I wrote this a year ago right after the last show aired. I sent this to some friends explaining to them how the writers could have tied up a lot of the loose ends with out really changing any of the episodes and only adding a few minimal pieces of dialog. I finally decided to post this now since there haven't been any discussions about the show lately. Here are the changes that I would make to answer most of the missing questions on Lost.
First when Jack, Kate and Hurley get back to the island back in 1970. When Swayer first meets Jack and tells them that they are in the Dharma initiative I would have had Jack ask, “What is the Dharma initiative”. Sawyer would explain, “It's a science expedition.” “How did it get here?” “Some Dharma guys were doing some ocean research when the island just suddenly appeared. From that point on they started to study it” “How come they never came back when we were there?” “Faraday and I talked about that. He figured out that right after Ben had his little purge that. He must have moved the island again so they couldn't find it. The crazy thing is doc, do you remember that little food drop we were getting. Faraday thinks that when the island was moved again that the food drop got caught in some temporal loop and it's been the same one that has been falling over and over again on the island.
How I would have tied up all the lose ends by Mike Dale
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Eloise's Deal by Scott Gingold
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It seems to me that the Man in Black knew about the flashsideways world. I think this is why he was make promises to people, such as telling Sayid he can see his love again, and Claire would have Aaron again, and so on. Because in the flashsideways world these wishes came true, even though it was after death.
That being said, I always thought that Eloise's behavior in the flashsideways world was very odd. It was apparent that she wanted to stay in the sideways with Daniel, the son she essentially sacrificed to the island by sending him there purposely knowing that she would in fact kill him. But it was what she said to Desmond that was weird. She insists that Desmond waking everyone up was a violation. A violation of what? I think, I violation of a deal she made.
Eloise made a deal with the man in black. Just like Claire & Sayid did. And the flashsideways was a fulfillment of that deal. I think she agreed to help the man in black complete his loophole. When Locke saw Christian (who was really the man in black) near the frozen donkey wheel, he was told to find Eloise to come back to the island. And Eloise is the one who told Ben & company to bring Locke's dead body back to the island, which is what the man in black used to trick Ben into killing Jacob.
I think Eloise blamed Jacob for what she had to do to Daniel, even though it was all for the good of the island, so she agreed to help the man in black kill Jacob and in return he allowed her to be with Daniel in the afterlife.
