[discostu]

Most of the ones I know that complain about the complaint is the island is never explained. They want to know how it works and why it works that way. My counter that is always one word: midichlorians. When Lucas explained The Force he made it boring, it went from being mysterious and mystical to parasites. The only explanation I need for Lost is “magic island”, anything else would almost certainly wind up being midichlorians.

[LibertarianLiz]

I remember when Lost first started, that the chatter online was that the Island was purgatory, and people needed to work out something that they had failed to work out in life. I remember the producers of the show immediately quashed that idea; but, in the end, it seemed that the early predictors were right. It seemed that whenever a person came to terms with something in their lives, they "died" on the island. In truth, they were already dead, just cleaning up some unfinished business.