Originally Posted By: Rear Admiral
I think Lost's explanation was that the island and the adventures therein were some form of purgatory and trials for the deceased (they all died in that plane crash, but for some reason didn't know it) before their souls could be released. Or some shit like that. It was a colossal MacGuffin and made that finale a real mess.

That's what you get on a network show during a pretentious writers' strike.

I clearly didn't miss much just skipping around in the last few episodes before releasing them into nirvana digitalis for the duration of this plane.

Premium cable still tends to deliver. Somewhat.