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:	post by arktouros at 2012-02-27 11:18:07

OKAY. I'm 2 1/2 years late to the party. This show is quite a fucking experience!! Deserved all the praise it got, tackled countless themes so well. Michael Emerson and Terry O'Quinn became a couple of my favorite actors.

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So they all died in the plane crash and all their souls were stuck in a purgatory until they could find the light at the end of the tunnel

False. Everyone was alive for a period of time. A couple months after the crash, Ben "moves the island", causing a series of time shifts to occur. During these time shifts, the Oceanic Six lives out their lives back at home, unaware that Sawyer, Julette, etc are skipping through time and get stuck in 1977.

Those that hadn't died earlier on the island are still alive at this point, even if some are doing quantum leaps. Juliette triggers the nuke at the bottom of the hole at Dharma swan station (in 1977), that group gets transported back to 2007, the original timeline where Oceanic 815 crashed three years earlier. They find the hatch imploded. We can safely assume Dharma still built the Swan station after the "incident" alluded to the orientation videos. Notice Dr. Chang's prosthetic hand, and the Dharma Class of 1977 photo that Ben shows to Locke.

The nuke explosion + EM activity caused what appeared to be a "shift" in the timeline since that point, an alternate timeline where the island is at the bottom of the ocean, there is no Swan station, Desmond never forgets to push that button in 2004 and Oceanic 815 never crashes. This isn't revealed to be "purgatory" until the final episode, which is simply a world they created in their afterlife, with certain events triggering their subconsciousness to realize that they were dead and it was time to go meet Mr. Shepard.

Basically, Faraday's postulate about a linear timeline appears to be true, where they were unable to change the events of the past no matter how hard they tried. The events in 1977 "self-corrected" themselves as he explains. The Swan was still built, the "incident" still happened, Dharma still existed up to a certain point. It is still the "singular" timeline even if there were some events that didn't belong. Faraday was only half-right about the nuke fixing everything. The group was indeed transported back to their present time (give or take 3 years) however it did not cause the anomalies on the island to disappear, Desmond still forgot to press the button, and the plane still did crash.

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