Lost: The Final Season (Premieres Feb. 2)

So Alt-Faraday thinks he set off a nuclear bomb to create the current timeline and that it was a mistake. Desmond is gathering up people who are starting to get back their Island memories to varying degrees, but presumably those memories will start getting stronger as they did with Hurley (who at first just had flashes of the Island and now remembers and recognizes Ana Lucia).

How's that going to go?

"Hey everyone, we're going to try to reset the timeline. Sayid, Jin, Sun, Juliet, you guys are dead in that timeline. Jack's kid, you never existed at all. Is that cool? I'm 90% sure you guys are going to be cool with this, brother."

 

Sideways world is their reward for living a good life in the cirrent world.

I am convinced that the ending scene will be set in the sideways world, and it very well could be Jin, Sun and child all together.

 

Or Faraday made a mistake and the alt-timeline is correct.
And what will happen, as instructed by Desmond, is Jack will have to make a choice between staying on as the new Jacob or sacrificing his happy life.
Determined to fix things, Jack thinks he can handle both, he can't. Jack, enraged over the loss of his son and Jacob's false choice, he becomes the new smoke monster and Locke, revived by the island, becomes the new Jacob.
The second to last scene shows Jack and Locke on the beach as they watch a plane fly over and Jack tells Locke how much he'd like to kill him as the island slowly sinks into the sea, fade to black for a few seconds then the final scene.
Were in Ann Arbor, the Dharma building and they are tracking something. It is the light, now free of the island, the Dharma people are tasked with keeping track of it and the camera telescopes into where the light is and we are back in the nursing home with Jack's grandfather and he has a smile on his face as Jack's son is visiting him.

 

I really don't see an unhappy ending coming from this.

 

I always felt that way too, but especially after reading some ideas on this thread and then knowing that nothing has ever been clear on this show, I wouldn't be surprised if they have one, or at least make it appear that way. Who knows what to expect.

 

Not a perfect comparison, but through six books of the Harry Potter series, almost everything had been figured out and the ending was pretty much exactly what most fans predicted.

I really think Lost is going to go in a different direction. This series has prided itself too long on making major twists.

 

So we're just throwing everything out there now, are we?

 

But when the pan out around the Dharma office it's empty because it's the first Saturday in April and everybody is at Hash Bash.

 

I think the last scene is going to be Paulo and Niki sitting on the beach, by themselves, as the island sinks.

Paulo: Niki, why are we the only people here and why is the island sinking?

Niki: Because everyone hates us and wants to watch us drown and die. Again.

 

I'm thinking it'll be a happy ending but they'll have at least one good, unhappy ending as one of the alternates on Kimmel.

 

It's kind of a Messianic thing ... giving up your own life, in this case that being a life beyond the island, to protect humanity. It has no value unless it's freely chosen.

 

No, I meant that I thought it was a tick strange the way Jacob basically went "So, uh, anyone wanna, like, protect the island? First one to call dibs gets it."