Doc Jensen's final essay (for now) on ''The End'' takes a different view of Sideways world -- what if it represents the prospect of absolute death, not eternal life?
Read itJack's journey -- and ours -- draws to a close with an epic tangle of good and evil, faith and reason, and Island and Sideways
Read itLove, death, redemption, mystery, faith, allegory -- yep, that's the show we've known and loved for six seasons
Read itJack drinks up, Hurley pays up, and Ben gets beat up in the penultimate episode
Read itDoc Jensen: One year after ''The End,'' the need to ''make sense of it all'' fades, while the desire to apply its themes gets stronger
Doc Jensen keeps looking at things through the ''eyes'' of the Island -- a tale of predestiny, paradox...and pie
What Matthew Fox, Josh Holloway, Elizabeth Mitchell, and Co. are up to a year after signing off
We recently asked you to wax poetic about your favorite Island characters for a sweet prize; here are the winners!
Eko's staff, Charlie's bass guitar, Hurley's winning lotto ticket -- see these and more up for bids at auction
Events (Red Sox win the World Series), movies (''Star Wars''), TV shows (''Little House on the Prairie'') with echoes on the Island
From originals (''You All Everybody'') to oldies given new meaning (''Shambala''), the ultimate Island playlist
Still puzzling out the meaning of it all? Doc Jensen lists key books, authors, and literary references with clues
Scenes that made you melt (Desmond-Penny FTW), turn away (Kate-Sawyer in the cages), or both (all of ''Across the Sea'')
Reunions (Rose and Bernard), deaths (Charlie!), and so much in between that sent us hunting for tissues
Goodbyes that were moving (Juliet), spectacular (Frogurt!), significant (Jacob?!): We honor the Island's fallen
Salute the characters/actors we've loved and ''Lost'' over the years, in photos exclusive to EW!
Keep your pre-crash, Island, and Sideways stories straight with our profiles of the major players as series nears end
To celebrate the end of ''Lost,'' we're spotlighting fan faves; see them all here, with info on how to order
Josh Holloway in ''True Blood''? Jorge Garcia on ''Big Bang''? Two of your suggestions for actors after Island exit
So we now know the Valenzetti Equation numbers each stand for a potential Jacob replacement -- we scout the contenders
As the new season gets (thrillingly) under way, Doc Jensen runs through the Island's most compelling mysteries
Doc Jensen and Co. look back at the show's most compelling couples -- from star-crossed lovers to mortal enemies
Need to catch up on Island lore before Feb. 2? Doc Jensen and a panel of EW experts bring you up to speed
Will the season finale answer these? (Don't hold your breath.) But next year's finale had better....
An EW exclusive gallery from our photo shoot with Matthew Fox and Evangeline Lilly on the Island
Where had you seen the castaways of ABC's hit before? Here's a gallery of their pre-fame roles -- some memorable, and some the stars might want to forget
Margaret Lyons on very cool work of cartographer Jonah Adkins -- poster versions to come
Rep tells L.A. Times: ''Images shown during the end credits...were not part of the final story but were a visual aid to allow the viewer to decompress''
SPOILER ALERT! See our reactions -- and YOURS -- after the finale and Jimmy Kimmel special; add more thoughts all night!
Ken Tucker on series' ender from critic's perspective: Credit it for not huffing and puffing to be ''heavy''
Preliminary data show the finale up 67 percent from season 5, but about equal to ''Desperate Housewives'' season-ender on the same Sunday in '09
Kate Ward rounds up ''Lost''-related web time-killers, including a list of the show's sexiest bods
Bounce this around at your ''Lost'' party: If you HAD to pay for the finale, what would you willingly shell out?
Tanner Stransky on late-night host's chat with ''Sawyer'' on a wide range of topics, from the ''cage stuff' to Kid Rock
Producers plan to address a selection of baffling bits of unfinished business on season 6 set in August
Lynette Rice: Exception to ''two-hour'' guideline approved by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Board of Governors
Karen Valby on series star's visit to ''Late Show''; like Evangeline Lilly, he doused David Letterman's ''only way this show will make any sense''
Doc Jensen and Dan Snierson on final theories, lingering mysteries. Plus, Michael Emerson, surprises
Doc Jensen and Dan Snierson on what they hoped to see resolved by the end. Plus: Love triangle talk
Doc Jensen and Dan Snierson welcome a very special guest -- or perhaps two? -- to talk ''Across the Sea''
Doc Jensen and Dan Snierson work through last week's shocker, get you pumped for ''Across the Sea''
Doc Jensen and Dan Snierson talk Jack vs. Locke, Sayid as Anakin Skywalker. Plus, teasers for tonight!
Doc Jensen and Dan Snierson talk about Desmond and ''Happily Ever After,'' tease tonight's episode
New on Totally Lost: Doc and Dan talk Widmore's ''Package,'' Sun's English, Flocke's plan; new teasers
Doc Jensen and Dan Snierson talk ''Sundown,'' tease tonight's episode
Doc Jensen and Dan Snierson revisit ''Recon,'' chat with Rebecca Mader, and tease tonight's episode
Doc Jensen and Dan Snierson examine ''Dr. Linus,'' diagnose Richard Alpert, and share some teasers
Doc Jensen and Dan Snierson chew over what we learned from ''Lighthouse'' and drop clues for tonight's ep