Hello everyone! I have officially finished watching Lost after almost 2.5 years. It is such an amazing show that I can not watch again or my brain may just explode but I do have some thoughts about the final season. What is everyone’s opinion on the ending of the show? But more importantly what are y’all’s thoughts about the Sideways? I think is was a very interesting idea for the show and I didn’t even see the twist coming about it’s not an alternate time line/universe but purgatory for the characters. However, the only two parts I don’t understand about the sideways are how did our main group of survivors create this place to find each other after they had died? And why are some characters like Miles and Michael faraday, his mother, and Charles widmore along with numerous other characters that have died on and off of the island in the sideways? A few other questions about the show I have are

1. Did Jack and Juliet’s son never exist?

2. Did Faraday’s Mother know the truth about the sideways?

3. Why did only certain characters meet at the church?

And off topic but what actually caused the man in black to become the smoke monster? I know Jacob pushed him into the golden light well thing but what actually changed him?

Any ideas, thoughts, and theories would be great!