Lost Ends
With the end of the series, it's time to figure out what the ending meant. From the final conversation between Jack and his father, one possible interpretation is that they were all dead, and this - it was like the final scene from Saint Elsewhere . So let's look at that notion.
The last scene - where Jack is stumbling in the jungle, and falls down - that was right after the crash (in 2004), where Jack has survived, but not for long. Then the camera pans over the crash scene (no remnants of a settlement). So... combine all that, and you get the following:
- They all died in the original crash
- Somehow, the people who were brought together in the church at the end had a "shared consciousness" thing going, where they constructed the entire reality
- Desmond bringing them to the church at the end represented all of them finally coming to terms with their deaths
- In that sense, the "alternate reality" was simply another escape from what had really happened to them
So... you can go all Matrix on that. There was no boat, there was no magic island, there was no man in black or Jacob. There was just a crash, followed by a collective refusal to accept death - and the series was that set of people living out a different reality than death, with the final episode bringng them to acceptance.
I'm not sure that's how I wouldve gone about ending it, but that's how it went. It was all a dream.
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