05-26-2010, 03:59 AM
(05-26-2010, 03:28 AM)LochnarITB Wrote: There was nothing that said definitively the characters of the final season were alive all the previous seasons.
They did say this though. When Jack was speaking to his father. Christian said that there was no time in the "purgatory" as you call it and that the people there had died both before and after Jack. It is also implied by the interaction between Hurley and Ben in the afterlife. They both congratulate each other for being good "number ones" and "number twos". The implication there being that they lived on past Jacks death and built a relationship while watching over the island. This also supports the explicit statement by Christian Shepard that the people in the afterlife had all died at different times.
The ending does not overwrite everything that happened before it. In Lost terms: What Happened, Happened.