VintagePunk said:
I guess you're referring to the overall plot/solution to the mysteries of the island and characters overall, when you're asking about the Matrix/consciousness thing? While that theory is kind of cool, it doesn't really appeal to me that much. Having a simple, pat explanation for everything that's occurred somehow feels cheap to me. Sort of like the "everyone's dead" theory, that the producers have already discounted.
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I don't think it is like St. Elsewhere where none of it was real
One thing I am very certain about is that these are not all "real" events and "real live" people.
The Island would have to be too magical for me to buy it.
and we did have that episode where Desmond was time shifting, one minute here, the next in england in a different decade
and we have had people seeing things, Kate, a horse, Jack, his father, Locke, his father, that only pertain to them.
We have Hurley off the Island saying none of this is real?
and Jack seeing things off the magic Island, too?
I am thinking some of these people are alive and some are not.
some know each other and have interacted with each other
My guess is something like around 5 or 6 of these people are real and have a relationship to each other in the "real"world.
I am liking the ride, too.
All the writers have to do is cover their tracks, when the big "reveal" happens.
We will all look back and say "oh yeah, that works"