LOST..... How do you think it will end

Alpert can be killed, just not by himself. So when that bomb went off in the 1970s, he would've died along with everyone else.
... That is, IF he still went to the island in the first place. We are not sure whether Jacob made the ship crash on to the island or not.


Also yeh the explanation for the whispers seemed a bit.. well.

Basically the whispers are usually heard before a ghost aperition occurs (whether or not the person died on the island). The whispers are also heard before "the others" come out of nowhere to shoot everyone; in fact it was implied that the others controlled the whispers when Ben said "if you want your child to live, every time you hear whispers, you run the other way."

Edit: Ah just cheated and read up the lostpedia. They theorise that the reason whispers are heard before attacks are to warn the characters about whats about to happen - seen as there's a chance that dying on the island could result in them being stuck on the island as a ghost as well.
 
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he thinks he can be killed, he just cant do it himself or so he thinks, but jacob touched him and made him immortal, he said he never wanted to die ever, and jacob granted him that wish. so alpert thinks he can be killed, but jacob has sort of said otherwise.

so who are you going to believe? jacob who said he granted him his wish of never dying or alpert who has no clue about anything?
 
Inazuma said:
Edit: Ah just cheated and read up the lostpedia. They theorise that the reason whispers are heard before attacks are to warn the characters about whats about to happen - seen as there's a chance that dying on the island could result in them being stuck on the island as a ghost as well.
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Yeah, that could easily be an after-thought for the writers though! I honestly don't believe that the writers "knew" the whispers would be what they've said they are back in season 1. I would believe that they originally intended it to be the others but liked the feel of whispers when something bad is about to happen.

I don't get why people are stating "this definitely happened to Richard". We won't know where Richard is in the alt universe until we know what exactly it is or we're shown him in it. He may have never come to the island, he may have met Jacob but then died when the island was submerged.

I've been assuming that "the incident" triggered the timeline to split and that anything pre-1977 is the same in both timelines. In that case, Richard would have been on the island and either ended up under water or got off somehow. We're probably supposed to assume that he is dead as he hasn't been seen in the alt universe yet, but I really wouldn't be surprised if he turned up at some point.
 
I've said this to a few people now. I don't think the writers had any idea where the show was going to end up back in season one. They might have had a general guess and planned certain bits and pieces but I'm guessing the majority of it actually was made up as they went along. Of course, they will always deny that and say they had everything down from day one, but we know it's not likely to be honest. There are so many different ways the show could have gone, just so happens they liked this idea best, they probably only decided on this ending when ABC said, look, you have three more seasons, do whatever you have to do.

I don't dislike the program or writers any less or anything, I'm just pointing out that they probably had no idea what was going on with most of these things back when they created them, they just thought making all of the cool 'things' and 'theories' up would pull people in, as it did. A job well done I guess, the show has become what it is today with it's reputation of 'mysteriousness' and the fact that its so 'complicated' and 'thought provoking', but now they are having to come up with the much sought after answers, some are good, others are a bit less believable/sketchy, it was bound to happen.
 
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They had a plan, a beginning, middle, and end, and just filled out each part as demand for more episodes saw fit. The producers definitely said somewhere in the early seasons that they knew what the ending was gonna be.
 
d3moliti0n said:
I've said this to a few people now. I don't think the writers had any idea where the show was going to end up back in season one. They might have had a general guess and planned certain bits and pieces but I'm guessing the majority of it actually was made up as they went along. Of course, they will always deny that and say they had everything down from day one, but we know it's not likely to be honest. There are so many different ways the show could have gone, just so happens they liked this idea best, they probably only decided on this ending when ABC said, look, you have three more seasons, do whatever you have to do.

I don't dislike the program or writers any less or anything, I'm just pointing out that they probably had no idea what was going on with most of these things back when they created them, they just thought making all of the cool 'things' and 'theories' up would pull people in, as it did. A job well done I guess, the show has become what it is today with it's reputation of 'mysteriousness' and the fact that its so 'complicated' and 'thought provoking', but now they are having to come up with the much sought after answers, some are good, others are a bit less believable/sketchy, it was bound to happen.
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I don't think they've ever said everything has been planned out from day one. It's probably the same as how JK Rowling wrote the Harry Potter books. She knew what was going to happen and some certain key events, then created the story around it.
 
mr.sly said:
I don't think they've ever said everything has been planned out from day one. It's probably the same as how JK Rowling wrote the Harry Potter books. She knew what was going to happen and some certain key events, then created the story around it.
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Indeed, this is what happens with every other book, tv show and movie out there. Some writers or producers m claim that they had every single detail planned but its never the case. They do write it as they go along, but probably had a good idea of where they were heading in regards to the story.
 
I've always followed Lost closely and as far as I remember the writers clearly had beginning, middle and end figured, they always knew what the smoke creature would be and what the whispers meant. However they always admitted to writing the "in-between" stuff as they went along.
 
Smokey will be an interesting one to figure out, i.e. how does MiB turn into it, what is the 'black smoke' clearly it cannot just be smoke?
 
In an interview in 2006 or earlier I think, the producers said that at the beginning they wrote a "bible" of all the key things in the show. So I like to believe that they knew from the beginning what the whispers were... why there are ghosts... why there was a big statue.. what the monster is... etc. But to be honest I do get the feeling from this season that either they changed the meanings as they went along, or perhaps just didn't know in the first place.


Anyway I just had a thought. If I remember correctly, Widmore and Eloise were on the island when the nuke went off. Yet they survived and went to the normal world. Which may mean that only part of the island sunk from the explosion? So MIB and Jacob (unless he's not actually bound to normal time and space) are potentially still on the island, living. Which could lead to the losties in the sideways timeline to take a plane back to the island... In which they end up in 1977, where they are all killed, which would explain why Richard in season 5 (while in 'present' timeline) said that he saw all of them die.

Head explosion.
 
I think MiB has taken on more of Lockes personality than he may have liked. I still remember the scene a few episodes ago when MiB shouts "Don't tell me what to do", thats very much Locke speaking. I wonder if we will see an internal Locke/MiB struggle at some point in the last few episodes.
 
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Inazuma said:
In an interview in 2006 or earlier I think, the producers said that at the beginning they wrote a "bible" of all the key things in the show. So I like to believe that they knew from the beginning what the whispers were... why there are ghosts... why there was a big statue.. what the monster is... etc. But to be honest I do get the feeling from this season that either they changed the meanings as they went along, or perhaps just didn't know in the first place.


Anyway I just had a thought. If I remember correctly, Widmore and Eloise were on the island when the nuke went off. Yet they survived and went to the normal world. Which may mean that only part of the island sunk from the explosion? So MIB and Jacob (unless he's not actually bound to normal time and space) are potentially still on the island, living. Which could lead to the losties in the sideways timeline to take a plane back to the island... In which they end up in 1977, where they are all killed, which would explain why Richard in season 5 (while in 'present' timeline) said that he saw all of them die.

Head explosion.
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the show is very confusing, with all these timelines its making it even more confusing.

when the nuke went off, they were in the past. now they are in the present. is that correct? how did they get to the present?

i was thinking if the nuke went off, they would have all died and that would have been the end of the show and the end of all the characters. but somehow when the nuke went off it instead made them travel through time? can anyone explain this?
 
Well really it's not actually clear if the nuke went off at the end of last season when the white flash appeared. It could be that the white flash was a time travel warp caused by the insane amount of electromagnetic energy from the hole, and the nuke exploded after the time travel occured.
 
Tell you what put me off is to see the guy off the Dharma video's presenting Hugo with an award and he hasn't aged a bit! That is retarted!!! I hope they explain that or they really havn't got a clue them selfs.
 
because we now know what the whispers are, they must be in purgatory.

either that or its not going to be a crazy answer, they will come up with something involving aliens or advanced civilisation that thought they were gods or something.
 
Essentially they are in purgatory, well, the ghosts are. So the writers are going back on what they told us many years ago, like right at the beginning when all of the original theories were going around and being debunked.
 
Personally I got the impression from the 'whispers' explanation, that it was a red herring. Just like the 'we're in hell' bs from Alpert previously.
 
d3moliti0n said:
Essentially they are in purgatory, well, the ghosts are. So the writers are going back on what they told us many years ago, like right at the beginning when all of the original theories were going around and being debunked.
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I thought they stated on several occasions, since around season 2 that it wasn't purgatory. Stating that would be a cop out, and they wouldn't be going down that route.

If they now do it, its the worst kept secret ever :(
Only dream sequence could possibly be worse.
 
Purgatory is the condition or process of purification or temporary punishment[1] in which the souls of those who die in a state of grace are made ready for Heaven. This is an idea that has ancient roots and is well-attested in early Christian literature, while the conception of purgatory as a geographically situated place is largely the creation of medieval Christian piety and imagination.[1]
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Nope, Lost island doesn't sound like purgatory to me. Unless we are now to believe that the writers are going to tell everyone that people who've done good on the island will be going to heaven. LOST has religious themes, but they won't go further than that.
 
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