already better budget passage (decorated on the island say), because the essence of the final message was. .. john locke saw something different and beautiful in the first season, \"confrontando\ taught us" two pawns... " jacob and nemesis raised an existential doubt that became a paradox... because desmond was the key to remember that reality built... and so jack was the most stubborn of all, as stubborn as most of us for wanting to always find answers where you simply have to take that step of faith as the same jack gave it...

Ok so I have a question, and I cbf researching it. When Jack saw his Father in Season 1 on the beach and in the jungle.. was he simple just hallucinating?

This video omits a crucial bit of Damon's interview. Just before this video's final cut at 2:25, Damon originally said, "One of the things that we always wanted to do, and were passionate about doing, was exploring the idea of purgatory both figuratively and literally. And this was so obvious to the audience that within three or four episodes of the of the first season of the show they were like it's purgatory..." So the island may not have been the afterlife, but it *was* a figurative purgatory. It was a place where purgatory-like experiences happened to the characters. You can see the unedited clip here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o7l-h7t50dDJlYE.htmlsi=2CRu2zpHRCFjreyH&t=1940

This guy didn't watch the show. You can see the look on his face

Why do so many people think this? It's so dumb. The show explained it outright!

Doesn't Jack die at the end of the series exactly where he woke up in the pilot? I thought that was the obvious clue that it was all purgatory. Well now I know the truth at least

Did Juliet forgot her son and Jack in new life and moved with Sawyer just like that?? Jack's son disappeared at the end out of nowhere. I could list these kind of flaws on and on.. the writers ND directors were completely clueless on dis show plot. At the end this is an utter nonsense show.

ITS NOT THAT HARD

Yeah right.

Who is this interviewer?! Lol

The big question is Why the fuck should we care? I mean if the plane didnt crashed then the monster stayd locked on the island hence everything that happend is useless really

This. Fkng. Guy. LoL

What happened, happened

I think the story would have been better if they weren't dead if they really changed the past but memories came to them through their soul consciousness. Them being dead was a let down in my opinion.

That scene with Jack and his dad at the end of the finale also contains dialogue with Christian Shepherd explaining to Jack that some of the people waiting out in the church died before you, and some died long after you. I think part of the LOST finale hate was a knee jerk reaction of people who didn't really watch the finale. If you watched the finale and thought the whole thing was purgatory (or something like it) you were probably too dumb to be watching the show to begin with. js I think ABC muddied the waters when they added the footage of the plane wreckage on the beach to the final credits sequence.

It's True I Go Back And Forth

If you ignore the flash sideways stuff, lost would’ve completely made sense to everyone who watches it but because the writers wanted some sort of good ending they had to add that in when in reality jack died a tragic death and the end, everyone else on that island as well. Only a few left the island alive

To all of the people here stating that how can the interviewer and other people not understand the ending... ...They can understand the ending, but feel the ending makes the whole show stupid! The purgatory plot line makes more sense and ties up many loose ends, more that the true ending does. Lets face it. The show runners originally planed for the purgatory ending, but then when people worked it out a few episodes in, they thought "oh shit! We have to think up another reason for all of this now, because we don't want people to know what will happen" and so they painted themselves in a corner and stated the reason for strange things as "because it's a magic island".

The incident, if the losties caused it, then effectively it's there fault the plane crashed. Am I right?

Give your explanations to why you believe they were in Purgatory or e everything really did happen.

I still can't believe that so many people didn't get this when the finale aired. The characters literally said that everything that happened on the island was real. You can't get much clearer than that. Poor Damon, having to explain that again! Haha.

jack is in a hallucinary state right form the get go in the opening scene, watch his pupils dilute.

poor Damon. People are so dumb.

It's like people don't actually pay attention to the things they watch and think they understand it.

The flash-sideways WAS real though... Damon and Carlton said so. It is NOT purgatory. The final episode is Jack dying and his life flashing before his eyes. This is why Christian comes back to life and why his son David disappears and why the church is engulfed in a white light. Jack died. Part memory and part dying thoughts coming together. Bringing everyone together before he dies. Pretty simple.

Notice that he said Matthew Fox died. Of course that's not Matthew Fox but a character he was playing. But was it Jack Shepherd? Or Jack Shepherd's double? Damon, you're so clever in your choice to name "Matthew Fox" rather than saying "Jack". How many years do we have to wait before you reveal who were the originals and who the doubles? Is it going to be the same time period as in "The Lost Special" by A.C. Doyle between the train's disappearance and the blackmail note?

The ending where I stopped watching after a few seasons because they were clearly making it up as they went along was the best ending.

I get the ending. But I didn't like it. Lost is mystery themed show. The ending should've answered every single questions , showed hard science explanation. They did half.

The flash sideways being some sort of purgatory or "whatever your interpretation is" is equally stupid. I interpret it as bad writing. You don't tell a meaningfull story where everybody dies eventually and then say " but then almost all of them go to heaven. And in order to make that happen god/the universe whatever had to create a simulated world with 7 billion concious dummy people so that these 15 can move on...

I don't understand how so many people didn't get this. I thought they made it pretty clear. The people who hated the ending are the people who have no clue what was going on.

Every day, I am furious that this clown got to do this interview.

You can find the real answers on my page.

If it all actually happened why was Aaron there as a baby? He never got a chance to grow up to be 4 years old. Also why is Michael and his son not there? They were on the plane and they spent time with people. If Juliet and Ben get to be there why doesn't Michael and his son? Just the fact that Aaron was just born during this weird waiting phase shows me that the s*** that happened wasn't real.

How do we know it was Christian at the church? He has been disguised before

When a writer has to explain what he wrote that is bad writing. And tacky behaviour.

Wait. WAT????? 😮😮😮 i binged the whole series in 2 wks on the "G4 network" in 2013(?). It was REAL?? i thought they were dead, the island were "trials", & the end was Heaven/Nirvana, etc. *Mind BLOWN!* Btw: *Calling the* interviewer "bad" or *ppl* who didn't understand the show " *stupid* " doesn't define *those people* . Rather, it defines *You* .

The show is open for interpretation. They explain it as, everything that happened, happened...or everything that happened was real. This is because, death is a part of life and life is a part of death. Both are real. In this interpretation, they are giving us stages of life after death, which is why they call it REAL or EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED, WAS REAL. This show is taking us through this specific group of people living through and experiencing these stages. Everyone does not experience life the same and everyone does not experience death the same...for that reason, some people MOVE ON or find the acceptance of death faster than others. That is why Jack was the last of the group to realize he was dead....he fought hardest against the acceptance of dying or being dead. These people have experienced bombs, electromagnetic events, an island moving, monster attacks, time travel etc... and it was all real in the sense that it was another stage of death/life for them to experience to get closer to their acceptance of what has happened to them. We know that if a bomb blew up in your face, you are probably not going to survive that, we know that time travel is not real, we know that an island cannot be moved by turned a wheel. We know these things but this show challenges everything we know and believe because of how the story is told, which is what makes it one of the best shows of all time.

I STILL DON'T GET IT.

don't want to think that hard. just want to be entertained. Sorry

The ending of LOST is a bit hard to chew. This part is real but this part isnt? Hmmmmmm...

Right but the side-flash was caused by the nuke which WAS in 'real life' but those two things were never connected later...he didn't die from the nuke....so yeah WOMP WOMP...huge gaping holes. Do these writers realize that to have logical continuity you have to have BOTH ends closed? You can't just open up one end 3 times and never close it and act like there is closure there.

This interviewer is horrible btw

Oh wow. So the ending was actually lamer then how I interpreted it. What a waste of my time this show was.

It being real makes the story ridiculous. It being purgatory makes sense! I just finished binging the entire series and this pisses me off. If you said that yes there was a plane crash and the finale showed the plane going down and they all died, then everything from then on was a shared weigh station kind of thing that would have been great but this???? Stupid. And how could Ben and Hurley still be on the island if they are inside of the church aka Heaven's Gate??? Grrrrrr!! 😣

PAAALEASE. This is just an excuse for huge plot holes and shit writing.

show started fairly well but fell apart rather quickly. didnt help that half the show was nonsense/pointless filler to artificially prolong what must have been an enormous advertising cash cow for the studio. show me someone that found lost "deep" and ill show you someone that doesnt read. i wish i could get that time back.. 

Trying to defend the end of this show is stupid. The writers tried to smash together a bunch of themes and fill plot holes and added an alternate timeline. That's just poor direction, not high concept. It's on you if you make something for an audience they can't follow. And if you say, "i uNdErStoOd iT" then congrats, you have no concept of storytelling.

Lol This dude is confused about his own show. Because he doesnt realize that the island is a place where all the survivors grew spiritually to get to heaven or whatever. So in the end, if it was all real or not doesnt matter because it is some kind of purgatory because purgatory is nothing else than preparing yourself for nirvana or heaven or whatever. Most overrated show of all time.

Bollocks. The creator of the show doesn't understand his own creation. Everyone on Oceanic 815 was dead from the very first episode. He talks about the last shot where Jack closes his eye. Um, that wasn't the last shot. The last shot was of the beach, with the wrecked plane on it and NO SURVIVORS running around freaking out like in the very beginning. As in, yeah, the plane really crashed, and everyone on board died. Everything that happened after that was a matter of the "lost" souls trying to redeem themselves in purgatory (aka, not in the real world as this douche is trying to say). Apparently most of them did redeem themselves, represented by them being together (in an altered "reality") in the end, which was actually more like a shared fantasy or dream than anything that could be described as "real". Christian Shepherd. Think about it. A shepherd of christians. They ended up in a church. Brought together by a shepherd. Christians, because they were redeemed. But... they were all dead all along.