I agree with basically everything MikeM said.
Like ChallengeMe, I never followed the series on TV (even this last season and the finale). I watched every episode in a condensed time period of a few months on Netflix and Hulu.
I'm glad it was open-ended and didn't answer everyone's nit-picky questions. I admit they caught me a little off guard when it was revealed by Christian Shepard that Jack (and everyone in the supposed parallel universe or "real world" of flash-sideways events) was dead.
I always had the hunch that the premise of the show had something to do with Hell, the afterlife, or purgatory, but I thought that place was the island. I think the writers tied most everything together nicely while leaving plenty of room for speculation and intelligent discussion.
I just watched it tonight so I still need to marinate on this for a while, haha.
Nice hearing some ideas here..helped I'm a huge fan..and was left a bit scattered..thanks for some ideas guys..they make sense!
To me, LOST was a great character study. I cared about each one. I didn't understand it, but I loved it. The ending was amazing, more than I ever hoped for.
I don't know whether everybody died in the crash or when the H-bomb went off,
We now know the whole H-bomb thing was a bit of a red herring. It got everybody back to the right time -- 2007 -- but it didn't "reset" anything.
When Juliet said "it worked" and the bit about coffee the first time, we now know she wasn't talking about the H-bomb resetting things as Daniel/Jack had thought, but she was talking about unplugging a vending machine to release a trapped candy bar. She was dying, and we and Sawyer could briefly hear her from the limbo universe.
I love coffee from coffee vending machines. What was the idea of unplugging a vending machine to release a trapped candy bar? I don't think so that you can release a candy bar without plugging the machine.