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I'm watching the box set over again to gain clues. On <PERSON>'s arm on season 1 he has "tattooed on his arm "Living life with eyes closed"?? So very true.
I believe the show is purgatory. The flashforwards before the crash show how each character struggled with themselves and were not happy in their former life. <PERSON> and his father, <PERSON>'s marriage to <PERSON> when he was not in love with her. <PERSON> and her childhood/ trouble with the law and regret of the death of her childhood friend. <PERSON> with the death of his parents and becoming a con-man. <PERSON> and the death of his greatest love and being an iraqi, <PERSON> had issues with his father and not being able to walk in his former life set him back, sun and <PERSON> fell out of love, were not happy and become people they did not want to be. <PERSON> won the lotto and bad things started happening to him, <PERSON> and his drug addiction and the relationship with his brother, <PERSON> wanting to give her baby up and was told she was to raise him. <PERSON> and <PERSON> forced together by the death of <PERSON> mother. 86
<PERSON> and <PERSON> did not respect or appreciate eachother in their former lives. <PERSON>, <PERSON> and <PERSON>'s father.
These characters clearly reflect that this people were not happy in life. Perhaps fate had brought them together and it was set that they needed to change for the better. They were all good people in one way or another.
I think the crash did happen and that they were alive. They were stuck in a parallel world between heaven and hell almost. <PERSON> and his brother were like <PERSON> and able and God or the devil. The Black smoke came to take the people away when there time was up. It was an island to cleanse their souls before death. It challenged every person to meet their flaws and be set free from all their fears.
The island changed these people back into the good people they once were. They were finally released into a better life. 86