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Did we need to spend half the final season explaining what happened to all the characters after they died?
The problem with the flash-ultra-forwards was they arguably zapped the final season's island story of suspense and emotional impact -- when Sun and Jin perished, we didn't even know if they were really truly dead or not. In the finale we're told what's happening right now matters and there are no do-overs. Well, this was news to us, and it came pretty late. Think of how much more intense the entire final season would have been without the flashes made us question the reality and permanence of the story we were watching.
Now, perhaps the afterlife story does matter because the island is some sort of Skinner Box testing ground for Jack (moreso than living your life elsewhere), as Jimmy Kimmel suggested in the post-show, or is actually purgatory -- except the writers seem to firmly point the other direction. Basically, if the island existed in the real world (which seems to be the case from what we were told in the finale), the flashes are like something from a whole irrelevant metaphysical tale about these same characters.
At the conclusion of the show's pilot, Charlie asked the central question of
"Lost": "Guys, where are we?" That's it. That's the spine of the show: What is this place? Every mystery that came after -- every Dharma detail -- was built upon this invisible foundation that we assumed would eventually be unveiled. Those who say "the show shouldn't have to answer every question" are absolutely right. But it should answer this one because most of the show's narrative structure is built on top of it.
Yet in the finale, the big revelation was an answer to yet another in-season question ("What are the flash sideways?") rather than the central question. It's like the final season deliberately wound up so much mystery and frustration over a brand new diverting question for the express purpose of having a finale that satisfied on some level, because viewers were never going to get the meta-answer they craved.
At the end of "Lost," we did not learn what the island really was. We have details and mechanics -- a wheel, a light, a plug, a temple, and even, yes, smoke and mirrors. Like random pages from a manual to a device we will never see.
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