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Lots of people are wondering if what we witnessed on the finale was or wasn't a flashforward. And if it was, is that the future that awaits Jack? Can it be changed? Why was Jack so sad while Kate seemed to be so naturally 'fine'?
Well, I have come up with a small twist which could explain a couple of things...

I had this idea after noticing how 'weird' Kate look on the airport scene. She didn't look quite like Kate. There was like a certain sense of unrealism about her, she looked too dreamy..., her face seemed to have been somehow 'digitally' altered.

Why? Why would they do that? Simple: Kate wasn't really there. Kate was not real in that future. She was part of Jack's imagination. Jack is DELUSIONAL. Kate was like Dave.

But how did Jack end up like that? Well, I think he is gonna be the only one to be rescued. For some reason I still don't get, I believe he is gonna be the only one who's gonna leave the island. All the rest of the Losties are gonna be left behind. Perhaps they are gonna choose to, or Jack is gonna make a deal with the 'devil' to be able to get the hell out of the island, but having to leave his friends behind as part of the deal...
And that descision is what is gonna destroy him eventually. His life became a mess after being rescued. Everything went wrong. But why? Partly because Jack's feeling of guiltness and partly because, like John said, that is not what was supposed to happen.
Here's where I have to resort to my Time Onion Theory of alternate timelines to help me explain this:

The losties are now stuck on a different timeline than the rest of the world is living, created after Desmond turned the key, which allowed him to go back in time and fixed the world's timeline back so he could keep pushing the button and therefore saving the world. In this outside world's timeline, the losties are dead because Flight 815 didn't crash on the island.

In a certain way, you can see it as a privilage for them to have crashed on that island. Because that let them LIVE. That is what the island is giving them: LIFE. But in exchange, the island wants you to stay. Locke understood this from the begining.
He knew from day one, that they were all supposed to stay on that island and never leave. The island is their home now. I think Danielle has understood that also after 16 years. In other words, they are not supposed to CROSS timelines, let alone a timeline in which they are supposed to be dead. They just can't. They don't deserve being on that timeline.
Perhaps, Jack didn't understand that or he didn't care. So he crossed to the outside world timeline, alone. And from that very same moment, his life became a mess. A whole different story may have been made up to explain to the world, how this
well know doctor was really alive, when he had been declared dead after they found the plane. So he had to start lying (there fore his comment about being sick of lying) about his whole 'adventure'. I believe his story might go something along the lines of 'the only survivor of Flight 815 was miraclously found floating on a piece of wreckage by a small fishing ship..'

That's how Jack's personal deterioration started. Soon after rescue, he may have started seeing his island's friends...He started talking to them like they were real people. This might include his own father also. He went nuts, basically.
I believe we are gonna see other losties in Jack's life: Hurley, Sawyer, Locke, Juliet, etc. Since he decided to leave the island, his remorse brought the island back to his outside world life. But of course, we are not supposed to know they are not really real until the last season probably (the hint in Kate's face was done only once to tease some of us). That's gonna be another shocking Lost moment. Probably a season finale.
Of course, if this is what's gonna really happen, it means that only Jack's episodes are gonna be flashforwards. The rest are gonna be regular flashbacks. So we are gonna see the outside world through Jack's eyes ONLY.

His life in the real world might be really interesting if you think about it, it's gonna be a QUEST to find the island again.
A lot of potential there. I believe he is gonna meet new people that somehow know about the island and its properties, etc.

And they are gonna help him to finally find it. We might even learn lots of things about this mysterious island this way also.

But what about the funeral? Whose was it?

Right now I'm leaning towards Jacob. He may have met Jacob on the island sometime. The whole Jacob's invisibility and mysticism will be revealed in the upcoming seasons. But I already have a theory. Jacob is not physically on the island. He is in the outside world. Somehow he can project himself on the island, like Walt. Remember Klugh's question about 'seeing Walt in a place he wasn't supposed to be? Well, Jacob can do the same. He may be the only non-scientific connection between the outside world and the island. In other ways, one of the few ways to find the island...
At some point, after him being rescued, Locke may have finally set Jacob free. This is when, in the real world, Jacob can have a normal life again, free from the island. Perhaps he was in some kind of a coma or trance. But now thanks to John, he is free again.
Jack knows his name and he also knows that he could be his only way to find the island again. So imagine his reaction when he found out Jacob is dead...He lost all hope of being able to find the island again. So he decides to commit suicide. There's
no reason to keep leaving if he will never find the island.


So this is it? This is how Jack will end up? Commiting suicide sooner or later?

No. I don't think so. Like I said before, he will find people who will be able to help him. Perhaps even Walt himself.

Perhaps the numbers will guide him back somehow...After all, they brought Danielle and perhaps even Flight 815 closer to the island through Hurley.

Whatever it is, I can tell you how I visualize the last scenes of the show....





We are at the Barracks. Our beloved losties are there. There are children: a grown up Aaron and Sun's child, playing around.

They are a very happy community. But suddenly, they hear a loud boom, the earth shakes. They look all around, confused.
Then they look up, and there it is: a plane is breaking up in middle earth. The plane crashes on their island.
Then we see Locke giving instructions to Sawyer and Sayid to go to the crash sites and make lists of the survivors...
Then he talks to Kate...



Now we are back at the crash site. We see a lot of commotion. People screaming, running, asking for help. We all have seen this before.

Then we see the person who was sitting next to Jack on the plane, lying on the ground... But there is something very different about him/her. He couldn't see after the crash and now he can!


The end that follows may not be all that happy, but we know that TPTB have said a couple of times that it wouldn't be...



The camera pans through the jungle like looking for something... And then there it is...


Jack is lying on the ground on a blood pond...lifeless, DEAD.




Or is he not?


The End