LOST Theories (will have spoliers)

[Jeritron]

Originally Posted by Iginfest Yeah I'm havin a discussion now with a mate of mine who didn't like the ending and feels it made the entire series pointless. His arguments are ridiculous though.

I'm interested to hear why he says it was pointless. I'm guessing it has to do with the fact that everyone ends up in an afterlife anyways?

If it's that, it's just as easy to say that it would all be pointless if they didn't end up in an afterlife anyways.

Life is life, and death is death, regardless of what really happens afterwards. Everything that happens on the island and reality does matter. This is because the stakes of the future, and of the personal and emotional journeys is all real. Especially since the show is about destiny and fate. Jack's need to fix things and complete his purpose is very real. So is the need to protect the Island and stop MIB. And Jack wanting Kate to be safe and grow old, and succeed in getting Claire back to Aaron.
and everything that ever happened on the show.

People always die some day anyways. This goes for any story. Whether there's an afterlife or not doesn't really change what they did in real life.
The only difference is Lost showed it, for the purposes of emotional closure for the characters.
I think it's great that the writers addressed this in the finale. Desmond tried to tell Jack he shouldn't care anymore, and Jack explained how it all still mattered.
They did a lot to put across the importance of what was going on in the reality timeline, and what would continue to go on in the future.

If it's not that, I felt like talking about this anyways.