Final Scene Of LOST

I swear this will be my last LOST post ever, but I had to clear something up for everyone. This will be a spoiler, so if you have been living under a rock please don't read any further.

A lot of people have made a big deal of the ending scene from LOST (the pic above). People seem to think that this was the writers way of telling everyone that they died in the original crash even though Jack's dad blatantly said that everything on the island that happened was real. Anyways, this disproves that theory...

So, raise your hand if you’ve spent the past three days obsessing over what was purgatory, what was real-life, for the past six years on Lost. No doubt, for many of you, a big part of your understanding has included an interpretation of the series’ final scenes of plane wreckage strewn across an empty beach, nothing but the white noise of crashing waves cutting through the deadly silence. Well, turns out ABC just threw those final scenes in there as a “visual aid,” and they didn’t actually have anything to do with the show’s plot. ABC told the LA Times that the network – and not executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse — added those shots of the beach simply to soften the transition from the emotional ending of the series finale to the 11 p.m. news and didn’t realize that viewers who had been obsessing over every detail of every scene of every episode might have considered the series’ final images as having some meaning. “”The images shown during the end credits of the Lost finale, which included shots of Oceanic 815 on a deserted beach, were not part of the final story but were a visual aid to allow the viewer to decompress before heading into the news,” an ABC spokesperson told the Times.

I am just glad they cleared that up, because I really would've hated if everything over the last 6 season (on the island) was just them in purgatory or something like that.