Trivia: This was the first episode in which none of the series regulars appear in original footage. Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, and Terry O'Quinn appear in archive footage from season 1, and the rest of the episode features only the credited guest stars.
White Rabbit - S1-E5
Trivia: Charlie has the words "Living is easy with eyes closed" tattooed on his left shoulder. This is one of the lyrics from The Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever."
Trivia: There is a short epilogue (about 12 minutes long) titled "The New Man in Charge" that never aired on TV. The epilogue focuses on events after the series finale "The End" and it may offer a few appealing revelations to loyal Lost fans.
Chosen answer: None of the main characters died in the plane crash. Many died on the island after the crash (Jack, Charlie, Sun, Jin, Daniel, Juliet, others), some lived on the island for an apparently long time after the crash (Hurley, Ben, Bernard, Rose) but some lived lives off the island after the crash (Sawyer, Kate, Claire, Miles, Aplert, and Lapidus). Remember that Christian tells Jack that "time has no meaning here," (in Purgatory). When everyone meets at the church, they are at the end of their lives however long that may have been and will now "move on" together. They look like they did on the island because that is the way they best remember each other.
Guy
That has to be the clearest explanation of the ending I've ever read.
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