LOST

[Taem]

Whoops, big clerical error on my part. In my last post I wrote,

I just assumed Chesspiece_face either didn't agree what my interpretation of the script, or simply did not care for it

However, that was directed at LochnarITB. Sorry about the mistake.

The ending of the series itself works in the same Meta fasion. The journey of the characters and their struggles to come to an acceptence of their lives and that it is over mirrors the struggle of the viewers. The fact that it is ending for them is just as real as the fact that it is ending for the audience and that after it is all over for both the characters in the story and the audience the thing that is most important is the times they spent with each other (both good and bad.) I would argue that this is the reason that Aaron is a child in the afterlife. Less so that it makes strict sense for the characters (although it's not too far out there) but that Aaron as a baby is the character that had the greatest impact on the audience. In that, it is more important for the audience to see him off as the baby then at some other age.

I just assumed by there being no "time" in the afterlife in the Lost mythology, that it meant it didn't matter "when" you died per-say, so long as your essence was not currently inhabiting a physical body (see my view on time-travel in Jim's time-travel thread, or more appropriately why I think it's impossible). This means in the current realty that is what we experience as time, so long as your essence is not in a body, you will not be stuck in time, hence who was and was not in the after-life with Jack (I'm talking real essences here, not figments like Jack's son).

As you can see, the ONLY loophole with all of this is Aaron being in the church. Oh well. As for the rest of what you've said in this thread thus far, I agree with it all; we are on the same page.