{"id":3525,"date":"2008-08-21T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/08\/lost-three-possible-endings\/"},"modified":"2008-08-21T00:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T00:09:00","slug":"lost-three-possible-endings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/08\/lost-three-possible-endings.html","title":{"rendered":"LOST: Three Possible Endings"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div>As we ponder the mysteries of LOST, one major question is how the series could end in a way that ties up the loose ends and resolves key questions, leaving fans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.docarzt.com\/lost-theories\/lost-theories---something-to-s.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">satisfied<\/a>. Here are three possible <a href=\"http:\/\/someotherlostscreens.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/alternate-ending-screens.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">endings<\/a> (one serious, two tongue in cheek):\n<p><b>Ending 1: Turning the wheel the other way<\/b><\/p>\n<p>At the end of many generations of conflict between opposing forces that are vying for control of the island and through it of history, two individuals (one male, one female, and one from each opposing side, just for dramatic effect) decide that it has to end, that the island has to be taken out of the grasp of both.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lostpedia.com\/images\/6\/6d\/ScripturesFDK.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lostpedia.com\/images\/6\/6d\/ScripturesFDK.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>The only way to do that is to turn the wheel the other way, to move the island <a href=\"http:\/\/www.losttv-forum.com\/forum\/showthread.php?t=20267\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">back in time<\/a> before the rise of human civilization. To accomplish that, however, it will take two people\u2019s efforts to be able to turn the wheel far enough. These two individuals (let\u2019s call them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.activeboard.com\/forum.spark?forumID=119046&amp;p=3&amp;topicID=15821138\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Adam and Eve<\/a>) collaborate in turning the wheel and moving the island back in <a href=\"http:\/\/lost-theories.com\/theories\/2007\/may\/07\/great-gedanken-experiment-tale\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">time<\/a>. Each is transported to another part of the world and another time. Eventually, they find one another, and they tell their children stories about a mythical place where dreams came true and from which, because of selfish grasping for God-like power, humans were exiled.<\/p>\n<p>One way or another, one day in the future, their descendants who find their way back to the island take the corpses of Adam and Eve and lay them to rest there.<\/p>\n<p><b>Ending 2: Turning the wheel backwards a little less<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/1\/14\/Fantasy_Island.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"129\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/1\/14\/Fantasy_Island.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>This ending is almost like the other one, except that Adam and Eve don\u2019t turn the wheel quite as far. They are transported back to the 1970s, and through a space-time mishap, Eve is turned into a male midget. They find the island again and open a resort where one\u2019s dreams can come true.<\/p>\n<p><b>Ending 3: Scooby Doo Ending<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Oceanic Six return to the island, track down Richard Alpert, and pull off his mask. It turns out he is really Charles Widmore. \u201cI would have gotten away with it, if it weren\u2019t for you meddling survivors and your mangy dog.\u201d The last shot is of Vincent howling happily. <\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1286280131182631664?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we ponder the mysteries of LOST, one major question is how the series could end in a way that ties up the loose ends and resolves key questions, leaving fans satisfied. 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