don't you get it Mateui!?

Its the mystique of the island!! don't question lost!

Look, it may of been purgatory. It may of not had much answers.

But fuck it was beautiful. Letting go was the main reason these characters were meant for. The monster, the others, etc. All great sagas.

Though, when FLocke was killed, you would think he could of just vanished into thin air all smokey like, instead of just being stuck in Locke's body.

no, i'm pretty sure whatever removing the cork from down in the cave pretty much made the smoke monster "human."  It just so happens to be that the humanity forced him to be stuck in locke's body now.

Well. MIB's body was thrown into the light by Jacob, so it's safe to assume the light killed MIB, and
stuck him into a state that's not necessarily alive nor dead (some sort of smokey soul state, which
makes somekind of far-fetched sense if you take into account the whispers). Actually, at the very least
he's been seperated from his own physical body. So much is made clear.

Since almost everything in the series revolves around some kind of energy (the light, electromagnetism)
I'm pretty sure that the smokey-powers stopped functioning when the light disappeared (cork). This
would also mean that smokey would've been gone if he hadn't had locke's body, since he has none
of his own.

Anyway, some of you have made sound arguments against the series (people have been doing so for
6 bloody years), but I still love it to death. I've been rewatching the series again, and I can't really
find fault in the storytelling (except for walts' constant reappearing and then being dismissed).

What I really like is that, in the last two to three seasons, they've been building up to a point where
even the finale can be interpreted differently than presented. Personally, I'm not satisfied with the
purgatory explanation, so I watched closer.

I have come to the belief that when they exploded jughead, on an island fueled by the Light energy
(which has to do with electro-magnesism and apparently time-travel), they still made the alternate
time-line. But now, it is also an alternate dimension, (Sounds quite daft, but Faraday's notes allude
to this) where the plane didn't crash. By the end of the series they find out about their 'other lives',
in the same way Desmond did while still on the island. (Christians choice of words - "you died" rather
than "You're dead" - might be some pointer)

I found a rather detailed theory matching mine on Lostpedia. It's quite interesting to read if you're
a fan of the series, and some of them aren't half insane. Lost is quite a philosophic series fueled by
character drama, so it's fitting they good parts open for own interpretation. I kind of would've been
disappointed if they hadn't.