I Finally Watched “Lost,” And I’m Baffled By The Amount Of People Who Truly Believe They Were “Dead The Whole Time”

However, instead of the plane going down, it manages to overcome the turbulence and smoothly continue its journey for a safe arrival at LAX.

For the rest of the season, storylines that follow the characters in LA after avoiding the crash are interspersed with scenes on the island, which pick up where Season 5 — and all of the seasons that came before it — left off.

It soon becomes clear that all isn’t as it seems in LA, with each of the characters seemingly destined to cross paths with one another, crash or no crash. Eventually, it also becomes evident that there is some level of crossover between the two timelines as everybody inexplicably begins to remember life on the island, despite the plane not crashing. 

As all of the Oceanic 815 passengers find one another in the flash-sideways, there is discussion of them all heading to a pre-arranged meeting point, which is where everything comes to a head in the season finale.